Titled The Laboratory of the Future and curated by Lesley Lokko, the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale will be holding the 18° International Architecture Exhibition from May 20 to November 26, 2023.
The 2023 edition of the Biennale will include 63 national participants allocated in the Giardini, at the Arsenale, and in the historic city center of Venice, Italy. Additionally, the exhibition will welcome Niger for the first time, along with Panama, which will have its own pavilion. The Holy See will also return to the Biennale Architettura with a pavilion on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore.
Please find below the full list of national participants at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale.
Albania: Untimely Meditations or: How We learn to live in synthesized realities
Commissioner: Elva Margariti, Minister of Culture of the Republic of Albania
Curators: heramarte (Era Merkuri, Martin Gjoleka)
Exhibitors: heramarte (Martin Gjoleka, Era Merkuri) with Ani Marku and Geraldo Prendush
Venue: Arsenale
Argentina: El Futuro del Agua
Commissioner: Paula Vázquez
Curator: Diego Arraigada
Venue: Arsenale
Australia: Unsettling Queenstown
Commissioner: Janet Holmes à Court AC
Curators: Ali Gumillya Baker, Anthony Coupe, Emily Paech, Julian Worrall, Sarah Rhodes
Venue: Giardini
Austria: Participation / Beteiligung
Commissioner: The Arts and Culture Division of the Federal Ministry for Art, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport of Austria
Curators/Exhibitors: AKT (Fabian Antosch, Gerhard Flora, Max Hebel, Adrian Judt, Julia Klaus, Lena Kohlmayr, Philipp Krummel, Gudrun Landl, Lukas Lederer, Susanne Mariacher, Christian Mörtl, Philipp Oberthaler, Charlie Rauchs, Helene Schauer, Kathrin Schelling, Philipp Stern and Harald Trapp), Hermann Czech
Venue: Giardini
Bahrain: Sweating Assets
Commissioner: Shaikh Khalifa bin Ahmad Al Khalifa, Bahrain Authority for Culture & Antiquities
Curators: Maryam Aljomairi, Latifa Alkhayat
Venue: Arsenale
Belgium: In Vivo
Commissioner: Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
Curators/Exhibitors: Bento et Vinciane Despret
Venue: Giardini
Brazil: Terra
Commissioner: José Olympio da Veiga Pereira
Curators: Gabriela de Matos, Paulo Tavares
Venue: Giardini
Bulgaria: Education is the movement from darkness to light
Commissioner: Alexander Staynov
Curator: Boris Tikvarski
Venue: Sala del Tiziano
Canada: Not for Sale!
Commissioner: Canada Council for the Arts
Curators: Architects Against Housing Alienation (AAHA)
Venue: Giardini
Chile: Moving Ecologies
Commissioner: Cristobal Molina Baeza
Curators: Gonzalo Carrasco + Beals Lyon Arquitectos (Loreto Lyon, Alejandro Beals)
Venue: Arsenale
China: Renewal: a symbiotic narrative
Commissioner: China Arts and Entertainment Group Ltd
Curator: Ruan Xing
Venue: Arsenale
Croatia: Same as it ever was
Commissioner: Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia
Curators: Mia Roth, Tonči Čerina
Venue: Arsenale
Cyprus: From KHIROKITIA to MARS
Commissioner: Petros Dymiotis, Cultural Officer at the Cultural Services of the Deputy Ministry of Culture
Curators/Exhibitors: Petros Lapithis, Lia Lapithi, Nikos Kouroussis, loanna loannou Xiari, Cyprus Space Exploration Organization
Venue: Associazione Culturale Spiazzi
Czech: The Office for a Non-Precarious Future
Commissioner: Helena Huber-Doudová
Venue: Arsenale and Giardini
Denmark: Coastal Imaginaries
Commissioner: Kent Martinussen, Danish Architecture Centre
Curator: Josephine Michau
Venue: Giardini
Egypt: NiLab - The Nile as Laboratory
Commissioner: Ministero della Cultura Egiziano- Accademia d'Egitto- National Organization for Urban Harmony
Curators/Exhibitors: Ahmed Sami Abd Elrahman, Marina Tornatora, Ottavio Amaro, Ghada Farouk, Moataz Samir
Venue: Giardini
Estonia: Home Stage
Commissioner: Raul Järg
Curators/Exhibitors: Aet Ader, Mari Möldre and Arvi Anderson
Venue: Castello 96
Finland: Huussi, Imagining the future history of sanitation
Commissioner: Katarina Siltavuori, Archinfo – Information Centre for Finnish Architecture
Curator: Arja Renell, The Dry Collective
Venue: Giardini
France: Ball Theater / La fête n’est pas finie
Commissioner: Institut français with the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Culture
