Great Britain 2025
The pavilion explore the relationship between architecture and colonisation as parallel, interconnected systems.
Title: GBR: Geology of Britannic Repair
Commissioner: Sevra Davis British Council
Curators: Owen Hopkins, Kathryn Yusoff, Kabage Karanja, Stella Mutegi
Exhibitors: cave_bureau, Palestine Regeneration Team (PART), Mae Ling Lokko & Gustavo Crembil, Thandi Loewenson
The exhibition’s geographical, geological and conceptual focus stems from the British Pavilion’s pivotal alignment along an axis that runs between Britain to the north-west, and Kenya and the Great Rift Valley to the south-east.
The exhibition, GBR – Geology Of Britannic Repair, is a unique UK-Kenya collaboration between a multi-disciplinary team of curators: Kabage Karanja and Stella Mutegi of Nairobi-based architecture studio Cave_bureau; UK-based curator and writer Owen Hopkins and academic Professor Kathryn Yusoff.
Making a case for architecture as an earth practice, the curators and their collaborators hope that the exhibition helps to dismantle the prevalent and often unquestioned concept of architecture and rebuild it as a non-extractive practice geared towards repair, restitution and renewal.
VENUE: Giardini
OPENING TIMES:
May 10 – Sep 28, Tue – Sun 11am – 7pm; Sep 29 – Nov 23 Tue – Sun 10am – 6pm
ADDRESS
Giardini , Calle Giazzo, 30122 Castello, Venice, Italy
