After the Venice Architecture Biennale has announced the details of participants for the 18th International Architecture Exhibition, the 2023 edition of the international exhibition will be divided into six parts, wich will welcome 89 Participants, over half of whom are from Africa or the African Diaspora.

Focusing on the African continent, the curator Lesley Lokko seeks a gender balance, with a 50/50, with an average age of all Participants is 43, while 37 of them will be represented in the Curator’s Special Projects, where the youngest is 24.

The Venice Architecture Biennale consists of three main sections: National Pavilions, the main international exhibition with participants selected by the curator, and the Collateral Events.

This year, the exhibition will welcome 63 National Participations, 27 of which are at the Giardini, 22 at the Arsenale and 14 in the city centre of Venice. 

This year's exhibition will explore the theme The Laboratory of the Future starting from Saturday 20 May to Sunday 26 November, 2023 at the Arsenale and Giardini venues, Italy.

In the detailed list below, you can see who will be participating in the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023, alongside with the Collateral Events:

Image © Giulio Squillacciotti, courtesy La Biennale di Venezia

Force Majeure / Giardini, Central Pavilion

• Adjaye Associates
• atelier masōmī
• Basis
• Cave_bureau
• Hood Design Studio
• Ibrahim Mahama
• Kéré Architecture
• Koffi & Diabaté Architectes
• MASS Design Group
• Olalekan Jeyifous
• SOFTLAB@PSU
• Studio Sean Canty
• Counterspace (Sumayya Vally and Moad Musbahi)
• Thandi Loewenson
• Theaster Gates Studio
• urban american city (urbanAC)

Image © Andrea Avezzù, courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia

Force Majeure – Outdoor Installation/Arsenale 

• Adjaye Associates

Image © Andrea Avezzù, courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia

Dangerous Liaisons/Arsenale, Corderie

• AD—WO
• AMAA Collaborative Architecture Office For Research And Development
• Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation
• autonoma
• BDR bureau and carton123 architecten
• DAAR - Alessandro Petti and Sandi Hilal
• David Wengrow and Eyal Weizman with Forensic Architecture and Nebelivka project
• Dream The Combine
• Dualchas
• Estudio A0
• Flores & Prats Architects
• Gbolade Design Studio
• Gloria Cabral and Sammy Baloji
• Grandeza Studio
• Huda Tayob
• Kate Otten Architects
• Killing Architects
• Le laboratoire d'architecture
• Liam Young
• Low Design Office
• MMA Design Studio
• Neri&Hu Design and Research Office
• Office 24-7 Architecture and Lemon Pebble Architects
• orizzontale
• Rahul Mehrotra with Ranjit Hoskote
• SCAPE Landscape Architecture
• Stephanie Hankey, Michael Uwemedimo and Jordan Weber 
• Studio Barnes
• Suzanne Dhaliwal
• Sweet Water Foundation
• The Funambulist
• Twenty Nine studio 
• Ursula Biemann
• White Arkitekter 
• Wolff Architects
• ZAO/standardarchitecture

Dangerous Liaisons - Outdoor Installation/Arsenale

• Serge Attukwei Clottey

Dangerous Liaisons - Outdoor Installation/Forte Marghera

• Sweet Water Foundation

Special Participations/Arsenale

• Amos Gitai
• James Morris
• Lionheartfelt

Collateral Events

Image © Andrea Avezzù, courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia

At the 18th International Architecture Exhibition, titled The Laboratory of the Future, the curator Lesley Lokko has announced 9 Collateral Events organized by La Biennale di Venezia.

Admitted by the curator and promoted by non–profit national and international bodies and institutions, take place in several locations, this year's 9 Collateral Events offer a wide range of contributions and participations that enrich the diversity of voices that characterizes the exhibition of Venice.

See the announced 9 Collateral Events for the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale: 

A Fragile Correspondence - Scotland + Venice
Docks Cantieri Cucchini, San Pietro di Castello 40
May 20 – November 26, 2023
Organizing Institution: Scotland + Venice

Catalonia in Venice_ Following the Fish
Docks Cantieri Cucchini, San Pietro di Castello 40A
May 20 – November 26, 2023
Organizing Institution: Institut Ramon Lull

Climate Wunderkammer
IUAV Palazzo Badoer ground floor – Calle de la Laca, San Polo 2468
May 20 – November 26, 2023
Organizing Institution: RWTH Aachen University

Diachronic Apparatuses of Taiwan
Architecture as on-going details within landscape
Palazzo delle Prigioni, Castello 4209
May 20 – November 26, 2023
Organizing Institution: National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts

EUmies Awards. Young Talent 2023. The Laboratory of Education
Palazzo Mora, Cannaregio 3659
May 20 – November 26, 2023
Organizing Institution: Fundació Mies van der Rohe

Radical yet possible future space solutions
May 25, 2023 at IUAV Palazzo Badoer first floor – San Polo 2468
May 26, 2023 at IUAV aula magna Tolentini – Santa Croce 191
Organizing Institution: New European Bauhaus, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission

Students as Researchers: Creative Practice and University Education
Centro Studi e Documentazione della Cultura Armena, Dorsoduro 1602
May 20 – November 26, 2023
Organizing Institution: New York Institute of Technology

Transformative Hong Kong
Campo della Tana, Castello 2126
May 20 – November 26, 2023
Organizing Institution: Hong Kong Arts Development Council + The Hong Kong Institute of Architects Biennale Foundation

Tracé Bleu
Que faire en ce lieu, à moins que l’on y songe?
Campiello Santa Maria Nova 6024
May 20 – November 26, 2023
Organizing Institution: CA’ ASI

Top image in the article: Giardini. Image © Francesco Galli, courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia. 

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