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Álvaro Siza – von der linie zum raum
(> 4/03/2012) - Neuss |
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Siza, mit allen Architekturpreisen der Welt bedacht, gibt in dieser ersten monografischen Ausstellung in Deutschland an Hand der Auswahl neuester Bauten und Projekte einen detaillierten Einblick in seine gestalterische Vorstellungskraft. Man verfolgt dabei seine tastende und suchende Arbeitsweise. Durch die gezeichneten Linien seiner Skizzen nähert man sich seinem Raumverständnis. Die Arbeitsmodelle geben diese Suche in plastischer Form wieder. Ausgewählte Fotographien und ergänzende Pläne vervollständigen diese einmalige Präsentation. Sizas Bauten zeichnen sich durch ihre skulptural ansprechenden, oft weißen Formen aus. Sie verbinden sich einerseits mit der großen Tradition der stark plastisch geprägten, modernen Architektur von Alvar Aalto über Adolf Loos bis zu Frank Lloyd Wright, andererseits beziehen sie sich auch auf die große Tradition seiner Heimat: Putz, Kacheln – die Azulejos, Marmor, Granit und Beton.
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Building with timber - Paths into the future
(> 5/02/2012) - Munich |
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The United Nations have proclaimed 2011 as the »International Year of Forests«. On this occasion the Architekturmuseum in cooperation with the Department for Timber Construction at the TU München is presenting in an extensive exhibition entitled »Building with Timber - Paths into the Future« the technical, economic and structural possibilities of the material. As a renewable raw material, wood is an "all-rounder", bridging the gap between nature and technology: it is the materialised form of solar energy, a carbon dioxide accumulator as well as a universal construction material.
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WOHA. Breathing architecture
(2/12/2011 – 29/04/2012) - Francfort/Main |
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Some of their structures remind us of bold visions of the future, in which plants reclaim nature for themselves. WOHA architects from Singapore – Wong Mun Summ and Richard Hassell – realize the permeation of buildings and landscape, of interiors and exteriors in projects such as the Singapore School of the Arts and the seminal residential high-rise The Met in Bangkok, which received the International Highrise Award 2010. Topics such as creating value added through communal areas and permeability for climate and nature will be presented in WOHA’s first monographic exhibition using examples of open tropical family homes, green highrises and projects still in the completion phase. For instance the future Singapore’s office and hotel ensemble PARKROYAL ON PICKERING is supposed to “disappear and just to mirror the plants”
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Rudolf Steiner - Alchemy of the Everyday
(>1/05/2012) - Weil am Rhein |
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Rudolf Steiner (1861 – 1925) was one of the most influential – and also one of the most controversial – reformers of the twentieth century. He founded the Waldorf schools, inspired artists such as Piet Mondrian, Wassily Kandinsky and Joseph Beuys and is regarded as one of the key initiators of organic architecture. In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Steiner’s birth, the Vitra Design Museum is now presenting the first major retrospective on his oeuvre. The exhibition is accompanied by a supporting programme of activities and events unparalleled in the history of the museum. It explores Steiner’s influence in design, art and society, but also traces the impact of Steiner’s work in the Basel region.
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Give More - schmidt hammer lassen architects
(3/02 – 15/03/2012) - Berlin |
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With more than 25 years of experience, the Danish office is one of Scandinavia’s most recognised, award-winning architectural practices committed to innovative and sustainable design. The multi-layered exhibition illustrates the philosophy of schmidt hammer lassen architects: that architecture is not the goal in itself; the goal is the change new architecture creates. Common to all the practice’s work is an architectural approach, which creates modern, open, and multi-functional spaces – buildings revolve around people and are not merely an architectonic shape. The selection of architectural projects offers the audience a glimpse of how architecture can add value and positive changes for people, communities, cities and countries. Projects featured in the exhibition are: The permanent premises of the International Criminal Court / The Hague, Urban Mediaspace / Aarhus, City of Westminster College / London, Aberdeen University New Library / Aberdeen, The Crystal / Copenhagen, and more.
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5th RecyclingDesignPrize
(18/02 – 1/04/2012) – Herford |
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For the fifth time now the Recycling Design Prize is dedicated to new developments in the field of sustainable design. Original new uses for long-disused articles or the narrative charm of used surfaces – in the search for the “hidden meaning of discarded things”, there are no limits to the imagination.
An international jury of experts selected the best designs from over 600 submissions. As the first station, the Marta Herford is showing this special selection in the Lippold Gallery of the museum before the exhibition travels on to other venues.
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G. M. Cantacuzino – Eine hybride Moderne
(9/02 – 8/04/2012) – Stuttgart |
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Auf europäischer Ebene ist der rumänische Architekt und Intellektuelle G. M. Cantacuzino (1899–1960) inzwischen eine nahezu unbekannte Größe. G. M. Cantacuzino (GMC) entwickelte sich insbesondere im Rumänien der 1930er Jahre zur integrativen Leitfigur einer versöhnlichen Spielart der Moderne. Gezeigt wird ein Querschnitt durch das breitgefächerte Werk GMCs. Dessen architekturkulturelle Strategie zeigt beispielhaft die fruchtbaren Verknüpfungsmöglich- keiten zwischen Tradition und Moderne – und birgt darin eine bemerkenswerte Aktualität.
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Schneider+Schumacher
(> 29/04/2012) - Francfort/Main |
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The architectural studio will present its work to mark the completion of the Städel Museum and the conversion of the Dresdner Bank Silver Tower into the Deutsche Bahn administration building. The selected projects will be shown as large-scale projections in an installation conceived exclusively for DAM by Meso. New photographs by Kirsten Bucher, who presents an authentic snapshot of the buildings both inside and out, are combined with archived images and sounds to produce an atmospheric spatial choreography which illustrates the studio’s work and intension.
