[Photo on top: Padiglione Centrale, Giardini. Photo by Andrea Avezzù. Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia]
The Biennale Architettura 2023 will be held from Saturday 20 May to Sunday 26 November. Curated Lesley Lokko, the event includes 63 exhibitions in many venues in Venice: from the historic Arsenale and Giardini, to the island of San Giorgio, and many Venetian palaces which host the collateral exhibitions and events.
Each venue in turn, Arsenale and Giardini, is divided into two parts: the main exhibition The Laboratory of the Future curated by Lesley Lokko, and the National Participations.
In this page you will find useful information about venues, visiting hours, tickets, and facilities for visitors.
EXHIBITING VENUES AND PAVILIONS
ARSENALE DI VENEZIA
ALBANIA Untimely Meditations or: How We learn to live in synthesized realities
ARGENTINA El futuro del agua
BAHRAIN Sweating Assets
CHILE
CHINA P.R. Renewal: a symbiotic narrative
CROATIA Same as it ever was
CZECH REPUBLIC The Office for a Non-Precarious Future
GRAND DUCHY OF LUXEMBOURG Down to Earth
IRELAND In Search of Hy-Brasil
ITALY SPAZIALE: Ognuno appartiene a tutti gli altri
KOSOVO (REPUBLIC OF) rks² transcendent locality
LATVIA T/C LATVIJA (TCL)
MEXICO Infraestructura utópica: La cancha de básquetbol campesina
PERÙ Walkers in Amazonia The Calendar Project
PHILIPPINES Tripa de Gallina: Guts of Estuary
SAUDI ARABIA Irth ارث
SINGAPORE WHEN IS ENOUGH, ENOUGH? The Performance of Measurement
SLOVENIA +/- 1 °C: In Search of Well-Tempered Architecture
SOUTH AFRICA The Structure of a People
TURKEY Ghost Stories: Carrier Bag Theory of Architecture
UKRAINE Before the Future
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Aridly Abundant
UZBEKISTAN Unbuild Togheter
ARTICLE CONTINUES AFTER ADVERTISEMENT
GIARDINI
AUSTRALIA unsettling Queenstown
AUSTRIA Partecipazione / Beteiligung
BELGIUM In Vivo
BRAZIL Terra [Earth]
CANADA Not for Sale!
CZECH REPUBLIC The Office for a Non-Precarious Future
DENMARK Coastal Imaginaries
EGYPT NiLab – Il Nilo come laboratorio
FINLAND Huussi – Imagining the future history of sanitation
FRANCE Ball Theater
GERMANY Open for Maintenance – Wegen Umbau geöffnet
GREAT BRITAIN Dancing Before the Moon
GREECE Bodies of water
HUNGARY Reziduum – The Frequency of Architecture
ISRAEL Cloud-to-Ground
JAPAN Architecture, a place to be loved — when architecture is seen as a living creature
KOREA (REPUBLIC OF) 2086: Together How?
THE NETHERLANDS Plumbing the System
NORDIC COUNTRIES (SWEDEN, NORWAY, FINLAND) Girjegumpi: The Sámi Architecture Library
POLAND Datament
ROMANIA NOW, HERE, THERE
SERBIA IN REFLECTIONS
SPAIN FOODSCAPES
SWISS „Neighbours“
URUGUAY En Ópera Escenarios futuros de una joven Ley Forestal
USA Everlasting Plastics
VENEZUELA Universidad Central de Venezuela, Patrimonio de la Humanidad
SPECIAL PARTICIPATIONS
The Arsenale hosts three special participations:
Amos Gitai (Paris, France; Haifa, Israel and the world)
n. Haifa, Israele, 1950
James Morris (Bwlchllan, Galles, UK)
n. Griffithstown, Galles, UK, 1963
Lionheartfelt (London, UK)
Rhael ‘LionHeart’ Cape, Hon FRIBA (n. London, UK, 1987)
NATIONAL PARTICIPATIONS IN OTHER VENUES
Countries exhibit in the Pavilions at the Giardini, at the Arsenale and in the historic center of Venice. Niger participates for the first time, Panama presents itself for the first time on its own, the participation of the Holy See returns to the island of San Giorgio.
