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Parallel with the 4th Berlin Biennale (25 March – 30 April 2006) Arndt & Partner opended a Special Exhibition Space one floor above the main gallery space at Zimmerstrasse, Berlin, showing sculptural positions by new gallery artists, such as Florian Baudrexel, Karsten Konrad, and Veron Urdarianu. Works by Yannick Demmerle, Mathilde ter Heijne, Thomas Hirschhorn, [...]

Leipzig is just an hour away from Berlin, so it’s great that the Walkabout of the Spinnerei-Galleries in Leipzig (Frühjahrsrundgang 2008 – PDF) opened just a day before the Gallery Weekend in Berlin. And it’s very practical for the collectors. The weather was as nice as the Bratwurst and the beer (fresh from the Black [...]

Volta art fair debuted in Basel, Switzerland and now brings 52 international artists and galleries to New York during The Armory Week. The fair is located opposite the Empire State Building. What’s special about Volta New York is that all galleries present solo projects. The show has been curated by Amanda Coulson and Christian Viveros-Fauné [...]

The 41st Art Cologne has been rescheduled for the spring and runs from 18 to 22 April 2007. This year’s supporting programme hosts a long list of special shows and informative symposia. Two of the highlights of the supporting programme are a video installation by Gary Hill and an environment by Anthony McCall. There’s also [...]

Dinh Q. Lê’s exhibition at Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, also presents a continuation of Lê’s photo-weavings in which black and white photographs taken during the Vietnam War are woven together with richly colored images from present day. In this new work Lê contrasts the war photographs with patchwork photos of commercial packaging materials; candy [...]

On the 14th January 2010, the Velux Stiftung presented the second Daylight-Award at the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel. The presentation was realized in collaboration with the Department of Architecture of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (DARDEN ETH), Zürich and the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum. Winner of the Daylight-Award 2010 is [...]

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 [...]

This is the second and final part of a talk the artists Doug and Mike Starn held at their studio in Beacon. Mike and Doug Starn talk about their large installation called Big Bambú, a massive, moving construction made out of countless bamboo poles that is in constant transformation. Click here for part 1 and [...]

On the occasion of the exhibition Design High at Louise Blouin Foundation in London VernissageTV met up with Joep van Lieshout, who presented the work Wombhouse in the show. In this video, Joep van Lieshout talks about his background, his work between the poles of art and design, how his work changed over the years, [...]

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 [...]

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; [...]

At Art Cologne 2006 VernissageTV had a look at the VIP Lounge which the Canadian designer Karim Rashid designed for the Deutsche Bank. “Visitors to the lounge will find themselves in a sequence of silver-white, pink, and blue rooms steeped in an ambience of mirrored floors, organically flowing walls, and computer-generated net ornaments.” (from db [...]

At Design Miami 2008, industrial designer Ross Lovegrove presented a chandelier / table ensemble titled “Liquid Space” that he created for Swarovski Crystal Palace. In this conversation with Dr. Albrecht Bangert, Nadja Swarovski talks about the connection between the luxury industry and design, the aesthetics and function of Ross Lovegrove’s “Liquid Space”, the Swarovski Crystal [...]

Johannes Grenzfurthner talks about the different backgrounds of the monochrom team and “Brandmarker“, one of the projects monochrom got a lot of publicity for. The attempt to evaluate the actual power of brands by making Austrian people draw a total of twelve logos from memory led to some interesting conclusions, at the same time funny [...]

On the occasion of the exhibition Design High at Louise Blouin Foundation in London VernissageTV met up with Joep van Lieshout, who presented the work Wombhouse in the show. In this video, Joep van Lieshout talks about his background, his work between the poles of art and design, how his work changed over the years, [...]