Successfully challenging the audience to think in a different and more empathetic way, Lesley Lokko’s biennale is an authentic portrayal of a highly intricate subject. Inaugurated on May 20, the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, titled The Laboratory of the Future, has already sparked worldwide discussions. Full text here.

The National Pavilion of Serbia, curated by Iva Njunjić and Tihomir Dičić, has just announced its exhibition at the 2023 Venice Biennale, which explores architecture’s futures, presents, and pasts through the lens of an international Trade Fair in Lagos, Nigeria, in 1977. The trade fair was a product of non-aligned cooperation between Yugoslavia and Nigeria. In 1961, an international organization named the Non-Aligned Movement valued anti-colonialism, anti-imperialism, self-determination, and peaceful cohabitation. As one of the Movement’s forerunners, Yugoslavia encouraged member states to work actively together. This was made possible by several construction projects aimed at the modernization, industrialization, and urbanization of developing African nations, with many Yugoslav architects and engineers significantly contributing to the projects’ actual design. Read more at source / Author: Nour Fakharany