The exhibition will mark the beginning of a new series on architects in the Rhine-Main region
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55. BetonTage: Chancen nutzen - Zukunft gestalten
(7 – 9/02/2012) - Neu-Ulm |
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Die BetonTage stehen für ein hochkarätiges Fachprogramm und bieten der europäischen Betonfertigteilindustrie seit Jahrzehnten eine ideale Plattform, um sich auszutauschen, Kontakte zu knüpfen und neue Impulse zu erhalten.
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Kaj Franck | Fins designicoon
(19/11/2011 – 26/02/2012) – Ghent |
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Kaj Franck is een van de grondleggers van het toonaangevende, moderne Finse design en wordt omschreven als het “geweten” van de Finse vormgeving. Dit jaar is het precies 100 jaar geleden dat hij werd geboren. Een aanleiding om een overzichtstentoonstelling van zijn werk op het getouw te zetten. Zijn ontwerpen zijn uitgepuurde vormen, het essentiële houdt hij over.
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Design Brazil
(> 5/02/2012) – Brussels |
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In het kader van Europalia Brazilië brengt Design Vlaanderen naast een selectie van producten ontworpen door de befaamde Braziliaanse designers Fernando & Humberto Campana voor EDRA, ook de tentoonstelling Alegria_Design Contemporâneo Brasileiro (Tulio Mariante, curator).
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Labels Henry van de Velde 2011
(> 3/03/2012) – Brussels |
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De Henry van de Velde Awards lauweren ontwerpers en bedrijven uit Vlaanderen. De awards Loopbaan, Jong Talent en Bedrijf bevestigen enerzijds de hoge kwaliteit van het gerealiseerde werk, anderzijds vormen ze voor de jongere ontwerpers een stimulans om de ingeslagen weg van experiment en creativiteit voort te zetten. De awards dienen ook als een springplank voor verder succes in het buitenland. Acht producten mogen het Label 2011 dragen: de vleugelpiano ‘Doutreligne 7’ van Eric Dumortier (voor Piano’s Maene), ‘Deseo’, een roomcontroller als onderdeel van een domoticasys¬teem van Klaas Arnout en Sandra Maes (voor Basalte),‘BuzziBooth’, een akoestische cocon die als werkplek kan dienen, ontworpen door Alain Gilles (voor BuzziSpace), de ledspot ‘Scotty’ (Modular), de wasspeld ‘Knijper’ (Moerman), het tapijt ‘Cyclo’ (Pardo Rugs), de bijzettafel ‘Multiple’ (Raphaël Charles) en de tafel ‘Hopper’ (van Dirk Wynants voor zijn eigen zaak, Extremis).
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BEL Architecten
(> 18/03/2012) - Antwerpen |
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deSingel en het Vlaams Architectuurinstituut bieden acht jonge architectenbureaus gedurende twee seizoenen een platform aan om hun ideeën over architectuur, stedenbouw en landschapsontwerp aan een breed publiek voor te stellen. De architecten, geselecteerd door curatoren Katrien Vandermarliere (projectleider VAi) en Christoph Grafe (directeur VAi), krijgen de opdracht om al ontwerpend een onderzoek uit te werken. Het betreft projecten die reële opdrachten weerspiegelen en die tonen welke bijdrage architectuur kan leveren aan de samenleving, meer bepaald aan de inrichting van steden en landschappen. Mogelijk wordt de vraag gesteld om na te denken over de eigentijdse verschijning van moskeeën in Vlaanderen of over de stedelijke ontwikkeling van bijvoorbeeld Antwerpen. Of de curatoren nodigen uit tot het bedenken van nieuwe concepten voor gebouwen die door de schaalvergroting in de landbouw in onbruik zijn geraakt. Kortom: prikkelende oefeningen die oplossingen kunnen aanreiken voor prangende maatschappelijke vraagstukken en intellectueel uitdagende kwesties.
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Architectonic. Concrete walls (1958-1980)
(> 15/04/2012) - Bruxelles |
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This exhibition is a great opportunity to learn about the technical aspects and aesthetic dimension of a major, fundamental element of post-war Belgian and international architecture. Once again, the Atomium’s aim is to familiarise people with modern architecture.
Until the 1970s, an elegant concrete arrow reached out from just a few hundred metres away from the Atomium. The Civil Engineering arrow, a tribute to the glory of Belgian engineering, impressed many a visitor. On the Heysel Plateau, this was not even the only example of the architectural majesty of concrete. Concrete has the ability to surprise ! It amazes with the excitement and the rhythm of its façades and structures that sum up our everyday lives. Since the beginning of the last century, concrete has gradually made its mark on architecture for better and sometimes for worse.
After an interactive introduction, to help visitors understand what concrete is and what it can create in terms of architecture, there is a presentation of a number of symbolic buildings in Brussels and in Belgium, explaining the architectural poetry of a very modern material.
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Andrea Branzi
(16/02 – 26/05/2012) - Antwerpen |
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Branzi's werk als designer, architect en theoreticus is doordrongen van een constructief, materieel en esthetisch onderzoekssysteem dat een bepaald moment van de cultuur en de beschaving vastlegt. Eind jaren zestig, toen menig architect nog ontwierp en bouwde in het modernistisch idioom, stelde Branzi samen met de revolutionaire groep Archizoom de 'no-stop-city' voor, een theoretisch project over de metropolitane stad. Zij voorzagen dat de oneindige verscheidenheid en de oncontroleerbare complexiteit van onze hedendaagse wereld een nieuwe architectuur zouden vereisen. Stedenbouw en architectuur zouden week en diffuus worden, met onvaste vormen die een vloeiende en continue ruimte zouden bepalen.
Bij ons is Branzi vooral bekend via zijn meubel- en kunstobjecten. In deze tentoonstelling komt echter niet alleen de uitvinder en maker Branzi aan bod. Ook het belang van zijn utopisch denken en zijn visionaire kracht krijgen aandacht.
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« 03 – M. VAN SEVEREN »
(18/03 - 17/06/2012) – Hornu |
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Sx ans après la disparition de Maarten Van Severen qui reste l’une des icônes majeures du design belge, Grand-Hornu Images invite son public à une rencontre avec l’une de ses créations les plus emblématiques : La chaise 03.
