Daniel Buren is a French conceptual artist and living legend of contemporary art who is known best for using regular, contrasting stripes. In his current exhibition at legendary German gallery Konrad Fischer in Duesseldorf he presents new work. In this video he gives a short introduction in his work.
German artist Andreas Hofer’s exhibition “Phantom Gallery” opened simultaneously in Hauser & Wirth’s gallery space in Zürich / Switzerland, and in a shop on Hollywood’s Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. Both venues are interconnected by a live video conference. In Zurich, visitors enter a gallery within a gallery, in Los Angeles, the show appears as a gallery within a commercial stretch of a street. The exhibitions themselves are empty. We had the chance to ask Andreas Hofer about the idea behind the exhibition. Andreas Hofer was born in 1963 in Munich. He lives and works in Berlin. Between 1991 and 1997 he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and the Chelsea College of Art & Design in London. He often signs individual works “Andy Hope 1930″. Andreas Hofer’s works have been shown in numerous group exhibitions, most recently at Rubell Familiy Collection in Miami, and at ZKM Centre of Art and Media, Karlsruhe (until 30 March 2008).
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Gerhard Richter. Paintings from Private Collections
German painter Gerhard Richter is one of the most important artists of our time. His works are represented in all the important museums and collections. So it’s no surprise that a lot of major collectors and art professionals such as Sam Keller, Erich Marx, Klaus Staeck, Alfred Paquement, Armin Zweite, Peter Weibel, and Kasper König attended the opening reception of the exhibition at Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden, Germany.
Paul Thek (1933-1988) is considered an artist with cult status, an artist's artist. Until March 30, 2008 the ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art in Karlsruhe / Germany shows the most comprehensive retrospective of the work of this exceptional American artist so far. The exhibition presents more than 300 of Paul Thek's works. Most of them are in private ownership and therefore only seldom publicly shown.
During our stay in Madrid we not only visited ARCO, Madrid’s international fair for contemporary art. We were also invited to take part of a gallery crawl, organized by the tourist offices of Spain and Madrid. Our first stop was Galería Helga de Alvear where we saw Isaac Julien’s “Western Union: Small Boats”, an exhibition who’s topic is African migrants trying to enter Europe. Talking with our group of journalists from all parts of the world, Helga de Alvear finds clear words about gallery work and ARCO’s strategy. Galería Helga de Alvear, February 15, 2008.
Jeff Wall exhibition "Exposure" at the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin, Germany. This video contains pictures of the exhibition and statements by curator Jennifer Blessing of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY, and Jeff Wall.
In its gallery space in Berlin, Galerija Gregor Podnar presents new works by Romanian artist Dan Perjovschi. Dan Perjovschi mixes drawing, cartoon and graffiti that comment on current political, social or cultural issues. Over the past decade he created works drawn directly on the walls of museums and art spaces, most recently in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Dan Perjovschi (born 1961 in Sibiu, Romania) lives and works in Bucharest. Opening reception, September 1, 2008.
At ARCO 2008 in Madrid, [DAM] Gallery Berlin presented the digital art installation "TI" by C.E.B. Reas as part of ARCO’s "Expanded Box" section. "TI" has been in included in group shows at Pratt Manhattan Gallery in New York and at the Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University in Chicago. C.E.B. Reas lives and works in Los Angeles. Reas is associate professor and chair of the department of Design | Media Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles. He focuses on defining processes and translating them into images. With Ben Fry, Reas initiated Processing.org in 2001. Processing is an open source programming language and environment for creating images, animation, and interaction. Interview with [DAM] director Wolf Lieser. ARCO’08 Madrid, February 16, 2008.
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The Margulies Collection, Interview with curator Katherine Hinds
On the occasion of the current exhibition “Sculptures” at the Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, we met Katherine Hinds, the chief curator of the Margulies Collection. She has been the curator of the collection since 1982. In this interview with Katherine Hinds she tells us about the current exhibition, and talks about the highlights of the collection, the educational component of the collection, the program the collection runs throughout the year, the curator-collector relationship, her background, and the importance of art fairs for collectors.
At ARCO 2008, the 27th edition of the International Contemporary Art Fair in Madrid, Spain, we met with Vera Cortês, the director of the eponymous gallery in Lisbon, Portugal. At ARCO’08 Vera Cortês presents works by (among others) Alexandre Farto, Catarina Dias, Daniel Gustav Cramer, Sophie Whettnall, Susanne Themlitz and Martinha Maia. In the interview, Vera Cortês talks about the gallery’s program, her background in the fashion industry, the art scene in Portugal, and she sums up the first two days (the professional visit) of ARCO8. ARCO 2008, Madrid / Spain, February 14, 2008.
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