Commissioner: The Arts and Culture Division of the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport of Austria
Curators/Exhibitors: AKT (Fabian Antosch, Gerhard Flora, Max Hebel, Adrian Judt, Julia Klaus, Lena Kohlmayr, Philipp Krummel, Gudrun Landl, Lukas Lederer, Susanne Mariacher, Christian Mörtl, Philipp Oberthaler, Charlie Rauchs, Helene Schauer, Kathrin Schelling, Philipp Stern and Harald Trapp) & Hermann Czech
Austria
Partecipazione / Beteiligung
Album
Description
‘Partecipazione’ was one of the core demands of the 1970s for an ‘open, democratic’ Biennale, as was working on site in the context of the city. Partecipazione / Beteiligung transfers these two approaches to the contemporary reality of Venice’s old city. Vienna-based architecture collective AKT and architect Hermann Czech are shifting the separation between the Biennale and the city into the Austrian pavilion. Part of the building will be connected to the adjacent district and freely accessible to the people of Venice. Should the opening to the city fail due to the resistance of the Biennale and/or the involved institutions, this failure will become the content of the exhibition.