BULGARIA Education is the movement from darkness to light
Venue: Sala del Tiziano, Centro Culturale don Orione Artigianelli, Dorsoduro 919
CYPRUS From KHIROKITIA to MARS
Venue: Associazione Culturale Spiazzi, Castello 3865
ESTONIA Home Stage
Venue: Castello 96 (Salizada Streta, 96)
GEORGIA Gennaio, Febbraio, Marzo
Venue: Il Giardino Bianco Art Space,Via Giuseppe Garibaldi, 1814
GRENADA Walking on Water
Venue: Associazione Vela al Terzo Venezia, Fondamenta C.Giazzo
HOLY SEE Amicizia Sociale: incontrarsi nel giardino
Venue: Abbazia di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venezia
KUWAIT Rethinking Rethinking Kuwait
Venue: Magazzino del Sale 5, Dorsoduro 262
LITHUANIA Children’s Forest Pavilion
Venue: Castello 2125, Campo della Tana
NORTH MACEDONIA (REPUBLIC OF) Stories of the Summer School of Architecture in the St. Joakim Osogovski Monastery 1992-2017
Venue: Scuola dei Laneri, Salizada San Pantalon, 131/A
MONTENEGRO Mirages of the Future (MNE)
Venue: Palazzo Malipiero, San Marco 3078-3079/A, Ramo Malipiero
NIGER ARCHIFUSION
Venue: Isola di San Servolo
PANAMA Stories from beneath the water
Venue: Tana Art Space, Castello 2109/A e 2110-2111
PORTUGAL FERTILE FUTURES
Venue: Palazzo Franchetti, San Marco 2842
ROMANIA NOW, HERE, THERE
Venues: Nuova Galleria dell’Istituto Romeno di Cultura e Ricerca Umanistica (Palazzo Correr, Campo Santa Fosca, Cannaregio 2214)
SAN MARINO OSPITE OSPITANTE
Venue: Calle San Lorenzo 5063b
ARTICLE CONTINUES AFTER ADVERTISEMENT
COLLATERAL EVENTS
A Fragile Correspondence – Scotland + Venice
Docks Cantieri Cucchini, San Pietro di Castello 40
May 20 – November 26, 2023
Organizing institution: Scotland + Venice
Catalonia in Venice_ Following the Fish
Docks Cantieri Cucchini, San Pietro di Castello 40A
May 20 – November 26, 2023
Organizing institution: Institut Ramon Llull
Climate Wunderkammer
IUAV Palazzo Badoer piano terra – Calle de la Laca, San Polo 2468
May 20 – November 26, 2023
Organizing institution: RWTH Aachen University
Diachronic Apparatuses of Taiwan
Architecture as on-going details within landscape
Palazzo delle Prigioni, Castello 4209
May 20 – November 26, 2023
Organizing institution: National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts
EUmies Awards. Young Talent 2023. The Laboratory of Education
Palazzo Mora, Cannaregio 3659
May 20 – November 26, 2023
Organizing institution: Fundació Mies van der Rohe
Radical yet possible future space solutions
May 25, 2023, at IUAV Ca’ Tron, Santa Croce 1957
May 26, 2023 at IUAV auditorium Tolentini, Santa Croce 191
Organizing institution: New European Bauhaus, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission
Students as Researchers: Creative Practice and University Education
Centro Studi e Documentazione della Cultura Armena, Dorsoduro 1602
May 20 – November 26, 2023
Organizing institution: New York Institute of Technology
Transformative Hong Kong
Campo della Tana, Castello 2126
May 20 – November 26, 2023
Organizing institution: Hong Kong Arts Development Council + The Hong Kong Institute of Architects Biennale Foundation
Tracé Bleu – Que faire en ce lieu, à moins que l’on y songe?
