The authors of the teams of Serbia and Montenegro at the Venice Architecture Biennale are from Belgrade. The first responded to the given theme "Intelligence. Natural. Artificial. Collective" by combining knitting with architecture, and the second - among
The Venice Architecture Biennale opens on Saturday, May 10 and will run until November 23. Among the more than 750 participants, there will be an author from Belgrade, representing the teams of two countries - Serbia and Montenegro.
The artistic director - curator of the Biennale, Carlo Ratti, an architect and engineer, set the theme: Intelligence. Natural. Artificial. Collective.
"If each country brings one success, together we can put together a global tool for adapting to the future," Rathi pointed out, encouraging the participating countries to show how local ingenuity can respond to the existential challenges of our time.
Serbia
Our country is represented by the exhibition project "Unraveling: New Spaces", which will be formally presented in the Serbian Pavilion on Thursday, May 8. Members of the author's team are architects Davor Ereš, Jelena Mitrović and Igor Pantić, as well as Sonja Krstić and Ivana Najdanović (textile structure design), and Petar Laušević - kinetics and energy supply engineer. The commissioner of the exhibition is Dr. Stevan Martinović, and the curator is Dr. Arch. Slobodan Jovic.
"The exhibition examines the relationship between composing and decomposing, emphasizing architecture's capacity for constant re-examination and reinvention. The work, in a poetic and layered way, points to an understanding of our two heritages: the one related to the tradition of knitting, weaving and embroidery in Serbia; and the other, artificial, symbolically represented in the "Belgrade fist", the first bionic fist in the world made in 1963 at the Mihajlo Pupin Institute", it is written in the explanation of our presentations.
Also that "the installation consists of an architectural form, mechanically structured from knitting according to the adopted pattern, which during the exhibition is gradually torn apart and wound onto spools. 125 motorized spools are positioned on the walls of the Pavilion, on which the materiality of the form, by gradual winding, returns to its primary form - woolen yarn, by the end of the Biennale. The spools work using energy from solar panels, which indicates the projective construction process as a simultaneous process of composing and decomposition of the structure.
The hand, which forms the center of the project, is presented as an extension of the creative mind and an intermediary between the physical world and the world of ideas.
Serbia's performance at the Biennale is organized by the Museum of Applied Arts, with the support of the Association of Architects of Serbia.
Montenegro
The author's team of Montenegro consists of Ivan Šuković, Dejan Todorović and Emir Šehanović, all three of whom live and work in Belgrade.
Their exhibition "Terram intelligere: INTERSTITIUM" will offer an answer to how different types of intelligence - from those we find in nature, through technology and artificial intelligence, to the one we develop together as a society - influence how we build and imagine the spaces we live in.
The motif of the exhibition is the border, demarcation in the country, as both a spatial and cultural Montenegrin phenomenon, which in this work is translated into a constellation of inhabited, floating, polycarbonate forms.
The curator of the exhibition, Dr. Miljana Zeković, announces that "during the six-month duration of the Biennale of Architecture in the Pavilion of Montenegro, there will be a laboratory where visitors will have the opportunity to immerse themselves in the world of microprocess development of bacteria isolated from soil samples collected throughout Montenegro on Durmitor, Lake Skadar, Lake Bukumir, etc. These processes will be realized in a floating polycarbonate laboratory installed in the pavilion. BIO pigments and interesting spatial constellations created with the development of these crops, they are a direct replacement for the dangerous components based on petrochemical processes and heavy metals, which we use today, and represent sustainable solutions in the fields of ecology, architecture and construction of the future. The partner in this research is the Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering of the University of Belgrade, a pioneer in the development of these topics in the region."
Ivan Šuković, the leader of the author's team, explained that with this project "architecture is not seen as fixed and unchanging, but as a processual and evolutionary form that can grow, transform, cooperate with nature. This combination of scientific methodology and artistic expression opens the possibility for a deeper reflection on the ecological, material and philosophical aspects of architecture. This project introduces us to a space where the conventional boundaries between science and art are erased - where science begins to dream, and art relies to the facts".
The exhibition is organized by the Ministry of Spatial Planning, Urbanism and State Property - Directorate of the Chief State Architect, with the support of the Government of Montenegro.
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