Curators: Muoto & Georgi Stanishev
Venue: Giardini
Georgia: January, February, March
Commissioner: Magda Guruli
Curators: Tbilisi Architecture Biennial (Gigi Shukakidze, Tinatin Gurgenidze, Otar Nemsadze)
Venue: Il Giardino Bianco Art Space
Germany: Open for Maintenance – Wegen Umbau geöffnet
Commissioner: Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development and Building
Curators: ARCH+ / SUMMACUMFEMMER / BÜRO JULIANE GREB (Anne Femmer, Franziska Gödicke, Juliane Greb, Christian Hiller, Petter Krag, Melissa Makele, Anh-Linh Ngo, Florian Summa)
Venue: Giardini
Luxembourg: Down to Earth
Commissioner: Kultur | lx - Arts Council Luxembourg and Luca — Luxembourg Center for Architecture, on behalf of the Ministry of Culture
Curators: Francelle Cane, Marija Marić
Venue: Arsenale
Great Britain: Dancing Before the Moon
Commissioner: Sevra Davis, Director of Architecture Design Fashion at the British Council
Curators: Jayden Ali, Joseph Henry, Meneesha Kellay, and Sumitra Upham
Venue: Giardini
Greece: Bodies of water
Commissioner: Efthimios Bakoyannis, Segretario Generale della Pianificazione Territoriale e dell'Ambiente Urbano
Curators: Costis Paniyiris and Andreas Nikolovgenis
Venue: Giardini
Grenada: Walking on Water
Commissioner: Susan Mains
Curators: Luisa Flora
Venue: Associazione Vela al Terzo Venezia, Fondamenta C.Giazzo
Holy See: Social Friendship: meeting in the garden
Commissioner: Cardinale José Tolentino de Mendonça, Prefetto del Dicastero per la Cultura e l’Educazione della Santa Sede
Curator: Roberto Cremascoli
Venue: Abbazia di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venezia
Hungary: Reziduum – The Frequency of Architecture
Commissioner: Julia Fabényi, director Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
Curator: Mária Kondor-Szilágyi
Venue: Giardini
Ireland: In Search of Hy-Brasil
Commissioner: Culture Ireland
Curators: Peter Cody, Peter Carroll, Elizabeth Hatz, Mary Laheen, Joseph Mackey
Venue: Arsenale
Israel: Cloud-to-Ground
Commissioners: Michael Gov, Arad Turgeman
Curator: Oren Eldar, Edith Kofsky, Hadas Maor
Venue: Giardini
Italy: SPAZIALE: Everyone Belongs to Everyone Else
Commissioner: Onofrio Cutaia, Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea del Ministero della Cultura
Curators: Fosbury Architecture
Venue: Arsenale
Japan: Architecture, a place to be loved — when architecture is seen as a living creature
Commissioner: The Japan Foundation
Curator: Onishi Maki
Venue: Giardini
South Korea: 2086: Together How?
Commissioner: Arts Council Korea
Curators: Soik Jung, Kyong Park
Venue: Giardini
Kosovo: rks² transcendent locality
Commissioner: Dafina Morina
Venue: Arsenale
Kuwait: Rethinking Rethinking Kuwait
Commissioner: Abdulaziz Al-Mazeedi
Curators: Hamad Alkhaleefi, Naser Ashour, Jassim Alshehab, Mohammad Kassem
Venue: Magazzino del Sale 5
Latvia: T/C LATVIJA (TCL)
Commissioner: Jānis Dripe (Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia)
Curators: Ernests Cerbulis, Uldis Jaunzems-Pētersons
Venue: Arsenale
Lithuania: Children's Forest Pavilion
Commissioner: Ines Weizman
Curators: Jurga Daubaraitė, Egija Inzule, Jonas Žukauskas
Venue: Campo della Tana
Mexico: Utopian Infrastructure: The Campesino Basketball Court
Commissioner: Diego E. Sapién Muñoz, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura
Curators/Exhibitors: APRDELESP and Mariana Botey
Venue: Arsenale
Montenegro: Mirages of the Future (MNE)
Commissioner: Vladan Stevović
Curator: Zoran Lazovic
Venue: Palazzo Malipiero
Netherlands: Waterworks
Commissioner: Aric Chen,Het Nieuwe lnstituut
Curator: Jan Jongert / Superuse Studios
Venue: Giardini
Niger: ARCHIFUSION
Commissioner: Ibrahim Souleymane
Curator: Boris Brollo
Venue: San Servolo island
Nordic Countries (Sweden, Norway, Finland): Joar Nango - Girjegumpi: The Sámi Architecture Library
Commissioners: Kieran Long, ArkDes- The Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design, Stina Høgkvist, The National Museum of Norway; Carina Jaatinen, The Museum of Finnish Architecture
Curators: Carlos Mínguez Carrasco (ArkDes), James Taylor-Foster (ArkDes)
Venue: Giardini
North Macedonia: Stories of the Summer School of Architecture in the St. Joakim Osogovski Monastery 1992 - 2017
