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Monday, February 22nd, 2010The VitraHaus is the newest addition to the architecture park that the furniture company Vitra has realized during the last decades on their company site. The premises now features architecture by Nicholas Grimshaw (who realized the first building after a blaze that destroyed the old building and conceived the master plan for the site), Zaha [...]
ARCO Madrid 2010
Thursday, February 18th, 2010This year’s ARCOmadrid_2010, the international art fair in Madrid, Spain, presents 238 galleries from 32 different countries. It’s the 29th issue of the international fair for contemporary art in Madrid, Spain. This video provides a walkthrough of ARCOmadrid_2010 on the first of the two days for professionals. This year’s guest city is Los Angeles.
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Maarten Baas’ Real Time Project at Design Miami
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010For his Real Time Project, Dutch designer Maarten Baas became a film director. Thanks to new technologies in video, it’s possible to produce videos of 12- or even 24 hours in length. This makes it possible to film a movie that can function as a clock. Maarten Baas created a clock collection by using the [...]
Rudolf Stingel. LIVE / Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin
Friday, February 12th, 2010Especially for the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, the Tyrolean-born artist Rudolf Stingel designed an installation which transforms the character of the iconic Mies van der Rohe building. Rudolf Stingel installed a giant carpet on the floor in the gallery’s large glass hall. The pattern of the carpet dates back to an original 19th century Indian [...]
American International Fine Art Fair 2010 / Vernissage
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010The American International Fine Art Fair AIFAF in Palm Beach features international dealers representing all disciplines of fine art: classic Modernist and early Contemporary Art, antiquities, and jewelry. More than 80 galleries from over 13 countries are participating in the 14th edition of the fair. Impressions from the Vernissage preview party.
American International Fine Art [...]
Moritz Waldemeyer & Ok Go
Friday, January 29th, 2010In April 2009 Design Miami and Fendi startet the Craft Punk project that built upon the Design Miami’s Design Performance program, which was intended to showcase “design in action” and to allow Design Miami visitors to get insight into the process underlying the creation of experimental design. For Design Miami 2009, the design fair presented [...]
Annelies Štrba: icons / Galerie Eigen + Art Berlin
Monday, January 25th, 2010For her solo exhibition at the gallery Eigen + Art in Berlin, Swiss artist Annelies Štrba extracts 111 Madonnas from their initially religious context, presents them as tiny pigment prints on canvas, and arranges them like mosaics side by side on the wall.
“Thereby the holly Madonna is no more the sacrificed mother giving birth [...]
Silberkuppe: Old Ideas / Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010Silberkuppe is an independent space for contemporary art and culture located in Berlin. The gallery was founded by Dominic Eichler und Michel Ziegler. Since their inaugural opening in Spring 2008, Silberkuppe has initiated presentations, exhibitions, talks, screenings, music and performances. At the Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basel, Switzerland, they present a selection of new, site-oriented [...]
Davide Cascio at Nicolas Krupp Contemporary Art, Basel
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010Nicolas Krupp Contemporary Art Gallery in Basel currently shows new works by Swiss artist Davide Cascio. Davide Cascio’s work features elements of art, architecture and design. At Nicolas Krupp he presents a series of collages and two sculptures.
Davide Cascio was born in 1976 in Lugano, Switzerland, where he lives and works. From 1992 to [...]
Franz West: Autotheater / Retrospective at Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010Until mid-March 2010 Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany shows the first major retrospective of Franz West (born 1947 in Vienna) in Europe. The Austrian sculptor is considered as one of the most influential artists of our times.
On display are over 40 works dating from 1972 to the present, which in some cases the artist has [...]
