[oberlist] Competition for the curatorial proposal for the Georgian Pavilion in Venice

[Joanna Warsza]

Kamikaze Loggia – the Georgian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale  
stays for the Venice Architecture Biennale.
The competition for the new curatorial proposal is now announced.


Kamikaze Loggia, Georgian Pavillion, seen from Canale di Porta Nova.  
Photo: Gio Sumbadze

The Pavilion of Georgia at the 55th International Art Exhibition – la  
Biennale di Venezia, based on the idea of the artist Gio Sumbadze and  
curator Joanna Warsza, was constructed as a parasitic extension to an  
old building in the Arsenale and hosted an exhibition including the  
artists Bouillon Group, Thea Djordjadze, Nikoloz Lutidze, Gela  
Patashuri with Ei Arakawa and Sergei Tcherepnin, and Gio Sumbadze. It  
was based on the concept that the absence of a permanent Georgian  
pavilion in Venice could be turned into an advantage. After officially  
renting 60 square meters of a roof on the Biennale premises the  
pavilion-artwork, Kamikaze Loggia, was built as a temporary structure  
attached to a pre-existing building, echoing the post-Soviet tradition  
of informal architecture in Georgia.

The Georgian Pavilion was considered to be one of the highlights of  
the 55th Venice Biennale, and was covered widely by international  
press. Reviews and articles appeared in newspapers such as The New  
York Times (USA), The Guardian (UK), and Gazeta Wyborcza (PL), as well  
as in magazines such as Art Monthly (UK), Flash Art (IT), art (D), or  
Monopol (D), amongst others.

The upcoming 14th International Architecture Exhibition, will be  
curated by Rem Koolhaas. The plan to preserve the structure of the  
Georgian Pavilion for the Architecture Biennale was first discussed in  
May 2013 with the director of the Venice Biennale, enthusiastic  
visitors, and the Rem Koolhaas research team. Now the Ministry of  
Culture and Monument Protection of Georgia has announced that the  
pavilion will remain. Slightly shifting its form and meaning for the  
new context of the Architecture Biennale, the Pavilion will host a new  
exhibition responding to the general title: Absorbing Modernity. As  
the saying goes: there is nothing more permanent than the temporary.  
Hopefully this will be the case for the Georgian pavilion in Venice  
for the coming years.

The competition for the project has been announced on the website of  
the Ministry of Culture and Monument Protection of Georgia, the  
deadline for the projects is January 30, 2014. The new project will be  
selected by an international jury under the supervision of the  
commissioner Marine Mizandari, First Deputy Minister of Culture and  
Monument Protection of Georgia. The 14th International Architecture  
Exhibition will be held from June 7 to November 23, 2014.

Further information and contact
http://www.culture.gov.ge/topicdetals-11.8954.html

http://georgian-pavilion.org
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