Project Name: Objects for the Austrian Pavilion
Location: Austrian Pavilion, 17th Venice Architecture Biennale
Year: 2019-2021

Sudden Workshop-Team: Andreas Lint, Arne Leibnitz, Marlene Lötsch, Nikolaus Kastinger, Christian Höhl, Mark Neuner

Participants Building Workshop: Alexander Garber, Barbora Kolarova, Berke Onay, Bilal Alame, Caroline Rösner, Celine Stemmelen, Cosma Kremser, Deyvi Papo, Francesca Lysann Klute, Hanna Padasheuka, Laura Farmwald, Laura Sánchez Fernández, Martina Laslová, Mary Osibanjo, Merve Canga, Nadine Niederdeckl, Philipp Kitzberger, Viola Kryza;

curators: Peter Mörtenböck, Helge Mooshammer

Funding: BMKOES, Fachverband der Österreichischen Holzindustrie, Verband der Europäischen Hobelindustrie, MH Massivholz Austria, Holzcenter Weiss, Adler Lacke, Kvadrat, Zumtobel, Schachermayer, Laufen

Cooperations: section.a, TU Wien, Creative Cluster Margareten, tema, Monika Heiss

In 2019 for the first time an open competition for the Austrian Pavilion 2020 at the Venice Architecture Biennale was launched. After the curators Peter Mortenböck and Helge Mooshammer and their proposal “Platform Austria” succeeded into the final stage of the competition, they asked Mostlikely to deliver a design concept for the second phase of the competition.

In the design proposal an endless grid hoovered over the Austrian Pavilion. The modular aesthetics was continued inside the Pavilion and immersed into flashy colours – a reference to the visual identity of utopian architecture groups of the sixties.

In the same way today our ideas are cheered by the promise of unlimited possibilities brought forth by digitation. The unreal and ambivalent installations in the Austrian Pavilion aimed to show the ambiguity of our era: On one side tempting and inviting, on the other shallow and hollow, they can be experienced as an enjoyable and relaxing spot, where visitors pause and stay for a moment.

Due to Covid 19 and other reasons, the coherent design of the whole Pavilion was fragmented by the curators and reduced to wooden objects that will be on display inside and outside the pavilion of the Venice Architecture Biennale until November 2021.