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Running concurrently with the St. Moritz Art Masters (SAM), Galerie Bauer (one of the youngest St. Moritz galleries) opened an exhibition with works by Tanja Kumpermond and Nana Dix, entitled “Interfacial Tensions“. On the occasion of our trip to St. Moritz for SAM, we had a look at the gallery and the artist’s works. Interfacial [...]

For his solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Bern, South African artist Moshekwa Langa created a body of work specifically for the Kunsthalle. The project Moshekwa Langa developed for Kunsthalle Bern deals with loss. It features reworked drawings, gouaches and collages originally created in South Africa, as well as the installation “Pac Man’s Homes”, photography, and several [...]

Currently, the Kunsthalle Winterthur presents “Weichensteller” (Switchman) an exhibition with works by Aleksander Komarov. Aleksander Komarov presents the video installation “On Translation: Transparency / Architecture”, which was first shown at the Istanbul Biennial in 2007. The other two works on display are “See you in Disneyland” (2006), and his latest work “Estate”. In this interview, [...]

For the inaugural event of Galerie Magazin in Berlin, Germany, Polish artist Robert Kusmirowski has built a computer lab from the 1960′s. “DATAmatic” is the name of the company that built the legendary computer “DATAmatic 1000” in the US in the 1959. It occupied a whole room and was used for mathematical calculations. Robert Kusmirowski’s [...]

“…Chiang’s work certainly has that character, but to call it ironic would seem a too-easy relief of the work’s animating tensions. For example, the myth of Narcissus bears no uncertain irony, yet Chiang’s series of mirrors, Untitled (2003-2005), whose grounds she etched so as to leave only the familiar bands of “iloveyouiloveyou…”, challenge such an [...]

Interview with Marion Kuzmany, responsible for the excursions at the Az W. The Architekturzentrum Wien is a living exhibition space with changing exhibitions and the central aim to mediate architecture as a cultural discipline, as an everyday phenomenon and as a complex process. VTV is talking with Marion Kuzmany about the center’s activities and influence, [...]

For the 2009 edition of the design fair Design Miami, architect and designer Greg Lynn created the HSBC Lounge and a large installation for Swarovski Crystal Palace. Greg Lynn’s installation for Swarovski extends over 80 square metres and reaches over seven metres in heigh. The ‘walls’ and ‘ceiling’ are made of Swarovski crystal-encrusted suspended panels [...]

According to Swiss curator and art critic Hans Ulrich Obrist, Madelon Vriesendorp is an “almost unknown artist genius”. The exhibition The World of Madelon Vriesendorp at the Swiss Architecture Museum aims to redress this discrepancy and situate Vriesendorp in her rightful place within late 20th century culture. This video documents the talk Madelon Vriesendorp held [...]

In 2007, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam / Netherlands came into possession of the prototype of a quite spectacular piece of architecture: Finnish architect Matti Suuronen’s Futuro: house of the future. With its distinctive flying saucer like shape Suuronen’s Futuro is an icon of 1960s design. In 1965 Matti Suuronen was commissioined to design [...]

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 [...]

Currently, the Vitra Design Museum is showing an exhibition that aims at telling the story of Dubai from a cultural angle. Together with the exhibition “Living under the Crescent Moon” the exhibition “Dubai Next: Face of 21st Century Culture”, being located in Zaha Hadid’s Firestation at the Vitra Campus, complements the museum’s focus on Arab [...]

American Streamlined Design – The World of Tomorrow at The Wolfsonian FIU is an exhibition that focuses on a design era that developed in the 1930s and ’40s, characterized by curving forms, and smooth, clean silhouettes. The style, which suggested speed and glamour invaded American design in the post-Depression years. It was widely applied in [...]

Neon Monster is an art and design collective based in San Francisco that curates and creates limited edition experiences: handpicked selections of art, limited edition multiples, designer toys, current and back-issue comics, and new and vintage vinyl records. Neon Monster was founded in October 2007 by four collectors. John Crowe, Kristy Klinck, and brothers Jacob [...]

Design studio DRIFT was founded by Ralph Nauta (born 1978) and Lonneke Gordijn (1980), both graduates from Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands. At Design Miami Basel and the exhibition Design High at Louise Blouin Foundation in London they presented their modular light object “Fragile Future”. “Fragile Future 3.4″ is an installation consistent of modules [...]

Ettore Sottsass, the most celebrated designer of his generation celebrates his 90th birthday in September. Best known as the founder of the groundbreaking 1980s design group Memphis, this doyen of Italian design has also designed glass and ceramics for Alessi and landmark electronic products for Olivetti. Sottsass has designed an exhibition with the Design Museum [...]