Fidèle au style de Van Severen marqué par son goût pour l’esthétisme dépouillé, elle s’impose partout grâce à l’élégance de sa coque souple aux lignes claires. Cette coque réalisée en polyuréthane intégré de ressorts à lame, confère à ce siège un confort d’utilisation exceptionnel puisque l’assise et le dossier s’adaptent en permanence à la forme du corps. Après le Design Museum de Gand, Grand-Hornu Images propose au visiteur de découvrir tout le processus de création de cet objet unique depuis les premiers dessins du designer jusqu’à la forme qu’on lui connaît encore aujourd’hui.
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Star strategies + Architecture (NL)
(7/02/2012 - 20:00) - Hasselt |
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Het Rotterdamse bureau werd in 2006 opgericht door Beatriz Ramo. Door zelf kritische studies over relevante hedendaagse thema’s op gang te brengen en op tafel te leggen is STAR strategies + architecture vandaag uitgegroeid tot een bureau met internationale uitstraling. Ze versloegen onder andere het Japanse bureau Sanaa, Martínez Lapeña – Torres Arquitectos en MVRDV in de internationale competitie 'Mirador el Palmeral' (palmbos) in Elche, Spanje), een UNESCO werelderfgoed locatie. Het project is een reuzenrad met zestien cabines met elk een centrale bank en een 360 graden uitzicht op de palmbomen. Volgens het bureau maken architecten te vaak gebruik van beplante gevels in hun ontwerp om gebouwen duurzaam te maken.
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Broekx-Schiepers (B)
(14/02/2012 - 20:00) - Hasselt |
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In het repertoire van het architectenbureau opgericht in 2002, zijn er zowel nieuwe gebouwen als renovaties terug te vinden, maar alle projecten karakteriseren zich door een integrale benadering tussen de architectuur en het interieur. Marcella Schiepers en Jo Broekx vertrekken bij ontwerpopdrachten nooit vanuit een specifieke stijl of een vast idee. Gerealiseerde projecten vormen steeds een respons op een specifieke context en getuigen van een intensieve dialoog tussen ontwerper en opdrachtgever. Vormgeving, materiaalkeuze en woonsfeer zijn onafscheidelijke componenten van het ontwerpproces.
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Lhoas & Lhoas [BE]
(8/03/2012 - 20:00) - Leuven |
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De broers Pablo en Pierre Lhoas bouwen sinds 1994 het Brusselse bureau Lhoas & Lhoas uit. Hun signatuur wordt geïnspireerd door een uitgebreide kennis van referenties uit heden en verleden en een drastisch in het vandaag staan. Hun bagage binnen de ontwerpdisciplines is uitgebreider dan de architectuur en dat is merkbaar in hun ontwerpen, klantenbestand en publicaties. Hun tentoonstellingsscenografie, ontwerp voor publieke gebouwen, gezinswoningen en meubelontwerp wordt steeds gekenmerkt door een onconventioneel scherp vormenspel. Lezing in het Engels.
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Architecture For Leisure In Post-War Europe [1945-1989]
(17 & 18/02/2012) - Leuven |
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Department of Architecture, Urbanism and Planning - K.U.L
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L’hôtel particulier
(5/10/2011 – 19/02/2012) – Paris |
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Élément constitutif de la personnalité architecturale de Paris, l’hôtel particulier raconte une histoire de la capitale, à travers son évolution topographique dans les différents quartiers.
Apparu au Moyen Âge, l’hôtel parisien se développe au xvie siècle, quand Paris redevient grâce à François ier une capitale politique où l’État monarchique se centralise et se sédentarise ; il faut être à la Cour, près du roi, donc à Paris. Son âge d’or se poursuit tout au long des xviie, xviiie et xixe siècles. Marquant la fin d’une longue histoire, l’Entre-Deux-Guerres voit la construction des derniers hôtels. Mais leur usage ne disparaît pas et l’hôtel demeure encore présent dans notre Paris du xxie siècle (musées, ministères, ambassades). L’exposition se propose de développer cette histoire suivant un triple parcours.
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Goudemalion. Jean-Paul Goude
(11/11/2011 – 18/03/2012) - Paris |
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Les Arts Décoratifs présentent la première exposition à Paris consacrée à Jean-Paul Goude. L’un des plus brillants « faiseur d’images » de la création contemporaine propose une vision à la fois rétrospective et créative de son œuvre à travers tous ses champs d’intervention : de la mode à la photo, de la publicité au spectacle vivant… L’ensemble de son parcours depuis plus de quarante ans est ainsi retracé dans la grande nef des Arts Décoratifs mêlant dessins, objets, musiques, images photographiées ou filmées.
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Kama Sutra
(17/01 – 17/03/2012) – Lille |
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Dans Kama Sutra, c'est en vain que l'on cherchera des projets qui pastichent le passé. On ne trouvera pas non plus de "réhabilitation" entendue au strict objectif de mettre ou de remettre l'ancien aux normes du présent. L’exposition présente exclusivement des projets audacieux, voire franchement culottés, qui ont accosté l'ancien en se frottant les mains de la belle aubaine que de pouvoir générer un projet nouveau à part entière. Les 49 projets présentés ont su trouvé un équilibre créatif bien à eux sur la ligne de partage entre contemporain et ancien.
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La Nouvelle Agence architectes, Bordeaux
(19/01 – 18/03/2012) – Bordeaux |
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Dans le cadre du cycle carte blanche consacrée à la jeune architecture,
arc en rêve centre d’architecture présente dans la galerie blanche le travail
de Samira Aït-Mehdi et Sylvain Latizeau. Ces Jeunes architectes bordelais ont fondé La Nouvelle Agence, en 2004, avec le photographe Benoit Schmeltz. En commençant en 2005 par l’aire d’accueil des gens du voyage de Bordeaux, jusqu’à l’immeuble de 25 logements en cours de construction sur les berges du Lac, dans le nouvel éco-quartier Ginko, Les projets réalisés ont en commun une manière d’habiter le contexte. Cette conception de l’architecture manifestement guidée par le désir de s’inscrire dans la réalité physique et sociale d’un site en tenant compte de l’existant, de sa typologie, de son histoire… se reconnaît par une simplicité du dessin de l’enveloppe toujours adossé à une présence remarquable des matériaux utilisés, le plus souvent bois et béton. L’exposition rassemble dix projets, réalisés sur le territoire bordelais, montrés sous la forme de maquettes et documentés par des photographies, des vidéos et des dessins.
