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20. Mai - 26. November 2023
Titel: The Laboratory of the Future
Kuratorin: Lesley Lokko
Lesley Lokko © Foto: Jacopo Salvi. Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia
Die 18. Internationale Architekturausstellung mit dem Titel The Laboratory of the Future wird von Lesley Lokko (Ghana/Schottland) kuratiert, einer renommierten Architekturwissenschaftlerin, Pädagogin und Bestsellerautorin. (siehe die Biografie)
Die Architekturbiennale findet vom 20. Mai bis zum 26. November 2023 in den Giardini, im Arsenale und im Forte Marghera statt und ist die erste große Ausstellung dieser Art, die den Prozess zur Erreichung der Klimaneutralität in der Praxis erprobt und darüber hinaus über die Themen Dekolonisierung und Dekarbonisierung reflektiert.
“What does it mean to be ‘an agent of change’? (…) Over the past nine months, in hundreds of conversations, text messages, Zoom calls and meetings,” stated Lesley Lokko, “the question of whether exhibitions of this scale — both in terms of carbon and cost — are justified, has surfaced time and again. In May last year, I referred to the exhibition several times as ‘a story’, a narrative unfolding in space. Today, my understanding has changed. An architecture exhibition is both a moment and a process. It borrows its structure and format from art exhibitions, but it differs from art in critical ways which often go unnoticed. Aside from the desire to tell a story, questions of production, resources and representation are central to the way an architecture exhibition comes into the world, yet are rarely acknowledged or discussed. From the outset, it was clear that the essential gesture of The Laboratory of the Future would be ‘change’.”
“(…) For the first time ever, the spotlight has fallen on Africa and the African Diaspora, that fluid and enmeshed culture of people of African descent that now straddles the globe. What do we wish to say? How will what we say change anything? And, perhaps most importantly of all, how will what we say interact with and infuse what ‘others’ say, so that the exhibition is not a single story, but multiple stories that reflect the vexing, gorgeous kaleidoscope of ideas, contexts, aspirations, and meanings that is every voice responding to the issues of its time?”
“It is often said that culture is the sum total of the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves. Whilst it is true, what is missing in the statement is any acknowledgement of who the ‘we’ in question is. In architecture particularly, the dominant voice has historically been a singular, exclusive voice, whose reach and power ignores huge swathes of humanity — financially, creatively, conceptually — as though we have been listening and speaking in one tongue only. The ‘story’ of architecture is therefore incomplete. Not wrong, but incomplete. It is in this context particularly that exhibitions matter.” – (see complete statement)
(Aus Presseinformationen, La Biennale di Venezia.
Aus dem Englischen: Universes in Universe.)
Öffnungszeiten 2023
Giardini / Arsenale / Forte Marghera:
20. Mai – 30. September: 11 – 19 Uhr
1. Oktober – 26. November: 10 – 18 Uhr
Montags geschlossen
Extra geöffnet: Montag 22. Mai, 14. August, 4. September, 16. Oktober, 30. Oktober, 20. November 2023
Pressebüro Architektur:
pressoffice@labiennale.org
Tel.: +39 041 5218 - 846 / 849
Foto oben: Serge Attukwei Clottey: Time and Chance
© Foto: Marco Zorzanello. Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia
Wie zu allen Biennalen Venedig seit 2001 veröffentlichen wir auch zur 18. Architekturausstellung 2023 wieder ein umfangreiches Special. Letzte Edition:
Architektur Biennale Special 2021
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