Platform for collaborative curatorial practice
May 7–November 23, 2025
The Curators Collective—the independent collective of Venice Biennale pavilion curators—will return for the 19th International Venice Architecture Biennale, responding to Carlo Ratti’s framework, Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.
Since its inception, the Curators Collective has been a platform for transnational collaboration, fostering critical discourse on architecture’s evolving role within political, ecological, and technological paradigms.
In 2025, the CC will welcome a new generation of members and continue its trajectory, interrogating Ratti’s proposition of intelligence as a plural and interconnected force, embedded within natural, artificial, and social systems.
How can national pavilions embrace a post-extractive, regenerative logic, moving beyond the linear consumption of materials and ideas? How might curatorial practice function as an adaptive, networked intelligence, rather than a singular narrative?
The Curators Collective 2025 will explore these questions through shared research and interventions, including a “Midissage” events programme that seeks to highlight and explore the connections between the national pavilions of the Venice Biennale.
Launched in 2021 as a response to the delays and challenges presented by Covid-19, the CC has sought to challenge the temporal and material constraints of the Biennale format, advocating for architectural curation as an open system of exchange, negotiation, and co-creation.
In addition to launching networking initiatives, knowledge exchanges, and an international student competition to reuse waste created during the installation of national pavilions, the CC has hosted the only online resource that collates the opening ceremonies and event schedules of all the national pavilions.
In 2025, the CC invites dialogue with practitioners, institutions, and audiences who share its commitment to rethinking the infrastructures of exhibition-making—both tangible and immaterial—in response to the urgent conditions shaping our built environment.
Further details of the CC’s 2025 activities will be made available via the CC website and dedicated Instagram.
For more information and to collaborate with the CC, please email curatorscollective.cc@gmail.com.
