Exhibition

2027

Location

The International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia held in Venice, Italy

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The exhibition in the Danish Pavilion will explore how architecture can contribute to the welfare society of the future under the theme Towards a New Architecture.

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. 

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.

Photo: Rasmus Hjortshøj

Architect Søren Pihlmann is the curator of the Danish Pavilion at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in 2025. Under the heading ‘Build of Site’, the exhibition will show how to build on the world without building new.

Read more about Build of Site here