The International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2027

On behalf of the Danish Ministry of Culture, a jury consisting of representatives from the architecture committee under the Danish Arts Foundation, the philanthropic association Realdania and Danish Architecture Center have selected Dominique Hauderowicz and Kristian Ly Serena, architects and partners in dominique + serena to curate the official Danish contribution to the 20th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in 2027.

Dominique Hauderowicz and Kristian Ly Serena have been selected following an Open Call process in which 36 teams in the first round submitted proposals for curating the exhibition in the Danish Pavilion. In the second round, five selected candidate curators took part in a paid parallel development process that culminated in a presentation to the jury.

The New Paradigm for Architecture

Under the heading Towards a new architecture, the partnership behind the 2027 Danish entry aims to explore how architecture can contribute to the welfare society of the future.

“We need new visions. We need to be able to see and imagine other realities, other practices – new possibilities and alliances. We need examples that demonstrate how we can live and practice architecture in harmony with the planet – we need images of new values, new tectonics, and new ways of living for the many family patterns – how we as a society can adapt to a new sustainable era,” say Dominique Hauderowicz and Kristian Ly Serena.

Dominique Hauderowicz and Kristian Ly Serena will create a sensory exhibition in the Danish Pavilion that will explore whether the dream of the good life can match the planetary reality. Specifically, the exhibition will focus on the single-family house and the dreams, challenges and opportunities associated with it.

“Dominique Hauderowicz and Kristian Ly Serena focus on the single-family house and its future. The single-family house is one of the most popular forms of housing in the world, but also one that needs to be rethought to meet sustainability requirements and new family structures and lifestyles. With this, the curator pair tackles a topic that is highly relevant to millions of people around the world. Based on their ambitious proposal, in 2027 we expect to see an exhibition that conveys new dreams of form and aesthetics, and that questions existing policies for the area, economic frameworks and market conditions,” said the jury.

The Danish curatorial team Dominique Hauderowicz and Kristian Ly Serena from the studio dominique + serena are participating in Agenda Earth, an initiative that explores and communicates the built environments and landscapes of the future, as well as the legislative frameworks needed to make them possible. From January 2026, Agenda Earth will present The Single-Family House Dilemma, which the curator duo also will unfolded for an international audience in connection with the Architecture Biennale in Venice in 2027. Agenda Earth is run by the Danish Association of Architects and is being developed in collaboration with, and with support from, the Dreyer Foundation. Read more about Agenda Earth here

Curator Team

Dominique Hauderowicz and Kristian Ly Serena are the founders of dominique + serena, a multidisciplinary architectural studio based in Copenhagen. With special focus on the social potentials of architecture, dominique + serena work at the intersection of architecture, art and politics.

The exhibition in the Danish Pavilion will be created in collaboration with an interdisciplinary team consisting of Urszula Kozminska, Line Kjær Frederiksen, Anne Meisner, Karl-Martin Buch Frederiksen, Margarida Waco, Mette Mechlenborg and Martin de Thurah.

The process leading up to the exhibition in the Danish Pavilion in 2027 has been initiated early in order to create a flow leading up to the Biennale that ensures development, and generates new knowledge, broad engagement and impact.

For the First Time: Opening Simultaneously in Venice and Denmark 

The themes explored in the Danish Pavilion will also be brought to life in Denmark. In spring 2027, the Danish Architecture Center (DAC) will open the exhibition Rethinking the Danish Dream, examining what it is that we love about this housing type and how qualities such as freedom, privacy, family life, community and wellbeing can be reimagined and carried forward into new forms of living for the future. 

Traditionally, the Danish contribution to the Biennale Architettura 2027 has only been presented to Danish audiences after the Biennale has closed. In 2027, that will change. The exhibition Rethinking the Danish Dream will open simultaneously with the presentation in the Danish Pavilion, allowing audiences in Denmark and Venice alike to engage with the same questions about home, community and how we might live in the future. Read more here