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Danser sa vie
(> 2/04/2012) - Paris |
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une exposition sans précédent aux liens des arts visuels et de la danse, depuis les années 1900 jusqu'à aujourd'hui. « Danser sa vie montre comment ils ont allumé l'étincelle de la modernité pour nourrir les courants majeurs et les figures qui ont écrit l'histoire de l'art moderne et contemporain. Sur plus de deux mille mètres carrés, l'exposition illustre son propos par les œuvres des figures artistiques du 20e siècle, des mouvements fondateurs de la modernité, ainsi que par les recherches des artistes et danseurs contemporains. À travers un parcours en trois actes, elle montre l'intérêt commun de l'art et de la danse pour le corps en mouvement. Révélant cette face cachée des avant-gardes et cette source vive pour l'art contemporain, « Danser sa vie » fait dialoguer toutes les disciplines, des arts plastiques – jusqu'à la vidéo contemporaine – et de l'art chorégraphique. Un vaste choix de peintures, de sculptures, d'installations, d'œuvres audiovisuelles et de pièces chorégraphiques, témoigne de leurs échanges incessants, d'un dialogue parfois fusionnel.
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Bruno Taut, un architecte à Berlin
(> 7/04/2012) – Toulouse |
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Les cités résidentielles de Bruno Taut dans les années 20 à Berlin établissent de nouveaux critères architecturaux et urbains. L’exposition présente le développement de l’architecture de l’habitat dans le Berlin de la République de Weimar – une des rares contributions très novatrices de la part de l’Allemagne à l’architecture universelle. Une seconde exposition intitulée «Habiter dans un site classé au patrimoine mondial – Les cités de l’école moderne berlinoise» vient compléter ce panorama en présentant les cités résidentielles
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Dessinons le patrimoine de demain
(9/02 – 8/04/2012) – Angers |
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Maison de l’Architecture, des Territoires et du Paysage
Lancé en 2010 par le parc naturel Loire Anjou Touraine avec le concours du CAUE 49, l’appel à idées « Maisons passives ligériennes » propose un pari audacieux : combiner efficacité énergétique, intégration urbaine et sociale dans un contexte patrimonial fort. L’exposition présente les projets lauréats sur chacune des communes participant à l’opération : Blou, Candes-Saint-Martin, Bourgueil, Gizeux, Turquant et Saint-Clément-des-Levées.
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Industriels, designers : histoires de collaboration
(15/02/2012 - 19:00) - Paris |
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Claire Leymonerie s'attachera à analyser plusieurs cas de collaborations entre industriels du secteurs de l'électroménager et agences de design industriel depuis les années 1950 jusqu'aux années 1980 : Calor et Technès pour les années 1950, Moulinex et Jean-Louis Barrault, Seb et Savinel & Rozé pour les années 60/70, ADSA (Pierre Paulin) et Calor pour les années 80.
L'objectif de la conférence est d'apporter un éclairage sur la manière dont le rôle, les outils, les méthodes et l'organisation du travail des designers au sein des entreprises industrielles ont évolué sur l'ensemble de la période.
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Parcours de designer: Inga Sempé
(8/03/2012 - 9:30) - Paris |
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Designer française née à Paris, elle est diplômée en 1993 de l’Ensci (École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle à Paris). Elle travaille en indépendant depuis 2000. Pensionnaire de la Villa Médicis (Académie de France) à Rome, de 2000 à 2001.
Elle a tout d’abord commencé à collaborer avec des entreprises italiennes : Cappellini, Edra. Celles-ci seront suivies de sociétés françaises, américaines ou scandinaves telles que Luce Plan, Ligne Roset, Artecnica, Domestic, Moustache, David Design, Hjelle, Almedahl’s, Baccarat... Elle dessine mobilier et objets avec un intérêt prononcé pour les luminaires. Exposition personnelle aux Arts décoratifs de Paris en 2003. Elle vit et travaille à Paris.
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INTERCLIMA + ELEC HOME & BUILDING
(7 - 10/02/2012) - Paris |
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Electrical systems and automatic mechanisms, cooling, new energies
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VIA DESIGN 2012
20/01/2012 - 18/03/2012 Paris |
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L’exposition VIA Design 2012 présentera du 20 janvier au 18 mars les Aides à la Création 2012 à la galerie VIA à Paris. Sur 300 mètres carrés, le public pourra découvrir 16 prototypes financés par VIA – tables, armoires, bancs, luminaires, canapés, etc. – conçus par la nouvelle génération de designers français. Evénement annuel, les Aides à la Création initiées par VIA constituent sans aucun doute l’une des grandes vitrines du design de demain.
Répartie en une Carte Blanche 2012-2013, neuf Aides à Projet et une nouveauté, le Programme Ameublement, l’exposition VIA Design 2012 rassemble des prototypes (dont 7 pour le Programme Ameublement) qui proposent de nombreuses innovations, tant en termes de matériaux, de techniques expérimentales et de recherche de nouveaux procédés industriels que de démarches d’éco-conception.
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Brancusi-Serra
(8/10/2011 – 15/04/2012) - Bilbao |
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Organized in tandem with the Fondation Beyeler, this exhibition explores the meaning of the concepts of time and space in the oeuvres of Constantin Brancusi and Richard Serra, two of the finest sculptors of the 20th century. Some 30 sculptures by Brancusi, shown in themed groups to point up aspects of his artistic output, are to be placed against, and in dialogue with, thirty or so works by Richard Serra. In both cases, the exhibition will stress the effects produced by the variety of materials used, Brancusi availing himself at different times of marble, wood, cement, plaster, and bronze, while Serra has leant more towards steel, rubber, lead, and even neon tubes. The occasional juxtaposition of works by the two artists leaves room for individual areas devoted to works by each one, thus pointing up their similarities and differences, while also revealing the dynamic spatial power of the sculpture itself. The architecture of the two exhibition venues plays a major role, by bringing a third voice to the selection of sculptures on display.
