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At Scope London 2006 we had a conversation with Ludovic Bois of the gallery Chinese Contemporary (London and Beijing). Recently the gallery celebrated its 10th anniversary at its Beijing space in factory 798. Ludovic Bois talks about the gallery’s program, the developments in the market for Chinese contemporary art, the gallery’s new space in New [...]

An integral feature of Art Cologne is “Open Space”, a curated sale exhibition area for contemporary art. Additional programs are the “New Talents” which promotes the work of young artists, “New Contemporaries” which promotes new galleries, and the “Hidden Treasures” which promotes artists who are 40 or older. Art Cologne, impressions from the professional preview [...]

Sean Kelly Gallery presents a major exhibition of new work by artist Wolfgang Laib (born 1950 in Metzingen, Germany). It’s Wolfgang Laib’s first show since joining the gallery. The exhibition entitled “Without Time – Without Body – Without Place” is organized around one of Laib’s most important new, large-scale pollen and rice installations. On display [...]

The Bass Museum of Art Miami presents “Constructing New Berlin”, a multi-generational survey, including approximately eighteen Berlin-based artists of various nationalities working in painting, sculpture, photography, film installation, video-installation, sound, and performance art. A selection of artists includes Olafur Eliasson, Janet Cardiff, George Bures Miller, Swetlana Heger, Thomas Demand, Carsten Nicolai, and Frank Thiel. The [...]

ART Santa Fe was founded in 1995 to enhance Santa Fe’s contemporary art market and thereby make an important contribution to Santa Fe’s entire art community. This year, 59 exhibitors from 19 countries are participating. ART Santa Fe also provides Project Spaces for “alternative” work. This year, eight non-profit institutions and galleries host Project Spaces: [...]

At this year’s Art Basel, the galleries von Bartha, Basel, and Annely Juda Fine Art, London, in co-operation with Duve, Berlin, and P.P.O.W., New York, presented a large-scale installation by New York based artist Sarah Oppenheimer. Sarah Oppenheimer’s VP-41 is a periscope embedded within a particular architecture. The periscope itself is constructed out of bent [...]

Phaeno is a new science museum in Wolfsburg, Germany. The Phaeno Science Center building is a work of Zaha Hadid in collaboration with Mayer Bährle architects. The museum has been officially inaugurated on November 24, 2005 by mayor Rolf Schnellecke, director Dr. Wolfgang Guthardt, the prime minister of Lower Saxony Christian Wulff, the president of [...]

Dr. Cem Kinay is the CEO and Chairman of O Property Collection, and the developer and owner of Dellis Cay. Dellis Cay is a 560-acre private island located in the Turks & Caicos, British West Indies, 575 miles south of Miami, Florida. Dr. Cem Kinay commissioned the architects / designers Zaha Hadid, David Chipperfield, Kengo [...]

“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, [...]

Chad Oppenheim is one of the architects who design for Dellis Cay, a private island in the Caribbean (Turks & Caicos). He is designing an exclusive zone of villas on the island that will be released during Phase I of the project. The O Property Collection and Nadine Johnson invited us to a plane trip [...]

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 [...]

Together with Edward Barber Jay Osgerby founded the design studio “BarberOsgerby” in 1996. Jay Osgerby talks about the Zero-in table which Established & Sons (in its limited edition version of high gloss polished, hand-formed aluminium) presented at Design Miami/ Basel. The Zero-in has won the Red Dot award, the FX design award 2005 and the [...]

As part of The Wolfsonian Museum’s official program for Art Basel Miami Beach, Elliott Earls performed a new work in conjunction with the museum’s Thoughts on Democracy exhibition. The Thoughts on Democracy exhibition is comprised of posters created by 60 leading contemporary artists and designers, invited by The Wolfsonian to create a new graphic design [...]

He is perhaps the most influential living industrial designer of modern times and some call him the Godfather of Apple design: Dieter Rams. For design addicts the similarities in the design philosophy of Dieter Rams’ designs for Braun during the second half of the 20th century and Jonathan Ive’s designs for Apple are obvious, but [...]

Naoto Fukasawa’s cube at IMM Cologne “takes the visitor through a monumental and reduced arrangement of massive, room-high wallplates. The philosophical appearance of the furniture arrangement in his ideal house destances itself from the surroundings and radiates contemplative peace” (PR IMM Cologne). Statements by Naoto Fukasawa, IMM Cologne 2007, Ideal House Cologne 07. > Click [...]