Campiello Santa Maria Nova 6024
May 20 – November 26, 2023
Organizing institution: CA’ ASI
OPENING HOURS
GIARDINI – ARSENALE – FORTE MARGHERA
From may 20 to september 30: 11am–7pm (last admission at 6.45pm)
ONLY Arsenale: from may 20 to september 30 special opening until 8pm on Friday and Saturday
From October 1 to November 26: 10am–6pm (last admission at 5.45pm)
Closed on Monday except on May 22, August 14, September 4, October 16, October 30 and November 20, 2023.
Giardini venue, 2 entrances: Viale Trento 1260
Sant’Elena (Viale IV novembre)
Arsenale venue, 2 entrances: Campo della Tana 2169/F
Ponte dei Pensieri (Salizada Streta)
TICKETS AND GUIDED TOURS
Tickets and guided tours purchasable online only here https://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/2023/information#tickets.
Below some examples
ONE-ACCESS TICKETS
Full price € 25
Concession € 20 (Over 65, Venice residents (a valid ID is required at the entrance)
Students and/or Under 26 € 16 (a valid ID or student card is required at the entrance)
MULTIPLE-ACCESS TICKETS
This type of ticket grants multiple accesses to Giardini and to Arsenale. Different types are available.
They are strictly personal and their holders will need to show also a valid Identification document at the entrance.
3-day ticket € 35 (valid for 3 consecutive days, closing days are excluded from the day count).
Weekly ticket € 45 (valid for 7 consecutive days, closing days are excluded from the day count).
ACCREDITATION/SUBSCRIPTION
Full price € 85
Concession € 50 (for people residing in the municipality of Venice; it can be purchased at exhibition venues; a valid identification document proving residency in the municipality of Venice is requred also for the purchase)
Students and/or under 26 € 45
Accreditation tickets entitle owners to access each exhibition venue multiple times, depending on the kind of accreditation chosen. They entitle owners to access exhibition venues repeatedly for the entire duration of their validity. Owners may access each venue repeatedly also on one and the same day.
FREE ADMISSION
Children up to 6 years old (included); adults accompanying disabled visitors holding a disability ID; nursery schools, elementary schools and junior high schools, participating in Educational activities.
ACCESSIBILITY
Persons with a disability may use an admission ticket at a reduced price.
The venues of the 18th International Architecture Exhibition are barrier-free for disabled visitors.
EDUCATIONAL
Guided tours, theoretical and practical thematic-educational itineraries, laboratories and creative workshops.
Available in Italian and in several foreign languages. Average duration 1hour 40’, 2 hours.
Reservation and payment in advance are required.
This is a paid service; admission not included.
GUIDED TOURS
Reservation required
Adults 1 venue € 90 – 2 venues € 150
Universities 1 venue € 70 – 2 venues € 120
High schools 1 venue € 60 – 2 venues € 100
Elementary and Junior High schools 1 venue € 60
Nursery schools 1 venue € 50
GUIDED TOURS AT STATED TIMES
Reservation required
€ 8 per venue, per person. Available in Italian or in English – the program will be announced in the coming months
FAMILY FRIENDLY GUIDED TOURS AT STATED TIMES
Reservation required
€ 8 per venue, per person
available in Italian – children under 12 years old that participate in a family friendly guided tour get free admission to the exhibition – the program will be announced in the coming months.
HOW TO REACH GIARDINI AND ARSENALE
Public waterborn transportation in Venice is provided by ACTV.
Private company Alilaguna provides a public servis as well, connecting the airport to Venice and the main water-bus stops.
ACTV lines timetable is available on the easy and practical App CheBateo? utilizzare la AppCheBateo? or on the ACTV official website.
Alilaguna lines timetable is available on Alilaguna.it.
ARSENALE
ACTV: Line 1 – Lines 4.1 and 4.2
ALILAGUNA – Linea B (Blue line)
ARSENALE NORD
ACTV: Lines 5.1 and 5.2 – Lines 4.1 and 4.2
ALILAGUNA – Linea B (Blue line)
GIARDINI
ACTV: Line 1 – Lines 4.1 and 4.2 – Lines 5.1 and 5.2 – Line 6 – Line 8 (seasonal)
Please feel free to visit the official page with whole information about services in the exhibition venues, where to eat, and suggestions to prepare your visit: www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/2023/prepare-your-visit
