The 2023 edition of the Venice Architecture Biennale will be entitled “The Laboratory of the Future,” Biennale president Roberto Cicutto and curator Lesley Lokko announced yesterday at a press conference. The exhibitions at the Giardini, Arsenale, and other Venice venues will open on May 20, 2023, and run through November 26.
The Venice Biennale exhibitions will for the first time center on Africa, with an emphasis on the twin imperatives of decolonization and decarbonization. “In Europe we speak of minorities and diversity, but the truth is that the West’s minorities are the global majority,” Lokko said. “There is one place on this planet where all these questions of equity, race, hope, and fear converge and coalesce: Africa.”
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