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Le Corbusier
(> 10/02/2008) - Weil am Rhein
Vitra Design Museum
The work of Le Corbusier remains highly significant and relevant in today's architectural discourse. Yet during the past two decades, no major museum show has addressed the many aspects that still make Le Corbusier's work such an important point of reference for contemporary architecture and urbanism. To fill this void, the Vitra Design Museum is now joining forces with the Netherlands Architecture Institute and the Royal Institute of British Architects in the production of an international retrospective.
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Im Rampenlicht. Baumeister als Bühnenbildner
(> 10/02/2008) - Stuttgart
Kunstmuseum
Willi Baumeister (1889-1955), a painter and typographer who came to be known as one of the most important representatives of abstract painting, designed his first stage set for the »Deutsche Theater Stuttgart« in 1919. The exhibition will show expressive sketches and striking designs for a range of theatre productions. Photos of theater rehearsals and performances, press reviews, and correspondence containing humorous, private sketches will supplement the exhibition material.
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Megacity Network
(> 17/02/2008) - Francfort/Main
DAM
This exhibition presents for the first time some architects and architectural practices of South Korea, in order to better understand the architectural movements of this important Asian country. About fifteen offices show some of their projects realized during the last ten years: residential, cultural and office buildings, shopping centres and schools.
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GLASHAUS_06 BRAMD X Franken Architects
(> 29/02/2008) - Berlin
Deutsche Architektur Zentrum
BRAND X is an exhibition by Franken Architects (Frankfurt/Main. The experts for corporate architecture show their work from January 21 until February 29, 2008 at GLASHAUS_06. „Corporate Architecture, translating corporate identity into designed space has become an increasingly important working field for architects within the last years", says DAZ_Director and curator Kristien Ring. „GLASHAUS_06 presents with Franken Architects an architectural office, which is designing tailored and distinguished solutions for this challenging task." In the exhibition BRAND X, the award winning office focusses on the process of creating corporate architecture.
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Baumschlager-Eberle, Lochau, Austria. The Urban Space Inside
(> 6/03/2008) - Berlin
Aedes Am Pfefferberg
The nuanced interaction of architecture and context is exemplified in the exhibition with a multitude of plans, photographs and models. The WHO building in Geneva, the airport extension in Vienna, the e-Science Lab of ETH Zurich and the Hilti Training Center and Office East in Liechtenstein are representative for some of the recently built structures. They all illustrate the degree of determination but also empathy characteristic for the architecture of Baumschlager-Eberle. Their gaze firmly fixed on the future, founding partners Dietmar Eberle and Carlo Baumschlager also engage in didactic challenges: Eberle teaches at ETH Zurich and Baumschlager works for the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, in particular on the refinement of a project-oriented design methodology.
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7th European Conference Solar Energy in Architecture and Urban Planning
“Sun and Sense”
(11 - 14/03/2008) - Berlin
The first European Conference Solar Energy in Architecture and Urban Planning, initiated by the European Commission, took place in Munich in 1987. At the five subsequent conferences the concepts and ideas of a direct use of solar energy in buildings and for urban development were constantly enhanced.
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Das Erbe Kalkuttas
(> 24/03/2008) - Francfort/Main
DAM
This exhibition presents photographs of Calcutta at the 19th Century, by more tan 20 students in photography of the higher educational establishment for arts of Bremen under control Peter Bialobrzeski. The villas and palaces today threatened of destruction are the last testimonys of the Indian elite then under British domination.
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Araki, Miyamoto, Sugimoto Japanische Fotografie der Gegenwart
(> 24/03/2008) - Wolfsburg
Kunstmuseum
Nobuyoshi Araki, Ryuji Miyamoto and Hiroshi Sugimoto show the Minimalisme effects in Japanese esthetics.
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In the realm of the Arts - Architecture at the Munich Academy 1808 | 2008
(> 18/05/2008) - Munich
Pinakothek der Moderne
To mark the 200th anniversary of the Bavarian Academy of the Fine Arts the Architecture Museum is showing the work of its architects and students. With the aid of plans, photos and models it is presenting the specific form of architecture and architectural studies »In the realm of the Arts«.
