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On the occasion of the Gallery Weekend Berlin 2010, the gallery Esther Schipper presents new work by Matti Braun. It’s Matti Braun’s fourth solo exhibition at Esther Schipper. For the presentation of the works, the gallery space has been flooded with ultraviolet light that merges with the daylight and creates a light situation that changes [...]

The exhibition Dissidances at the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo in Sevilla, Spain was a major retrospective of Nancy Spero’s work. In this video we have a closer look at the work Let the Priests Tremble… Let the Priests Tremble … , 1998/2008, is a large hand-printed wall installation. Nancy Spero produced this installation in [...]

Swab International Art Fair Barcelona wants to show that there is a sweeter way to experience an art fair. Swab provides all the participating galleries with lodging in selected hotels near the fair site surrounded by restaurants, bars and museums. “A swaber will not only enjoy art, but as well the city.” (PR Swab). Impressions [...]

Scope London 2006 is located in the heart of London’s burgeoning contemporary art scene, the East End, steps away from White Cube and London’s emerging galleries. The fair features many special projects and events, including PAM (The Perpetual Art Machine), Silent Auction and Scope Sound. Scope London International Contemporary Art Fair, October 10, 2006. > [...]

“Doors”, the current exhibition at the Portikus in Frankfurt / Main, Germany, shows a collaborative project developed by Judith Hopf and Henrik Olesen. “Doors offers passageways, entrances and exits, detours and cul-de-sacs, and repeatedly asks the viewer to come to a decision. The different possibilities of action – opening doors, moving (backward) in space – [...]

The VitraHaus is the newest addition to the architecture park that the furniture company Vitra has realized during the last decades on their company site. The premises now features architecture by Nicholas Grimshaw (who realized the first building after a blaze that destroyed the old building and conceived the master plan for the site), Zaha [...]

The architect and urbanist David Rogers has been one of the speakers at the Architecture Talks Lucerne 2006: “Shopping-Miles And More”. We had the opportunity to talk with him on day one of the symposium. David Rogers is Senior Vice President of Jerde Partnership. He has been responsible for several of Jerde’s most innovative, award-winning [...]

This is a the second part of a conversation between Madelon Vriesendorp and Shumon Basar, who curated the exhibition The World of Madelon Vriesendorp together with Stephan Trüby. The World of Madelon Vriesendorp. Swiss Architecture Museum, Basel / Switzerland, January 16, 2009. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file. > Click [...]

ArchitectureTalks Lucerne is a two-day international symposium offering a stage on which world-renowned protagonists from the worlds of architecture, art, culture, philosophy, business and politics will address architectural and urban issues in an interdisciplinary manner. This year’s theme was “Shopping Miles and More”. Initiator and Director of the Talks is Frank Joss. Short documentation of [...]

At The Armory Show 2009 Wetterling Gallery showed two documentary videos and a digital rendering introducing a large installation called Big Bambú by the artists Mike and Doug Starn. The Starns’ Big Bambú is an artwork in the realm of architecture and performance, a massive, moving construction made out of countless bamboo poles that is [...]

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 [...]

FriendsWithYou is an art collective founded by the Miami-based artists, Rev. Samuel Albert Borkson and Arturo “Tury” Sandoval III. At the occasion of the opening of their new Flagship Store and Studio in the Miami Design District, VernissageTV had a look at their new shop and studio. FriendsWithYou was founded in 2002. Since then, FriendsWithYou [...]

Furniture producer Vitra took the opportunity to present itself during the international art show Art 38 Basel. A rich program of events drew art and design lovers to the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, approximately 7 km from Art Basel, especially for the opening of the latest exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum, “Home [...]

Julian Hönig is working at carmaker Audi as Senior Designer Audi Design Exterieur. He studied industrial design in Austria and car design in Pasadena and is the designer of the Audi RSQ concept, a futuristic film car for the motion picture “I, Robot”, and the concept car “Cross Coupé quattro”. In this interview he shows [...]

German artist John Bock’s event at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin was announced as a lecture, bearing a rather long title – and turned out to be an entertaining fashion show with weird vogue, underground action and some animals that were not injured. John Bock’s show Die abgeschmierte Knicklenkung im Gepäck verheddert [...]