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Josephine Meckseper
(> 28/10/2007) - Stuttgart
Kunstmuseum
The Kunstmuseum Stuttgart is dedicating a first solo exhibition to the accomplishments of Josephine Meckseper: In a 1,200-square-meter space, over 150 exhibits will give an overview of Mecksepers work, from her earliest creations to brand new pieces created especially for the Stuttgart show. Meckseper works with all media and uses a wide variety of techniques. She builds large installations and window displays, creates sculp-tures, paintings, photographs and films.
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AND - Interdisciplinary Creative Arts from China
(> 8/11/2007) - Berlin
Aedes Am Pfefferberg
The exhibition focuses this time on Beijing architect Yung Ho CHANG, whose projects, according to European - not even to mention Chinese - standards, are not about mass but possess a high intellec-tual quality and a - for Chinese standards - high quality of construction.
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Living the Modern_Australian Architecture
(> 11/11/2007) - Berlin
Deutsche Architektur Zentrum
The exhibition shows the independent development of Australian Architecture by means of innovative, excellent architectural solutions that are intriguing on an international scale, and yet still widely unknown. The 25 offices presented have transformed, interpreted, used, reformed and converted aspects of modernism within the past 15 years, and deliver insight to their buildings as well as to the culturally and environmentally specific development of modern architecture in Australia.
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Preis der Europäischen Union für zeitgenössische Architektur
Mies van der Rohe Preis 2007
(> 18/11/2007) - Francfort/Main
DAM
The exhibition presents the Mies van der Rohe Prize winners - Emilio Tuñon Álveres + Luis Moreno Mansilla for the M.U.S.A.C Project (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León), Matija Bevk and Vasa J. Perovic for their project Faculty of Mathematics in Ljubljana and other projects selected by the Jury : the Centro de Artes in Sines/ Portugal from Manuel Aires Mateus and Francisco Aires Mateus, the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart from UN Studio, the America's Cup building in Valencia from David Chipperfield, the Phaeno Science Centre in Wolfsburg from Zaha Hadid, the School for Management in Bordeaux from Anne Lacaton & Jean Philippe Vassal as well the Centre chorégraphique nationale in Aix-en-Provence from Rudy Ricciotti.
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Traveling Landscape. Ai Weiwei, Beijing
(27/10/2007 - 9/01/2008) - Berlin
AedesLand
The exhibition on Chinese artist, architect and urbanist Ai Weiwei is put on display at AedesLand after Ai Weiwei's campaign 'Fairytale'. Created for Aedes, his installation 'Traveling Landscape' plays ironically with the journey of the suitcases, which traveled with the 1001 Chinese visitors to Germany. Just like the accommodation and fittings for the documenta guests in Kassel, they had been designed especially by Ai Weiwei, each of them a unique specimen. By now, the suitcases have finished their global container journeys - Beijing-Kassel-Beijing-Berlin - just like most of the everyday objects that surround us today.
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Architecture, People and Resources | Baumschlager & Eberle 2002-2007
(> 13/01/2008) - Munich
Pinakothek der Moderne
Since its establishment as a partnership in 1985, the architectural practice of Baumschlager & Eberle in Lochau / Vorarlberg has completed well over 300 construction projects and building studies, earning itself an international reputation. Recent representative works include large-scale projects such as the Vienna airport extension, the MOMA high-rises in Beijing, the WHO / UNAIDS building in Geneva and the 1,000-bed hospital in Kortrijk (Belgium). Key to the Baumschlager & Eberle philosophy is that architecture is a complex entity requiring the integration of many different elements, to which justice can only be done if a building meets all the demands made on it in terms of structural intelligence, ecology, economic efficiency and social acceptability. This philosophy is reflected in the division of the »Architecture, People and Resources« exhibition into three distinct parts.
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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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Helmut Richter
(> 21/10/2007) - Vienna
Architekturzentrum Wien - Hall F3
In October 2007, after teaching for sixteen years and having supervised more than 500 degree theses Helmut Richter will be made emeritus professor. A chance to say thank you to this nonconformist, constantly researching architect who is, without any doubt, one of the most influential architects in this country.
