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.
ART Colour-track of devastation4/6/2018The Berlin architects Gonzalez Haase and June14 Meyer-Grohbrügge & Chermayeff have designed an installation in Munich's Kunstraum BNKR, whose colour symbolism encodes the accidents that mankind are currently bringing across the world.
SALONE DEL MOBILE 2018 Renaissance in the mirror2/26/2018At the upcoming Salone del Mobile Cos is cooperating with the artist Phillip K. Smith III.
ART Child's play11/16/2017The artists and interior architects at New York’s “Snarkitecture” have built a huge marble run in Seoul.
ART Dance with Flags11/4/2017Gagosian Gallery in Le Bourget outside Paris is showing a solo show by William Forsythe titled “Choreographic Objects”.
ART Calm sea10/21/2017Carpenters Workshop Gallery in New York City presents Mathieu Lehanneur’s furniture sculptures in a solo show entitled “Ocean Memories”.
ART When Elephants fight, it is the frogs that suffer6/19/2017What does Documenta 14 say about the current state of the world? What role do the curators play, and what role the artists? A commentary.
ART Documenta Impressions6/9/2017For the 14th time the Documenta in Kassel has opened its gates on June 10th. We show the highlights.
ART Städelschule: Stylepark awards a prize 6/2/2017On the occasion of the "Rundgang" at the Städelschule, students gave insights into their work and the most talented were awarded. The Stylepark prize went to Ada Raczka.
ART Cut me apart5/30/2017Gordon Matta-Clark cut buildings in two, destroyed cars and intended to blow up the Berlin Wall. Why is his deconstructive work now on show in an arcadian palace in East Berlin?
ART Stand still and gaze over the Med5/22/2017Here and there it’s fun to take part, but it comes at a price. The central “Viva Arte Viva” exhibition orders art by concept and evokes the power of origins. Observations at the 57th Venice Art Biennale.
ART Ruinous relationships5/12/2017For the first time in its history the Documenta is taking place not only in Kassel. The first exhibition venue is Athens. Impressions from a city that is meant to be a prime example of the precarious state of our present age.
ART Cuckoo!5/3/2017No Black Forest cottages here, only washed concrete: How Frankfurt artist Guido Zimmermann came upon “the thing with the cuckoo clocks.”
READING EDUCATES Modern tropical decor5/3/2017He came to fame with his photos of the construction of the new capital city of Brasília. A new monograph shows that photographer and architect Marcel Gautherot not only captured the modern architecture.
ART Heroes’ stories with ruptures3/7/2017The Netflix series “Abstract – The Art of Design” is an entertaining take on designers at work and at home. In passing, it discusses what design is currently understood to mean.
ART Stable instability2/16/2017A lot of dynamics in sight: Under the title “Unnatural Selection” sculptor Tony Cragg is showing a selection of his sculptures in Darmstadt.
ART Furniture at face value2/10/2017Jaime Hayon is a master at turning his flights of fancy into three-dimensional objects. His most recent installation, “Stone Age Folk” created in collaboration with Caesarstone, is all about masks.
ART What it takes12/28/2016Again the calendar has jumped. Behind the 20 is now the 17. What is behind this number?
ART A touch of glamour, if you please12/27/2016Once upon a time, Hollywood stars and starlets had Peter Gowland photograph them nude in erotic poses. Now the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen Mannheim reveals that as testimonies to cultural history, Gowland’s pinups are far more exciting.
GRAPHIC ART FROM CHINA Glowing universe12/2/2016For the second Audemars Piguet Art Commission, artist Sun Xun presents his work “Reconstruction of the Universe” at Art Basel Miami 2016.
ART You can’t cut off an ear every day11/8/2016While from time to time designers dream of becoming independent artists, artists like Christian Jankowski parody the role accorded them as genius, outsider or avant-gardist – and paradoxically become a global brand as a result.
ART Weapons in the financial metropolis10/25/2016A really important exhibition and at last one that is ice cold in terms of design and labeling: “Unter Waffen: Fire and Forget 2” in Museum Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt.
ART Philippe Parreno’s mechanical ballet10/11/2016Magical backdrop in the turbine hall: Using Kvadrat Soft Cells artist Phillippe Parreno has created an elaborate, ever changing art piece for Hyundai Commission 2016 at London’s Tate Modern called “Anywhen” which appeals to all the senses.
ART Active Patterns10/11/2016Reading educates 09: Patose paint plays a pivotal role in Ekrem Yalcindag’s ornamental abstraction.
ART Frankenstein’s fashion monsters10/11/2016Reading educates 05: The illustrated book "Otherwordly" celebrates fashion in the digital age. It is an homage to the potential of the 3D printer, and all the references that can be gleaned from the Internet .
ART Fun was yesterday 9/27/2016An exhibition in Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum shows that young designers in the Netherlands are focusing on – saving the world.
ART The magic of light9/26/2016For 25 years now the Zumtobel Group has had artists design the annual reports. For the jubilee edition, New York architect Elizabeth Diller has devoted herself to the light of the blue hour.
ART Arty Advertizing9/6/2016Museum August Kestner is looking back at 70 years of advertising from Hanover – encountering many an avant-garde poster in the process.
ART Konstantin’s study8/2/2016Konstantin Grcic recently presented five furniture sculptures at Galerie Kreo in Paris. They create a space in a space and it is no coincidence that they are all called Hieronymus.
ART Wolfing it up7/5/2016Explorations by a new museum director: The exhibition “Wolfsburg Unlimited” stages a journey through the history and present of an exemplary drawing-board city.
ART A marquee for art7/1/2016For the 13th Small-Scale Sculpture Triennial, Kuehn Malvezzi created an impressive exhibition architecture hung from the ceiling in Alte Kelter in Fellbach.
ART Go on thinking brightly5/27/2016It’s hard to imagine a more joyous and cunning approach to the designed world: For Michael Erlhoff on the occasion of his 70th birthday.
ART Skeleton seeks new build5/3/2016In Berlin’s Haus am Waldsee, an exhibition pares Jürgen Mayer H.’s architecture down to its essentials.