Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Bert Theis: The Lunghi-Gaeng Project


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The Lunghi-Gaeng Project. First Show: "16". Private collection, Luxembourg 1996. Part 8 in our series of videos on and by artist Bert Theis. (Video: MPEG-4, 10 MB).

Sunday, December 18, 2005

Les Innombrables: La Bordure v2


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Second version of a short film based on the art project "La Bordure Digitale" by Les Innombrables. (Video: MPEG-4, 6 MB).

Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Emergency Biennale in Chechnya, Milan stop


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Artworks that clandestinely reach Grozny in Chechnya in suitcases, and doubles of the artworks that travel around the world through art institutions: this is the EMERGENCY BIENNALE IN CHECHNYA conceived and organized by the independent curator Evelyne Jouanno with the support of the International Federation of Human Rights Leagues (FIDH, Paris), and the collaboration of the ex-diplomat artist Jota Castro for the itinerant part until "Bolzano stop". For the Milan stop at Isola Art Center Katia Anguelova and Alessandra Poggianti have invited 4 new artists : Gionata Gesi Ozmo, Bert Theis, Enzo Umbaca and Adrian Paci.
Impressions from the "Milan stop" exhibition at the Isola Art Center in Milano, Italy, November 28 - 30, 2005. Photos by Evelyne Jouanno, curator of the Biennale. For more information and a list of the participating artists see the press release (pdf file). (Video: MPEG-4, 15 MB).

Sunday, December 04, 2005

Bert Theis: Philosophical Platform


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Installation for Skulptur.Projekte, Münster / Germany 1997. The video shows Bert Theis' work Philosophical Platform. Part 7 in our series of videos on and by artist Bert Theis. (Video: MPEG-4, 12 MB).

Monday, November 21, 2005

Bert Theis: Dialectical Leap


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Manifesta 2, European Biennal of Contemporary Art, Luxembourg 1998. The video shows Bert Theis' work Dialectical Leap. Part 6 in our series of videos on and by artist Bert Theis. (Video: MPEG-4, 12 MB).

Sunday, November 13, 2005

Bert Theis: Thanks that's enough!


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Installation consising of soundtrack, an empty gallery and a shuttle-bus between Art Basel 96, Young Art Fair and Galerie Heinrich Schmidt, 1996. Part 5 in our series of videos on and by artist Bert Theis. (Video: MPEG-4, 11 MB).

Les Innombrables: La Bordure v1

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First version of a short film based on the art project "La Bordure Digitale" by Les Innombrables. (Video: MPEG-4, 4 MB).

Saturday, November 05, 2005

Bert Theis: Growing House


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Installation by Bert Theis for the 5th Shenzhen International Public Art Exhibition, Shenzhen, China. Part 4 in our series of videos on and by artist Bert Theis. (Video: MPEG-4, 12,1 MB).

Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Frédéric Eyl, Gunnar Green: Aperture

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"Aperture is a facade installation with interactive and narrative display modes. Consisting of a grid of iris diaphragms, the facade‘s surface has changing apertures. The variation of the opening diameters creates a variable opacity of the surface, this serves to create both dynamic imagery as well as offering new channels for communication and visibility between the inside and the outside of the facade. Concept and prototype were conceived through January and February 2005". A project by Frédéric Eyl and Gunnar Green. Project web site. (Video: MPEG-4, 6,8 MB).

Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Bert Theis: Broadway Fly

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Installation at the art fair in Frankfurt, Germany, 1996 with Heinrich Schmidt Gallery. Part 3 in our series of videos on and by artist Bert Theis. (Video: MPEG-4, 16,3 MB).

VernissageTV has its own website now!

VernissageTV at http://www.vernissage.tv will cover opening receptions and interviews. Heinrich Schmidt Video * at http://heinrichschmidt.blogspot.com continues to show art videos. RSS feed for VernissageTV is http://feeds.feedburner.com/VernissageTV/.
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Sunday, October 23, 2005

Interview with René Burri, part 3 / Museum für Gestaltung Zürich


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René Burri, born in Zurich in 1933, is known world-wide as one of the most important photographers of our times. Interview (in German, Transcript in English will follow) with René Burri at the Museum of Design Zurich by Karolina Zupan-Rupp. October 14, 2005. Part 3.

