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In her two project spaces Susanne Vielmetter presents “Reality Disorder” and Allie Bogle. Project Space I is curated by Gosia Wojas. The exhibition with the title “Reality Disorder” presents works by Shana Lutker, Justin Beal and Mateo Tannatt. The exhibition investigates “how art offers alternatives to our subjective and often predetermined perceptions of every day [...]

Gallery Weekend Berlin 2007, Gallery Crawl with VernissageTV correspondent Lizza May David, part 3: Ernesto Caivano at Carlier Gebauer, Lothar Hempel: Effetti Speciali at C/O Atle Gerhardsen, Jeff Wall at Johnen Galerie, and Danh Vo: Good Life at Isabella Bortolozzi. Gallery Weekend Berlin 2007, 29 Galleries, 29 Openings, April 27 – 30 2007. PS: Is [...]

René Burri, born in Zurich in 1933, is known world-wide as one of the most important photographers of our times. Interview (in German, Transcript in English available in the first issue of our PDF magazin) with René Burri at the Museum of Design Zurich by Karolina Zupan-Rupp. October 14, 2005. Part 1/3. Click image or [...]

Currently, New York-based gallery Thrust Projects presents a two person exhibition of new paintings by Daniel Domig and a video by Audry Liseron-Monfils. Daniel Domig is an American-Austrian artist. He was born in 1983 in Vancouver and raised in Salzburg. He currently lives and works in Vienna. In this video, New York Correspondent Theodore Bouloukos [...]

The exhibition at Shift Electronic Arts Festival 2009 in Basel presented artistic projects that addressed in various ways the interface of magic and technology. One of the works on display was F18′s Living Kitchen – Happy End of the 21st Century. Living Kitchen plays with the unexpected, “allowing the objects familiar in an everyday kitchen [...]

In one of the largest halls of the Architecture Biennale’s Arsenale exhibition space, Transsolar and Tetsuo Kondo Architects created an artificial 800sqm cloud. A spiraling cantilevered ramp allows the visitors of the installation to experience the ethereal cloudscape from below, within, and above. The cloud is created through climate engineering. Creating the cloud is based [...]

Swiss architect Peter Maerkli won the honorary award of the Velux Stiftung Daylight-Award 2012 for the archaic art museum La Congiunta in Giornico (Ticino, Switzerland). In this video, he talks about the concept of the architecture of the museum. The Museum La Congiunta is dedicated to the Swiss artist Hans Josephsohn and houses reliefs and [...]

The Drawing Center presents Yona Friedman: About Cities (Feb. 24 – April 7, 2007), an exhibition of work by the Hungarian-French architect and artist, who, despite significant reputation in Europe, has never had a solo exhibition in the United States. Showcasing both Friedman’s urban-sociological concerns and his urban-design innovations, the exhibition introduces his work to [...]

“Architecture is undergoing a crisis. Our buildings no longer satisfy people. It is necessary to start to create differently: in place of design and aesthetics to take inspiration from the deeper laws of nature.” This quote by architect Martin Rajniš illustrates the basic concept of the Pavilion of the Czech and Slovak Republic at the [...]

During The Armory Show Week 2010, French architect Jean Nouvel was in New York for the preview of his new and nearly completed residential tower called 100 11th Avenue. The building is located at the intersection of 19th Street and the West Side Highway, along the Hudson River in Manhattan and facing another building by [...]

rAndom International is a London-based collective set up in 2002 by Stuart Wood, Flo Ortkrass and Hannes Koch. Their work explores the conflict between reinterpreting the cold nature of digital and the often hands-on approach of analogue. Most of their work is interactive with an intense curiosity applied to experimental processes. rAndom International have won [...]

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 [...]

Currently, the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich presents “Your mobile expectations: BMW H2R project” by Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson (born 1967). Olafur Eliasson was commissioned by the car company BMW to design the 16th BMW Art Car. What sets Eliasson’s “car” apart from previous Art Cars is that it is not recognizable as a car [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]