19th Venice Biennale 2025 - a few more images

Many countries maintain their own permanent pavilions at the Venice Biennale. Here are just a few examples. 

Switzerland has been participating in the International Art Exhibition since 1920 and the International Architecture Exhibition since 1991. The country maintains its own pavilion in Venice’s “Giardini della Biennale”. Constructed in 1951/52 and designed by architect Bruno Giacometti, this modernist building is located next to the main entrance.

The display in the Swiss pavilion was to put it gently, unusual. Here's an explanation. 

https://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/2025/switzerland

Inside the Venice pavilion was a most impressive library display

The Serbian exhibition was also somewhat abstract. But intriguing!

Another favourite pavilion was the Austrian pavilion which had only a very subtle identification on the outside. Themed 'Better Living' all the text was in English and it highlighted the success of housing developments in Vienna and elsewhere in the country.

The Israeli pavilion. While not surprising, it was disappointing that it was closed.

The Egyptian Pavilion - 

Great Britain - Perhaps you can tell me what this means.

GBR: Geology of Britannic Repair explores how architecture is implicated in ongoing “empires of geology” defined by forms of extraction that are complicit in inequality, injustice, and environmental degradation while also recognising that architecture also offers opportunities for repair, reparation, and renewal. The exhibition transforms the British Pavilion into a site for reinventing and reimagining the relation between architecture and the earth.

Japan

Russian Pavilion - CLOSED

Denmark - 

Build of Site simultaneously restores the Danish pavilion and explores unconventional ways of repurposing surplus construction materials hyperlocally. Rather than allocating funds and time to a temporary exhibition, the project redirects these resources into lasting improvements. The elements presented within the pavilion originate from its own restoration. What would typically be discarded as construction waste is reimagined in collaboration with experts across disciplines, integrating bio-based, high-tech, and recycled features, prioritising structural potential over preconceptions of value.