TBA21–Academy’s public program during the Venice Biennale of Architecture vernissage week

May 7 – May 11, 2025

Ocean Space Venice

Nadia Huggins, “A shipwreck is not a wreck”, 2025. Exhibition view of “otras montañas, las que andan sueltas bajo el agua” [other mountains, adrift beneath the waves], Ocean Space, Venice. Commissioned by TBA21–Academy. Photo: Enrico Fiorese.

Programming

Ocean Space Venice

Upcoming

How can art, sound, architecture, and community come together to imagine new futures for our oceans and planet? During the opening week of the Venice Architecture Biennale, Ocean Space invites you to explore this question through a multidisciplinary public program featuring over 20 international artists and creators, including Tessa Mars, Nadia Huggins, Hannah Catherine Jones, Kelman Duran, Vivian Caccuri, and Thiago Lanis. Developed in collaboration with more than 15 leading institutions—among them The Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL), Storefront for Art and Architecture, Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, New European Bauhaus, AEON Collective, Fondazione Ratti, CultTech Association, and major architecture awards such as the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, Holcim Foundation, and EUmies Awards—the program offers a vibrant space for dialogue and imagination. Anchored by the exhibition otras montañas, las que andan sueltas bajo el agua, it unfolds through performances, talks, listening sessions, and gatherings—free and open to the public—inviting audiences to reimagine the Ocean as a site of creativity, resistance, and collective transformation.

 

LOCATION

Ocean Space
Chiesa di San Lorenzo
Castello  5069
30122 Venezia

 

PROGRAM

Wednesday, May 7, 2025
2 pm: TERRITORIES OF CO-COGNITION. Automation, ethics, built environment. 
A symposium organized by The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, in collaboration with TBA21–Academy. Curated by Roberto Bottazzi, Ilaria Di Carlo and Annarita Papeschi. The event is supported by Arup and the ARF of the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. 
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Thursday, May 8, 2025

10.30 am: Mediated Soundscapes: On Swamps & Underwater Mountains 
A morning of conversations, readings, and listening sessions in collaboration with Storefront for Art and Architecture, and an artist talk with Yina Jiménez Suriel, Nadia Huggins, and Tessa Mars.

 

2.30 pm: After Rain Visual Reader -  Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale 2024
Book launch and conversation with Ute Meta Bauer, highlighting the multiple collaborations between artists from many parts of the world that led up to making the 2024 Diriyah biennale.

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Friday, May 9, 2025

9 am: Beyond the Prize. How Architecture Awards Can Catalyse Meaningful Change

Hosted by Aga Khan Award for Architecture, Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction, the EUmies Awards, the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize, the OBEL Award, and the Ammodo Architecture Award in collaboration with TBA21–Academy's Ocean Space. Booking required.

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Saturday, May 10, 2025

10 am: Archipelago for Possible Futures Summit. A New European Vision for Culture, Ecology, and Technology
In collaboration with the New European Bauhaus, CultTech Association, and TBA21–Academy. Booking required. 

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8 pm: for the times of sonic caves. An exploration of improvisation~freestyle Performances by Vivian Caccuri & Thiago Lanis (in collaboration with Fondazione Ratti), Hannah Catherine Jones, and Kelman Duran.

Sunday, May 11, 2025

11 am: Tales From Earth. Nature Co-Author of Human Art and Cultural Heritage

A day of talks, panel discussions, and an evening concert organized by AEON Collective in collaboration with TBA21–Academy. 

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All events are accessible until the maximum capacity of the space is reached.

 

 

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