Call out: Creative Directors for the Australia Pavilion at 2025 Venice Biennale
The Australian Institute of Architects invites Expressions of Interest for Creative Director(s) for the Australia Pavilion at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2025.
The 2025 theme for the the International Architecture Exhibition is ‘Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective’.
We are looking for an individual or partnership who, with their nominated team, can deliver an inspiring and bold Architecture Exhibition for Australia’s contribution to the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale opening in May.
The Institute has facilitated Australia’s representation at the International Architecture Biennale in Venice since 2005. Our commitment has been substantial and ongoing with successful exhibitions during this time.
EOI closes midnight 7 August 2024.
KEY DATES
Friday, 19 July 2024
Midnight Wed, 7 Aug 2024
Curatorial Committee
Seven talented and passionate architectural professionals have been appointed to the Curatorial Committee for the 2025 Venice Biennale. The Curatorial Committee’s role will be to select Creative Director(s) and act as an advisory committee to support and guide the selected creative concept to realisation.
“The 2025 Venice Biennale Curatorial Committee’s vision is to tell a rich and engaging story, showcase original ideas and describe the depth of our architectural expertise. It also provides the opportunity to promote the value of architecture nationally within Australia,” says Jane Cassidy, National President of the Institute and member of curatorial committee.
CURATOR, CARLO RATTI ON THE 2025 THEME
Curated by the architect and engineer Carlo Ratti, the 19th International Architecture Exhibition will be about the built environment and the many disciplines that shape it. Architecture is at the cente – but not alone. It is part of an extended sphere that integrates art, engineering, biology, data science, social and political sciences, planetary systems sciences, and other disciplines – linking each and all of them to the materiality of urban space.
With the aim to reintroduce a degree of coordination and coherence with the theme of the main International Exhibition among the National Pavilions, Mr Ratti encourages the participating countries to address the common prompt of “One place, one solution”, showcasing how local ingenuity can address our time’s existential challenge that can only be tackled in a cooperative manner, reflecting a multiplicity of approaches. “If every country brings one success to the table, together we can assemble a global kit for adapting to the future,” says Mr Carlo Ratti.
AUSTRALIA AND VENICE
The International Architecture Biennale is organised by La Biennale di Venezia, Societa di Cultura, formed for the express purpose of planning and implementing all Venetian biennial exhibitions including those for visual arts, architecture and film. Around 85 countries including Australia, participate in the Venice Architecture and Art Biennale.
In 2024, First Nations artist Archie Moore was named the recipient of the coveted Golden Lion for best national pavilion at Venice, marking the first time in history that an Australian has received the accolade. The title of the installation, ‘kith and kin’, draws on Old English terms for family and countrymen and extends the Aboriginal notion of kinship systems to include the “kith” of all humankind.
The Australian Institute of Architects is commissioned by Creative Australia to participate in the Venice Biennale. For the 2025 Venice Biennale, the Institute has engaged Creative Australia in an expanded producer role across the Architecture and Art Biennales supporting Creative Director(s) with pavilion management and local procurement.
