{"id":15497,"date":"2025-06-25T15:50:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T13:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/?post_type=magazine&p=15497"},"modified":"2025-06-25T15:50:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T13:50:06","slug":"architecture-biennale-2025-pippo-ciorra","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/en\/magazine\/architecture-biennale-2025-pippo-ciorra\/","title":{"rendered":"The solitude of the Central Pavilion. Pippo Ciorra\u2019s opinion on the Architecture Biennale 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"The first thing to say about this Biennale is a certain air of exceptionality, due to many factors. The first is probably the unusual number of closed pavilions, in many cases for \u201copen-door\u201d restorations, as is the case for the Danish and Holy See pavilions (probably the best), or in any case occupied by projects that speak of the pavilion itself. Aligning themselves with this choice, in addition to the two already mentioned, are the Finnish, Japanese, Brazilian, French, Swiss, and Korean pavilions. Certainly, the decision to close the Central Pavilion (the historic heart of the curator\u2019s exhibition) for works influenced many others, giving rise to this sort of collective impulse to renovate. Also remaining closed, as has been the case for several editions, are the Israeli, Russian, and Venezuelan pavilions. In short, at least as far as the Giardini are concerned, a slightly scaled-down Biennale, only partly compensated for by the beautiful temporary bookshop created by Diller Scofidio & Renfro in the space preceding the ticket offices.
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\r\nBucking this trend was the exciting announcement about the creation of the permanent Qatar pavilion in the Giardini, in the empty lot between the American pavilion and the one created by James Stirling in 1991. This is no trifling news. In recent years we have seen pavilions renovated and radically restructured (Australia, Canada), but a completely new pavilion is sensational news, especially if created by a very rich and controversial Middle Eastern country, ready to pay a substantial fee to the Biennale for the rental (thirty years?) of the land. The project will be by Lina Ghotmeh, a Lebanese architect of great fame. We will see in the coming years what effect this further act of cultural diplomacy will have on the Biennale, especially at such a complex moment for global geopolitics.
\r\nTHE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE 2025 ACCORDING TO PIPPO CIORRA<\/h2>
\r\nTwo more small considerations before closing. The first concerns the impact of the closure of the Central Pavilion on the curatorial choices. All in all, Ratti could have taken advantage of the stroke of luck of having only one of his exhibition venues and chosen to work with a limited number of authors. Instead, he went in the opposite direction, accumulating authors and projects in the Corderie, arriving at the much [ex]cited list of 700 authors that annoyed many observers. In the end, one remains uncertain whether to interpret his choice as a form of curatorial bulimia, that is, as many examples as possible of contemporary architectural Intelligens<\/em>, or whether to consider it a consciously provocative act towards the traditional form of the exhibition, here replaced by a sort of repository of ideas little inclined to order or hierarchy, a distant relative of the marvel inaugurated two weeks ago by Elizabeth Diller at the V&A Storehouse.
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\r\nThe last note concerns the unstoppable and disproportionate growth of the \u201cFuori Biennale\u201d. A brochure by the Ukrainian pavilion lists 158 exhibition initiatives: 68 national pavilions, a dozen official collateral events, 78 other \u201cnot only Biennale\u201d exhibitions. Not to mention the myriad side events. An overdose of offerings capable of intimidating even the most cynical of industry insiders. What\u2019s driving it? Probably on the one hand there is the historical \u201cexpansionism\u201d of the Biennale, always conquering new spaces. On the other, the only solution the Venetians seem to have found for the progressive depopulation and \u201cmusealization\u201d of the city: to musealize even more, transforming every available space into museums, galleries, exhibition-spaces to put on the market.
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