DGArtes opens competition to represent Portugal at the Architecture Biennale in Venice | Architecture
The limited competition for the selection of the curatorial and exhibition project of official Portuguese representation at the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale opens this week with a donation of 350 thousand euros, according to a notice published in Republic Diary.
The tender is open within the scope of the Financial Support Program for Culture, Pedro Adão e Silva, dated Friday, also indicates the notice, with a global amount of 350 thousand euros, distributed in 240 thousand euros for 2022 and 110 thousand euros for 2023.
The opening notice, with the applicable conditions, will be available at the Arts Desk of the Directorate-General for Arts (DGArtes).
In July of this year, the annual declaration of DGArtes indicated, in the your official websitethat the limited competition for the selection of the Portuguese representation in the Architecture exhibition – Venice Biennale 2023 was “scheduled to open in August”.
under the theme The laboratory of the futureand curated by Lesley Lokko, the Venice Architecture Biennale, in Italy, will take place between the 20th of May and the 26th of November of the next year, with a pre-opening on the 18th and 19th of May, and each country presents its own exhibition in the Pavilions of the Giardini and Arsenale, and in the historic center of Venice.
The Scottish-Ghanaian architect, artistic director of the Biennale’s architecture department, announced in May, about the general lines of her project, that she believes that the African continent – due to its characteristics of the youngest population in the world and the fastest urbanization rate – be seen as the “laboratory of the future”.
This edition will include, once, a selection of parallels organized by institutions, which will carry out as their own initiatives and initiatives in Venice.
In the previous edition, Portugal was confirmed at the biennial with the project In conflictfrom the depA collective, to answer the question posed by the curator, Hashim Sarkiskis, on “How to live together?”.