Among the most famous teachers at the Academy in the 19th century were Carl von Fischer, architect of Munich’s Nationaltheater, Friedrich von Gärtner, whose international acclaim was comparable to that of the Prussian Schinkel school, August von Voit, who built the Glaspalast and the ingenious draughtsman Ludwig Lange. In 1868 the study of architecture was transferred to the newly constructed Technical University and it was not until 1946 that architecture was again taught at the Academy. Its famous names include the teachers Sep Ruf, Paolo Nestler and Otto Steidle.
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Living Under the Crescent Moon
(23/02 - 31/08/2008) - Weil am Rhein
Vitra Design Museum
The exhibition demonstrates the diversity of domestic lifestyles between Morocco, Syria and the Arabian Peninsula - from the nomadic tents of the Tuareg or Bedouins to Moroccan casbahs; from the grand courtyard houses in cities such as Marrakech, Damascus or Cairo to buildings by twentieth-century architects like Hassan Fathy, Elie Mouyal or Abdelwahed El-Wakil. Numerous models and reconstructed room environments provide visitors with an opportunity to physically experience various building types, while domestic objects such as ceramics, textiles, tools and architectural elements offer impressions of everyday customs.
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The White City of Tel Aviv
(21/02 - 19/03/2008) - Vienna
Architekturzentrum Wien - Old hall
The "White City's" development is presented in the form of plans and models. Historic and contemporary photographs provide an insight into the architectural language of the time, showing the influence that the European heritage had on what was created there. he diversity of surface quality and colours of different plaster are shown, as are precise analyses of the detail planning (e.g., the different types of balconies). A selection of historic film footage provides an animated image of the development of the city between 1920 and 1958. The presentation video for UNESCO and the current project for the conservation of these buildings are also included in the exhibition.
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Esther Stocker
(> 6/04/2008) - Vienna
Museum Moderner Kunst
Born in 1974, Esther Stocker draws upon and at the same time undermines rationality and systematic thought with her reduced, geometric black, white and gray grids and semiotic systems with paintings which work with both images and space. The installation at the MUMOK is made up of identical white rods with a quadratic cross-section mounted in a black room at regular intervals to the floor, walls and ceiling.
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Coop Himmelb(l)au. Beyond the Blue
(> 11/05/2008) - Vienna
MAK Exhibition Hall
The exhibition shows the team’s recent and very latest projects. A spectacular space installation has been specially conceived for the MAK Exhibition Hall, the core of which shows the constant development of urban projects. Established in 1968 by Wolf D. Prix and Helmut Swiczinsky are among the most important and innovative architects of our time, who, with their unconventional, cutting-edge work, have laid the foundation stone for the unparalleled global career of the architectural studio. Models, sketches, drawings, projections and animations offer deep insight into older as well as future buildings and projects which trace the development in the architectural vocabulary and its path from experiment to buildings, thereby demonstrating that a vision can ultimately become reality.
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Quai des orfèvres
(> 10/02/2008) - Seneffe
Château de Seneffe
Five Belgian designers and personnalities (Franco Dragone, Alain Hubert, Olivier Strelli, François Schuiten et Dimitri Weber) display antique silverware in the lounges of this pretigious 18th Century cassle.
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"Chants et Paysages" Ettore Sottsass à Sèvres 1993-2006 - Hornu
(> 9/03/2008) - Grand-Hornu
In 1994 Ettore Sottsass, one of the most important designers, discovered the technical process of the "Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres". He developped a serie of objects which are still produced nowadays. In 2005 the Manufacture renewed this intersting cooperation with new forms and new materials.
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Alechinsky from A to Y
(> 30/03/2008) - Brussels
Fine Arts Museum
In honour of Pierre Alechinsky, a famous Belgian artist now aged 80, the retrospective exhibition shows many important works in close cooperation with the artist: paintings, drawings, engravings and book illustrations selected in national and international collections.
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Paysages d’architecture - 150 ans de dessins d’architectes belges
(> 20/04/2008) - Brussels
Fondation pour l’Architecture
Since 1986, the collection of architectural drawings and models of the « Archives d’Architecture Moderne “ has become considerably richer. Today there are almost two million documents representing the diversity of Belgian Architecture between the middle of the 19th and the beginning of the 21 st Century.The 200 drawings and models selected for this exhibition are particularly interesting in terms of quality and choice of styles, going from the dynamic Art Nouveau to the garden-cities, from the Art Déco to the stretched structures”style 58” and the contemporary projects.
