Your Virtual Tour of the National Pavilions at the Venice Biennale 2014

Bahrain Pavilion. Image © Andrea Avezzù, Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezia

Written by Vanessa Quirk
Published on June 05, 2014

Your virtual tour of the Venice Biennale has arrived! Check out each of the national pavilions currently on display for Rem Koolhaas' chosen theme - Absorbing Modernity, 1914-2014.

Albania: Potential Monuments of Unrealised Futures

Albania Pavilion. Image © Andrea Avezzù, Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezia

Argentina: IDEAL / REAL – IDEALE / REALE – IDEAL / REAL

Argentina Pavilion. Image © Andrea Avezzù, Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezia

Australia: Augmented Australia 1914 – 2014

Australia Pavilion. Image © Andrea Avezzù, Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezia

Austria: Plenum

Austria Pavilion. Image © Andrea Avezzù, Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezia

Bahrain: Fundamentalists and Other Arab Modernisms

Bahrain Pavilion. Image © Andrea Avezzù, Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezia

Belgium: Intérieurs, notes et figures

Belgium Pavilion. Image © Andrea Avezzù, Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezia

Brazil: BRAZIL: MODERNITY AS TRADITION

Brazil Pavilion. Image © Andrea Avezzù, Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezia

Chile: Monolith Controversies

Chile Pavilion. Image © Andrea Avezzù, Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezia

China: Mountains beyond Mountains

China Pavilion. Image © Andrea Avezzù, Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezia

Costa Rica: GAM(ISMO)

Costa Rica Pavilion. Image © Andrea Avezzù, Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezia

Croatia: Fitting Abstraction

Croatia Pavilion. Image © Andrea Avezzù, Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezia

Czech, Republic: 2×100 mill.m2

Czech Republic Pavilion. Image © Andrea Avezzù, Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezia

Denmark: Empowerment of Aesthetics

Denmark Pavilion. Image © Andrea Avezzù, Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezia

Dominican Republic: Fair Concrete/La Feria Concreta

Dominican Republic Pavilion. Image © Andrea Avezzù, Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezia

Estonia: Interspace

Estonia Pavilion. Image © Andrea Avezzù, Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezia

Finland: Re-Creation

Finland Pavilion. Image © Andrea Avezzù, Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezia

France: Modernity: promise or menace?

France Pavilion. Image © Andrea Avezzù, Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezia

Germany: Bungalow Germania

Germany Pavilion. Image © Andrea Avezzù, Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezia

Great Britain: A Clockwork Jerusalem

Great Britain Pavilion. Image © Andrea Avezzù, Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezia

Indonesia: Craftmanship: Material Consciousness

Indonesia Pavilion. Image © Andrea Avezzù, Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezia

Iran: Instant Past

Iran Pavilion. Image © Andrea Avezzù, Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezia

Ireland: Infra-Éireann: Making Ireland Modern

Ireland Pavilion. Image © Andrea Avezzù, Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezia

Israel: Urburb

Israel Pavilion. Image © Nico Saieh

Italy: Innesti/grafting

Italy Pavilion. Image © Andrea Avezzù, Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezia

Japan: In the real world

Japan Pavilion. Image © Andrea Avezzù, Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezia

Korea: Crow’s Eye View: The Korean Peninsula

Republic of Korea Pavilion. Image © Andrea Avezzù, Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezia

Kosovo: Visibility (imposed modernity)

Kozovo Pavilion. Image © Andrea Avezzù, Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezia

Kuwait: Acquiring Modernity

Kuwait Pavilion. Image © Andrea Avezzù, Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezia

Latvia: Unwritten

Latvia Pavilion. Image © Andrea Avezzù, Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezia

Macedonia: Findings

Macedonia Pavilion. Image © Andrea Avezzù, Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezia

Malaysia: Sufficiency

Malaysia Pavilion. Image © Andrea Avezzù, Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezia

Mexico: …condenados a ser modernos

Mexico Pavilion. Image © Andrea Avezzù, Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezia

Morocco: FUNDAMENTALISMS

Morroco Pavilion. Image © Andrea Avezzù, Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezia

Netherlands: A Bakema Celebration

Netherlands Pavilion. Image © Andrea Avezzù, Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezia

Nordic Pavilion (Nordic, Finland, Sweden): Forms of Freedom. African Independence and Nordic Models

Nordic Pavilion. Image © Andrea Avezzù, Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezia

Peru: URBAN ENCOUNTERS FOR THE NEXT 100

Peru Pavilion. Image © Andrea Avezzù, Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezia

Poland: Impossible Objects

Poland Pavilion. Image © Andrea Avezzù, Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezia

Portugal: HOMELAND. NEWS FROM PORTUGAL

Portugal Pavilion. Image © Nico Saieh

Serbia: 14-14

Serbia Pavilion. Image © Andrea Avezzù, Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezia

South Africa: South-Africa 1914-2014:modernism and its doubles

South Africa Pavilion. Image © Andrea Avezzù, Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezia

Spain: Interior 20 social dwellings + 3 shops in Madrid

Spain Pavilion. Image © Nico Saieh

Switzerland: Lucius Burckhardt and Cedric Price. A stroll through a fun palace

Switzerland Pavilion. Image © Andrea Avezzù, Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezia

Thailand: Spirituality – freedom and creativity, a fundamental in Thai Architecture

Thailand Pavilion. Image © Andrea Avezzù, Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezia

Turkey: Places of Memory

Turkey Pavilion. Image © Andrea Avezzù, Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezia

United Arab Emirates: Lest We Forget: Structures of Memory in the United Arab Emirates

UEA Pavilion. Image © Andrea Avezzù, Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezia

United States: OFFICEUS

Bahrain Pavilion. Image © Andrea Avezzù, Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezia

Canada: Arctic Adaptations: Nunavut at 15

Canada Pavilion. Image © Nico Saieh

New Zealand: Last, Loneliest, Loveliest

© John Gollings

We'll be updating with more pavilions as they come in - stay tuned!

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