1907... After the Party

deSingel is responsible for the content of the Belgian pavilion at the eleventh international architecture in Venice, whose artistic director is the American Aaron Betsky and whose theme is 'Out There. Architecture Beyond Building'. The curator Moritz Küng has organised a competition between the thirteen architects from the '35m³ young architects' exhibitions, giving them the brief to generate a work of temporary architecture that can be physically experienced, on a 1:1 scale, that defines the setting of the Belgian pavilion as a critical mass. The jury of international architects - including Petra Blaisse (Amsterdam), Mike Guyer (Zürich) and Anne Lacaton (Paris) - selected the project by the Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen firm from Brussels. Their radical-looking proposal, entitled 'After the party', is an affectionate tribute to the pavilion, which was built in 1907 (the first international pavilion in the Giardini) and evokes a mock sentimental recollection of a party that never took place, celebrating the centenary of the pavilion. The exhibition in the pavilion also includes all the other competition entries, by BARAK, BAVO, Kristoffel Boghaert, Dessauvage & Mohammadi, Jan De Vylder architects, D'haeseleer & Kimpe & Poelaert, Jo Taillieu, noA.architects, noumenon, NU architecture studio, URA architects and Van Belle & Medina (Antwerp), together with a photo by the German artist Thomas Demand.