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20 years Theo-design
(> 27/04/2008) - Ghent
Design Museum
“Theo” stands for self-willed design and is here for “positive and cheerful people”, for trendsetters, says in-house designer Patrick Hoet. Theo, by the way, is an anagram for Hoet.
The designer from Bruges has been working with the Theo firm from Antwerp for 20 years now. He designs the colourful and eccentric spectacle frames while his business partner Wim Somers takes care of execution and worldwide distribution. Annually, this amounts to about 50 to 60 designs.
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Now that it is time
(> 14/02/2008) - Copenhagen
Danish Museum Art & Design
Three significant personalities in Danish sculpture and architecture, Thomas Bang, Ingvar Cronhammar and Poul Ingemann have especially for this exhibition created works and installations, which exist in a widely expanded territory between the functional object and the sculptural gestalt without function, where the concept of purpose assumes unexpected and new dimensions.
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Europan Denmark
(> 24/02/2008) - Copenhagen
Dansk Arkitektur Center
All the competition entries for the Danish building sites in the EUROPAN competition. EUROPAN is a European competition for architects under the age of 40. This year, 20 countries have participated by entering building sites to be developed with new architecture. Denmark has participated for the first time with building sites in the towns of Herning, Vejle and Ørestad.
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Art in the USA: 300 Years of Innovation
(> 25/04/2008) - Bilbao
Museum Guggenheim
This exhibition features a compelling selection of approximately 200 artworks culled from a range of private and public collections in the United States. Six historical periods demonstrate how the art of each era both reflected and contributed to a complex visual narrative of a nation during times of discovery, growth and experimentation.
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The “Musée National Picasso” in Paris collection
(> 5/05/2008) - Madrid
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
An exceptional exhibition in which around four hundred works (painting, sculpture, ceramic, drawing, prints, notebooks and other documentary material) have been selected from the holdings of the Paris to form the most complete overview ever presented in Spain of Picasso's career. The show will not only be installed in the three temporary exhibition rooms of the museum but will extend into various permanent collection rooms where the Picasso works related to Guernica are displayed, thus complementing this fundamental period of the collection of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.
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Asier Mendizabal
(> 18/05/2008) - Barcelona
Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona
This exhibition presents a monographic vision of Mendizabal’s work, focusing on certain works that explore the tension between urban environments that contain and generate collective consciousness on one hand, and semi-rural landscapes that shape certain kinds of associations (neighbourhoods, sympathies, groups, etc.) that are equally important on the other.
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Jean Tinguely
(3/03 - 8/06/2008) - Valencia
IVAM
Resulting from a cooperation with the Tinguely Museum, this exhibition shows the Works from the swiss sculptor and experimental artist Jean Tinguely (1925-1991) and enables the visitor to view the evolution of his creations and the richness of his extensive production.
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- Emerging Identities - East!
(> 17/02/2008) - Helsinki
Museum of Finnish Architecture
On display is contemporary built culture from former Socialist countries which have recenty become members of the European Union. This Eastern European journey focusses on the built projects of young architects. They develop projects out of their own initiative and idealism, and their buildings embody strong conceptual thinking and the implementation of the concept. It is not only the new public buildings, but far more the many small interventions that represent current tendencies. There are over 90 participants from 9 countries: Germany, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Poland.
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- Ben af Schultén & the Artek tradition
(> 24/02/2008) - Jyväskylä
Alvar Aalto Museum
The exhibition will be showing a cross-section of the work of the designer Ben af Schultén. On show there will be well-known light fittings and items of furniture designed for Artek, but less well-known pieces, such as prototypes, have been given a place in the exhibition, too. The exhibition will also be showing af Schultén’s interior, exhibition and trade-fair designs, plus some of his practical graphic work. The designer’s personal fondness for art is brought out in the exhibition in various ways including works of art chosen for the exhibition by Ben af Schultén himself.
