2023-05-08 15:15:57
Italian architect and curator Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, 43, is the president of the 18th International Architecture Exhibition 2023 at the Venice Biennale. The composition was approved by the Board of Directors of the Venice Biennale, chaired by Roberto Cicutto, on the proposal of Lesley Lokko, Curator of the exhibition entitled “The Laboratory of the Future”, which will take place in Venice (Giardini and Arsenale) from 20 May to 26 November 2023.
The other members of the jury are the Palestinian architect and curator Nora Akawi, the director of the Studio Museum in Harlem, the American Thelma Golden, the director of Cityscape Magazine, the South African Tau Tavengwa and the Polish architect and teacher Izabela Wieczorek.
The Jury will assign the following official prizes: Leone d’Oro for the best National Participation; Leone d’Oro for the best participant in the International Exhibition “The Laboratory of the Future”; Leone d’Argento for a promising young participant in the International Exhibition “The Laboratory of the Future”. The Jury will also have the possibility to assign: a maximum of one special mention to the National Participations; a maximum of two special mentions to participants in the International Exhibition “The Laboratory of the Future”. The awards ceremony will take place in Venice on Saturday 20 May 2023 at Ca’ Giustinian, headquarters of the Biennale.
Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, born in 1980 in Messina, enrolled in the Order of Architects of Milan, the city where he has lived and worked for some time, founded the interdisciplinary agency 2050+, whose work ranges between technology, politics, design and environmental practices. He curated the Russian Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale and co-curated the 12th edition of Manifesta in Palermo in 2018. Between 2007 and 2019 he worked as an architect and partner at Oma (Office for Metropolitan Architecture). At the Royal College of Arts in London he teaches Data Matter, a research and design studio that explores the complex relationship between data and the material world. Recent projects include Synthetic Cultures at the 10th Rotterdam Architecture Biennale; the short film duo Riders Not Heroes; the exhibitions Aquaria al Maat in Lisbon and Penumbra in Venice; the space design for the Fredriksen collection at the National Museum of Norway in Oslo and the transformation of the modernist icon of La Rinascente in Rome.
Nora Akawi is a Palestinian architect and curator who lives in New York. She is an assistant professor of architecture at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (New York) and is the co-founder of the interdisciplinary research and design studio interim. You co-curated the Bahain Pavilion at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale (2018) entitled Friday Sermon. Her studies focus on the erasure and borders of colonialism and on the encounter between architecture and border studies, cartography and archival theory. She has taught at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), where she was director of Studio-X Amman and where she initiated the Janet Abu-Lughod Library and Seminar. She serves on the editorial boards of Faktur: Documents and Architecture and the University of Puerto Rico’s peer-reviewed architecture journal InForma.
Thelma Golden (United States) is Director and Chief Curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem, the world’s leading institution dedicated to artists of African origin, where she launched her distinctive curatorial practice in 1987, before joining the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1988. She returned to the Studio Museum in 2000 as Deputy Director for Exhibitions and Programs and was named Director and Chief Curator in 2005. She serves on the Board of Trustees of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Barack Obama Foundation, Crystal Bridges Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She has degrees in art history and African-American studies from Smith College. In 2010, President Barack Obama appointed her to the White House Conservation Committee.
Tau Tavengwa (South Africa) is co-founder, curator and director of Cityscapes Magazine, an annual hybrid magazine presenting fresh perspectives on cities and urbanization in Africa, Latin America and South Asia. He is a 2018 Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD). In addition to being Research Fellow in Advanced Visualization at the Max Planck Institute (2019-2023) and Aspen Global Leadership Fellow, he was a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics LSE Cities (2020-22). He is Curator-at-Large at the African Center for Cities of the University of Cape Town and was curator of the 2022 Lisbon Architecture Triennial.
Izabela Wieczorek (Poland) practices as an architect in Spain and is an associate professor at the University of Reading in London, where she heads the Master of Architecture Program and Acting Research Lead for Architecture. She was co-director of the award-winning firm Gálvez + Wieczorek Arquitectura in Madrid (2003-2016). His work has been featured in several publications, including “Cartographies of the Imagination” London (2021), “Works+Words Biennale of Artistic Research in Architecture”, Kadk, Copenhagen (2019) and in the Spain Pavilion at the 16th International Exhibition of Architecture at the Venice Biennale (2018). She curated the public lecture series In-Between at Arkitektskolen Aarhus, Denmark (2013-2016).
(by Paolo Martini)
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