BIENNALE 2025
The 61st edition of the Venice Biennale, international architecture exhibition, will be held from Saturday 10 May to Sunday 23 November 2025 (pre-opening from 8 to 9 May). The event, one of the most anticipated events on the global artistic scene, will be curated by Carlo Ratti, who has chosen to title the exhibition: Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.
and comments: "To face a world on fire, architecture must be able to exploit all the intelligence that surrounds us."
Carlo Ratti explains that the 19th International Architecture Exhibition will focus on the built environment, involving different disciplines such as art, engineering, biology, social, political and planetary sciences, to address environmental degradation caused by architecture-related emissions. Faced with the climate crisis, the exhibition will seek practical and rapid solutions, proposing experimental ideas inspired by an intelligence capable of adapting with limited resources. Architects will be seen as "mutagenic agents" who can drive evolutionary processes, learning from various sciences and through trial and error, with the aim of transforming the present and building a better future.
The Curator invites participating countries to explore the theme "One place, one solution", underlining how human ingenuity can offer answers to the global challenge of our time. Ratti states that this challenge must be addressed collaboratively, with diversified approaches. Countries are encouraged to share success stories, which together will form a "toolbox" for a better future.
As in the previous edition, the 2025 Venice Biennial will see the participation of numerous countries who will present their works in the pavilions of the Giardini and the Arsenale, but also in the historic center of Venice.
Carlo Ratti invites students, graduates and those under 30 in architecture, urban design, engineering and related disciplines to present projects that use natural, artificial and collective intelligence to combat the climate crisis. The 8 selected projects will participate in a workshop in Venice in September, with a contribution of 20,000 euros each, and will be exhibited at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition. The initiative aims to broaden opportunities for young professionals, sharing their work with a wide audience, in line with the Venice Biennale's support of emerging productions in various sectors.
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