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Omer Fast
(> 20/01/2008) - Vienna
Museum Moderner Kunst
Omer Fast was born in Israel and has been residing in Berlin for five years. His previous projects frequently concerned places that can be considered historical collections or archives. These projects included an open-air museum of 'living history' in Virginia, and a disused movie set in Cracow, where Omer Fast explored the ways in which our media-driven society transforms historical events into contemporary tales. Omer Fast's solo exhibition at Mumok will present a new video installation.
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Stockmans limited, Take care!, Artwork!
(> 9/12/2007) - Brussels
Gallery Royal Boch
Pieter Stockmans, one of the most famous contemporary Belgian ceramist has created small series of objects, artistic items and architectonic installations.
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Vienne-Bruxelles
(> 23/12/2007) - Brussels
Musée d'Architecture - La Loge
The exhibition relates the decisive influence of the Viennese Art on the young generation of architects in Brussels at the beginning of the 20th century. Especially Léon Snyers, but also other architects who were influenced by this revelation : Henry Van de Velde, Léon Sneyers, Paul Hamesse, Jean-Baptiste Dewin, Emile Van Averbeke, Renaat Braem, Louis Herman De Koninck et son épouse, Fernand Khnopff, Edouard Pelseneer, Maxime Brunfaut, Raymond Moenaert...
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Christopher Dresser: pionier van modern design
(> 13/01/2008) - Ghent
Design Museum
Christopher Dresser (1834-1904) born in Glasgow has been the first industrial designer. Trained to be a botanist, he used botany as a source of inspiration for his language of forms.
After a visit to Japan in 1876-1877, the brilliant Dresser created several objects that were clearly influenced by Oriental models. It is those objects, with their minimalist forms and with which he earned himself a name in later years that will be on display.
Dresser showed a keen interest in the industrial production process. Most of the time he worked with standardized elements. He made designs for metal, ceramics and glass. If it weren't for Dresser, modern design would be rather different today.
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Sottsass
(> 13/01/2008) - Ghent
Design Museum
Ettore Sottsass (1917), Austrian by birth but Italian in heart and soul, opened his own architecture and design studio in 1947. From 1958 he was the design consultant for Olivetti for over 20 years. In the late 1960s - early 1970s, Sottsass played an important role in the avant-garde culture. Sottsass worked both for Studio Alchimia and for the Memphis group.
The exhibition, organized on the occasion of the 90th birthday of Ettore Sottsass, gives an overview of his large but varied oeuvre. Both the aspects of architecture and design are highlighted.
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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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End
(> 28/10/2007) - Copenhagen
Danish Museum Art & Design
International ceramics exhibition project The artists behind the exhibition END are the three English ceramists Richard Slee, Alison Britton and Martin Smith; Marit Tingleff from Norway, along with the Danes Karen Bennicke, Peder Rasmussen and Martin Bodilsen Kaldahl. All artists that have made an impact internationally and nationally - all with very different artistic expressions. The exhibition is guaranteed to provide an entertaining ceramic meeting between spatial minimalism, pop art, ceramic figurine tradition, expressionism, digital form aesthetics and even more.
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Paula Rego
(> 30/12/2007) - Madrid
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
This retrospective of the Portuguese painter Paula Rego (Lisbon, 1935) presents 80 paintings, 60 drawings and 60 litographies.
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Art in the USA: 300 Years of Innovation
(> 28/02/2008) - 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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- Landscape
(> 4/11/2007) - Helsinki
Kiasma
Landscape as a genre in art is a historically evolved convention of viewing, presenting and appreciating nature. Consequently, representations of landscapes in contemporary art should be seen as part of the tradition of landscape art and natural beauty, on which works of contemporary art seem to be commenting. They not only continue the tradition, but also distance and deconstruct it, says Hanna Johansson in her article that will be published in the exhibition catalogue. The works from Kiasma's collections shed light on the contemporary idea of a landscape.
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- Rural Architecture in the Eastern Black Sea Region
(> 11/11/2007) - Helsinki
Museum of Finnish Architecture
Scattered in the breathtaking mountains of north-east Turkey off the eastern Black Sea there are houses and groups of houses based on the local building tradition, many built at the turn of the 20th century. These handsome buildings are made of stone and wood and decorated with elaborate ornaments. They are perfectly fitted in the surrounding landscape. The area also has beautiful old mosques built of wood and ancient churches. Many of these buildings are neglected and now threatening to vanish. Milli Reasurans T.A.S.