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Locus Solus. Impressions of Raymond Roussel
(> 27/02/2012) – Madrid |
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Locus Solus is the first exhibition to be held in Spain on the figure and influence of Raymond Roussel (Paris, 1877 - Palermo, 1933), the author of poetic, novelistic and theatrical works without precedent in the history of literature. Roussel is known for both the singularity and exuberance of his narrative and visual universe and also for the complex methodology he developed and then perfected over time. This methodology was based on the exploration of the inventive potential of homonymy and word play, all from the conviction that an artistic/literary work does not need to contain anything real, that it can be exclusively a combination of imaginary objects.
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MACBA Collection. Muntadas. Between the Frames: The Forum (Barcelona), 1983-1993 (2011)
(>30/04/2012) – Barcelona |
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'Art, as part of our time, culture and society, shares and is affected by rules, structures and tics like other economic, political and social systems in our environment.' So began the interviews given by Antoni Muntadas between 1983 and 1991 to one hundred and sixty agents from the international art circuit, and compiled in the installation Between the Frames: The Forum (Barcelona), 1983-1993 (2011). The origins of the work are to be found in the exhibition Comments at the Long Beach Museum of Art, 1983, in which the artist took part, and where the explanations of his piece La Televisión, 1983, given by the museum guides, prompted him to initiate this new project. The work is part of Muntadas's multiple installations that dissect the complex mechanisms of art, politics and economics. According to the author, Between the Frames: The Forum (Barcelona), 1983–1993 (2011) presents 'a vision of the art system in the eighties', although the configuration of the work continued until the beginning of the year 2000, through the artist's constant re-elaborations and modifications of the presentation device of the installation.
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New Energy in Design and Art
(> 12/02/2012) - Rotterdam |
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This is an exhibition about energy and the search for a new balance in our living environment. Artists, designers and progressive thinkers present their (alternative) ideas about our consumption of energy. The exhibition features surprising, strange and sometimes unimaginable objects and sculptures that deal with the theme of sustainable progress. Some are poetic, others are alienating or perhaps brilliant. But they all relevant.
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Joel Sternfeld - Color Photographs since 1970
(16/12/2011 – 14/03/2012) - Amsterdam |
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The first major retrospective exhibition in the Netherlands of the work of Joel Sternfeld (1944, New York), one of the pioneers of colour photography. Foam will be showing more than one hundred photos from ten different series in an exhibition spanning two floors. A highlight is Sternfeld's early work from the 1970s, which has never been previously exhibited. A large selection from famed series such as American Prospects, the result of his legendary journey through the United States, and Stranger Passing will also be on show. A constant factor in his work is his native land America, its inhabitants and the traces left by people on the landscape. With a subtle feeling for irony and an exceptional feeling for colour, Sternfeld offers us an image of daily life in America over the last three decades.
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Rotterdam Designprijs 2011
(26/11/2011 – 12/02/2012) - Rotterdam |
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The nominated works will be exhibited at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. With two large and two smaller exhibitions and the arrangement of the museum collection, a lot of attention is paid to design in the museum.
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Draw the Line
(3 – 25/02/2012) – Amsterdam |
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The Academie van Bouwkunst Amsterdam-winter term 2012, the working title being 'Draw the Line’, challenges students to draw a line through town and country. The winter term is organized in the form of a contest; with competing teams, a critical jury and a real prize.
The exact task and the winning price is announced at the start of the project at 23 January. In two intensive weeks, interdisciplinary teams will work on intelligent and imaginative visions of a current design project.
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Transformation Amstel IIII
(9/03/2012) – Amsterdam |
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The future of Amstel III, an area between the Ajax Arena and the AMC Hospital, filled with partly empty office blocks, is the focus of an exhibiton at ARCAM. On show is a selection of price winning designs by young architects, made for the international Europan competition.
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JOUW PERSPECTIEF!? - Grote getallen teruggebracht naar menselijke maat
(> 18/03/2012) - Haarlem |
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In samenwerking met FARO Architectuur Research presenteert het ABC de komende maanden het project Jouw Perspectief!?. De idee achter Jouw Perspectief!? is een beeld te geven van abstracte getallen. Want wat betekent het bijvoorbeeld wanneer in de krant staat dat er 7 miljoen vierkante meter kantoorruimte leegstaat? Of dat er ruim 100.000 hectare verkeersterrein in Nederland is? Of dat er per jaar 3.500 Petajoules energie gebruikt wordt? Hoeveel is dat? En wat zijn de getallen voor Haarlem? Dat wordt getoond in het ABC! Daarbij kunnen bezoekers zelf ook aangeven welke getallen zij gevisualiseerd willen zien. Dat wordt dan uitgezocht en als het kan getoond op een hele grote maquette. Vanaf 17 december start dit interactieve project in het ABC. De officiële opening wordt verricht op vrijdagmiddag 13 januari 2012 om 17.00 uur door Frits van Dongen, Rijksbouwmeester.
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New Harloheim
(> 18/03/2012) – Rotterdam |
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How can Haarlem develop into an integral part of the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area and what role can Haarlem-East play in this process? The Ymere housing association and the NAI invited design teams to devise a plan in response to this challenge. The intriguing visions that this has produced could serve as the basis for an inspiring long-term vision for the area. These plans will be on show in the exhibition.
