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 INVITATION TO THE OFFICIAL PRESS CONFERENCE
Making Heimat. Germany, Arrival Country
German Pavilion at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition 2016 – La Biennale di
Venezia
Friday, May 27, 2016, 11 a.m.
German Pavilion, Giardini della Biennale di Venezia
The Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) is curating the German Pavilion exhibition, Making Heimat.
Germany, Arrival Country at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale – La Biennale di Venezia in 2016. General
Commissioner and Director of DAM Peter Cachola Schmal, DAM Curator Oliver Elser and Project Coordinator Anna
Scheuermann will be responsible for the German contribution.
The exhibition Making Heimat. Germany, Arrival Country consists of three parts: the first part shows refugee
shelters, meaning the actual solutions built during the current state of emergency. The second part questions what
conditions must be in place in an Arrival City in order to turn refugees into immigrants. The third part of the
exhibition is the spatial design concept for the German Pavilion, which makes a statement about the current political
situation. The architectural presentation and graphic design for this part are being planned and realized by Something
Fantastic.
In March, DAM launched an online database with the architecture magazine Bauwelt that documents buildings
currently used for housing refugees. www.makingheimat.de
The accompanying catalogue will be published by Hatje Cantz with essays from Doug Saunders, Jürgen Friedrichs,
Stefan Rettich, Amber Sayah, Marietta Schwarz, Walter Siebel, Peter Cachola Schmal, Oliver Elser, Anna
Scheuermann and more. The catalogue will also feature interviews by Kai Vöckler with Friedrich Heckmann and
Matthias Schulze-Böing. For the photo spreads, the DAM has commissioned photographers like Kiên Hoàng Lê who
has contributed a report on the Dong Xuan Center.
The exhibition “Making Heimat. Germany, Arrival Country” has been commissioned by the Federal Ministry for the
Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety.
DEUTSCHES ARCHITEKTURMUSEUM
SOMETHING FANTASTIC
1 PROGRAMME
Press conference
May 27, 2016, 11 a.m.
Speakers:
- Barbara Hendricks, Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety
- Peter Cachola Schmal, general commissioner and director of the Deutsches Architekturmuseum
- Oliver Elser, curator at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum
- Anna Scheuermann, project coordinator
- Doug Saunders, author of Arrival City: How the Largest Migration in History Is Reshaping Our World
The official opening of the German Pavilion will take place at 12:30 p.m. immediately after the press conference.
REGISTRATION
Please RSVP via email to [email protected] or call us at +49 (0) 30 62736102
q Yes, I will attend the press conference on May 27 in Venice.
q I will be accompanied by _______________________ (photographer / camera crew).
q Unfortunately, I am unable to attend, but please send me the press kit via email.
ACCREDITATION
Please note that you must be officially accredited by the Biennale Press Office to gain access to the 15th International
Architecture Exhibition 2016 – La Biennale di Venezia from May 26. Please visit:
www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/press
2 FURTHER EVENTS:
Saturday, May 28, 2016
German Pavilion
11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
“Der Umzug der Menschheit“ –
Symposium of the Bund Deutscher Architekten (BDA)
Introduction: Heiner Farwick, Peter Cachola Schmal, “Integration als Aufgabe von Stadt und Architektur“: Barbara
Hendricks, Discussion: Naika Foroutan (tbc), Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Doug Saunders, Thomas Willemeit,
Moderation: Matthias Böttger (in German / English) 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Book presentation “Germania, Venezia. Die deutschen Beiträge zur Architekturbiennale
Venedig seit 1991“
With Gunther Adler, Oliver Elser, Francesca Ferguson, Burkhard Grashorn, Verena Hartbaum, Peter Cachola Schmal
+ Stephan Trüby, Moderation: Florian Heilmeyer (in German)
FURTHER EVENTS:
Performing Architecture Goethe-Institut
May 26 – May 29, 2016
Chiesa della Misericordia / Campo de l'Abazia, 30121 Cannaregio
www.goethe.de/performingarchitecture
In Act and Thought - A Score for Six Performers
May 26 – 27, 2016, 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.
Dance Performance by Fabrice Mazliah, with Katja Cheraneva, Frances Chiaverini, Josh Johnson, David Kern,
Yasutake Shimaji, Ildikó Tóth
ARCH+ features #50
May 28, 2016, 4 p.m.
Discussion with Armen Avanessian, Arno Brandlhuber, Christian Kerez, Erica Overmeer, Christopher Roth,
Moderation: Sandra Oehy + Anh-Linh Ngo
Culinary Lessons
May 29, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
Discussion with Tobias Rehberger, Sanford Kwinter, Daniel Birnbaum, Jan Åman, Fabrice Mazliah, Johan Bettum et
al.
3 Matinée of the Chamber of Architects and Urban planners Hessen (AKH)
„Ein regionaler Blick auf globale Herausforderungen“
May 29, 2016, 11 a.m.
Palazzo Contarini Polignac, 874 Dorsoduro, 30123 Venezia
Round table with Peter Cachola Schmal, Oliver Elser, Brigitte Holz, Werner Durth (tbc) and Horst Schneider,
Moderation: Isabella Göring (in German)
PRESS CONTACT
BUREAU N, Julia Albani & Silke Neumann
[email protected]
Naunynstrasse 38, 10999 Berlin
Telephone +49.30.62736102
For more information and images:
WWW.MAKINGHEIMAT.DE
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