2021

OTHERNITY - Reconditioning Our Modern Heritage

Exhitibion of the Hungarian Pavilion

17. International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia 

Giardini

23 May - 29 November 2021 

• National Commissioner: Julia Fabényi
• Curator: Dániel Kovács
• Curatorial team: Attila Csóka, Szabolcs Molnár, Dávid Smiló
• Organiser: Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest

What lessons could be learnt from the heritage of architectural modernism: this often disputed era confronted by changing expectations of sustainability, social norms, and concerning Central and Eastern Europe, a different political system? Othernity, the Hungarian exhibition of the 2020 Venice Architecture Biennale provides a clear and distinctive answer to this question.

The exhibition showcases alternative, sometimes radical ways of thinking about and acting on the protection of our modernist heritage, by inviting 12 young architects or offices to overhaul Budapest’s 12 late modern buildings. These 12 participants, A-A Collective  (Poland / Denmark / Switzerland), Architecture Uncomfortable Workshop  (Hungary), BUDCUD  (Poland), b210 (Estonia), KONNTRA (Slovenia / Macedonia / Croatia), MADA (Serbia), MNPL WORKSHOP (Ukraine), Paradigma Ariadné (Hungary), PLURAL (Slovakia), Vojtěch Rada (Czechia), RLOALUARNAD (Estonia / United Kingdom), and Studio Act (Romania) form a diverse group which will result in a varied body of works, offering both remarkable architectural answers and associative, interdisciplinary artistic thoughts.

The exhibition installation, designed by Paradigma Ariadné and a catalogue with essays of established authors both create a context for further exploration.

Web: www.othernity.eu