EXHIBITION A4 in 3D by Vesna Žugić in gallery Singidunum, Belgrade which was held between May 19th and 29th was devoted to paper, a material of pleasing tactility, which lends itself easily to folding and tearing; it may be the finest gossamer tissue or robust, translucent or opaque, intimidating when empty, dangerous when filled with words. MORE…
German-born designer Sebastian Gronemeyer grew up surrounded by the works of Arne Jacobsen Poul Kjärholm and Eero Saarinen. He brings, through his company Silence and Grace, two fresh new designs to 100% Design in London this month: The Orchid Chair and The W Chair. MORE…
The London-based, 100% Design event is one of the biggest and most important design events on the world’s design calendar, bringing together manufacturers, name designers and major specifiers from all over the world. 100% Design fuses the worlds o
f architecture and design with innovative, contemporary interior products, creativity and a dynamic mix of new and established talent. MORE…
The World Architecture Festival is perhaps the big annual event for architects worldwide. The Festival addresses and celebrates the work, concerns and aspirations of the international architectural community, during a three-day event this autumn in Barcelona. MORE…
The main exhibition of the 2008 International Biennial of Graphic Design in Brno, Czech Republic, designed by Radim Babak and Ondrej Tobola of Hippos design, consists of 600 works by 162 designers, arranged using chairs so that visitors can browse the magazines and books on show. MORE…
Spanish/Mexican architects Cadaval & Solà-Morales have designed an exhibition of works by artist Susana Solano at Fundación ICO in Madrid, made almost entirely of recycled materials. The exhibition, displaying models of Solano’s public artworks, ran from October last year until January this year. MORE…
An exhibition entitled Wouldn’t it be nice… exploring the common ground between art and design, including work by Jurgen Bey, Dunne & Raby, Martino Gamper and Martí Guixé, opens at the Embankment Galleries at Somerset House in London this September.
The exhibition will feature new and recent work from ten practitioners and will be accompanied by performances, installations and talks. MORE…
Sunny Day by Stockholm-based lighting artist Aleksandra Stratimirovic is an installation made of over four thousand glass medical phials filled with coloured liquids, which combine to produce the image of a girl beside a lake. MORE…
Best known for its collection of traditional prefabricated houses, the Finnish Kannustalo company’s modern model Touch will be displayed at an exhibition of prefabricated homes opening on 20 July at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.
The Finland-based Kannustalo’s prefabricated house Touch was designed by the renowned Finnish architects Mikko Heikkinen and Markku Komonen. MORE…
The exhibition Traces at the Gallery art.si consists of illuminated transparent works on plexi-glass that bring together abstract, organic-like motives and immaterial elements as light reflections, projections and shadows. Light-works, crystalline and bio-amorphous in form, refer to nature but rather than reproducing natural landscapes, they manifest the energetic mental, immaterial but nevertheless bodily constituted organic topologies.
_KAM2008 is a new photographic exhibition by Slovenian (architectural) photographer Miran Kambič of contemporary Slovene architecture. The exhibition is being held with the Slovenian Presidency of the EU and the Week of Architecture.
The exhibition, seen at Magušarjeva Hiša in Radolvljica, runs 13.6. – 13.7.2008, and is free of charge.
Magušarjeva Hiša, Linhartova trg 4, Radolvljica
more: www.maguasarjevahisa.si; www.mirankambic.com/index.html
Aaron Betsky, an American who trained in the Netherlands and three-times curator of the Dutch pavilion at the Architecture Biennali, as well as winner of the Golden Lion for best national participation in the 2002 edition, is currently at work as curator of the Venice Biennale’s 11th International Architecture Exhibition.
Betsky is former director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) of Rotterdam, one of the most important architecture museums and centres in the world and, since last year, director of the Cincinnati Art Museum. MORE…
The theme of the London Festival of Architecture 2008 is ‘Fresh’.
A broad series of talks, debates and installations during LFA2008 will challenge conventional thinking on architecture and design. MORE…
An urban architectural display unit (which opens up for special application purposes) in the centre of Ljubljana to preview, showcase and review various current events and developments in architecture, design and urban and building culture and creativity.
Pictured here: promotional poster materials for May’s ‘Big Architecture 08′ Conference Event
Photo: nada zgank /memento and Zavod Big Archive