Commissioner: Dita Starova Kjerimi, National Gallery of Macedonia
Curators: Dimitar Krsteski, Aleksandar Petanovski, Darko Draganovski, Marija Petrova, Gordan Petrov
Venue: Scuola dei Laneri
Panama: Stories from Beneath the Water
Commissioner: Itzela Quirós
Curator: Aimée Lam Tunon
Venue: Tana Art Space
Peru: Walkers in Amazonia
Commissioner: José Orrego
Curators: Alexia León, Lucho Marcial
Venue: Arsenale
Philippines: Guts of Estuary
Commissioner: Victorino Mapa Manalo, Chairman National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA)
Curators: Sam Domingo and Ar. Choie Y. Funk
Venue: Arsenale
Poland: Datament
Commissioner: Janusz Janowski
Curator: Jacek Sosnowski
Venue: Giardini
Portugal: FERTILE FUTURES
Commissioner: Américo Rodrigues, Direção-Geral das Artes
Curator: Andreia Garcia
Venue: Palazzo Franchetti
Romania: NOW, HERE, THERE
Commissioner: Attila Kim
Curators: Emil Ivănescu, Simina Filat, Cătălin Berescu and Anca Păsărin
Venue: Giardini and New Gallery of Istituto Romeno di Cultura e Ricerca Umanistica
San Marino: OSPITE OSPITANTE
Commissioner: Riccardo Varini; Curators: Michael Kaethler and Marco Pierini
Scientific Committee: Corrado Petrocelli, Elena Brigi, Shaul Bassi, Domenico Luciani, Ralf Petersen, Massimo Renno, Michele Savorgnano, Andreas Sicklinger, Riccardo Varini, Massimo Brignoni, Vincenzo Rotondo
Venue: Calle San Lorenzo 5063b
Saudi Arabia: Irth ارث (Legacy)
Commissioner: Architecture and Design Commission, Ministry of Culture
Curators: Basma Bouzo, Noura Bouzo
Venue: Arsenale
Serbia: IN REFLECTIONS 6°27’48.81”N 3°14’49.20”E
Commissioner: Slobodan Jović
Scientific Commitee: Biljana Jotić (President), Dubravka Đukanović, Jelena Ivanović Vojvodić, Miljana Zeković, Snežana Vesnić, Ana Đurić, Jelena Mitrović
Venue: Giardini
Singapore: WHEN IS ENOUGH, ENOUGH? The Performance of Measurement
Commissioner: Yap Lay Bee, Group Director (Architecture & Urban Design), Urban Redevelopment Authority; Dawn Lim, Executive Director, DesignSingapore Council
Curators: Melvin Tan, Adrian Lai, Wong Ker How
Venue: Arsenale
Slovenia: +/- 1 °C: In Search of Well-Tempered Architecture
Commissioner: Maja Vardjan, Museum of Architecture and Design
Curators: Jure Grohar, Eva Gusel, Maša Mertelj, Anja Vidic, Matic Vrabič
Venue: Arsenale
South Africa: The Structure of a People
Commissioner: Ambassador Nosipho Nausca-Jean Jezile
Curators: Sechaba Maape, Emmanuel Nkambule and Stephen Steyn
Venue: Arsenale
Spain: FOODSCAPES
Commissioner: MITMA (Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda), AECID (Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation) AC/E (Acción Cultural Española)
Curators: Eduardo Castillo-Vinuesa + Manuel Ocaña del Valle
Venue: Giardini
Switzerland: Neighbours
Commissioners: Swiss arts council Pro Helvetia: Sandi Paucic, Rachele Giudici Legittimo
Curators/Exhibitors: Karin Sander, Philip Ursprung
Venue: Giardini
Turkiye (formerly known as Turkey): Ghost Stories: Carrier Bag Theory of Architecture
Commissioner: Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV)
Curators: SO? (Sevince Bayrak, Oral Göktaş)
Venue: Arsenale
Ukraine: Before the Future
Commissioner: Mariana Oleskiv, State Agency for Tourism Development of Ukraine
Curators: Iryna Miroshnykova, Oleksii Petrov, Borys Filonenko
Venue: Arsenale
United Arab Emirates: Aridly Abundant
Commissioner: Salama bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation
Curator: Faysal Tabbarah
Venue: Arsenale
United States: Everlasting Plastics
Commissioner: Tizziana Baldenebro, SPACES
Curators: Tizziana Baldenebro, Lauren Leving
Venue: Giardini
Uruguay: En Ópera. Escenarios futuros de una joven Ley Forestal
Commissioner: Facundo de Almeida
Curators: Mauricio López, Matías Carballal, Andrés Gobba, Sebastián Lambert and Carlos Casacuberta
Venue: Giardini
Uzbekistan: Unbuild Together
Commissioner: Art and Culture Development Foundation
Curators: Studio Ko
Venue: Arsenale
Venezuela: Universidad Central de Venezuela, Patrimonio de la Humanidad en recuperación. Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas.
Commissioner/Curator: Paola Claudia Posani
Venue: Giardini
Editor's Note: The information displayed about each pavilion here has been officially provided by the organization.
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