The official opening of the Venice Architecture Biennale is this Saturday, May 10! We are already there for the days set aside for the press, with plenty of attractions planned. One of them is the "No Doubt About It" exhibition opened today, featuring Robert Konieczny and KWK Promes studio, curated by American architecture critic Vladimir Belogolovsky.
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Vladimir Belogolovsky is a graduate of The Cooper Union School of Architecture. His New York-based Curatorial Project curates and designs international architectural exhibitions, including this year's Biennale companion exhibition, "No Doubt About It," on view at Palazzo Contarini Polignac.
Palazzo Contarini Polignac in Venice
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You can read the interview with Vladimir Belogolovsky edited by the KWK Promes studio in the February issue of A&B.
The exhibition features three theaters, two museums and one residential building at different stages. In the space of the Renaissance palace located on the Canal Grande, we will see projects fromArmenia (Ashot & Armine Snkhchyan of snkh studio.), China(Zhang Ying & Bu Xiaojun of Atelier Alter Architects), Georgia(Nikoloz Lekveishvili of TIMM Architecture), Germany(Sergei Tchoban of Tchoban Voss Architekten), Latvia(Zaigas Gaile of Zaigas Gailes Birojs) and Poland(Robert Konieczny of KWK Promes studio): mock-ups, sketches, excerpts from video interviews with architects participating in the design process and their manifestos.
The international exhibition "No Doubt About It," curated by American architecture critic Vladimir Belogolovsky
photo: Bartłomiej Kisielewski
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What project did the Polish team present? The Breakthroughs Dialogue Center in Szczecin, a museum that is currently undergoing a process of transformation highlighted in the very title of the presentation: "Breakthroughs Dialogue Center - Site Improvements".
There are no things, even finished things, that you can't, if you get involved, improve. That's what this exhibition is about. We are talking about the involvement of architects, showing our view of the role of the architect in the modern world, who, with the right attitude, can change it for the better. We are convinced that he must go beyond his comfortable framework of contracts, deadlines and sometimes, where he can, do more, better. The history of the CDP Museum is a history of breaking barriers. After all, we have broken them on this project before, going beyond the area of the competition study. [...] Bringing about the greening of this place is another part of the story resulting from this approach.
- Robert Konieczny said in an interview with Małgorzata Tomczak.
KWK Promes project at the exhibition curated by Vladimir Belogolovsky
Photo: Bartłomiej Kisielewski
You can read the entire conversation in the May issue of A&B.
book "buildings + ideas"
© KWK Promes
Part of the exhibition is the studio's monograph "buildings + ideas" created in collaboration with Philip Jodidio.
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