{"id":18651,"date":"2025-04-14T07:34:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T07:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/18651\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T07:34:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T07:34:12","slug":"qatar-names-lina-ghotmeh-as-architect-for-national-pavilion-in-venice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/18651\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar Names Lina Ghotmeh as Architect for National Pavilion in Venice"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tQatar has selected Lina Ghotmeh<\/a> as the architect to create the permanent Qatar Pavilion<\/a> for the Venice Biennale<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tTo be located in the Giardini, where France, Great Britain, the United States, and some other 30 countries have their pavilions, it will be only the third such structure to open in the Giardini in the past 50 years, after Australia and South Korea.<\/p>\n

\n\tPrincipal of the Paris-based firm Lina Ghotmeh \u2014 Architecture, Ghotmeh has described her design philosophy as presenting an \u201cArcheology of the Future,\u201d which she \u201cenvisions [as] a research-driven approach, where innovative and sensitive designs are deeply rooted in history and materiality. Each project acts as a living palimpsest\u2014where the past, present, and future coexist\u2014promoting resilience, sustainability, and fostering a deeper connection between architecture, nature, and communities,\u201d according to a release.<\/p>\n

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\n\tIn a statement, Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the chairperson of the Qatar Museums<\/a>, which will manage the pavilion, said of Ghotmeh, \u201cHer work is inspiring new and traditional audiences with its sensitivity to the human condition and its confident, innovative flair. Lina has a worldview and sensibility that has grown from her native Lebanon to reach across cultures. She has wholeheartedly embraced our vision for the\u00a0Qatar\u00a0Pavilion as a platform for the artistic, architectural, and cultural creativity of our nation and the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLast July, Biennale president Pietrangelo Buttafuoco announced a proposal for the pavilion as part of a deal between the city of Venice and the Qatar Museums. The Qatar Pavilion was confirmed earlier this year, though a date of completion has not yet been set. (The Pavilion will open a temporary structure on the site of the permanent pavilion next month as part of the Architecture Biennale.)<\/p>\n

\n\tGhotmeh was selected through an international competition by an advisory panel that included architects Alejandro Aravena, Georges Arbid, and Rem Koolhaas, who chaired the panel, as well as Zeina Arida, director of Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, Jean-Paul Engelen, Americas president of Phillips auction house; New Museum artistic director Massimiliano Gioni; Catherine Grenier, the director of the Fondation Giacometti and concept director of the forthcoming Art Mill Museum in Doha; and Manuela Luca-Dazio, executive director of the Pritzker Architecture Prize.<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to a release, Ghotmeh was chosen \u201con the basis of a concept distinguished by its architectural clarity and thoughtful response to the Pavilion\u2019s historic context, creating a cultural bridge between\u00a0Qatar\u00a0and the global community. Exemplifying architecture\u2019s ability to engage with the public realm, the design blends seamlessly with the Pavilion\u2019s immediate landscape and the larger environment. Taking into account the contemporary art and architecture that it will house, the interior will be flexible and adaptable, enabling exhibitors to transform the space into their own creative visions.\u201d (The announcement, however, did not release further details on the design or any architectural renderings.)<\/p>\n

\n\tGhotmeh\u2019s design for the Estonian National Museum in Tartu, completed in 2016, won that year\u2019s AFEX Grand Prix, given by the French Architects Overseas; was nominated for the 2017 Mies Van Der Rohe Award; and won the 2018 Kenneth Hudson Award, given by the European Museum of the Year Awards to \u201ccelebrate courageous, at times controversial, museum practices that challenge and expand common perceptions of the role and responsibilities of museums in society,\u201d according to its website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn addition to the Estonian National Museum, Ghotmeh has designed the Palais de Tokyo\u2019s Les Grands Verres restaurant, the Stone Garden Housing building in Beirut, the Herm\u00e8s Workshops in Normandy, and the 2023 Serpentine Pavilion in London. (She was also responsible for the acclaimed exhibition design<\/a> of Olga de Amaral\u2019s retrospective at the Fondation Cartier in Paris.)<\/p>\n

\n\tIn addition to the forthcoming Qatar Pavilion, Ghotmeh is also working on the modernization of the Museum am Rothenbaum (MARKK) in Hamburg, Germany; the Bahrain Pavilion at the Osaka Expo 2025; the AlUla Contemporary Art Museum in Saudi Arabia, which is slated to open in 2032; and the Western Range galleries of the British Museum in London, planned for 2035.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a statement, Ghotmeh said, \u201cQatar\u00a0is a cultural beacon for the entire MENASA region. It is thrilling to be given this opportunity to design\u00a0Qatar\u2019s Pavilion on the historic grounds of the Giardini of La Biennale di Venezia.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Qatar has selected Lina Ghotmeh as the architect to create the permanent Qatar Pavilion for the Venice Biennale.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3939],"tags":[4021,4020,4022,77,12358,12359,12360,16,15,6176],"class_list":{"0":"post-18651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-design","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-lina-ghotmeh","13":"tag-qatar-museums","14":"tag-qatar-pavilion","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-venice-biennale"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}