Friday, October 21, 2005

Bert Theis: Potemkin Lock


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For the XLVI Venice Biennale Bert Theis created Potemkin Lock, a temporary national pavilion for Luxembourg, situated between Belgium's and Holland's pavilions, in which the public could take a pleasant break on reclining chairs. Biennale di Venezia 1895/1995. Video by Bert Theis and Mariette Schiltz. Vocals by Marcel Duchamp.
Part 2 in our series of videos on and by artist Bert Theis.

Thursday, October 20, 2005

Interview with René Burri, part 2 / Museum für Gestaltung Zürich


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René Burri, born in Zurich in 1933, is known world-wide as one of the most important photographers of our times. Interview (in German, Transcript in English will follow) with René Burri at the Museum of Design Zurich by Karolina Zupan-Rupp. October 14, 2005. Part 2.

Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Interview with René Burri, part 1 / Museum für Gestaltung Zürich


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René Burri, born in Zurich in 1933, is known world-wide as one of the most important photographers of our times. Interview (in German, Transcript in English will follow) with René Burri at the Museum of Design Zurich by Karolina Zupan-Rupp. October 14, 2005.
More interviews with René Burri:
Interview at lensculture (audio)
Interview in emagazine by Marcus Balogh ( in English, also available in German, French, Italian)

Sunday, October 16, 2005

René Burri / Museum für Gestaltung Zürich


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René Burri, born in Zurich in 1933, is known world-wide as one of the most important photographers of our times. Impressions from the opening reception,
October 14, 2005, Museum of Design Zurich.

Saturday, October 15, 2005

Bert Theis: Untitled / Untilted 2001


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A realized symbolic barrier where the city of Milan wants to construct a road destroying the public garden of the quarter Isola. This plan makes part of the project Arte Per l'Isola. Video by Bert Theis and Mariette Schiltz.
Part 1 in our series of videos on and by artist Bert Theis.

Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Container Project, Cortex Athletico Gallery, Bordeaux


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Thomas Bernard of Cortex Athletico Gallery presenting a project of the gallery, that contains of a container that can be placed in different locations, equipped with a projector, showing art videos. Paris, October 7, 2005.

Sunday, October 02, 2005

Friday, September 30, 2005

Die Kunst des SPIEGEL / ehem. Museum f. Gestaltung Basel


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Die Originale der SPIEGEL-Titelbilder: Zeichnungen, Gemälde und Illustrationen aus fünf Jahrzehnten. Film von der Vernissage am 29. September 2005 bei Littmann Kulturprojekte im ehemaligen Museum für Gestaltung Basel.

Thursday, September 22, 2005

Frédéric Eyl, Gunnar Green, Richard The: Parasite


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«Parasite is an independant projection-system that can be attached to subways and other trains with suction pads. Using the speed of the train as parameter for the projected content, the projection starts with the train moving inside a tunnel.»

Monday, September 19, 2005

Christoph Büchel: Hole / Kunsthalle Basel


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Christoph Büchel: Hole. Raumfüllende Installation im Oberlichtsaal der Kunsthalle Basel. Vernissage am 17. September 2005 in der Kunsthalle Basel.

Friday, September 09, 2005

Zaha Hadid Architecture / Architekturmuseum Basel


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Zaha Hadid Architecture - Projects and Built Work. Vorstellung des Entwurfs für das Neue Stadt-Casino Basel mit Plänen, Modellen und Animationen. Präsentation weiterer Projekte: Zentralgebäude des BMW-Werkes in Leipzig, Phaeno Science Center in Wolfsburg und andere. Film von der Vernissage am 9. September 2005 im Architekturmuseum Basel.

Monday, September 05, 2005

«Zeitfenster» / Kunsthalle Palazzo

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Protoplast-Koffer an der Vernissage «Zeitfenster» in der Kunsthalle Palazzo in Liestal / Schweiz am 27. August 2005 mit den Künstlern Pascal Danz, Marc-Antoine Fehr, Michel Grillet, Alois Lichtsteiner, Christian Rothacher, Albrecht Schnider, Alfred Wirz und Uwe Wittwer.

Sunday, September 04, 2005

Brückenlicht D-CH


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Installation des Künstlers Gerd Jansen auf der Rheinbrücke zwischen Rheinfelden / Deutschland und Rheinfelden / Schweiz am 4. September 2005.

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