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On our tour through Madrid and its region we visited Matadero Madrid, a former municipal slaughter house, that currently is being transformed into a cultural center dedicated to contemporary creation. The venue includes facilities for artists, filmmakers, designers, theatre production, exhibits, new technology etc. Matadero Madrid was presented to press and public on March 13, [...]

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On the occasion of Timothy Hull’s exhibition “The Swarm of Possible Meanings Surrounding the Ancient Pyramids” at Chelsea-based gallery Freight + Volume, New York, VTV’s Correspondent Theodore Bouloukos speaks with Timothy Hull about ancient Egyptians, Pyramids and Archeology. Timothy Hull was born 1979 in New York, he lives and works in Warwick and Brooklyn, New [...]

Raul Walch: Wurfsendung. What happens when you drop a giant wooden box from a height of 10 meters? And what’s inside? And what can you do with it? Watch the performance by Berlin-based artist Raul Walch as part of the group exhibition “PROVINZ” (Province) in the German town of Lindau. Raul Walch was born in [...]

Christoph Büchel was born 1966 in Basel, Switzerland. Buchel studied at the University of Art and Design, Basel, at Cooper Union School of Art, New York, and at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. In 2000-2001 Christoph Buchel was awarded a scholarship at PS1, New York. In 2005 he collaborated with Gianni Motti at the Venice Biennale. He [...]

In this video, VernissageTV takes a look at the exhibition “Acconci Studio and Ai Weiwei: A Collaborative Project” at the contemporary art space Para/Site in Hong Kong Island. Para/Site Art Space has invited Ai Weiwei and Vito Acconci to create a work together. Both artists have never met before, so the collaborative process is kind [...]

The retrospective “Le Corbusier – The Art of Architecture” at the Vitra Design Museum covers a period of 60 years – from Le Corbusier’s early works in his Swiss hometown of La Chaux-de-Fonds to the late works of the 1950s and 1960s (Chapel of Ronchamp, Indian city of Chandigarh). “Divided into three largely independent sections [...]

This is a the second part of a conversation between Madelon Vriesendorp and Shumon Basar, who curated the exhibition The World of Madelon Vriesendorp together with Stephan Trüby. The World of Madelon Vriesendorp. Swiss Architecture Museum, Basel / Switzerland, January 16, 2009. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file. Related Articles:Madelon [...]

Zaha Hadid Architecture – Projects and Built Work at the Architectural Museum Basel. No. 2 in VTV’s REMIX series. Video showing impressions from the opening of the exhibition. Architekturmuseum Basel / Switzerland. September 9, 2005, Click image or this link to watch video.

In collaboration with Dürig Architects, the Berlin-based landscape architects Topotek 1 designed one of the largest sports facilities in Zürich, Switzerland. The sports facility is located between a nature reserve, a highway crossing, residential housing and large-scale industrial buildings. It comprises twelve football fields and a baseball field complemented by three buildings: an ice-rink, a [...]

At the 2008 edition of the design fair Design Miami, the Brazilian designers Humberto and Fernando Campana received the Designer of the Year Award. In keeping with Design Miami tradition, the Campana brothers created an installation for the fair. VernissageTV spoke with Humberto and Fernando Campana at the HSBC VIP lounge, which they also designed. [...]

Rick Poynor talks about the exhibition “Communicate: British Independent Graphic Design since the Sixties” at the Museum of Design Zurich. “This exhibition most definitely has an aim, a purpose, almost a polemical purpose you could say. It’s about almost 45years of independent British graphic design. And that word “independent” is really important” says design critic [...]

American Streamlined Design – The World of Tomorrow at The Wolfsonian FIU is an exhibition that focuses on a design era that developed in the 1930s and ’40s, characterized by curving forms, and smooth, clean silhouettes. The style, which suggested speed and glamour invaded American design in the post-Depression years. It was widely applied in [...]

In 1981 Luigi Colani broke a fuel saving record with a streamlined four seater car, in 2002 he completed his 7th streamlined truck. In the final part of the conversation Luigi Colani talks about fuel efficiency, the speed and efficiency records he broke at the Utah Salt Flats in Bonneville and a truck he is [...]

From 1998 to 2005 the Förderkoje was a small exhibition space (not much space, really: 6.69 cbm) in a private flat in Berlin, Germany. As of March 2006, the Förderkoje changed the concept and will temporarily be moving into the private homes of individual hosts. The type of presentation will be worked out, organised and [...]