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29 Jan 2018
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German Pavilion at the Architecture Biennale in Venice 2018
In cooperation with Marianne Birthler, Graft Architects are curating the German Pavilion in 2018 under the title UNBUILDING WALLS, on behalf of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety.
UNBUILDING WALLS
The exhibition ?UNBUILDING WALLS? responds to current debates on nations, protectionism and division. As the world grows together, walls are increasingly being discussed and built that divide people from one another. Walls can denote division, power and exclusion, but also protection. In 2018, Germany will be reunified for 28 years ? exactly as long as the Berlin Wall (1961-1989) existed. In the German Pavilion, GRAFT and Marianne Birthler take this parallel as an opportunity to explore the effects of division and the process of healing as a dynamic spatial phenomenon. With reference to the central theme of the Architecture Biennale ?Freespace? devised by Grafton Architects, special focus will be given to outstanding examples of urban and architectural design that address aspects of division and integration.
The inner German wall, whose existence and deconstruction became a symbol for the failure of dialogue and its overcoming, serves as a starting ...
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