The 18th Venice Architecture Biennale, curated by Lesley Lokko, will be entitled "The Laboratory of the Future". A challenging title for an event that looks ahead

2023 marks the return of great international architecture to Venice with the Biennale Architettura 2023.

Interni will follow the development of the event with insights and previews, to help its readers organize their visit and have the right tools to better understand its meaning.

Biennale Architettura 2023: dates, tickets and prices

The 18. Architecture Biennale will be held in the Giardini and the Arsenale from 20 May to 26 November 2023 (with pre-opening on 18 and 19 May 2023).

The entrance tickets for the Biennale Architettura 2023 are on sale until 30 March:

  • 3 days (early bird rate until March 30): 30 euros, valid for multiple entries for a period of three days
  • 1 day (early bird rate until 30 March): 20 euro, valid for a single entry to the Giardini and one to the Arsenale, even on non-consecutive days

Biennale Architettura 2023: National Pavilions

As usual, the National Participations will exhibit their works in the pavilions at the Giardini and at the Arsenale but also in the city, in Venice.

Interni will follow the developments of the National Participations with continuously updated articles.

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Biennale Architettura 2023: who is the curator and what is the theme?

The curator of 18. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura is Lesley Lokko, a Ghanaian/Scottish architect, professor of architecture and writer, former member of the International Jury of the 17th Architecture Biennale.

The theme is The Laboratory of the Future and will have Africa at its center even if, Lokko explains, it will not be an exhibition on Africa. As the youngest continent on the planet and also the one with the highest rate of urbanization, Africa will serve as a laboratory model from which to build the future.

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What's the best way to visit the 2023 Architecture Biennale in Venice?

Like every Biennale, the Architecture Biennale also consists of:

  • a major authorial exhibition, which recounts a curatorial thesis (which gives the Biennale its title) through selected projects
  • national presences (the Pavilions), which interpret the curatorial thesis with the best of what each single country is capable of producing

The authorial section can be visited in the Central Pavilion of the Gardens and continues in the Corderie of the Arsenale.

The national pavilions are instead located in the remaining parts of the Giardini and the Arsenale.

The advice is to take at least two days for the visit and to start with the Central Pavilion of the Giardini and then continue to the Arsenale (first day); then moving on to the National Pavilions (second day).

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Italian Pavilion at the 2023 Biennale: who are the curators, what is the theme?

The Italian Pavilion at the 2023 Architecture Biennale, promoted by the General Directorate for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture, will be curated by the Fosbury Architecture collective, formed by Giacomo Ardesio, Alessandro Bonizzoni, Nicola Campri, Veronica Caprino, Claudia Mainardi.

The title is SPATIAL: Everyone belongs to everyone else and will be divided into two successive moments.

The first begins before the start of the Biennale (from January to April) and will see the activation of 9 site-specific interventions in various places throughout Italy. The second will be the Italian Pavilion which will tell a formal and theoretical synthesis of the processes triggered in the 9 territories in the previous months. The aim? To restore a different and original image of Italian architecture in the international context.

To follow the work in progress there will be a website and an Instagram account, which will be launched in January 2023.

While to get details on the project for the Italian Pavilion at the 2023 Architecture Biennale, we will have to wait for the dedicated press conference scheduled for February-March 2023.

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Biennale Architettura 2023: social channels

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