Venice:
La Biennale di Venezia - 14th International Architecture Exhibition: AirBnB
Pavilion. The AirBnB Pavilion pop-up satellite three-day exhibition of works by
young artist and architects was held in a rented Airbnb flat in central Venice.
It was curated by
architects Fabrizio Ballabio, Alessandro Bava, Luis Ortega Govela
and Octave Perrault, and uses Airbnb as a paradigm to explore contemporary
forms of domesticity. The
exhibition features a series of architectural projects and artworks focusing on
the domestic. These works were selected in an attempt to tackle the status of
housing in the post-Airbnb city and to examine how design responds to new
conditions of lifestyle and in-habitation.
AirBnB
Pavilion. The AirBnB Pavilion approaches the commodification of domesticity and
its impact on the household, the transformations occurring in the city once its
constitutive element has become a piece of hardware, and finally the
responsibilities both corporations and governments have within this process.
Above.
Jon Rafman – Juan Gris Dream House, 2013 – video.
AirBnB
Pavilion. Architects, Octave Perrault, Luis Ortega
Govela, and Alessandro Bava curated the exhibition with Fabrizio
Ballabio are photographed by the jacuzzi in the entrance to the rented Airbnb
apartment.
AirBnB
Pavilion. Above the bed in the bedroom an inkjet print by Some Women (Morag
Keil) – Monetization Begins at Home, 2014.
AirBnB
Pavilion: Dora Budor – Smile Pretty, 2014 – PVC color print.