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Hypothetical Exhibition: Curator, Chen Tamir with Host, Althea Viafora Kress. Chen Tamir is a budding young curator and art critic studying at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. She is based in Toronto, Tel-Aviv, and New York. During Scope 2007 she curates a hypothetical exhibition from the works displayed bringing together six artworks by [...]

At the Show Off in Paris we had a look at the booth of the gallery Herrmann and Wagner. The director of the gallery, Cai Wagner, talks about the artists the gallery presents at Show Off art fair, especially the artists Miklos Gaál and Raïssa Venables. The Herrmann & Wagner Gallery is based Berlin and [...]

“French Kissin’ in the USA” is a title from a 1986 hit song by Blondie. The Moore Space in Miami uses this title for an exhibition of works by 18 contemporary French artists. The aim is to present emerging artists which have not yet been widely received outside France. The Moore Space is dedicated to [...]

We talk with the owner / director of Galerie Roemerapotheke Zurich, Philippe Rey, about gallery work, the increasing number of art fairs, his experiences with Scope Miami, upcoming shows and projects, and the featured artist at his booth at Scope Miami, Jana Gunstheimer. Interview: Parichard Holm. Scope Miami 2006, December 9, 2006. > Click image [...]

Museum Frieder Burda is showing a large retrospective of German artist Sigmar Polke. Sigmar Polke (born 1941) is one of the most important artists of postwar Germany. The huge exhibition at the Frieder Burda Museum in Baden-Baden combines the three major Sigmar Polke collections of Frieder Burda, Josef Froehlich and Reiner Speck. With its 170 [...]

“Nature Design – From Inspiration to Innovation” at the Museum für Gestaltung in Zürich / Switzerland presents more than 500 objects and projects that are inspired by nature. The visitor will find works by over 150 artists and designers, among them: Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Fernando & Humberto Campana, Richard Hutten, Ross Lovegrove, Karim Rashid, [...]

Since May 24, 2008 the city Bolzano / Bozen in the north of Italy is proud to present the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Museion with the opening show “Peripheral vision and collective body”. The new building corresponds to a redefinition of the entire Museion project: as an institution, Museion has been managed since [...]

George Nelson (1908-1986) was one of the most important American designers of the 20th century. In 2008 George Nelson would have been 100 years old. In recognition of this anniversary, the Vitra Design Museum presents the first comprehensive retrospective on his work: George Nelson. Architect, Writer, Designer, Teacher. In this video, curator Jochen Eisenbrand talks [...]

Le Corbusier – The Art of Architecture is the current exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany. Le Corbusier (1887 – 1965) is probably the most influential architect of the 20th Century. The retrospective aims to address the many aspects that still make Le Corbusier’s work such an important point of [...]

James Turrell is famous for his work with light and space. He is best known for his work in progress, Roden Crater, where he is turning a volcanic crater outside Flagstaff, Arizona, into a monumental work of art. In Zuoz, Switzerland, James Turrell realized one of his skyspaces, rooms that are conceived to enable viewers [...]

Hrafnkell Birgisson and Sebastian Summa have worked together on projects for exhibition- and product design since 2002. Sebastian Summa was trained as a blacksmith before he began his industrial design studies in Berlin. He also designed the lamp “phon” for Hugo Bräuer Metallwaren. Hrafnkell Birgisson studied design in Saarbrücken and Berlin. He works and teaches [...]

Hochschule Pforzheim University is one of the world’s leading schools of design. In the final part of our Werkschau series at Hochschule Pforzheim University, Faculty of Design, Professor Thomas Gerlach talks about the University in general and specifically about the application and evaluation process at the Faculty of Design and the basic concepts of the [...]

This year’s Design Miami/ Basel moves even closer to the art fair Art Basel. The design fair takes place in Hall 5 of Messe Basel, with a direct passage to Art Basel’s Art Unlimited sector. The marketplace for limited-edition design features design galleries such as Contrasts Gallery, Shanghai; Droog, New York; Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London; [...]

Industrial designer Yves Béhar is know for his engagement in the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. For OLPC he designed the XO laptop. In the second part of the interview with Yves Béhar at Baselworld 2010, he gives us an update on the OLPC project and talks about his work, the future of design [...]

In Berlin we met the two designers Hrafnkell Birgisson and Sebastian Summa. They talk about some of their works, including “Patch up London”, a “presouvenir”; “tools you bake”, a series of six hand-spun baking bowls developed in collaboration with the metal goods factory Hugo Bräuer in Berlin; “hoch die Tassen”, unique cups made of discarded [...]