Coinciding with the Istanbul Biennial 2011, Istanbul’s Galerist gallery presents a survey exhibition of works by the Turkish artist duo :mentalKLINIK. The show is titled That’s Fucking Awesome and presents ten years of work by Yasemin Baydar and Birol Demir. The exhibition has been curated by Jérôme Sans. In this video the curator talks about [...]

Jerry Gorovoy was Louise Bourgeois assistant for more than 30 years. He is a profound expert of her work. In this conversation with Dr. Ulf Küster, the curator of the exhibition Louise Bourgeois: À L’Infini at Fondation Beyeler, Jerry Gorovoy talks about the different aspects of Louise Bourgeois’ work and his personal experiences with the [...]

Tomás Saraceno’s work received broader attention in 2009 when he filled the main hall of the Padiglione Centrale in the Giardini at the 53rd Venice Art Biennial. His spider web-like installation created an immersive experience that was fascinating the visitors. With his solo exhibition at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin’s museum for contemporary art, he takes [...]

Louise Bourgeois was one of the most exceptional artists of our time. Her life and work inspired many artists of younger generations such as Tracy Emin or Robert Gober. To honor her 100th birthday, the Fondation Beyeler is devoting an homage to Louise Bourgeois by placing her work in dialog with the museum’s permanent collection, [...]

The Journey to the East is an exhibition that takes its visitors on a trip to the post communist countries in Eastern Europe. 40 artists from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine have been invited, along with artists from Poland. The exhibition at the Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok in Poland is part of a [...]

In this video Azerian artist Orkhan Huseynov tells us about his two works exhibited at The Journey To the East Exhibition in Białystok, Poland. Occupied is an installation about notion of military occupation. Although the theme of artwork is serious, the work itself is joyful. Some visitors were amused, and some other even ignored this [...]

Ukrainian artist Volodymyr Kuznetsov presents his latest installation in the context of The Journey To The East exhibition presented at Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok / Poland. This installation titled Small Fiat 126p is a kind of monument, it commemorates a certain time the 90s, and portrays a specific situation, witnessed by Volodymyr Kuznetsov. The small [...]

This episode covers the opening of the solo exhibiton of Dolores Casares at Palacio Duhau in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In this show, the Argentine artist, art teacher and curator presents sculptures made of acrylic, which explore the aesthetics of light and geometry. Dolores Casares at Palacio Duhau – Park Hyatt, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Opening, June [...]

Three artists are representing Venezuela at the 54th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in Venice, Italy: Bassim Francisco, Yoshi, and Clemencia Labin. While Bassim Francisco and Yoshi exhibit artworks of individual character, Clemencia Labin chose to present a work that she has realized together with others, her social sculpture titled Velada Santa [...]

As part of the exhibition Car Fetish. I drive, therefore I am Museum Tinguely in Basel, Switzerland presents works from the Vector Portraits series of Los Angeles-based artist Andrew Bush. The Vector Portraits are photographs of people in their cars that Andrew Bush took while driving side by side at 50 to 70 mph in [...]

The Kunsthaus in Bregenz / Austria explores the architectural work of Ai Weiwei with a solo show titled Art / Architecture. While not as widely presented as his artistic oeuvre, Ai Weiwei’s work in the field of architecture is extremely important for the artist because of the collaborative – that is social and political – [...]

Prague-based artist Federico Díaz is known for his work that combines art and technology. For the 54th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in Venice / Italy he conceived a new work that uses sensors and two industrial robots to create a sculpture created from thousands of black spheres. The installation basically consists [...]

VernissageTV’s first post on Huffington Post Arts features Federico Diaz’ installation at the 54th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. The exhibition, curated by P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center Founder Alanna Heiss, is titled Outside Itself and runs through September 30, 2011. Outside Itself is an evolution of Federico Díaz’ installation, Geometric Death Frequency-141, [...]

Between the preview days of Venice Biennale 2011 and Art 42 Basel the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) and Art Cologne announced their collaboration for the 2012 edition of Art Cologne. NADA will exhibit for the first time at Art Cologne – Internationaler Kunstmarkt. VernissageTV had the chance to meet with the director of NADA, [...]

Jeff Jamieson talks about his history of making Judd Furniture with IMA conservator Richard McCoy.

In 1886, the German engineer Karl Benz was awarded the patent for his Motorwagen, generally acknowledged as the first modern automobile. On the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the car, several art museums are dedicating exhibitions to the automobile. One of them is the Museum Tinguely that currently presents the exhibition Car Fetish. I [...]

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 [...]

Dora García represents Spain at the 54th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia in Venice, Italy. The title of Dora García’s exhibition is L’Inadequato, Lo Inadecuado, The Inadequate. It’s an extended performance that evolves constantly throughout the duration of the Biennale and is made of objects, conversations, monologues, theater, silences, and debate. It [...]

During Art Basel 2011 Brooklyn-based artist Jamie Isenstein was performing “Rug Woogie IV” at the booth of Galerie Meyer Riegger. Jamie Isenstein was seated at a classical harp. But the instrument didn’t produce any sound, on the contrary: Jamie Isenstein wasn’t plucking the strings, but weaving wool through them, covering their sound. The result of [...]

In his event at Art 42 Basel, the artist Rirkrit Tiravanija merged two typologies of his oeuvre: cooking-as-event and political drawing. It was first launched under the title “who’s afraid of red, yellow, and green” at 100 Tonson Gallery in Bangkok / Thailand in 2010, at a time when there was an intense conflict between [...]