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Warhol’s World - Photographic Works from the Cobra to Contemporary Collection
(4/02 – 1/04/2012) - Rotterdam |
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The Kunsthal Rotterdam shows famous and (yet) unknown photos of the world around the legend Warhol and the era he lived in. Photos of Andy Warhol and the photographers around him, f.e. David McCabe, Billy Name, Robert Mapplethorpe and Thomas Hoepker give a characteristic image of the New York underground scene surrounding The Factory in the sixties. The photo's come from the private collection ‘From Cobra to Contemporary' of Hugo and Carla Brown. The collection consists of almost a thousand works, from paintings of the CoBrA movement to more recent work of famous artists and new talent.
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Glenn Murcutt
(> 12/02/2012) – Vienna |
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Glenn Murcutt, Pritzker prize-winner (2002) and Australia's most internationally renowned and most important architect, holds an independent artistic position that consistently avoids the mainstream. He has a small private studio, and sees no need to avail himself of computers or new media in the realisation of his architectural vision or projects. Murcutt draws and builds — both forward-looking and equally anachronistic — one house after the other entirely on his own, having completed over 500 buildings in this way over the past 40 years. These buildings are all in Australia, almost exclusively housing and, with few exceptions, designed, planned and the construction was supervised by him in person.
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René Magritte
(> 26/02/2012) – Vienna |
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A selection of more than 150 works from around the world will cover every creative phase of the artist, retracing Magritte’s artistic career. Conceived in collaboration with the Tate Liverpool, the exhibition addresses hitherto little-explored aspects of Magritte’s life and artistic activity. It focuses on his use of patterns and recurring objects, the subject of covering and unveiling, visual breaks and eroticism in his oeuvre. On the basis of Magritte’s most important works and early commercial pieces, the exhibition examines the connection between the artist’s paintings and his work for the advertising industry as well as the influence of pop culture. Drawings and collages, rarely shown photographs and films will also be on display in the exhibition.
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Sixties Design
(29/02 – 17/06/2012) – Vienna |
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The 1960s were a time of social, cultural, political and aesthetic changes. The exhibition highlights the furniture design, fashion and architecture of this most vital decade and deals with concepts such as consumerism, pop art, pop or pop-Design-Furniture.
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Hands-On Urbanism 1850 - 2012
(15/03 – 25/06/2012) – Vienna |
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The exhibition presents 19 historical and contemporary case studies of bottom-up urban development in Chicago, Leipzig, Vienna, New York, Paris, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Porto Alegre, Havana or Quito. They provide an overview of informal, self-organised collective movements and of the spaces that are created by them.
'Hands-On Urbanism' introduces an alternative urban history, one that poses urgent questions about the responsibility of design for architects and planners, and the resource-logic of towns and cities. What do architects do in this process, and what can be learned from the bottom-up in this urban history? Its role ranges from initiative via activism to conducting research. How are urban planning authorities reacting to these developments? The spectrum ranges from the founding of a settlement regulatory agency, via infrastructural measures and tolerance, to measures of support from the authorities, but also the introduction of new laws and legal sanctioning in official urban plans.
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Le fabbriche dei sogni - Uomini, idee, imprese e paradossi delle fabbriche del design italiano
(> 26/02/2012) – Milan |
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In occasione del cinquantesimo anniversario del Salone del Mobile, Triennale Design Museum dedica la sua quarta edizione agli uomini, alle aziende e ai progetti che hanno contribuito a creare il sistema del design italiano dal dopoguerra a oggi e a decretare il successo del Salone del Mobile nel mondo. Attraverso una carrellata di oggetti iconici, si sviluppa un racconto che vuole, da una parte, illustrare la peculiare attività e la natura profonda di quelle che Alberto Alessi definisce “Fabbriche del Design Italiano”.
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V Biennale Internazionale di Architettura “Barbara Cappochin”
(>13/02/2012) - Padova |
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In Palazzo della Ragione the 5° edition of the exhibition will be not focused on the projects and works of an internationally renowned architect, but on the theme of sustainable urban regeneration in order to promote strategies for urban and metropolitan-wide actions, targeted to rehabilitate degraded areas for construction issues, urban planning, social and environmental issues. The architects Michele De Lucchi -AMDL-, Andrea Boschetti and Alberto Francini -METROGRAMMA-, will set up the exposition of national and international experiences in urban renewal and redevelopment. The exhibition will be accompanied by lectures and discussions with architects, planners, lawyers, experts in urban sociology, directors of major national and international cities being virtuous to explore innovative interventions in an interdisciplinary way, the criteria for the applicability of an integrated approach to urban rehabilitation.
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The Avant-garde. From Picasso to Pollock
(> 19/02/2012) – Venice |
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During the renovation of Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, masterpieces from the permanent collection will be on view in the rooms usually dedicated to temporary exhibitions. The installation of Peggy’s works in the rooms of the temporary exhibition space chronicles the avant-gardes that left an indelible mark on the history of art in the 20th century, from Picasso to Pollock, traversing cornerstones of Modernism such as Futurism (with the works of the Gianni Mattioli Collection), the pittura metafisica of Giorgio de Chirico, European abstraction (Kandinsky and Mondrian), and Surrealism (Miró, Dalí, Magritte and others).
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Vitality. Korea Young Design
(> 19/02/2012) – Milan |
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Il progetto MINI & Triennale CreativeSet presenta la mostra, secondo appuntamento del ciclo dedicato al New Far Est Design, che propone una selezione dei più interessanti lavori dei designer coreani contemporanei, in molti casi inediti per l’Italia.
Ne emerge un panorama ricco e variegato, che parte dal furniture design fino ad abbracciare nuove forme di comunicazione, dal fashion design al design del gioiello, dalla grafica alla multimedialità fino ai complementi d’arredo e all’oggettistica.
I pezzi esposti spaziano da autoproduzioni a produzioni in grande serie, da oggetti artistici a altri prettamente industriali.
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Challenge Society - Challenge Innovation
(> 19/02/2012) - Copenhagen |
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Using film, texts and photos the first exhibition showcases the many examples of how design strategies as the simple solution to complex challenges help give new life to our ailing welfare state, while also creating improved solutions for the users and adding economic value to the industry. The secnd one explores how design can be the key to successful innovation in the public welfare sector.
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Louisiana Contemporary | Ai Weiwei 18.