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- Yrjö Kukkapuro designer
(> 6/04/2008) - Helsinki
Design Museum
This exhibition presents the career of designer and interior architect Yrjö Kukkapuro from his early works designed in 1956 to his most recent ones from 2007. Kukkapuro's oeuvre is characterized by a strict command of form and the carefully considered use of details. Throughout the decades his ideal has been the human body and its lawlike regularities. Kukkapuro has been the head designer of the Haimi, Lepokalusto and Avarte companies. He is known for his design of public spaces and as a solid collaborating partner with the architectural profession. This means that all Finns have at some stage of their lives sat in a chair designed by Kukkapuro, for example in a bank, theatre, auditorium or hospital.
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- Raili and Reima Pietilä. Challenging Modern Architecture
(27/02 - 25/05/2008) - Helsinki
Museum of Finnish Architecture
One of the great names of Finnish 20th-century architecture, Pietilä rose to international fame when the established principles of modernism began to be questioned in the 1960s and 1970s. Raili (1926–) and Reima (1923–1993) Pietilä emphasize organic form and natural morphology, and their work is markedly distinctive from the mainstream of the latter half of the century. They created signature buildings experimenting with new forms, such as Dipoli in Espoo (1966), Main City Library in Tampere (1986) and the Presidents’s Residence in Helsinki (1993). Reima Pietilä was also an acute architectural theorist actively contributing to the discussion on the future of modernism in Finland as well as abroad.
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Habitat précaire, habitat transitoire
(> 25/02/2008) - Orléans
FRAC Centre
Often associated to the people’s precariousness or the builders’short-term views, the theme clarifies the design of mobile architectures, created to be installed on sites without harming the environment, or using materials a priori precarious to build durable architectures.
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Matières à cultiver
(> 16/03/2008) - Paris
Galerie VIA
An exhibition that aims at showing the new possibilities for using renewable materials: timber, multiplies, composite fibres of vegetable origin.
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My Sust. House
(> 17/02/2008) - Glasgow
The Lighthouse
The Lighthouse opens the door of its interactive 'eco-house'! This fun, activity packed sustainability den offers a hands on opportunity to learn about cutting edge and traditional approaches to energy saving and renewable energy.
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Co-evolution
(> 23/02/2008) - Manchester
CUBE
The exhibition concerns modern urban planning in China and was exhibited on the Venice Biennale in 2006, where it constituted Denmark's official contribution and won the main prize, the Golden Lion Award. It shows how Danish architects and Chinese professors and students are helping to meet the global challenges following in the wake of China's massive economic growth.
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Jean Prouvé
(> 25/03/2008) - London
Design Museum
The radical, functional and inspiring work of the French designer and engineer Jean Prouvé (1901 - 1984) will be shown in this first comprehensive overview of his work in the UK. With examples of his unique furniture design, architecture, drawings, film and photographs, the exhibition will present the enormous influence of Prouvé within the history of 20th Century design. This exhibition re-designed for the Design Museum was originated by the Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany in cooperation with Deutsches Architektur Museum, Frankfurt and Design Museum Akihabara, Japan.
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Juan Muñoz A Retrospective
(> 27/04/2008) - London
Tate Modern
Spanish artist Juan Muñoz (1953-2001) came to international prominence in the mid 1980s with dramatic sculptural installations that placed the human figure in specific architectural environments. His reputation was built on his power to create an intriguing tension between the illusory and the real, the contrasting acts of looking and receiving, and the poignant isolation of the individual amongst a crowd. This exhibition includes well-known sculptures such as Many Times (1999), The Prompter (1988) and Conversation Piece (1996), the “raincoat drawings”, and important pieces with sound, light and mechanical elements.
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China Design Now
(15/03 - 13/06/2008) - London
Victoria & Albert Museum Architecture Exhibition Gallery
The exhibition will explore the recent explosion of new design in China, from the 2008 Olympic stadium to the most interesting fashion and graphics. It will display the work of Chinese and international designers, focussing on architecture, fashion, youth culture and graphics as well as film, photography, product and furniture design and digital media.
