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During Armory Week in New York, Roebling Hall presented the artist David Ellis with a kinetic installation entitled “Cockfight” at Volta New York (see our coverage of Volta NY). Interested in seeing more we went to the Theory store at Gansevoort Street where Ellis did a week-long painting performance. David Ellis works within a variety [...]

Impressions of the opening of the “Berliner Kunstsalon”, September 28, 2006. The Berliner Kunstsalon is an independet, off-mainstream art fair, exhibiting over 200 artists during Berlin’s Autumn of the Arts. Princess Hans represents the performing arts at this opening, and the camera spends some time with the photographies of Jan Vanhöfen, Bertram Kober, and Gregor [...]

Galerie Hubert Bächler presents the following artists at Preview Berlin – The Emerging Art Fair: Luc Aubort, Clive A. Brandon, Ueli Etter, Laurent Goei, Andrea Heller, Irène Hug, François Kohler, Käthe Kruse, Blair Thurman, and Gregor Wyder. Hubert Bächler talks about the gallery’s program and the work of two of his artists: Gregor Wyder and [...]

The Dark Fair is an experimental miniature art fair. It’s special in that it takes place without the use of natural or electric light. An international selection of galleries and artists are displaying work custom to these conditions, using candlelight, flashlights, oil lamps, work that glows in the dark, light sculpture, battery powered film and [...]

Until 15th March 2008 Galerie September in Berlin presents works by New York-based artists John Lovett (born 1962) and Alessandro Codagnone (born 1967). Like the solo show “Interruption of a Course of Action”, which was presented at the P.S. 1 in New York, their exhibition project at September gallery, “Walk in Silence“, reflects the current [...]

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 [...]

Currently, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City presents the first comprehensive exhibition in New York of the works of Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA, the Tokyo-based architects who have designed the museum’s new building at 235 Bowery. “SANAA: Works 1998-2008” features not only the new museum, which is the [...]

The new museum for modern and contemporary art, the Museion Bozen Bolzano, Italy, was designed by the Berlin-based architects KSV Krüger Schubert Vandreike. At the occasion of the inauguration of the new museum, VernissageTV met with Torsten Krüger, Christiane Schuberth, Bertram Vandreike who guided us through the Museion and explained the concept behind the building [...]

Listen to the speech of Zaha Hadid taken from the opening ceremony of the Science Center Phaeno. The Phaeno building, created and realized by Zaha Hadid Architects, London and Mayer Baehrle Architects, is already a milestone in the history of architecture. VernissageTV shows pictures of the Phaeno Science Center and the installations of Joe Ansel [...]

The World of Madelon Vriesendorp at the Swiss Architecture Museum is an exhibition that for the first time ever brings together Madelon Vriesendorp’s wildly diverse practices from the past forty years. Madelon Vriesendorp is one of the founding members of the OMA Office for Metropolitan Architecture in 1975 (together with Rem Koolhaas and Elia and [...]

The design studio Atelier Oï was founded in 1991 in La Neuveville in Switzerland by Aurel Aebi, Louis Armand and Patrick Reymond. The name of their studio is inspired by the the Russian word for trio, Tr(oi)ka. Their work ranges from design and set design to architecture. Their work has been recognized by various awards [...]

In this video Professor Gerlach shows a good example for what students are taught in the first semesters. The task was to design a product and to show that it’s really working. In this case student Tobias Kruschhausen developed a piece of furniture for public space called “Slide”. It has an interesting mechanism that allows [...]

Curator Mathias Schwartz-Claus, Vitra Design Museum, talks about the current exhibition “Jean Prouvé. The poetics of the technical object”. “The most important original furniture pieces by Jean Prouvé will be exhibited together with several original architectural elements (among them a reconstructed “Maison de Sinistrés”) as well as numerous architectural models, photographs and original sketches on [...]

Interview with producer Laurence Desarzens about Resfest Switzerland 2005. Resfest is a film festival taking place in several cities in Africa, America, Asia, Australia and Europe. Zurich is the tour city in Switzerland with Resfest Switzerland being produced by Laurence Desarzens and Monica Pozzi. This year’s festival was held at the movie theater Riffraff in [...]

In this episode, VernissageTV sat down with Peter F. Braunwalder, President and CEO of HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) SA in the HSBC Lounge at Design Miami/ Basel. Peter F. Braunwalder talks about his personal interest in art and design, design as collecting item, and why HSBC Private Bank sponsors art and design events, especially Design [...]