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The current exhibition Deslocamento at Brasilea Arts Centre in Basel (Switzerland), presents paintings and an installation by the German artist Anja Ganster. The works address both the magnificent nature of Brazil and the dominant architecture of the country. In her paintings, Anja Ganster contrasts the inside and outside, and with her installation, she translates her [...]

The Julia Stoschek Collection will present a special exhibition titled Das Bildermuseum Brennt as part of the upcoming Art Cologne 2013 (19.-22.4.2013). The group show features the artists Monica Bonvicini, Mark Leckey, Klara Lidén, Helen Marten, Bruce Nauman, Elizabeth Price, and Clemens von Wedemeyer. It’s the first time the Julia Stoschek Collection presents works from [...]

Luigi Colani is one of the most successful and controversial designers. The Swiss-born German industrial designer is known for his organic forms that he applied to products such as cars, airplanes, trucks, cameras, and furniture. In 2007, VernissageTV met Luigi Colani at his studio in Karlsruhe (Germany). In this interview, Colani looks back at his [...]

Boers-Li Gallery in Beijing, China presents for the first time Tang Song’s abstract works, Tang Song: Eulogy – in memory of Hans Van Dijk. In the last 5 years the artist worked on a tribute to Van Dijk as a form o research into the sources. These works are manifestations of a process, concealing their [...]

The exhibition Paralyzed Enchantment is the first show of the Chicago-based gallery CourtneyBlades after a major renovation. It features new works in painting and sculpture by the artists Michael Madrigali and Oliver Henry. Michael Madrigali was born in Santa Barbara, CA. He currently lives and works in Chicago. He will complete his BFA at the [...]

Platform China in Beijing presents Jungle II – A Thriving Morphology, a one-year long project. It refers to a space-time pattern in the shape of a diffusing, proliferating and growing process instead of a more conventional exhibition mode. The idea is to introduce a context for the audience to emulate, discuss and interact with art. [...]

Landscapes is the title of the current solo show of the American painter Alex Katz at the museum Haus Konstruktiv in Zürich, Switzerland. At first, this doesn’t seem to be the typical exhibition for a museum that is dedicated to concrete, constructivist, and conceptual art. And indeed, many visitors seem to be surprised or even [...]

The exhibition New Figuration at Hadrien de Montferrand Gallery in Beijing presents works by the artists Chen Han, Guo Hongwei, Lu Chao, Zhang Shujian, and Zhu Xinyu. New Figuration: Chaper 1 at Hadrien de Montferrand Gallery shows the works by Chen Han, Guo Hongwei, Lu Chao, Zhang Shujian and Zhu Xinyu. Zhang Shujian sketches photorealistic [...]

Alberto Burri (1915-1995) was an Italian painter and sculptor. For his works, he used unusual materials such as tar, resin, and plastic cements in the attempt to expand the potential of painting. The gallery Luxembourg & Dayan in New York City is currently presenting a solo show with rare late works of Alberto Burri, titled [...]

Magnan Metz Gallery participated in The Armory Show 2013 with a solo presentation of New York-based artist Duke Riley. Riley is best known for “attacking” the cruise ship Queen Mary 2 with his self-built replica of America’s first submarine. For his solo show at The Armory Show 2013, he conceived a work that is closely [...]

Gay Guerrilla (1979) is a composition for four pianos by African-American composer Julius Eastman (1940-1990). Concert played by the pianists Faristamo Susi, Andriy Dragan, Benoit Hennecart and Lukas Rickli on the occasion of the exhibition Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc: Songs for a Mad King at Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland on March 16, 2013. The above video is [...]

At The Armory Show 2013, Andrew Edlin Gallery exhibited a solo installation of Tom Duncan’s work Dedicated to Coney Island, a giant three-dimensional scene and vivid recreation of the amusement park. This recreation of the New York City landmark is based on Tom Duncan’s memories of growing up near Coney Island. The myriad details of [...]

Schaulager in Basel currently presents the first comprehensive exhibition of work by the British video artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen. The show features more than twenty video and film installations, photographs and other selected work of Steve McQueen. The exhibition runs until September 1, 2013. In this video, we attend the opening of the exhibition [...]

The group exhibition The Legend of the Shelves was created on the occasion of the relocation of Berlin’s art space Autocenter. For this exhibition, Autocenter invited all the artists whose works have been shown in the gallery in the past 12 years to create new work for the show. Works by 159 artists are on [...]

The exhibition The Picassos Are Here! at Kunstmuseum Basel is not just another Picasso retrospective. The show tells the story of a love affair between an artist and a whole city. In 1967, Basel residents approved a municipal loan of 6 million franks in a city-wide plebiscite and in a unique fundraising action collected an [...]