Five Pavilions ‘In Minor Keys’ Where Art Meets Craft at the 2026 Biennale di Venezia
No protest, no political noise. These pavilions at the 2026 Biennale di Venezia show how, through crafts, art can hold a mirror to our most pressing concerns.
Five National Pavilions Weaving Art and Architecture at Venice Biennale 2026
Platonic Caves, probes and soviet barracks. At Venice Biennale 2026, some of the most radical art isn’t on the walls — it’s in the walls.
Six surreal architectures at La Biennale di Venezia 2026
From a tilted brick chapel to a home on a wheelbarrow and a floating synagogue, these surreal architectures at the Venice Art Biennale reframe space, identity, and belonging.
Hybrids: Where Scarpa’s Architecture dialogues with Leandro Erlich
At Venice’s Negozio Olivetti, houses grow roots, corals mimic cities, and marble melts — in Erlich’s Hybrids, the impossible feels wonderfully real.
Studio DRIFT’s ‘Shy Society’ kinetic installation blooms and glows in Venice
A poetic choreography of suspended luminous flowers dances with the waves in Studio DRIFT’s ‘Shy Society’ installation during the Venice Art Biennale.
Marea by Melissa McGill: Painting the Tides of a City Under Pressure
The American artist transforms a Venetian back alley into a breathing, community-made meditation on water, tide, and urban resilience against mass tourism and climate change.
Nabatele: Anna Kamyshan creates a floating Synagogue in Venice
There is something quietly arresting about a sixteenth-century Venetian synagogue, perched atop a floating rock, drifting above the waters of the lagoon. This is Nabatele, a mesmerising installation by Anna Kamyshan, and an official Collateral Event of the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.
Alternative Urbanism: How Lagos Markets Are Reimagining Circular City Living
With the ‘Alternative Urbanism’ exhibition at the 2025 Venice Biennale, Oshinowo Studio spotlights Lagos markets as models of circular urbanism deeply rooted in West African culture and informal economy.
Ancient Future: Bhutanese Craft Meets Robotic Precision in Venice
Artisans and machines work hand in hand at BIG–Bjarke Ingels Group’s ‘Ancient Future: Bridging Bhutan’s Tradition and Innovation’ showcase.
‘OUT’: How Space-Inspired Architecture Could Help Save the Planet
The OUT section of the 2025 Venice Biennale explores how space-driven innovation can build and shape a sustainable future through architecture.
Collective Intelligens: Learning from Shared Wisdom in Architecture
The ‘Collective Intelligens’ section at the 2025 Venice Biennale shows how the knowledge communities have passed down across generations can inspire resilient, people-driven architecture and become a pivotal tool to trigger change.
Artificial Intelligens: AI, robots, 3D-printing and data science at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale
The Artificial Intelligence section of Carlo Ratti’s Biennale shows how technology is shaping the world around us—from the spaces we live in to the systems that keep society running.
Natural Intelligens: architecture harnesses the power of Nature at the Venice Biennale
How can architecture tackle climate change? The Natural Intelligens section at Carlo Ratti’s Venice Biennale explores nature-driven solutions, from pachidems’ dung bricks to architecturally grown branches, city-dwelling bugs’ homes, and structures grown by microbes.
Canal Cafe purifies Venetian water to make espresso at La Biennale
Part espresso bar, part laboratory, the Canal Café project by Diller Scofidio + Renfro won the Golden Lion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale.
Sixteen exhibitions blending art and architecture beyond the Venice Biennale
Are you going to Venice for the Biennale? Make sure to explore outside the Arsenale and Giardini. We rounded up sixteen exhibitions across the city’s canals.
Sixteen national pavilions at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale
We selected sixteen national pavilions at the Venice Biennale 2025 that explore how architects can react to climate change with natural, artificial, and collective intelligence.
Intelligens: Carlo Ratti’s Venice Architecture Biennale, a preview
Titled Intelligens, Carlo Ratti’s Biennale focuses on architecture that tackles climate change and today’s global issues with a collaborative and multidisciplinary approach. Kengo Kuma presents a high-tech installation upcycling fallen trees, Ukrainian architects harness AI to rebuild their country, and astronauts invite us to focus on our planet first.
Carlo Ratti curates the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale
The 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale highlights a new collaborative and multidisciplinary approach to tackling climate change.
Homo Faber 2024 reveals how craftsmanship is woven into the fabric of our lives
Homo Faber 2024 celebrates craftsmanship and life with a metaphorical journey at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini on San Giorgio Maggiore island in Venice.
Venice Glass Week 2023: ten serendipitous glassworks and exhibitions
A floating furnace under the Rialto bridge, detergent dispensers made from Murano glass, and a tribute to Bohemian masters… Check what we liked the most at Venice Glass Week 2023.
The Turkish Pavilion in Venice focuses on abandoned buildings’ ‘Ghost Stories’ as an asset for the future
Titled ‘Ghost Stories,’ the Turkish Pavilion exhibition at Venice Architecture Biennale suggests how some of the many abandoned buildings in the country can be repaired and safely reused for good.
Spaziale, the Italian Pavilion in Venice, highlights the vision of architects under-40
Spaziale presents transdisciplinary and collaborative projects of a new generation of ‘Sustainable Native’ Italian architects dealing with a world in a permanent crisis state.
Holcim and The Norman Foster Foundation unveil a concrete emergency housing prototype in Venice
The ‘Essential Homes’ emergency housing prototype features a rollable low-carbon concrete sheet wrapping a safe and decent home for displaced people across the globe.
The Estonian Pavilion in Venice highlights the home-vs-real estate issue
Housing is no longer just about living. The Estonia Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023 reflects on the contradictions between homes and real estate, dreams and realities, tenants and owners, residents, and visitors.
Datament: The Polish Pavilion at Venice Biennale allows visitors to experience data in its ‘physical’ form
We give carte blanche to algorythms too easily. We allow them to tell us ‘truths’ to make decisions in building homes and cities. What if they make mistakes? With the DATAMENT exhibition, the Polish Pavilion questions the architecture of data.
Laboratories of the Future: the African perspective takes centre stage at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023
Ten brave projects exploring the decolonisation and decarbonization of Africa and the African diaspora countries at the ‘Laboratories of the future’ main exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023.
Girjegumpi: The Nordic Pavilion brings to Venice Sámi architecture and culture
Joar Nango’s nomadic library with architecture books, crafts, and designs by colonized Sámi indigenous people fill the Girjegumpi exhibition at the Nordic Pavilion in Venice.
Cloud-to-ground: at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023, the Israeli Pavilion is sealed off
The Cloud-to-ground exhibition at the Israeli Pavilion at Venice Biennale ‘un-displays’ the secretive and ominous architecture of data storage buildings across the country.
The V&A and Venice Biennale explore the West African evolution of Tropical Modernism
The colonial and post-colonial history of Tropical Modernism is on show at the Applied Arts Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia.
Earth and indigenous architecture narratives fill the Brazil Pavilion at Venice Biennale 2023
The modernist concrete architecture of the Brazil Pavilion nests an inclusive narrative of the country’s heritage, culture, and future opportunities.