(18/11/2011 - 12/02/2012) – Humlebæk |
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Ai Weiwei (b. 1957 in Beijing), who filled the TATE's large Turbine Hall in London with more than 100 million hand-made painted sunflower seeds in porcelain in the autumn of 2010, is China's most famous contemporary artist; famous in the world, famous in his own country, not least for his politically provocative attitudes and his struggle for democracy. Ai Weiwei participated in the Louisiana’s exhibition Made in China in 2008 and will be taking over Louisiana with new works at the end of 2011 as the twelfth artist in the museum's series LOUISIANA CONTEMPORARY.
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Drawing by Drawing / Svein Tønsager & Friends
(> 18/03/2012) - Copenhagen |
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As a remarkable and highly dedicated teacher at the Aarhus school of architecture, architect Svein Tønsager became the centre of an explorative exchange of ideas about architecture. Through his work he developed a large international network of architects. This exhibition shows a selection of drawings by many of these architects. Among them are Lebbeus Woods, Michael Sorkin, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Wolf D. Prix, Peter Cook, Christine Hawley, Zaha Hadid, Peter Wilson, Dorte Mandrup, Leslie van Duzer, Ben van Berkel and Michael Christensen.
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Andreas Gursky
(13/01 – 13/05/2012) – Humlebæk |
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Louisiana Museum of Modern Art opens the exhibition year 2012 with a presentation of around 40 giant photographs and a number of smaller works created by the world-famous German photographer Andreas Gursky (b. 1955 in Leipzig and living in Düsseldorf). Andreas Gursky’s photographs are the answer of art to ‘extreme sports’. His works grow out of hours of effort interweaving hundreds of pictures taken with the most sophisticated equipment, often from extreme positions, into one image. With their visual mastery, the works of Andreas Gursky insist on the vast, fascinating power of the image and stand as a modern proposal for what beauty may be.
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Decades of Finnish Architecture 1900–1970
(27/03/2010 – 31/12/2020) |
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The permanent exhibition takes its visitors on a journey into the Finnish architecture of the 20th century. Different features, technical solutions, materials and interior design are followed from decade to decade; from National Romanticism to Classicism and Functionalism, through the Modernism that created the country’s international reputation to the architecture of the 1970's.
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Jouni Kaipia Scenes ans settings
(> 26/02/2012) - Jyväskylä |
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Architectural photographs with human beings (and some animals). Jouni Kaipia takes pictures of people in their everyday living environment. He goes out of his way to find places where the architecture has been honed over thousands of years by natural conditions and local resources. In Kaipia’s photographs, the buildings themselves are members of the families who live in them and they are lived in as holy places.
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Seven Connections - A window on contemporary Finnish architecture
(> 26/02/2012) - Helsinki |
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Taking a fresh visual approach, the exhibition is built around a video installation showcasing Finnish contemporary architecture on three giant TV screens. The idea is to bring inanimate buildings to life without any complicated explanatory texts or floor plans. Designed as an international calling card, Seven Connections aims to increase the visibility of contemporary Finnish architecture around the world. The featured sites are located in Europe, Asia and North America. Many are award-winning entries originally submitted in international architectural competitions. The video is supplemented by additional material including sketches and scale models.
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Alvar Aalto Medal 2012
(4 - 26/02/2012) - Helsinki |
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This exhibition presents the winner of the Alvar Aalto Medal for 2012. Founded in 1967, this special prize is now being awarded for the 11th time in recognition of outstanding creative achievement in the field of architecture. The prize ceremony will take place at the WDC Design Gala at the Sibelius Hall in Lahti on February 2nd, 2012. Previous winners in addition to Aalto include Tadao Ando, Alvaro Siza and Steven Holl.
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Thank You for the Music - How Music Moves Us
(> 17/06/2012) - Helsinki |
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The artists in the exhibition pay tribute to their teenage idols, parody the megastars of pop music in a spirit of humour, or give visual expression to their personal relationship to music.
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A Day of Architecture and Design
(3/02/2012 16:15) Helsinki |
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The seminar will focus on the role of architecture and design in creating a good living environment and society. Taking the stage will be international keynote speakers and the winners of the prestigious international World Design Impact Prize, the Alvar Aalto Medal and the Estlander Prize.The language of the seminar is English.
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CUBEOpen Exhibition 2011
(15/12/2011 – 4/02/2012) - Manchester |
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CUBEOpen is the UK’s only annual open competition and exhibition of its kind! Launched in 2007, artists, architects and designers are invited to apply with work that reflects current trends and debates surrounding the spaces and places in which we live. Each year the exhibition highlights contemporary insights into the urban environment. We accept applications from artists, architects and designers whose practice reflects these themes.
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OMA: Progress
(> 19/02/2012) – London |
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This autumn, the Barbican Art Gallery is transformed by an exhibition on one of the most influential architecture practices working today. Celebrated as much for their daring and unconventional ideas as their inventive buildings, the work of OMA and its think tank AMO anticipates the architectural, engineering and cultural ideas transforming our material world.
Co-founded in 1975 by Rem Koolhaas as the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, OMA, comprises seven partners and a staff of around 280 architects, designers, researchers and support staff in offices in Rotterdam, New York, Beijing and Hong Kong. OMA/Progress is the first major presentation of OMA’s work in the UK and coincides with the opening of their first buildings here, Rothschild Bank HQ in the City of London and a Maggie’s Centre in Gartnavel, Glasgow.
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Terence Conran
(> 4/03/2012) - London |
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The Design Museum marks Sir Terence Conran’s 80th birthday with a major exhibition that explores his unique impact on contemporary life in Britain. Through his own design work, and also through his entrepreneurial flair, Conran has transformed the British way of life. The Way We Live Now explores Conran’s impact and legacy, whilst also showing his design approach and inspirations. The exhibition traces his career from post-war austerity through to the new sensibility of the Festival of Britain in the 1950s, the birth of the Independent Group and the Pop Culture of the 1960s, to the design boom of the 1980s and on to the present day.
