ART In the in-between9/17/2024The works of Olaf Holzapfel offer a new perspective on artisanship: whether it’s the collaborative work "Wand" in the German Federal Environment Agency or "Der Mantel" in Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich. Holzapfel tells us in the following interview why there's a need for architecture we can identify with.
ART Capturing stillness8/14/2024Architectural structures, empty spaces, abstract fragments: The photographs by Satijn Panyigay show a state between presence and absence, full of calm and tension, melancholy and hope. In our interview, she tells us what she’s looking for.
ART Bulb, tube, light-emitting diode7/24/2024A curated selection of light art from the Schaufler Collection is on display at Schauwerk Sindelfingen since the beginning of July. Around twenty works from the last sixty years bring the diversity of this genre of art – and its light sources – impressively into the exhibition space.
ART Colour is Everything!6/17/2024On 23 June 2024, the time has come: Wiesbaden is getting a new cultural institution, the Museum Reinhard Ernst (mre), and with it an outstanding hotspot for the art of abstraction.
ART Fragments from just now5/15/2024In this interview, we talk to Eva Rucki and Conny Freyer about their art collective Troika, which they run with Sebastien Noel from London, the multi-layered forms of non-human intelligence and their exhibition at the MAK Vienna.
ART Fascinating Tectonics5/9/2023The first question before the actual interview begins: How should we refer to Bernhard Prinz? As a photo artist, photographer, sculptor, or visual artist? The question hardly comes as a surprise to Prinz: He is accustomed to being pigeonholed to a category or medium on the basis of the particular work series at hand.
ART New Rituals of Transformation3/23/2023Mae-ling Lokko is interested in the seemingly peripheral. What is normally given scant attention or is rarely related, what falls off the margins – is precisely what she focuses on. She collects, sorts, observes, and studies. Lokko’s work stands out for this marvelous mix of analytical precision paired with imagination.
ART Looking at everything from the outside6/16/2022Alicja Kwade is one of today’s most important contemporary artists. In her sculptures, installations, videos, and photographs, she questions the systems that we use to understand the world. Moreover, with her architectural sculptures she creates a new frame of perception. In the interview she gives us insights into her work.
ART Be allowed to be amazed1/6/2022From 7 January to 8 May 2022, the Museum für Kunst & Gewerbe in Hamburg is showing an exhibition that brings a little magic to challenging times: "Drift: Moments of Connection".
ART The art of wrapping11/26/2021The wrapping of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris is the last installation by Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Arte now traces the life of the artist couple in a film and documents their work.
ART Hidden for visibility9/15/2021From 18 September to 3 October 2021, the last project of the artists Christo and Jeanne Claude will be on display: The wrapping of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
ART Reverberating images6/14/2021For decades photographer Ursula Edelmann documented the reconstruction of Frankfurt/Main as well as its economic and cultural boom. To mark her 95th birthday KunstRaum Bernusstrasse is presenting a retrospective of her architecture, art and object photography. In this interview she gives us an insight into her work.
ART Just deserts5/5/2021The exhibition “Women Artists of the Wiener Werkstätte” at the MAK in Vienna showcases the achievements of female designers in the gesamtkunstwerk of the renowned collective.
STYLEPARK LAUFEN On a ceramics base9/17/2020For the "Impressões" project, artists from Brazil have worked on an unusual surface: a ceramic sculpture that the Swiss sanitary ceramics manufacturer Laufen created especially for this purpose. A film documents this very special cooperation.
ART Transcending boundaries8/5/2020Ulrich Hensel photographs fragments of major construction sites in order to bring out the mystical beauty of the unfinished. His work gives rise to ever new, suspenseful perspectives.
ART Surreal Reality7/20/2020Alastair Philip Wiper looks into the heart of industry and science with the photo book "Unintended Beauty".
MICROLIVING Appropriation from above6/30/2020"Who owns the roof?”, ask Jakob Wirth and Alexander Zakharov. And they did not rest content with the question: In the form of the "Penthaus à la Parasit", a Tiny House made of wood with stainless steel cladding, they investigate the right to privileged living.
ART Liberation under wraps6/2/2020Artist duo Christo and Jeanne Claude achieved international fame with their spectacular ‘wrapping’ projects, pushed the boundaries in the process and giving us new ways of seeing things. Now Christo Javacheff has died in New York City at the age of 84.
PORTRAIT At one with the moment5/28/2020The objects by Studio Brynjar & Veronika cannot easily be pigeonholed under labels such as “design” or “art”; they are in a category that is entirely their own. “We are continually trying breaking away from predefined patterns,” says the duo.
ART Lindbergh photographs Dior2/25/2020Taschen-Verlag has now published an opulent two-volume book in which recently deceased photographer Peter Lindbergh stylishly presents the history of the house of fashion that is Dior.
ART Following light9/17/2019For the 2018-19 artistic Zumtobel Annual Report Dietmar Eberle of Baumschlager Eberle Architekten explored the visibility of light in architecture.
FEATURED From Basel to Brazil6/28/2019Bathroom ceramics manufacturer Laufen provides proof of the direct connection between art, design and craft with this project.
ART Buying Democratic Art6/4/2019The auction house Phillips in London will auction part of the archive of Schellmann Art on 6 June 2019.
FEATURED Walking on art6/4/2019At the stations of the "Noord-Zuidlijn" metro line in Amsterdam, tiles from Mosa's "Quartz" collection set the direction.
ART Beauty or bust?5/13/2019Sagmeister & Walsh are returning to Frankfurt’s Museum Angewandte Kunst with their exhibition “Beauty” and its controversial ideas on design and architecture.
STYLEPARK ZUMTOBEL Art and life3/26/2019Following the general refurbishment of the Secession Building in Vienna, the venue and its works shine in a new light.
STYLEPARK ZUMTOBEL Figure of light2/11/2019Zumtobel fittingly stages the 2000-year-old Apoxyomenos statue at Muzej Apoksiomena in Croatia.
ART Architect of light9/20/2018Under the heading “James Turrell – The Substance of Light,” Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden is hosting a solo exhibition dedicated to the American light artist.
ART Raucous and recalcitrant7/11/2018The Stedelijk Museum is staging a major exhibition that reflects on the erstwhile hippy Mecca that is Amsterdam.
ART Written in the water7/4/2018Mark Wallinger has created an impressive art work in an historical location, prompting audiences to engage critically with its historical legacy.
ART The system artist7/3/2018At first sight the text-heavy, graphic works by Michael Riedel merely seem highly decorative. Only at second sight do you recognize the complex theories underpinning them.
ART The designer's sculpture6/7/2018Konstantin Grcic exhibits six marble objects in the Galerie Kreo, which could also have been created for a religious cult.
ART The Squash: Sham or show?5/8/2018With her installation “The Squash”, Anthea Hamilton lays tiles through part of the Tate Gallery and incorporates a squash-like character who frolics in the space.
SALONE DEL MOBILE 2018 Nothing new for once5/4/2018For Salone del Mobile Lensvelt has come up with an installation that celebrates the tried-and-tested and questions people’s continual search for something new.
ART Please touch the artwork!4/10/2018Designer Paul Kelley will be showing “The Dignity of Labour” in the foyer of Taunusturm in Frankfurt/Main until June 29, 2018. For him, interaction between the installation and the viewer is key. He explained to Anna Moldenhauer why that is.