Welcome to our ultimate guide for the what, who and where of the respected biannual festival of the built environment's landmark 20th edition
Receive our daily digest of inspiration, escapism and design stories from around the world direct to your inbox. Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsorsArchitecture Biennale 2027 is ramping up; what will the theme be?
Who will the newly appointed co-curators choose to participate in their main show? And who is poised to win the biennale's coveted awards? To help answer all these questions and more, we launch our biennial, ultimate guide for the world's biggest festival of the built environment, designed to keep you up to date with rolling coverage, breaking news and, of course, everything you need to know about exhibits, participants and logistics.
In preparation for the Venice Architecture Biennale 2027, we nostalgically cast our minds back to the US Pavilion's celebrations at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection museum during the 2008 festival, as reported in Wallpaper's December issue of the same year', the pressure is on for the next event, which marks the seminal 20th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice. Here is what we know. Architecture Biennale.
The pair have led their studio collaboratively since 1997, and also teach, and are a respected voice within the architecture community. They are also no strangers to the biennale, having taken part in the main show in 2006, 2010 and 2016.
Wang Shu ‘'Conceptual experiments driven to extremes are often divorced from reality, and over-commercialisation tends to merely popular and short-lived . breaking away from the connection with the real place. It will lead to the death of architecture. Architecture becomes a kind of delusional expression about the future,’ the architects said at their announcement as curators, hinting perhaps at themes they are keen to explore through their show.
Receive our daily digest of inspiration, escapism and design stories from around the world direct to your inbox. The Venice Architecture Biennale 2027 theme Much like every biennale iteration, the curated main show revolves around a key theme – from the very first Venice Architecture Biennale in 1979, centred on's 'The Presence of the Past', to last year's 'Intelligens' which explored the relations, common points and inspiration to be found in the natural and the artificial.
The main theme tends to provide conceptual grounding and a common starting point for both the participants to build their submissions around and the national pavilions to riff off on for their own exhibits. The 2027 theme is due to be revealed soon by the biennale team.
Between Giardini della Biennale, where many of the individual countries' national pavilions are, and various locations across Venice's canal city , the world comes to showcase its thoughts on architecture during the Venice Architecture Biennale 2027. Many of the national participations are still to be announced – it's early days for many countries, which are still conducting their internal competitions before they announce the curatorial teams and themes of their respective pavilions.
TheThe British Council held a competition to determine a UK-Malaysia team to curate next year's pavilion. The move signals the celebration of 70 years of diplomatic relations between the UK and Malaysia. Unveiled earlier this spring, the curatorial team will consist of Grymsdyke Farm's Dr Guan Lee and Mike Lim, director of IDK, alongside a team including Maria McLintock and Ben Swaby Selig.
The participation will also include Penang-based artisans Ng Chi Wang, Lee Shao Chin and Koh Eng Keat.the Venice Architecture Biennale 2027 will run, as always, for a little over six months, closing on 21 November of the same year. The public opening is typically preceded by two vernissage days – this year, those are expected to be the 6 and 7 May.
Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu's main themed show will take place in two locations - Venice's famed Arsenale and Giardini, the latter occupying the newly reopened Giardini is also the ground for many of the national participations, with countries from around the world presenting their shows and responses to the theme in their respective, dedicated pavilions. Tickets for the main sites are available at the entrance of both sites.
Do expect a wealth of further events to be spread across Venice. This includes both independent programmes and official programme collateral events, and national participations that may not be accommodated at the Giardini site. There is never enough space for everyone within the two official biennale sites, but what a great problem to have, navigating one's way to the next display or event in the wonderful backdrop of Venice. Ellie Stathaki is the Architecture & Environment Director at Wallpaper*.
She trained as an architect at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece and studied architectural history at the Bartlett in London. Now an established journalist, she has been a member of the Wallpaper* team since 2006, visiting buildings across the globe and interviewing leading architects such as Tadao Ando and Rem Koolhaas.
Ellie has also taken part in judging panels, moderated events, curated shows and contributed in books, such as The Contemporary House , Glenn Sestig Architecture Diary and House London .
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