La Biennale of Venice, Russia Pavilion
Project
Restoration and assistance during fitting out
Location
Venice
Project year
2007-in progress
Client
Private
Surface
550 mq
The Russian pavilion in the Giardini di Castello, Venice, dates from 1914 and was designed by the Russian architect Alexej Shchusev. It is a listed building, in accordance with D. Lgs. 42/2004, with two floors connected by an external staircase, which is the main access. There is another access on the ground floor and one to the long terrace that faces onto the lagoon, a unique characteristic of this pavilion that differentiates it from the others. The exhibition areas on the ground and first floors are not normally communicating, having independent accesses. But if required by the exhibition, it is possible to open the removable ceiling in the central hall, allowing an interior staircase connecting the two levels to be installed or the entire height simply left open, giving much versatility to the design choices of the staging.
The studio has been carrying out the stagings in the pavilion during the Art and Architecture Biennali since 2007, providing technical assistance in the adaptation of the spaces to the different exhibition requirements and in the organisation of the authorisation procedures needed to carry out the work.
BIENNALE OF VENICE
Station “Russia”
Commissioner/Curator: Semyon Mikhailovsky
Exhibitors: Studio 44, Metrogiprotrans, Liteinaya Chast-91, Citizenstudio, Studio 911, Arden Vald, Anatoly Akue, Daniil Zinchenko
Theatrum Orbis.
Commissioner/Curator: Semyon Mikhailovsky.
Exhibitors: Grisha Bruskin, Recycle Group, Sasha Pirogova.
Venue: Giardini.
VDNH Urban Phenomenon.
Commissioner: Semyon Mikhailovsky. Curator: Sergey Kuznetsov.
The Green Pavilion.
Irina Nakhova
Commissioner: Stella Kesaeva. Curator: Margarita Tupitsyn.
Fair Enough: Russia’s Past Our Present.
Anton Kalgaev, Brendan McGetrick, Daria Paramonova.
Commissioner: Semyon Mikhailovsky.
Curator: Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design.
Danaë.
Vadim Zakharov.
Commissioner: Stella Kasaeva. Curators: Udo Kittelmann.
“i-city”.
AREP; SPEECH Tchoban/ Kuznetsov; David Chipperfield Architects; Valode& Pistre; Mohsen Mostafavi; OMA; SANAA; Herzog& de Meuron; Stefano Boeri architetti; Project MEGANOM; MDP/Michel Desvigne paysagiste; BERNASKONI architecture bureau.
Commissioner: Grigory Revzin. Curator: Sergei Tchoban Co-curators: Sergey Kuznetsov, Valeria Kashirina.
Empty Zones.
Andrei Monastyrski e the ‘Collective Actions’ Group (Nikita Alexeev, Elena Elagina, Georgy Kizevalter, Igor Makarevich, Andrei Monastyrski, Nikolai Panitkov, Sergei Romashko, Sabine Hänsgen) Commissioner: Stella Kesaeva. Curator: Boris Groys.
Factory Russia.
Evgeny Gerasimov, Vladimir Plotkin, Sergey Skuratov, SergeyTchoban e Sergey Kuznetsov(con Alena Akhmadullina), Nikita Yavein. Commissioner: Vasili Tsereteli. Curators: Sergei Tchoban, Pavel Horoshilov, Gregory Revzin.
Click I hope.
AES+F, Andrey Bartenev, Arseny Mescheryakov, Julia Milner, Alexander Ponomarev. Commissioner: Vasiliy Tsereteli. Curator: Olga Sviblova.