Cultural Calendar
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Thomas Demand, “House of Cards”
In the autumn of 2020, M is presenting a major solo exhibition of Thomas Demand’s work, with a focus on his relationship to architecture. Spread across three rooms, M is exhibiting his […]
Current
The Eye of the Storm
Blitz Valletta has launched a new website with a platform called OPEN. “The Eye of the Storm” is Blitz’s first online exhibition featuring videos and films by seven international artists and […]
Current
Sincere Intentions
For the first time Robert Grunenberg Gallery in Berlin is showing the core gallery program with their four artists Stefan Knauf, Brandon Lipchik, Sonja Yakovleva and Jan Zöller all together. Along with […]
Current
Serial Eater, food design stories
Designed by the curator Benjamin Stoz, the exhibition at the CID – centre d’innovation et de design at the Grand-Hornu analyses thirty years of experimentation and reflections around the subject of “food as an object”. […]
Current
Beeline by SO – IL at maat, Lisbon
Beeline is an unprecedented architectural intervention commissioned to the New York-based studio SO – IL that occupies the entirety of maat’s building. SO – IL’s largest piece of ephemeral architecture […]
Past
Art Basel – Online Viewing Rooms
The June edition of Art Basel’s Online Viewing Rooms features an international line up of 282 leading galleries from 35 countries and territories across Europe, North and South America, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. An events program consisting of live-streamed talks, curator tours, as well as digital events staged by galleries –from studio tours to performance–will accompany this second edition. The Online Viewing Rooms will run from June […]
Long Reads
Locating Design
KIM1995: staying put
“Do you really need to fly to talk to your colleagues?” According to the Caribbean artist and designer KIM1995, the answer is no. In the era of digital communication, in which information moves quickly, KIM1995 has decided to practice a concept she calls “Sustainable Immobility.” So as not...
REM KOOLHAAS’ RURAL SUBLIME
Or the capitalist industrialization of the countryside
Countryside, The Future at New York’s Guggenheim sees the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas heading out of the cities for new pastures. But in a show that he describes as being about sociology, anthropology and politics, is its meaning or relevance like trying to find a needle in a haystack?
Domestic Chaos
What’s so great about streamlining?
Imagine if Albert Einstein had lived with the queen of decluttering Marie Kondo. A slight tension might have arisen when, in between Kondo organising categories of joyful order, Einstein was wandering around the house muttering his oft-quoted remark, “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered...
Research & Realities
Rudbish
A conceptual visualization of waste finding it’s way back onto your place. The project by chef and designer Diedriek Schneemann and photographer Aldwin van Krimpen responds to the Nature/Nurture theme […]
A Labour of Love
Fashion designer Kris Van Assche of Berluti and gallery owner François Laffanour discovered a shared passion for the furniture Pierre Jeanneret designed for Chandigarh. With their joint skills coming together, a limited edition collection has restored and revived the originals.
Domesticated Enclosures
The Great Wall of China. The Garden of Eden. The Berlin Wall. The Maginot Line. The Atlantic Wall. The Walls of Constantinople. The Western Wall. And if he has his way, Trump’s dream of a "big, beautiful wall" between the US and Mexico. All these walls individually present their own division bet...
Productivity
Caesarstone
Leading manufacturer of high-quality quartz surfaces, Caesarstone has now released the latest additions to its Supernatural range, inspired by the forms, colours, and patterns found in nature. Emulating the texture […]
Form Us With Love
Pun h (an ancient term in Sanskrit that means again) is an initiative of Godrej & Boyce, one of India’s major manufacturing conglomerates. Led by Shubhi Sachan, it focuses on […]
SAHCO
The SAHCO 2017 Collection is an invitation to travel, with style and relaxed nonchalance. This year’s Ulf Moritz’s series of textiles features pastel tones, displaying an innovative colour palette. Along […]
Katrinetorp Landeri
In autumn 2016, an exhibition at Katrinetorp Landeri, just outside Malmö, Sweden presented the work of dozens of Scandinavian designers, in collaboration with Svenskt Tenn, Kasthall, Asplund, Ogeborg, Handarbetets Vänner, […]