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Stephen Antonakos: retrospective
(> 9/03/2008) - Athens
Benaki Museum - Pireos Street Annexe
The 250 works in the exhibition cover this abstract formalist's creative life from 1954 to the present and will enable viewers to follow the entire course of this important artist who has played a major role in the evolution of light art internationally starting in the 60s and who continues to find new inspiration in neon after 45 years. It will span all phases of the artist's evolution, featuring many of the major neon works, over 85 drawings, models for his Chapels and Meditation Rooms, and some works exhibited here for the first time.
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99 icone: da segno a sogno
(> 24/02/2008) - Bergamo
Accademia Carrara
Although this selection of icones belongs to the Olympus of design, they are also live, useful objects present in the homes of everyone, such as the new Fiat 500 (2007).
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Ettore Sottsass.Vorrei sapere perche
(> 2/03/2008) - Trieste
Il Salone degli Incanti
The title “I would like to know why” relates to a question the Master formulated and represents his approach to the things in the world. «Without my knowing what they are, the shapes of stone have a sacred sense, sacred forever. I would like to know why».
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Annisettanta. Il decennio lungo del secolo breve
(> 30/03/2008) - Milan
Triennale Bovisa
The exhibition looks back at the 1970s by means of various installations based on keywords (travel, body, conflict, march, etc) or key Italian figures (Moro, Pasolini) from that decade.
At the same time, there are many exhibits devoted to the contamination and hybridisation of language and discourse that occurred at the time, with the focus on what the Seventies produced in the way of cinema, literature, design, music, figurative art, comics, theatre, fashion, mass media, technology, communication, sport and so on.
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Il mito della velocità. Arte, motori e società nell'Italia del ‘900
(19/02 - 18/05/2008) - Roma
Palazzo Esposizioni
Speed is the focal point of this fascinating and scenically spectacular exhibition devised by Contemporanea Progetti, a theme developed in all its forms through a chronological overview of the 20th century that goes on to explore a range of entrancing future scenarios.
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(16 - 21/04/2008) - Milan
International Furniture Fair
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Glenn Ligon: Some Changes
(> 18/02/2008) - Luxembourg
MUDAM
The work of the American artist Glenn Ligon is exploring concepts like the construction of an individual identity, as well as being a part of something bigger - socially, politically or sexually -, in a country emerged out of immigration.
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Frédéric Prat
(6/03 - 26/05/2008) - Luxembourg
MUDAM
Since the beginning of the Nineties, Frédéric Prat questions the pictorial process. Forsaking the three-dimensional illusion, the painter explores the essence of painting. The concern of his last works expresses a maculation according to color convolutions, pointing out the reality of the surface. The Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean presents a selection of paintings representative of the artists’ researches, including several works from the Mudam Collection.
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¿Adónde vas?
(> 9/03/2008) - Rotterdam
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Under this title the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen presents a selection from the rich and varied oeuvre of the Spanish artist Dora Dolz (1941). She has lived and worked in the Netherlands for more than forty years and is known to a broad public, mainly thanks to her colourful ceramic objects in parks and squares, such as the bench in the Zocherspark near the Euromast and the seat on the corner of the Heemraadssingel.
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Amateurisme. Students' work
(> 20/03/2008) - Amsterdam
ARCAM
Are exhibited the Works resulting from the workshops, presided by Eric Kessels, creative manager of the Kessels Kramer Advertising Company and also “resident artist” with the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten. Under the leadership of 8 artisits chosen by Eric Kessels in 8 different disciplines, the students and the professors from this Academy search for the amateur origin of Art.
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Van Gogh’s scribbles
(> 30/03/2008) - Amsterdam
Van Gogh Museum
Alongside drawings on actual drawing paper Van Gogh also scribbled sketches on all kinds of less obvious surfaces. Sometimes he might draw on the back of an envelope, the endpaper of his sketchbook, on the back of a painting and on the reverse of the sheets of paper on which he pasted illustrations cut from magazines. This presentation brings these drawings together for the first time.
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The Ultimate Within: Dom van der laan (1904 - 1991)
(> 30/03/2008) - Rotterdam
NAI
A retrospective of the work of the Benedictine monk and architect Dom Hans van der Laan. Besides buildings, Van der Laan also designed furniture, silverwork and priestly garments, as well as taking an interest in town and country planning. He never completed his architectural training, but after entering the monastery he resumed his study of architecture. He taught theory in the three-year course in church architecture organised by the Catholic church. The upper church of the monastery in Lemiers is regarded as his most important work. The exhibition will cover three monasteries, his interior designs and furniture.
