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Running concurrently with the presentation of three large-scale installations by the Cuban artist duo Los Carpinteros, the Faena Arts Center in Buenos Aires presents a solo exhibition with works by Manuel Ameztoy, entitled Paraísos Desplegables (Pop-up Paradise). In the Sala Catedral space of the Faena Arts Center, Manuel Ameztoy presents a huge installation made of [...]

On the occasion of the opening of the exhibition Høpe ou comment armer ses jeux by Maya Bösch & Christian Lutz at the Centre de la Photographie Genève, VernissageTV met up with the director of the center of photography, Joerg Bader, in order to find out more about this institution. In this video, Joerg Bader [...]

This April, for the first time NADA collaborated with Art Cologne. As part of its program NADA at Art Cologne 2012 presented a performance work entitled “Five Drills” by two artists from Chicago, Brad Killam and Zach Cahill. Five Drills is a 50 minutes performance work organized by Brad Killam and Zach Cahill in collaboration [...]

The story of the iconic Freitag bag made of used truck tarpaulin began in Zurich (Switzerland) in 1993, when the two brothers and keen cyclists Daniel and Markus Freitag were looking for a practical and waterproof messenger bag. As they couldn’t find one that suited their needs, they just produced one themselves. The inspiration came [...]

Another of the five new exhibitions that recently opened at the New Museum is a solo show with works by Phyllida Barlow. The exhibition is titled Siege, and it’s the first New York solo exhibition of the work of the British sculptor, who has been an important influence on British sculpture for the past forty [...]

The work of Marie-Jeanne Hoffner is inspired by architecture and questions of space. In her exhibition entitled Déplis, Trames et Grilles at Galerie Dohyanglee in Paris, Marie-Jeanne Hoffner explores the visual notions of fullness, emptiness, construction and deconstruction through a myriad of mediums: photography, drawing, installations, video and models. The drawings on the first floor [...]

Rorschach, Belgian artist Wim Delvoye’s third solo show at Galerie Perrotin, opened in Paris on May 12, 2012. The show highlights the détournement and beautification of everyday objects and religious icons. Wim Delvoye’s work is provocative and at times unsettling. He has used live animals, sacred forms and banal objects within a controversial artistic process [...]

The Berlin Biennale was founded in order to promote contemporary art in Berlin. In 1998 the first Berlin Biennale took place. Since 2004, KW Institute for Contemporary Art has been the supporting organization of the Berlin Biennale. The 7th Berlin Biennale, curated by the Polish artist Artur Żmijewski has its focus on social and political [...]

TMprojects in Geneva, Switzerland shows a new body of work by the artist Président Vertut. The show is called Grey Matters, which is a project that started in 2010 on the occasion of the Geneva City Arts Council’s Grants exhibition at Contemporary Art Centre. With this project, Président Vertut’s character enters into politics: “Through a [...]

Galerie Chez Valentin innaugurated the exhibition Above sea level kind of things by artist Niels Trannois on April 26, 2012 in Paris. Trannois engages with numerous mediums, shapes and textures developing a perception that floats within a dialogue of memory and mental sensation. The show runs until June 2, 2012. Niels Trannois: Above Sea Level [...]

Fondation Beyeler in Riehen near Basel, Switzerland, presents a large solo exhibition with works by Jeff Koons. In collaboration with the artist, the museum decided to show series of works that are central to Jeff Koons’ oeuvre: The New, Banality, and Celebration. Jeff Koons’ early period-series The New consists of ready-made-like cleaning appliances, symbols of [...]

Venus Over Manhattan is a new exhibition space in New York City created by art collector and writer Adam Lindemann. The new gallery opened to the public on May 9, 2012 with a group show titled À rebours. The inaugural show presents several dozen works of art spanning the 19th century to the present. Referring [...]

With Anthony McCall: Five Minutes of Pure Sculpture, Berlin’s museum for contemporary art, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart presents the largest exhibition of McCall’s work to date. The museum presents a selection of Anthony McCall’s works from the past ten years. The historic central hall of the former railway station has been transformed into [...]

The exhibition Høpe ou comment armer ses jeux at the Centre de la Photographie Genève is an installation the brings together photography, scenography and sounds. The show emerged from the collaboration between stage director Maya Bösch (Compagnie Sturmfrei) and photographer Christian Lutz. The photographic installation after a stage production aims to question our society, our [...]

The current exhibition at the gallery Blancpain Art Contemporain in Geneva / Switzerland is a solo show with works by the New York-based artist Amy O’Neill. The exhibition is titled “V” for “Victory Gardens” and refers back to the World Wars I and II, when American and English citizens were urged to plant vegetable gardens [...]