The Julia Stoschek Foundation (JSF) owns one of the world’s most significant collections of time-based art. JSF decided to celebrate the 15th birthday of the collection by an extraordinary exhibition with 1.5 years planned time-span, entitled „Worldbuilding”, dedicated to the art of video games. Located in a renovated industrial complex in Düsseldorf-Oberkassel, the exhibition offers on 2.500 square…
In 2013, after Dan Richards published his first book (coauthored with Robert Macfarlane), Holloway soon led the best established book review of the UK, the bestseller-list of the Sunday Times. Richards published with Faber & Faber a new book in 2016, inspired by the memoirs of his great-great aunt, Dorothy Pilley. The backdrop of a substantial part of Climbing Days are mountain landscapes. On page 158 Richards describes…
The Korzo Theatre in The Hague, founded over a century ago, the Netherlands‘ largest dance production house presented the premiere of “Gömböc” by French choreographer Antonin Comestaz on September 9th 2020. The solo dance was perfomed by the prominent Japanese artist Ema Yuasa. According to the review of arts critique portal Movements Exposed, Comestaz used the Gömböc as a metaphor of the human soul, the dance illustrates a journey…
Contemporary art gallery Lawrie Shabibi is located in the new complex on Alserkal Avenue which recently became an arts and culture district for Dubai with lineup of galleries, facilities and platforms. On January 20th 2020 Lawrie Habibi presented Vivien Zhang‘s solo exhibition Soft Borders. Zhang’s paintings present a cultural and geographical fluidity that questions the multi-layered nature of contemporary culture, the casual…
Long March Space, one of Beijing’s leading, internationally recognized “blue-chip” galleries for contemporary art hosted the solo exhibition “Codespace” of Vivien Zhang between September 8th – November 4th 2018. With this exhibit, the artist joined the narrow elite being represented by the world-renowned Gallery. Curating the exhibition in the monumental, 2500 square metre space posed a formidable challenge, however,…
As of March 1st 2018, London’s leading contemporary art gallery, the Lisson Galllery hosts the exhibition“The Self Righting of All Things” by Ryan Gander. The Gömböc plays a central role in this art exhibition and the largest installation, occupying two floors of Lisson Gallery, includes actual Gömböc shapes. At the start of the exhibition, the top half of the gallery is…
The Corvin Gömböc statue raised at Nokia Skypark located on Corvin Promenade is a stainless steel shell supported on a frame. The Corvin Gömböc was commissioned by Futureal Group, a leading real estate development company in Central Europe. The statue has been completed by Direct Line Kft under the artistic supervision of József Zalavári in association with the inventors of the Gömböc. The sculpture…
The exhibit “South of Meaning” at the contemporary art gallery House of Egorn in Berlin’s center features work by two emerging artists, Travis Jeppensen and Vivien Zhang. The Gomboc shape is visible on several of Zhang’s works and she explains her inspiration in an interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist (Serpentine Gallery) to Sleek magazine. Zhang’s pictures (and among them, her Gomboc-related work) have already…
The Market Directorate of the Budapest City Council decided to open a hands-on Gömböc exhibit in the Great Market Hall, one of Hungary’s main touristic attractions. The sophistically illuminated glass display features huge Gömböc pieces made from crystal-clear plexiglass, similar to the ones which were visible in the Hungarian Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo in 2010. The…
In 2015, the Hungarian team made into the final of one of the world’s top cooking contest’s, the Bocuse d’Or, often called the culinary equivalent of the Olympic games. Named after the chef Paul Bocuse, the contest takes place every second year in Lyon, France. The Hungarian team, lead by chef Gábor Molnár, choose the Gömböc as their central theme. The…
