The Latvian Pavilion at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition / Day was opened

Protective landscape There is a story about the security of ours and Europe as a whole. The Latvian pavilion team has done an extremely important job to show internationally what it means to live in neighboring Russia. Latvia, like the other Baltic States, is clearly aware of the price of independence and security, but it is extremely important that we also pay international attention to these issues through cultural diplomacy, ”says Minister of Culture Agnese Lace.

The authors of the exhibition give visitors an insight into the life of the Latvian border, allowing the geographical specifics of the region to understand the geographical specifics of the region, as well as to perceive people’s mood in relation to current geopolitical developments. The aim of the exhibition is to explain Latvia’s position on defense issues to the international audience and to encourage discussion on the importance of architecture and territorial planning in them.

At the exhibition, the message was handed over by various means of visual expression. The exposition in the center is a group of objects in bright yellow. On this real scale, both military objects – dragon teeth, anti -tank hedgehogs, and everyday elements – are often found in the rural environment in the rural environment, as well as video surveillance devices characterizing the border area. This controversial sculptural group includes and is defined by the Latvian border landscape photo. The exhibition of the pavilion also includes a map that shows the security measures as well as their impact on landscape and human lives. The creators of the exhibition are hoping to encourage visitor empathy with a short film in which border residents share their experiences, feelings and impressions of their daily lives at the very exterior border of Europe since it has been fortified by constructing a fence and other defense infrastructure.

Even before the exposition opened, its application has raised considerable international press and published in media such as Financial Times, Wallpaper*, Interni, Archdaily, DesignBoom, The Architect’s Newspaper, The Art NewSpaper etc.

Exposure is complemented by a printed edition Landscape of Defense, In which internationally recognized Latvian photographer Reinis Hofmanis interpreted the border landscape, while the curator of the pavilion Liene Jacobsone talks about the importance of borders in today’s Latvia and Europe. The edition is published in the publishing house RUBY PRESSBerlin, and it will be available in the Latvian pavilion.

Latvian pavilion Protective landscape The authors’ team is curator Liene Jacobsone and Ilka Ruby (Ilka Ruby), SIA Sampling Architects Manten Devrints (Manten Devriendt)Solvita Kārkliņa, Zane Saulīte-star and SIA Nomad architects Architects Mary Katrina Dambe and Florian Betats (Florian Betat).

Curator Liene Jacobsone – PhD, Architect, Designer, Architecture and Design Studies in Riga Sampling Co -founder, Director and Senior Researcher of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Design and Architecture of the Latvian Academy of Arts. Lectures at several European universities and work on local and international research projects. In their creative practice, building, interior and adaptive customization projects are developed and exhibited, environmental objects and product design.

Curator Ilka Ruby (Ilka Ruby) – Berlin curator, architectural publicist and publishing house RUBY PRESS co -founder. As curator has implemented a series of exhibitions by looking at Druot, Lacaton & Vassal – Tour Bois Le Prêtre Dam, the German Museum of Architecture; Treasures in Disguise, Montenegro Pavilion 14. International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale Architettura; Never demolish, Copenhagen Architecture Festival; Together! The New Architecture of the Collective, Vitra Design Museum. In 2020 she was co -existing Timishoar Architecture Biennale Beta 2020 Enough Is Enough Romania.

The Latvian Pavilion Commissioner is architect Janis Dripe, who represents the interests of the Ministry of Culture.

Venice Biennale 19th International Architecture Exhibition Theme – Intelligence. Natural, artificial. In the collective Includes the future by listening to the world’s intelligence voice, thinking about the built and living environment more broadly experimenting by combining different types of intelligence, adapting to the change in the era

Latvia with the National Pavilion in 2025 will be represented for the eleventh time at the Venice Architecture Biennale; Latvia has been participating in this International Forum since 2002.

The Venice Architecture Biennale is one of the most important architectural exhibitions in Europe and the world, every 2 years. The 19th International Architecture Exhibition will take place from the Venice Biennale from May 10, 2025 to November 23, 2025 (before the opening day of May 8, 2025). More information on the Venice Architecture Biennal of 2025 on the website – www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/2025.