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Art Nouveau, tijdens laatste tsaren
(> 5/05/2008) - Amsterdam
Hermitage
René Lalique, Vase 'Bacchants', Paris, c. 1924
The objects produced within this movement are the highlights of the Western decorative arts collection in the Hermitage in St Petersburg. This collection of Art Nouveau has not previously been on show in the Netherlands. Amongst the major works are the gifts to the last tsars made by the glassmakers Émile Gallé and the Daum brothers; works by René Lalique and Carl Fabergé will also be included.
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Magnum - 60 Years of Photoqraphy
(> 12/05/2008) - Amsterdam
Stedelijke Museum
This retrospective is being presented to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the renowned Magnum photo and press agency. The exhibition uses photographs, books and texts to illustrate the history of Magnum year by year and gives visitors the opportunity to view work by 83 photographers, such as Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Carl de Keyzer, Martin Parr, Susan Meiselas and Leonard Freed. They have recorded every major aspect of our times, from armed conflicts and revolutions through to everyday life and outstanding personalities. Their insight and vision have enabled them to create iconic images which have been disseminated through the international press to become part of our society’s collective memory.
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Robert Rauschenberg: Travelling 70-76
(> 30/03/2008) - Porto
Fundação Serralves
This exhibition will be one of the most important of the year - presenting the work by one of the 20th-century's leading and most prolific artists, for the first time ever in Portugal. This is the first retrospective of Rauschenberg work produced in the 1970s - an almost unknown area...
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Moving West - From the School of Applied Arts to the Zurich University of the Arts
(> 10/02/2008) - Zürich
Museum für Gestaltung
On 1 August the School of Art and Design Zurich (HGKZ) and the School of Music and Theater Zurich (HMT) amalgamated to become one of the largest art universities in Europe: Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK) / Zurich University of the Arts. This historic moment is on the one hand the prompt to trace the history of the Kunstgewerbeschule / School of Applied Arts founded in 1878 and on the other to highlight the perspectives of the new art university. The exhibition concentrates on ideas, personalities and key study areas which always also reflect social trends. The innovative power of products, concepts and processes can be experienced just as much as present and future success stories.
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Arosa.The modernity in the mountains
(> 21/02/2008) - Zürich
ETH Zürich Architekturfoyer
During the 1920s and early 1930s, Arosa experienced a tremendous upswing and developed from a quiet health resort into an international summer and winter sports venue. This social and cultural expansion was reflected in the numerous new residential, hotel and tourist buildings, in various sporting edifices and in advertising for the holiday and tourist trade.
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Genesis - The Art of Creation
(> 27/04/2008) - Bern
Zentrum Paul Klee
The project is based on a concept designed in cooperation with the Centraal Museum in Utrecht, The Netherlands, expanded for the Zentrum Paul Klee. It is a topic that plays a central role in art and genetics.
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Action Painting
(> 12/05/2008) - Basle
Fondation Beyeler
The exhibition is devoted to aspects of gestural painting from 1945 to 1965. As the history of modern painting ran its course, works of art began ever more clearly to reflect artists' individuality. Paintings increasingly took on the character of a record of their personality, as expressed through the movements of their painting hand. This development culminated in the gestural painting of the postwar period, especially in that of Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), whose abstract compositions inspired the term "Action Painting"
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Art Machines - Machine Art
(5/03 - 29/06/2008) - Basle
Museum Tinguely
In general, we assume that artists make art - but what happens, if machines produce art? Do artists then become engineers? What is the meaning of the apparent withdrawal of artists from the creative act and what consequences does this have for the artwork’s originality and uniqueness? And what is an artwork in the first place: the machine, the product, or the act of its production? What role is granted the viewer in the course of production: interaction or exclusion? Starting with Jean Tinguely’s drawing machines from the 1950s, the exhibition jointly organized by the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt and the Museum Tinguely will present art machines from different ages and contexts through to the present day.
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