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Yayoi Kusama
(9/02 – 5/06/2012) - London |
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The nine decades of Yayoi Kusama's life have taken her from rural Japan to the New York art scene to contemporary Tokyo, in a career in which she has continuously innovated and re-invented her style. Well-known for her repeating dot patterns, her art encompasses an astonishing variety of media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, film, performance and immersive installation.
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Paul Klee. hilarious
(> 18/03/2012) – Bern |
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With around forty works of Paul Klee from the depot of the Zentrum Paul Klee and the collections deposited, the exhibition is displaying a varied selection of works on the themes of equilibrium, acrobatics, games and high spirits. At the same time, the significance of the world of the child within the work and thinking of Paul Klee will be apparent. In the side rooms, the exhibition follows the chronology of Klee’s creative work informally with a further 120 works and offers an overview of the form and content of the thematic areas. From the early years in Berne and Munich, through the period of the First World War and his teaching years at the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau up to the 1930’s, the presentation leads to the large format paintings of his final years of creativity.
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Prix de design de la Confédération suisse 2011
(>12/02/2012) - Lausanne |
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L'exposition réunit les travaux des lauréat(e)s des Prix fédéraux de design et des Grands Prix Design. Elle représente une occasion unique pour le visiteur de se familiariser avec la création contemporaine en design. Des étudiants fraîchement sortis d'une haute école de design aux créateurs confirmés, la présentation montre des pièces issues des domaines de la mode et du textile, du graphisme, de la photographie, du design industriel et de la scénographie. Travaux de commande ou projets personnels, ces objets témoignent des préoccupations des designers suisses.
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Black and white. Designing opposites
(> 4/03/2012) - Zürich |
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The black and white polarizes and is seen as radical and particularly expressive. The two colors are shaped by contrasts such as light and darkness or life and death. Common to both is a claim to absoluteness but also the expression of demarcation or distance, as well as protest. The ways in which they are used relate to specific cultural circles and are illustrated in various social phenomena. In architecture, design and fashion black and white generally stand for values such as abstraction, elegance and timelessness, but beyond this understanding there opens up an entire cosmos of motifs and cultural traditions. Thus design in black and white interprets this cultural spectrum or reformulates it. With its rich contrasts this exhibition explores the design potential of the outermost extremes in the spectrum of colors. Following an introduction to the cultural and social meaning the spotlight is turned on the idea, application and effect of black and white in architecture, design and fashion of modernism and the present day.
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Vera Isler - Face to Face II
(1/02 – 6/05/2012) – Basle |
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The most notable characteristics of the portraits in Vera Isler’s Face to Face series are their intensity and their naturalness. Described by the artist as “portraits for me alone”, they were created without assistance, without artificial light and thus without distraction. As documents of Vera Isler’s encounters with various artists, they capture very personal feelings and states of mind with “heartfelt and wordless discretion”. They compel not only their subjects but also their beholders into a state of repose, attention and sincerity. On display at the Museum Tinguely are the largescale photographs of the second “Face to Face” series. In co-operation with Museum der Moderne, Salzburg.
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Pierre Bonnard
(> 13/05/2012) – Basle |
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Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947) was a magician of color. His favorite subjects were drawn from his immediate personal surroundings – the hustle and bustle of the Paris streets, magnificent garden landscapes, and the inimitable interiors of his homes in Normandy and on the Côte d’Azur with the legendary portraits of his wife, Marthe. The exhibition presents over 60 of the renowned French painter’s fascinating canvases, on loan from international museums and private collections.
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Ettore Sottsass et Pierre Charpin : en verre et contre tout
(> 2/09/2012) - Lausanne |
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Exploration des éditions de design verrier avec Ettore Sottsass et Pierre Charpin.
Ettore Sottsass, figure majeure du design disparue fin 2007, a fondé le Groupe de Memphis en 1981. Internationalement reconnu pour avoir relié l’architecture et le design d’un nouvel œil, il a axé sa recherche sur la définition des formes et des espaces en accordant une grande importance à la lumière et à la couleur. Plasticien de formation, Pierre Charpin est d’abord influencé par l’art conceptuel et minimal. Au début des années 1990, il s’engage toutefois dans la voie plus concrète du projet de design. Sa découverte de Memphis est déterminante car sa posture rend possible une approche plus sensuelle que structurelle.
L’ensemble des objets présentés est issu de la collection du CIRVA, Centre international de recherche sur le verre et les arts plastiques à Marseille, qui a invité les deux designers à développer une approche expérimentale.
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Conrad Shawcross
(> 6/05/2012) - Luxemburg |
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The interests of Conrad Shawcross are mainly focussed on scientific and philosophical questions. These disciplines combine in his artistic work to create pictures which make complicated connections or fundamental theoretical concepts visible so that people can experience them. The Nervous System, an installation designed for the Grand Hall of the Mudam, is similar to a number of other machines which produce rope and separate it into its individual strands again.
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Månedens Design
(> 12/03/2012) – Oslo |
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DogA - the Norwegian Centre for Design and Architecture
Blomqvist og Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo presenterer designtalenter i samarbeid med DogA. Først ut er krakken 'Warning' av Linn Anna Bjørk.Warning er inspirert av japansk papirbrettekunst og formen til en varseltrekant.
I løpet av året vil det bli presentert seks studenter fra Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo - studieretning interiørarkitektur og møbeldesign, med et møbel hver.
Møblene blir stilt ut på DogA, samt presentert på Blomqvist Nettauksjon. Du kan stemme på din favoritt av studentarbeidene. Vinneren vil bli tildelt en pris på 30 000,-.
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Under verket
(> 8/04/2012) - Stockholm |
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The Swedish Museum of Architecture is a centre for architecture, interiors, and industrial design. In 2012 the museum turns 50 and we want to celebrate by presenting an exhibition of a widely renowned and revered complete work of art: Stockholm City Hall. In the exhibition Under Verket (Uncovered) we get a glimpse inside a treasure chest of objects from the Swedish museum of Architecture and City Hall’s collections that have never before been exhibited.
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