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Anna Heringer - The Walls Are Dancing

Anna Heringer - The Walls Are Dancing

It is much more than just a building. It’s a social space. It really has an impact on the society, on the community”, says German architect Anna Heringer about her recently finished Anandaloy-center in Bangladesh. “With this building everything comes together.”

Duration : 8m
Maturity Level : all

Vandkunsten Architects- Love of Wood

Vandkunsten Architects- Love of Wood

“It’s a living material, and so are we.” In this short video, two architects from the influential and prizewinning Danish architecture firm, Vandkunsten Architects, talk about the merits of wood as a building material – from its climate-friendly qualities to its soothing effect.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Anupama Kundoo- Taking Time To Rethink

Anupama Kundoo- Taking Time To Rethink

“I feel that a lot of the problems we have in today’s world have come because of that wrong notion that time is money. No, time is the only resource we have when we are alive. What else do we have?” asks the renowned Indian architect Anupama Kundoo in this video.

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Peter Eisenman- Field of Otherness

Peter Eisenman- Field of Otherness

“Architecture, I believe, is necessary to mark collective memory.” One of the leading contemporary American architects, Peter Eisenman, here shares the thoughts that went into building the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, and how he sought to transform a feeling of “being lost in space in time” into the memorial.

Duration : 9m
Maturity Level : all

Terunobu Fujimori- A Feeling of Freedom

Terunobu Fujimori- A Feeling of Freedom

Meet Terunobu Fujimori, one of Japan’s most influential architects, who has enchanted the world with his playful, often elevated buildings made of natural materials such as wood, earth and stone. In this short video, Fujimori talks about his original interpretations of a traditional Japanese building – his iconic raised tea houses.

Duration : 6m
Maturity Level : all

Tatiana Bilbao- Architecture and Nature

Tatiana Bilbao- Architecture and Nature

How can the built environment work with nature instead of against it? Watch the award-winning Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao offer her take on this, emphasizing the enriching dialogue between nature and architecture, which we must be very cautious to preserve.

Duration : 7m
Maturity Level : all

Junya Ishigami- Creating Nature with Time

Junya Ishigami- Creating Nature with Time

“If things created by humans should function next to natural things, the passing of time is necessary. Only the passage of time will bring forward the kind of landscape I want to create,” says the renowned Japanese architect Junya Ishigami. Learn about his award-winning project, the poetic landscape ‘Water Garden’, in this short video.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Lockdown Schmockdown

Lockdown Schmockdown

Check Season 4 under COVIDecameron Channel from Momentum Worldwide

Duration : 16s
Maturity Level : all

Olafur Eliasson on “Life”

Olafur Eliasson on “Life”

At the Fondation Beyeler, Eliasson states: “Increasingly I have grown interested in efforts to consider life not from a human-centric perspective but from a broad, biocentric perspective. I’ve found myself turning nouns into verbs – when I go through my exhibition, I try to tree, for instance – in order to become aware of perspectives that go beyond what we humans can properly imagine.”

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Farideh Lashai

Farideh Lashai

"When I count, there are only you…but when I look, there is only a shadow" (2012-13), a video installation inspired by Goya’s Disasters of War. Farideh Lashai removed the figures and modified the images in this iconic print series in order to present them accompanied by animated images which are projected onto them from a moving spotlight.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

MENART FAIR

MENART FAIR

For the lucky ones who can be in Paris from May 27-30th, please visit MENART FAIR, the first international modern and contemporary art fair, dedicated to artists from the Middle East & North Africa selected this year by 22 must-see galleries. More information: menart-fair.com Many videos from these galleries are on a dedicated channel here on ikonoTV

Duration : 17s
Maturity Level : all

Shirin Art Gallery presents Koorosh Shishegaran

Shirin Art Gallery presents Koorosh Shishegaran

Born in 1944 in Qazvin, Iran, Koorosh Shishegaran is considered one of the most expressive and emotive artists of the contemporary Iranian art movement. In a career spanning six decades, he has established himself as an artist of great discipline, social awareness and manual skill, working in a wide array of different media, from graphic design to painting, photography and furniture design. Drawing inspiration from Iranian visual culture, Shishegaran is best known for his scribble line abstract paintings (Khatkhatis). These dynamic colourful lines, depicting the contemporary human condition, enabled the artist to find a style and language expressive of the modern era.

