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For Art Basel Miami Beach 2009, the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation presents Being in the World: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection curated by Berta Sichel. The exhibition features 7 media-based works by Chantal Akerman, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Muntean/Rosenblum, Shirin Neshat, Robin Rhode, Bill Viola and Francesca Woodman. The works were selected from the 63 media-based [...]

The Deutsche Guggenheim celebrates its 50th exhibition with a show that is dedicated to utopia as an inspiration for artistic creation and as a living model for artist collectives. The exhibition is titled “Utopia Matters: From Brotherhoods to Bauhaus” and brings together exceptional and rarely shown works by artists such as Kandinsky, Klee, and Mondrian. [...]

Isa Genzken is the artist of the German contribution to the 52nd International Art Exhibition of the Biennale in Venice. For more than thirty years, Isa Genzken (born in 1948) has been producing a diverse oeuvre. Genzken’s extensive body of work includes sculpture and installations as well as photographs, collages and films. The title of [...]

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. > Right-click (Mac: [...]

Coinciding with Art Basel Miami Beach, Frederic Snitzer Gallery presented the exhibition Alice Aycock: Sculpture and Drawings. Alice Aycock is well recognized in American contemporary art for large, semi-architectural works created over the part twenty years. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, selected group exhibitions [...]

The distinguished Swiss architect Peter Zumthor (*1943) speaks about his experiences and the difficulties in planning and constructing the Museum Kolumba in the centre of Cologne. After Zumthor won the architecture prize in 1997 it continued up to now to realize this extraordinary project in which the ruins of the late Gothic church “St. Kolumba”, [...]

The 12th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice / Italy, directed by Kazuyo Sejima (SANAA) is titled “People Meet in Architecture”. The show runs from 29th August to 21st November 2010. VernissageTV had a look at the exhibition during the Preview days. In this video we walk through the national pavilions and exhibitions in the Giardini [...]

The new museum for modern and contemporary art, the Museion Bozen Bolzano, Italy, openend its doors with the inaugural exhibition “Peripheral Vision and Collective Body” which is on display from May 21 until September 21, 2008. Taking part in this group show is also Portuguese artist Ângela Ferreira with her work “Maison Tropicale“. The project [...]

The Golden Lion for best artist in curator Daniel Birnbaum’s Fare Mondi / Making Worlds art exhibition at the 53rd Venice Biennale went to German artist Tobias Rehberger. Tobias Rehberger designed the cafeteria at the Biennale pavilion (formerly known as Italian Pavilion). The jury stated: “Tobias Rehberger is awarded the Golden Lion as best artist [...]

Gigon / Guyer Architects are the winners of the Daylight-Award, which the Velux-Stiftung awarded for the third time after 2007 and 2010. The Daylight-Award is a prize that honors architecture projects, that systematically use daylight in order to increase quality of life and energy efficiency. The architects Annette Gigon and Mike Guyer received the award [...]

Thomas of Art-Netart presenting the new dvd’art called d-fuse by Matali Crasset and Jori Hulkonnen. October 6, 2005. FIAC contemporary art fair, Paris / France. October 6, 2005. Click image or this link to watch video.

Design Miami Basel left the Markthalle and is now located at the back of Art Basel. In addition to the 27 participating international design galleries, Design Miami Basel 2009 features the Designers of the Future Award Installation, a special exhibition by Marc Newson featuring several of the designers exclusive works including rare prototypes and private [...]

“Form is Process”. “Mass Customization”. “Infinite Infinities”. “Number is All”. “The Moral Justification for Modernist Standardization… is no more”. “Professor Lalvani is continuing to explore the fundamental principles of geometry where Fuller left off”. This is what Design Miami visitors could read on the walls of the booth of the design gallery Moss from New [...]

For this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach Reception, the Wolfsonian-FIU design museum presented the exhibition “Speed Limits” and the performance art collaboration “Seduce Me” by Isabella Rossellini, Andy Byers, and Rick Gilbert. In this video we focus on the reception and the exhibiton “Speed Limits” and exchange a few words with Cathy Leff, Director 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 [...]