Romanian projects opening at the Venice Architecture Biennale this week-end

Two Romanian projects will be featured at the Venice Architecture Biennale, which will start on Sunday, August 29, and will last until November 21. The two national projects will have their opening on Friday and Saturday at Romania's pavilion in the Biennale and at the Romanian Institute of Culture and Humanistic Research. The first Romanian exhibition, called 1:1 Exhibiting Space, will be hosted by the Romanian pavilion in Giardini di Castello, while the other one, called Superbia, at the Romanian Institute of Culture and Humanistic Research. The two projects were selected in a national competition which attracted 19 participants and 21 projects. The winning projects were selected in April this year. The 1:1 Exhibiting Space project, which had a budget of RON 600,000 (around EUR 142,000) from the Culture Ministry, consists in a 94 sqm space surrounded by a corridor which will allow visitors to see the inside of the 'room' through eye slits in the wall. Visitors will be able to go into the room and personalize the space. The 94 sqm was considered the vital space for a person in Bucharest. The project was created by Ciprian Raşoiu, Romina Grillo, Liviu Vasiu, Tudor Vlăsceanu, Matei Vlăsceanu, with Tudor Vlăsceanu as curator. The Superbia project, which had financing from the Romanian Cultural Institute, highlights the lack of urban planning and the antithesis between urban and rural. Dirt and mud will be on the floor of the exhibition, and visitors will wear boots to get to houses built like sculptures. The authors of the Superbia project are Silviu Aldea, Marius Moga, Laura Panait, Camelia Sisac, Tamaş Sisac, Areta Soare and Daniel Şerban, while the curators are Silviu Aldea and Tamaş Sisak.