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.
STYLEPARK KVADRAT 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.
ART Lowdensity Polyethylene1/18/2016In the guise of “LDPE” Julian Faulhaber has produced a quite extraordinary photobook.
ART Closing fast 24: Bikinis and mountains12/24/2015Do you dance in your bikini round the mountains at Christmas? Or prefer to spend it writing postcards?
ART Closing fast 20: A far cry from art12/20/2015In museum stores, different ages and worlds mix unabashedly, such that Munch’s “Scream” can easily become the latest rage.
ART Closing fast 19:From the diary of the eye12/19/2015There can be surprises when early and contemporary paintings of one and the same artist meet up – as in the case of Rolf-Gunter Dienst.
ART Closing fast 15: Passage through the superstructure12/15/2015Artist Stephan Huber has created many fantastics map. And they’re now all brought together in his “world atlas".
ART Closing fast 12: Tranquility, movement, repetition12/12/2015An attentive viewer will constantly find something new and surprising in Christiane Schlosser’s drawings.
ART Closing fast 07: Get to the typewriter12/7/2015Anyone who saw it probably headed straight for the attic to retrieve the old “Remington”, “Gabriele” or “Hermes Baby” typewriter.
ART Closing fast 06: The Kiss and the kisses12/6/2015Gustav Klimt’s “The Kiss” is for the Austrian Gallery in the Upper Belvedere in Vienna what the “Mona Lisa” is for the Louvre in Paris. With all manner of consequences for the foyer.
ART Closing fast 03: It’s all a jinx... 12/3/2015Author Arno Schmidt proved way back when that popular hits can be political, if you only grasp them right.
ART #Architecture for Instagram7/22/2015Backdrop, sculpture or theme world? Temporary architectures in the social media age reveal more than one might at first think: an architecture analysis using Instagram.
ART Patterns for creative regeneration12/10/2014Horst P. Horst’s fashion photography is world famous. Now a hitherto unknown facet of his oeuvre is being unveiled as part of a major retrospective at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum: his playful use of patterns of nature.
ART Original fizzled out: Zündholz by Peter Sauerer11/26/2014What do a matchbox and a match have to say about the state of the world in general and of art in particular?
ART Powerless in pool and prefab 11/2/2014Here are the poor, there are the rich. And neither side is finding happiness – Denmark’s National Gallery in Copenhagen is dedicating a retrospective to the artist duo Elmgreen and Dragset.
ART Nature does not remain nature8/25/2014In the spaces of Louisiana Museum Olafur Eliasson has created a rough, Nordic landscape made of scree. It changes with anyone moving in it.
ART Voulez vous Prouvé?6/27/2014At Design Miami, which took place in parallel to Art Basel, the French galleries presented an awful lot of Jean Prouvé originals. The icing on the cake: Konstantin Grcic transformed an Audi TT into a mobile living machine.
ART Couture meets Collage5/2/2014Dries Van Noten is an idiosyncratic couturier who has never obeyed the laws of the fashion world and instead favors slowness and quality. Through August, Paris’ Musée des Arts Décoratifs is hosting an elaborately designed exhibition on his work tracing the art and fashion sources that inspired his unique creations.
ART Welcome to the Plastivorizene3/9/2014Today’s overabundance of plastic waste is the focus of the exhibition “An Ecosystem of Excess” currently on show at the Schering Foundation in Berlin. Artist Pinar Yoldas has designed a laboratory featuring plastic-digesting monstrosities.
ART The song of light2/19/2014French designer Martin de Bie couldn’t care two hoots about conventional products. Instead of focusing on functionality and usage, he develops instruments that transform sounds into light and entice the senses.
ART N minus X – to read is to learn, part 21/19/2014The pile still hasn’t been cleared. But I’m tempted by what I haven’t yet seen or read. So let’s keep looking. This time in the direction of photography and drawing.
ART Don’t like everything!1/2/2014If a critical stance is the order of the day in the Mecca of German media freaks, will electronic networks such as Facebook cease to be as well accepted in the world after Snowden’s NSA revelations?
ART Over-the-counter masterpieces11/27/2013A year ago Amsterdam’s Rijksmusum launched its Rijksstudio, an online platform that allows users to download images of the museum's artworks for free and edit them at will. Sellout or seductive?
ART A panoramic view – with obstructions11/10/2013Imagine roadblocks, barbed wire obstacles and sandbag barricades against a backdrop of deserted ruins: A leading member of Magnum Photos, Josef Koudelka took his panoramic camera to document the landscape along the route of the barrier that separates Israel and Palestine. His latest volume “The Wall” presents these images in an album that is as somber as it is impressive.
ART Thawing the ice of the Inca City10/23/2013Mars, the Red Planet and the Earth’s neighbor in the Solar System, has long inspired human imagination. Now, for the first time, a fascinating book of incredibly high quality photographs gives us the chance to see its barren surface in detail.
