Hines, C. L., Mooshammer, H., & Mörtenböck, P. (2024). Between the Biennials: Cultural Networks in Times of Geopolitical Crisis. OBOE - Journal on Biennials and Other Exhibitions, 5(1), 71–84.
This essay unpacks key issues of transnational curatorial collaboration that
emerged during the Biennale Architettura 2021, a high-profile cultural event
marked by the uncertainties and challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. The article
places particular focus on the happenings of the Curators Collective, a coalition
of national pavilion curators formed in relation to this particular Biennale, as a
case study for considering the tensions and possibilities that come with mutually
supportive networks in the context of international cultural exhibition events. We
Like, the Austrian contribution to the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennial, dedicated
to platform urbanism, became a site of transnational curatorial collaboration and
is discussed in the article to contextualise the numerous projects and events of the
first Biennale Architettura Midissage (August 27-29, 2021), jointly organised by
several dozen national pavilions to fulfil the Biennale’s potential as a platform for
synergistic collaboration, solidarity, and accessibility.
