Three curators, at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale, which kicks off next May, are: the University of Chicago’s Niall Atkinson, an associate professor of art history; architect Ann Lui, an assistant professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and the co-founder of Chicago-based Future Firm; and Mimi Zeiger, a Los Angeles-based architecture critic, curator, and educator.
They will steer the exhibition, Dimensions of Citizenship, at the 16th edition of the international exposition. Additionally, SAIC and the University of Chicago will be co-commissioners of the show.
According to a press release, the exhibition "will grapple with the meaning of citizenship as a cluster of rights and responsibilities at the intersection of legal, political, economic, and societal affiliations." Running from May 26 to November 25, 2018, Dimensions of Citizenship will grapple with the meaning of citizenship.
"What an extraordinary opportunity this is to ask architects and architecture as a field to participate in today’s global conversation about citizenship—understood as a cluster of rights of responsibilities, but also as effective attachments. And all of us obviously know that built space has a lot to do with feelings of belonging and exclusion." says Bill Brown, an exhibition project director and senior adviser to the provost for arts at the University of Chicago.
The larger Biennale will be curated by Irish architects Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, co-founders of Grafton Architects, who are organizing the exhibition around the theme “Freespace.” In a statement released earlier this summer, the duo said that the biennial event will explore “examples of generosity and thoughtfulness in architecture throughout the world.”
The 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale runs from May 26 through Nov. 25, 2018.