Duration : 8m
Maturity Level : all

Shirin Art Gallery presents Sepehr Bakhtiyari

Shirin Art Gallery presents Sepehr Bakhtiyari

Born in Tehran, Iran in 1982, Sepehr Bakhtiyari has a B.A in Graphic Design, Sooreh Art University, Tehran.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Wadi Finan Art Gallery presents Annie Kurkdjian

Wadi Finan Art Gallery presents Annie Kurkdjian

Born in Lebanon in 1972, Kurkdjian lives and works in Beirut. Through the turbulent years of the Lebanese Civil War, she first studied fine arts and psychology at the Lebanese University, followed by theology at St. Joseph’s University. Kurkdjian has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including Gallery Sader, UNESCO, Salon Sursock, Royal School of Arts London, and Biennale Arts Hors Normes in Lyon, amongst several others.

Duration : 55s
Maturity Level : all

Wadi Finan Art Gallery presents Saoud Abdallah

Wadi Finan Art Gallery presents Saoud Abdallah

Saoud Abdallah Saoud Abdallah was born in 1976. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Damascus with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in 2005 and he got his postgraduate diploma in 2006. Abdallah’s work was shown in several exhibitions in his homeland, Lebanon, Kuwait, UK and Italy. His work combines different types of natural sand to produce a rigid yet emotional layer of figures on canvas.

Duration : 29s
Maturity Level : all

Zaid Shawwa

Zaid Shawwa

Shawwa studied Engineering at the University of Jordan, and did his MBA at the American University in Dubai. His love and interest in art started at an early age, mainly working on portraits and landscapes in a classic form and using monochromatic shades of mainly charcoal as a medium. His paintings are mostly based on real moments in life, intensively sketched and studied to create an image that reflects a feeling rather than an act.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

193 Gallery presents Hassan Hajjaj

193 Gallery presents Hassan Hajjaj

Hassan Hajjaj was born in 1961 in Larache, Morocco. He lives and works between Marrakech and London. He evolves between several artistic universes: photography, fashion, music, cinema and design, while presenting a critical and uninhibited point of view on consumer society. Hassan Hajjaj questions tradition and identity, focusing in particular on the wearing of the veil, as well as on the daily life of the people he meets, friends or strangers crossed in the streets of Morocco or elsewhere.

Duration : 35s
Maturity Level : all

Eiwan al Gassar Gallery presents Shua`aAl Muftah

Eiwan al Gassar Gallery presents Shua`aAl Muftah

Shua`aAl Muftah is a self-taught artist. After living in various places for twenty-two years, she returned to her homeland, Qatar. The local reality was comparatively different from her childhood. The rapid urbanization and the social and cultural changes of the country inspired her to explore, artistically, various topics such as the relationship between tradition and modernity and the Qatari cultural identity, to name a few.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Leila Heller Gallery presents Soraya Sharghi

Leila Heller Gallery presents Soraya Sharghi

Soraya Sharghi is an Iranian artist living and working in New York City. Sharghi creates works in diverse media, such as painting and sculpture. Her artistic aim is to create new myth and narratives using the ancient mythology including persian mythology, revolving around power. She does not see her process as emulating the scenery of these tales, but instead molds them to serve her purpose and creates extraordinary or supernatural beings.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

A Short Story

A Short Story

Short Story (2020) by Steve Sabella was done right as the coronavirus started spreading. It was as a reminder that, deep down, we’re all human. We were all scared and unsure if this was the end, or what it all meant. Sabella wanted to write a story about who we are and where we’re going as people, during this big change. Sabella did shoot these hands as he was in Ireland in 2007 in an elderly hospice, he was looking at dying people, people in their last days of life. Why? At that point, he wanted to mirror to the whole world the pain of living back then in a permanent state of exile. For those living in Berlin, visit Steve Sabella’s exhibition "TranscenDance" curated by Karin Adrian von Roques at [Der Diwan,https://derdivan.org/event/vernissage-transcendance/]

Duration : 7m
Maturity Level : all

Shoja Azari

Shoja Azari

Winter, 2011

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Erwin Wurm & Elise Mougin | One Minute in Taipei

Erwin Wurm & Elise Mougin | One Minute in Taipei

Erwin Wurm and Elise Mougin discuss the exhibition “One Minute in Taipei” and how COVID-19 has influenced the artist’s creative process.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Hassan Sharif

Hassan Sharif

Experiments & Objects 1979 - 2011, exhibition which was at Qasr Al Hosn Cultural Quarter Hall – Abu Dhabi

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Lumen Prize

Lumen Prize

The Lumen Prize celebrates the very best art created with technology through a global competition. Enjoy here highlights from the winners in 2020.

Duration : 20m
Maturity Level : all