SHIFTING GROUND – ARCHITECTURE AS NEW GEOGRAPHY – VESSEL

A tour led by the curator and architects of the Ireland at Venice 2012 exhibition will take place at 11am on Saturday the 18^th of May.

The exhibition celebrates Ireland’s participation in the Venice Architecture Biennale 2012 and Grafton Architects’ outstanding achievement in winning the Silver Lion.  Ireland at Venice presents installations by heneghan peng architects (national representation), Grafton Architects, and O’Donnell and Tuomey Architects, each made specifically for the Biennale, in Dublin’s historic tobacco warehouse Stack A/CHQ. The three exhibits explore rich and diverse correspondences between sites and artforms, exploring the possibilities of architectural representation.

The exhibition will be open daily for three weeks from Saturday 11th May to Sunday 2nd June 2013.

The CHQ Building, IFSC, Docklands, Dublin 1

MORE PICTURES FROM THE OPENING HERE

The exhibition celebrating the return of Ireland’s representation at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2012 opened on Friday May 10th in Dublin’s CHQ Building in the Docklands.

The national tour, starting in Dublin is supported by the Arts Council.  The national representation features the work of heneghan peng architects, while the exhibition will also feature two other architecture firms that exhibited in the Biennale. Grafton Architects and O’Donnell & Tuomey Architects were invited to participate in the Biennale by the Artistic Director, internationally renowned architect David Chipperfield. The former won the prestigious Silver Lion Award at the Biennale.

Shifting Ground – Beyond National Architecture: For the Irish Pavilion at the 13th International Architecture Exhibition – Shifting Ground. In a site specific response, heneghan peng architects designed an oscillating ‘bench’ that invites visitors to balance their respective weights. The work considers issues of geometry and number in the architects’ work, while the level of the ‘bench’ was measured from the mark of the acqua alta (water line) on the old brickwork of the Arsenale building in Venice.

Grafton Architects  were awarded the Silver Lion for their exhibition ‘Architecture as New Geography’.

The exhibit explores themes of ‘architecture as new geography’ and ‘abstracted landscape’, focussing on two structures by two different architectural practices, forming a sense of ‘Common Ground’. The two structures  are, the Brazilian architect Mendes daRocha’s Serra Dourada Stadium in Goiania, Brazil and Grafton Architects’ university campus in Lima.

O’Donnell and Tuomey Architects invited practitioners to contribute to their installation “Vessel”. The title “Vessel” has associations with both circulation and craft, and is suggestive of embodiment, enshrinement and containment. “Our Common Ground is collected under this heading, highlighting the relation of ideas, objects, and materials that combine , inform and influence our work”.

This is the first exhibition in the national tour of the Irish representation in Venice which will be shown as part of the Galway Arts Festival in July and at the National Sculpture Centre in Cork in Spetember.

Orlaith McBride, Director of the Arts Council said “Supporting an Irish tour of Ireland’s representation at the Venice Biennale is critical to the Arts Council’s policy of bringing the best of Irish arts to Irish audiences. It is part of our commitment to promote architecture to Irish audiences. The Biennale is the most important international cultural arena in which to platform Ireland’s architects and, with this in mind, the Arts Council will continue to ensure that the exhibit returns home for the benefit of communities across the country. We hope that people will go and see this exhibit, whether that is in Dublin, Cork or Galway.”

The exhibition opens to coincide with the EFAP European Forum on Architectural Poilicy conference, part of Ireland”s EU Presidency events.

On opening the exhibition Minister Quinn said, “This exhibition is a celebration of the success, nationally and internationally, of the achievements of contemporary Irish architecture. High quality design will be a key element in the delivery of a sustainable future.”

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The CHQ Building, Docklands, Dublin 1

The exhibition will be open daily for three weeks from Saturday 11th May to Sunday 2nd June 2013. 

Ireland at Venice is an initiative of Culture Ireland, in partnership with the Arts Council, the Irish Government agency for funding and developing the arts.

The Irish tour of Ireland’s representation at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2012 is supported by the Arts Council as part of its commitment to promote architecture to Irish audiences.

Supported by the Government Programme on Architecture 2013 Implementation Programme.

The Ireland at Venice 2012 exhibition opens in Dublin

at the CHQ building on Friday May 10th.

SHIFTING GROUND – ARCHITECTURE AS NEW GEOGRAPHY – VESSEL

Celebrating Ireland’s participation in the Venice Architecture Biennale 2012 and Grafton Architects’ outstanding achievement in winning the Silver Lion, Ireland at Venice presents installations by heneghan peng architects (national representation), Grafton Architects, and O’Donnell and Tuomey Architects, each made specifically for the Biennale, in Dublin’s historic tobacco warehouse Stack A/CHQ. The three exhibits explore rich and diverse correspondences between sites and artforms, exploring the possibilities of architectural representation.

The exhibition will be open daily for three weeks from Saturday 11th May to Sunday 2nd June 2013.

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The CHQ Building, IFSC, Docklands, Dublin 1

The participant’s description of the exhibit design is now online at heneghan peng architects website.

The Dublin Design Collective are participating in the “Everyday Discoveries” exhibition in Helsinki, World Design Capital 2012. As part of our series of CONNECTION events we held an exclusive preview of their film DUBLIN TAGGED! at the Irish Pavilion. In tandem a film of Shifting Ground at the Venice Architecture Biennale was shown in the exhibition venue in Finland.

“Everyday Discoveries” is unique in its comprehensive presentation of international design. The exhibition will see more than 20 countries showcase their design, ideas and concepts as well as organise a number of different events. The exhibition’s underlying theme is day-to-day life – what is it like in the participating countries, and what kind of solutions to certain everyday situations have people come up with in the different countries?

The Dublin Design Collective have Tagged Helsinki and we look forward to showing the results of their work in Venice in November.

Dublin Design Collective

Helsinki World Design Capital 2012

PIVOT Dublin

Check out some of the news items on Shifting ground:

Frank McDonald on Venice in the Irish Times today;
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0829/1224323181296.html

The Journal.ie covers Ireland at Venice:
http://www.thejournal.ie/dublin-architect-firm-to-represent-ireland-at-the-venice-biennale-575557-Aug2012/

Listen back to Radio1 interview with curator John McLaughlin & architect Shih-fu Peng:
http://t.co/92WjkXss
go to 40 min. mark

The exhibit passing San Marco on its way to the Arsenale. Ten days to go to the inauguration of the Vernissage..

The Irish Pavilion has arrived at La Biennale di Venezia! In one day VeniceArt completed the graphic installation so thank you to Simone, Gianluca and Christian for a job well done and especially for working on “Ferragosto”, the most important Italian bank holiday in the year.

Next up lighting…watch this space.

THE NEW Giant’s Causeway Visitor Centre is to feature at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale in an exhibition of work by Dublin-based architects Heneghan Peng representing Ireland.

The Irish Times - Wednesday, July 11, 2012