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- Yuki Hayama - Ceramic Stories
(> 6/01/2008) - Helsinki
Design Museum
Yuki Hayama is a self-educated Japanese ceramic artist, who combines the traditions of Japanese ceramic art with his own personal style
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Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA architectes, Tokyo & Walter Niedermayr artiste, Bolzano
(> 28/10/2007) - Bordeaux
Arc en rêve centre d'architecture
Ainsi 12 diptyques et une double projection vidéo prendront place dans la grande galerie d'arc en rêve accompagnés de mobiliers et d'objets conçus par SANAA. La galerie blanche accueille une sélection de maquettes, dessins, et albums de chantier de projets récents dont le Louvre à Lens, leur premier projet français.
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Artek
(> 15/12/2007) - Paris
Instutut Finlandais
Artek is renowned as one of the most innovative contributions to modern design.
Long-term durability and high quality combined with a clean-lined form language are the essential elements in the creation of every single product that bears the Artek name. Artek's comprehensive furnishing system can be used in all kinds of situations from public spaces to offices, museums to schools, hotels to homes.
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Purs décors ? Chefs-d'œuvre de l'Islam aux Arts Décoratifs
(> 13/01/2008) - Paris
Musée des Arts Décoratifs
Les Arts Décoratifs has a collection of over 3,000 works of Islamic Art. Exceptional both in size and quality, it includes a number of unique masterpieces (carpets, textiles, ceramics, miniatures, etc.). Three hundred of these works show the influence of the Arts Décoratifs collection in the applied arts at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries and emphasise the role the institution has played in this field.
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Zaha Hadid Architecture and Design
(> 31/10/2007) - London
Design Museum
The first woman to win the Pritzker Prize for Architecture in its 26 year history, Zaha Hadid has defined a radically new approach to architecture by creating buildings, such as the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, with multiple perspective points and fragmented geometry to evoke the chaos of modern life.
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The World is My Imagination
(> 3/11/2007) - Manchester
CUBE
Media-Model-Miniature Nine artists and collectives are exploring the miniscule as an artistic interface in video, networked and interactive installations, digital sound sculptures and photography, found objects and custom built environments. Striking and picturesque model worlds replicate real and imaginary spaces while reflecting existences and habitats, personal memories and longing - the shift in scale ultimately commenting on our surroundings within social and cultural and technological changes.
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Curtis Moffat: Experimental Photography and Design, 1923-1935
(> 13/01/2008) - London
Victoria & Albert Museum Architecture Exhibition Gallery
Curtis Moffat created dynamic abstract photographs, innovative colour still lives and some of the most glamorous society portraits of the early 20th century. He was also a pivotal figure in Modernist interior design. Moffat's archive, containing over 1,000 photographic prints and negatives as well as press cuttings, scrap books and ephemera, was generously donated to the V&A in 2007 by Penelope Smail. The donation is celebrated by featuring some of its highlights in this display. It also acts as a starting point to study Moffat's pioneering but hitherto little-known work in more depth.
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Louise Bourgeois
(> 20/01/2008) - London
Tate Modern
This first major survey since 1995 of the work of the French-born artist Louise Bourgeois (b.1911) will provide an unprecedented opportunity to reassess her work. Over a long career, Bourgeois has worked in dialogue with most of the major international avant-garde artistic movements of the twentieth century, from Surrealism to Conceptual art, but has always remained uniquely apart, powerfully inventive and often at the forefront of contemporary practice.
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Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now
(> 27/01/2008) - London
Barbican Art Gallery
It is a major exhibition focusing on representations of sex from diverse eras and cultures. Provocative and ambitious, it includes around 250 works, spanning over 2000 years, including Roman marbles, Indian manuscripts, Renaissance and Baroque paintings and sculptures, Chinese paintings and prints, Japanese woodcuts, 19th century photographs and contemporary video. Drawn from important public and private collections from around the world, some of the works have never been seen in public, others rarely shown and many have never been exhibited in the UK.
