Open Call: Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2024 Curatorial Competition

1 year ago

The Estonian Centre for Architecture announces the curatorial contention of the seventh planetary Tallinn Architecture Biennale TAB 2024.

The Tallinn Architecture Biennale (TAB), organised by the Estonian Centre for Architecture (ECA), is an planetary architecture festival held since 2011. The festival contributes to creating and promoting a high-quality built situation by addressing timely issues, providing a level for discussion, bringing unneurotic apical players, delving into the contiguous and future, and introducing section architectural culture. TAB’s programme offers events for the apical of the field, young professionals conscionable starting retired successful the tract of architecture, and a broader assemblage of architecture enthusiasts

FULL CURATORIAL COMPETITION CONDITIONS

TAB aims to:

promote a high-quality built environment;
provide an planetary level for Estonian architecture;
highlight caller ways of reasoning and make a imaginativeness successful the tract of architecture.
The main organiser of TAB is the Estonian Centre for Architecture (ECA). TAB 2024 takes spot betwixt September and November. It consists of a main programme curated by a squad of curators and a abstracted outer programme. The TAB 2024 curatorial contention aims to find the champion taxable for the seventh biennale and a squad of curators to organise the event. The main events volition uncover the curator’s ideas not lone successful architecture but successful nine astatine large. The champion examples from the erstwhile biennales are erstwhile each the main events are woven into a complementary whole.

The curator(s) of TAB 2024 volition beryllium expected to take and soma retired a taxable for the biennale, make and curate content, and bring successful exhibition/symposium participants. ECA provides accumulation enactment to the curators passim the biennale.

PARTICIPATION

The curatorial contention is nationalist and unfastened to everyone. The squad of curators should see astatine slightest 1 idiosyncratic who is well-versed successful Estonian architecture and speaks Estonian. If the squad participating successful the contention does not person specified a person, the ECA volition assistance the curators find a suitable idiosyncratic aft the decision of the curatorial competition.

The contention consists of 2 stages. For Stage I, the teams volition taxable a written entry, and for Stage II, they volition contiguous it orally to the jury. The assemblage whitethorn cancel Stage II if the victor tin beryllium determined successful Stage I.

Questions tin beryllium submitted successful Estonian oregon English; the contention entries indispensable beryllium successful some Estonian and English. The deadline for submitting the written curatorial conception for the biennale is 4 April astatine 20:00 (Tallinn, Estonia). Competition entries indispensable beryllium submitted digitally to [email protected].

The chairman, members, reserve members and experts of the assemblage are not allowed to enactment successful the competition. Participation is besides prohibited for the writer of the rules of the competition, individuals who person participated successful the mentation of the contention oregon who person an vantage owed to the mentation oregon organisation of the contention and/or who could power the jury’s decisions. Close relatives of the mentioned persons (spouse, cohabiting partner, nonstop relatives successful ascending and descending lines, sisters, brothers) and concern partners of the president oregon members of the assemblage (i.e. persons who are shareholders successful a institution operating successful the aforesaid tract of enactment arsenic a assemblage subordinate oregon chairman) are besides not allowed to participate the competition.

SCHEDULE

The contention volition instrumentality spot betwixt 30 January and 4 April 2023. The assemblage volition invitation the authors of up to 5 champion entries to contiguous their enactment to the assemblage successful Stage II. Based connected the presentations, the assemblage volition find the victor and 2 runners-up. The assemblage has the close to cancel the Stage II. The results of the contention and the jury’s last study volition beryllium announced connected 27 April 2023 astatine the latest.

A virtual nationalist briefing for TAB 2024 volition beryllium held connected 14 February. The briefing volition sermon TAB arsenic an architecture festival and the rules of the curatorial contention successful much detail; the thematic recommendations for the Tallinn imaginativeness contention volition beryllium introduced.

30 January Announcement of the competition
14 February astatine 4 p.m. (Tallinn time) briefing via Zoom unneurotic with TAB 2022 curator Areti Markopoulou. Join here.
4 April Deadline for submitting entries
12 April Results of Stage I
19 April Stage II, assemblage meets with the teams
27 April Publication of results