Serbian pavilion at Venice Biennale of Architecture opens

BELGRADE - Serbian Ambassador to Italy Ana Hrustanovic has opened the Serbian pavilion at the 14th International Biennale of Architecture in Venice, where Serbia will be represented by a project titled 14-14, the Ministry of Culture said in a statement on Friday.

Exhibition commissioner Ivan Raskovic spoke about modernism in Serbian architecture, while Marko Salapura, speaking on behalf of a team of authors that also includes Zlatko Nikolic, Aleksandar Hrib, Igor Sladovljev, Jelena Radonjic and associates Srdan Keca and Andera Palasti, said that attendance was high on the first day of the exhibition.
"This year, the Biennale will last longer than usual and the exhibition will last half a year. Our intention is to ensure that the exhibition also gets a sequel outside Venice, and the team will be working on that in the coming period," Salapura said.

The daylight-filled interior of the exhibition space is a framework for a hundred significant architectural projects between 1914 and 2014, while the surroundings are dedicated to the project of the Museum of the Revolution of Nations and Nationalities of Yugoslavia by the Croatian architect Vjenceslav Richter.

The construction of the museum building got no further than the basement section and its fate in terms of time and space offers a context for understanding the murals in the central room of the pavilion.

The Serbian pavilion has been visited by this year's curator, Rem Koolhaas, a Dutch architect.

The 14th Biennale of Architecture in Venice, titled Fundamentals, will open on Saturday, featuring 66 countries.

Under the guidance of art director Rem Koolhaas, the participant countries have been invited to provide their own answers to the problem of...