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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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(15 - 18/11/2007) - Thessaloniki
Benaki Museum
International Exhibition for Municipalities, Public, Social Sector and Private Enterprises
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Frank Lloyd Wright precursore dell'architettura moderna
(> 28/10/2007) - Volterra
Villa Palagione
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Mark Rothko
(> 8/01/2008) - Roma
Palazzo Esposizioni
Rétrospective de l'oeuvre d'une figure remarquable de l'art contemporain américain
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Victor Vasarely. Non il cuore ma la retina
(> 27/01/2008) - Milan
Triennale Bovisa
By presenting 80 large size paintings and 50 drawings and grafic works the exhibition wants to underline the influence of this artist on contempory culture.
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La città che sale. We try to build the future
(24/10/2007 - 31/01/2008) - Rome
MACRO (Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma)
Some artists have tried to materialize their utopías, to build the future. This exhibition relies on design and building. Works of Young architects are also presented. Curators: Danilo Eccher et Odile Decq.
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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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Working Apart Together - Young Amsterdam Architects
(> 17/11/2007) - Amsterdam
ARCAM
Young, start-up architects introduce themselves and comment on the quality of the city's establishment opportunities and services. Selected are: BAVAVLA (Bas van Vlaenderen); Elastik; Emma Architecten; Equipe voor Architectuur en Urbanisme; Olaf Gipser; HENK; Anne Holtrop; Marc Koehler; Loos Architects; Studio JVM Architecture + Urban Strategies.
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Scènes en sporen - Vormgeving, video, fotografie en installaties
(> 25/11/2007) - Amsterdam
Stedelijke Museum
This exhibition focuses on three parts of the Stedelijk Museum collection: design, video and photography.
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Jean Tinguely. Alles beweegt!
(> 27/01/2007) - Rotterdam
Kunsthal
A major retrospective of Jean Tinguely (1925-1991) for the first time in forty years. Tinguely is one of the icons of modern art and world renowned for his moving sculptures of rusty iron and waste material that work as machines but serve no useful purpose. Since the 1950s, his grinding, squeaking, spouting and banging oeuvre has created an indelible impression in the art world and particularly outside it. Tinguely's large, rattling machines and colourful objects are vital and cheerful, as well as being poetic and sometimes ironic. This is art that will surprise and bring a smile to everyone's face, especially children, simply because everything moves!
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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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Jiri Kroha (1893-1974) - Architect, Artist, Designer, Theoretician - a 20th Century Metamorphosis
(> 4/11/2007) - Wroclaw
The works of Jiri Kroha evolved in the events of First and Second World Wars. During the period 1921 to 1928 he practised in Mlada Boleslav and in 1925 he was appointed Professor of Architecture at the Technical University in Brno. In the 1930's, Kroha occupied himself with the issue of the "small flat" and the sociology of architecture. Kroha's early work was based on a distinctive conception of Cubism and Expressionism, which he formulated in a series of extremely varied competition designs for buildings.
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Os Gregos, Tesouros do Museu Benakis
(> 6/01/2008) - Atenas
Gulbenkian Museum
Greek art and culture through 157 objects (ceramics, paintings, silverware, sculptures) from Prehistory to the 19th Century.
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Robert Rauschenberg: Travelling 70-76
(> 11/01/2008) - 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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The works of Alfred Grenander
(> 6/01/2008) - Stockholm
The Swedish Museum of Architecture
As an architect and city planner Alfred Grenander was "the Swede building in Berlin". Above all he was involved with the development of the Berlin underground railway. This exhibition provides an overview of the broad oeuvre of Grenander, concentrating on his designs for stations and vehicles, but also including his designs for residential buildings, interiors and furniture.
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Forests of the World. The Other Commitment
(> 6/01/2008) - Basle
Fondation Beyeler
The exhibition presents a spectacular portrait of the trees and forests of our planet in 100 mostly large-format photographs. It is not just aimed to please on a superficial level, but to jolt us and draw attention to the urgent need to protect one of the most important foundation stones of our existence.
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Nature Design. From Inspiration to Innovation
(> 2/12/2007) - Zürich
Museum für Gestaltung
The exhibition presents an international selection of objects and projects from the fields of design, architecture, landscape architecture, art, photography and scientific research which do not simply depict or imitate nature but use it as a starting point and a reservoir of inspiration to present innovative answers to the relationship between man and nature.
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