From the exhibition Empowerment of Aethetics in the Danish Pavilion. Photo: Jens Lindhe

7 June 2014 - 23 November 2014

The Danish Pavilion, Giardini della Biennale, Venice, Italy, Venedig Biennalen

You will meet the smell of dirt, hear the sound of poetry and burry your toes in pine needles at the Danish pavilion at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale in 2014.

The exhibition is curated by Stig L. Anderson who insists on a new sensuous and sustainable symbiosis between rationality and aesthetics - between architecture and nature.

It is a reflection on the fundamentals of the modern Danish society, which emerged in the mid19th Century: The short pocket of time after the collapse of Romanticism but before the heralded Danish welfare state fully emerged; where the poetic interaction between architecture, literature, art, nature and science liberated an unprecedented energy and a belief in a dynamic society hitherto unseen in Denmark and elsewhere.

"My ambition is to present the interrelationship of forgotten, repressed or underexposed parts of the dynamic Danish modernity. Not only in the history of architecture, but also in science, art and poetry."

- Curator, professor, and landscape architect Stig L. Andersson

TALK & DEBATE: CITIES AND CITY REGIONS IN 2050

How do we live in the future cities and city regions? How can we plan smart based on the available knowledge and history? In relation to the oficial opening of the Danish pavilion, Danish and international politicians, architects and experts were invited to take part in a debate on the sustainable future of our cities.

 Opening debate. From left: Kent Martinussen (CEO, Danish Architecture Centre) Stig L. Andersson (Curator and partner in SLA), Freija Van Duijne (Independent futurist at Future Motions, president Dutch Future Society, analyst at The Hague), Serban Cornea (Apartner in Mutopia), Aase Nyegaard (Deputy Mayor in Sønderborg), Tina Saaby (City architect, Copenhagen), Brian Vad Mathisen (Professor, Aalborg university), Michael Ziegler (Mayor, Høje-Taastrup), Mathias SauerbruchT)

Photos From The Exhibition

Fra udstillingen Empowerment of Aethetics i den danske pavillon. Fotos: Jens Lindhe

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