Articles from Stylepark Magazine on the topic of Art

‘Photography works like a window into our memory’

3/25/2025

Aitor Ortiz is dedicated to the built world. His photography deals with architecture in the broadest sense: He is interested in details, structures, materials and angles. You will search in vain for the dissolving long shot in his pictures. In this interview, he tells us why this is the case.

DESIGN

Furniture as a medium

2/20/2025

Performance artist Marina Abramović recently presented a limited edition collection of handmade wooden and copper chairs in collaboration with Studio La Metropolitana. The setting was provided by Mexico City Art Week and the historic industrial building ‘La Laguna’, which was carefully modernised by architecture studio Productora.

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Order in experiment

2/18/2025

For over 30 years, the Esser/Horn duo has been impressively demonstrating how diverse textile art and design can be. In this interview, Wolfgang Horn tells us why the subject fascinates them and what characterises their work.

ART

In the in-between

9/17/2024

The works of Olaf Holzapfel offer a new perspective on artisanship: whether it’s the collaborative work "Wand" in the German Federal Environment Agency or "Der Mantel" in Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich. Holzapfel tells us in the following interview why there's a need for architecture we can identify with.

ART

Capturing stillness

8/14/2024

Architectural structures, empty spaces, abstract fragments: The photographs by Satijn Panyigay show a state between presence and absence, full of calm and tension, melancholy and hope. In our interview, she tells us what she’s looking for.

ART

Bulb, tube, light-emitting diode

7/24/2024

A curated selection of light art from the Schaufler Collection is on display at Schauwerk Sindelfingen since the beginning of July. Around twenty works from the last sixty years bring the diversity of this genre of art – and its light sources – impressively into the exhibition space.

ART

Colour is Everything!

6/17/2024

On 23 June 2024, the time has come: Wiesbaden is getting a new cultural institution, the Museum Reinhard Ernst (mre), and with it an outstanding hotspot for the art of abstraction.

ART

Fragments from just now

5/15/2024

In this interview, we talk to Eva Rucki and Conny Freyer about their art collective Troika, which they run with Sebastien Noel from London, the multi-layered forms of non-human intelligence and their exhibition at the MAK Vienna.

ART

Fascinating Tectonics

5/9/2023

The first question before the actual interview begins: How should we refer to Bernhard Prinz? As a photo artist, photographer, sculptor, or visual artist? The question hardly comes as a surprise to Prinz: He is accustomed to being pigeonholed to a category or medium on the basis of the particular work series at hand.

ART

New Rituals of Transformation

3/23/2023

Mae-ling Lokko is interested in the seemingly peripheral. What is normally given scant attention or is rarely related, what falls off the margins – is precisely what she focuses on. She collects, sorts, observes, and studies. Lokko’s work stands out for this marvelous mix of analytical precision paired with imagination.

ART

Looking at everything from the outside

6/16/2022

Alicja Kwade is one of today’s most important contemporary artists. In her sculptures, installations, videos, and photographs, she questions the systems that we use to understand the world. Moreover, with her architectural sculptures she creates a new frame of perception. In the interview she gives us insights into her work.

ART

Be allowed to be amazed

1/6/2022

From 7 January to 8 May 2022, the Museum für Kunst & Gewerbe in Hamburg is showing an exhibition that brings a little magic to challenging times: "Drift: Moments of Connection".

ART

The art of wrapping

11/26/2021

The wrapping of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris is the last installation by Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Arte now traces the life of the artist couple in a film and documents their work.

ART

Hidden for visibility

9/15/2021

From 18 September to 3 October 2021, the last project of the artists Christo and Jeanne Claude will be on display: The wrapping of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

ART

Reverberating images

6/14/2021

For decades photographer Ursula Edelmann documented the reconstruction of Frankfurt/Main as well as its economic and cultural boom. To mark her 95th birthday KunstRaum Bernusstrasse is presenting a retrospective of her architecture, art and object photography. In this interview she gives us an insight into her work.

ART

Just deserts

5/5/2021

The exhibition “Women Artists of the Wiener Werkstätte” at the MAK in Vienna showcases the achievements of female designers in the gesamtkunstwerk of the renowned collective.

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On a ceramics base

9/17/2020

For the "Impressões" project, artists from Brazil have worked on an unusual surface: a ceramic sculpture that the Swiss sanitary ceramics manufacturer Laufen created especially for this purpose. A film documents this very special cooperation.

ART

Transcending boundaries

8/5/2020

Ulrich Hensel photographs fragments of major construction sites in order to bring out the mystical beauty of the unfinished. His work gives rise to ever new, suspenseful perspectives.

ART

Surreal Reality

7/20/2020

Alastair Philip Wiper looks into the heart of industry and science with the photo book "Unintended Beauty".

MICROLIVING

Appropriation from above

6/30/2020

"Who owns the roof?”, ask Jakob Wirth and Alexander Zakharov. And they did not rest content with the question: In the form of the "Penthaus à la Parasit", a Tiny House made of wood with stainless steel cladding, they investigate the right to privileged living.

ART

Artist duo Christo and Jeanne Claude achieved international fame with their spectacular ‘wrapping’ projects, pushed the boundaries in the process and giving us new ways of seeing things. Now Christo Javacheff has died in New York City at the age of 84.

PORTRAIT

At one with the moment

5/28/2020

The objects by Studio Brynjar & Veronika cannot easily be pigeonholed under labels such as “design” or “art”; they are in a category that is entirely their own. “We are continually trying breaking away from predefined patterns,” says the duo.

ART

Lindbergh photographs Dior

2/25/2020

Taschen-Verlag has now published an opulent two-volume book in which recently deceased photographer Peter Lindbergh stylishly presents the history of the house of fashion that is Dior.

ART

Following light

9/17/2019

For the 2018-19 artistic Zumtobel Annual Report Dietmar Eberle of Baumschlager Eberle Architekten explored the visibility of light in architecture.

FEATURED

From Basel to Brazil

6/28/2019

Bathroom ceramics manufacturer Laufen provides proof of the direct connection between art, design and craft with this project.

ART

Buying Democratic Art

6/4/2019

The auction house Phillips in London will auction part of the archive of Schellmann Art on 6 June 2019.

FEATURED

Walking on art

6/4/2019

At the stations of the "Noord-Zuidlijn" metro line in Amsterdam, tiles from Mosa's "Quartz" collection set the direction.

ART

Beauty or bust?

5/13/2019

Sagmeister & Walsh are returning to Frankfurt’s Museum Angewandte Kunst with their exhibition “Beauty” and its controversial ideas on design and architecture.

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Art and life

3/26/2019

Following the general refurbishment of the Secession Building in Vienna, the venue and its works shine in a new light.

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Figure of light

2/11/2019

Zumtobel fittingly stages the 2000-year-old Apoxyomenos statue at Muzej Apoksiomena in Croatia.

ART

Architect of light

9/20/2018

Under the heading “James Turrell – The Substance of Light,” Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden is hosting a solo exhibition dedicated to the American light artist.