designboom’s ultimate guide to 24th triennale milano international exhibition 2025

24th TRIENNALE INTERNATIONAL exhibition tackles global inequalities

 

The Triennale Milano International Exhibition returns for its 24th edition from May 13 to November 9, 2025, transforming Milan’s Palazzo dell’Arte into a six-month stage for urgent dialogue and interdisciplinary design. Under the theme Inequalities, the Triennale Milano International Exhibition 2025 edition concludes a thought-provoking trilogy that began in 2019 with Broken Nature and continued in 2022 with Unknown Unknowns. This final chapter shifts the focus to the human dimension, addressing one of the most pressing — and politically charged — issues of our time: the growing inequalities that shape our cities, societies, and individual lives.

 

With participation from artists, designers, curators, institutions, and universities from about 73 countries, the 2025 edition becomes a cultural map of the inequalities we inherit, perpetuate, and have the power to transform. Through exhibitions, installations, performances, and lectures, the event invites visitors to reflect on both the injustices and the possibilities that define contemporary existence.

 

As always, designboom’s guide unpacks everything you need to know about the Triennale’s exhibitions, international collaborations, special projects, and national pavilions. Read on for our full breakdown.

Cities © Alessandro Saletta e Agnese Bedini – DSL Studio

 

 

INEQUALITIES, CURATED BY GLOBAL NETWORK OF VISIONARIES

 

At the heart of the 24th Triennale Milano International Exhibition is a dynamic curatorial structure. Led by Triennale Milano President and Commissioner General Stefano Boeri, the exhibition brings together celebrated figures from the worlds of art, architecture, science, and culture. Among them are architectural historian Beatriz Colomina and theorist Mark Wigley, Serpentine Galleries’ Hans Ulrich Obrist, interdisciplinary artist Theaster Gates, and Pritzker Prize-winning architect Norman Foster. They are joined by curators Nina Bassoli, Marco Sammicheli, Nic Palmarini, and Natalia Grabowska, among others.

 

The theme of Inequalities unfolds along two major curatorial trajectories: the geopolitics of inequality, explored on the ground floor, and the biopolitics of inequality, examined upstairs. The former investigates the urban and territorial dimensions of disparity — from housing access to wealth distribution — while the latter focuses on how inequality shapes our bodies, behaviors, health, and identities in everyday life. Together, these lenses form a powerful spatial and ideological framework for a more just and inclusive future.

 

Curatorial contributions are amplified through collaborations with leading global institutions, including Columbia University, Princeton University, Norman Foster Foundation, Democracy and Culture Foundation, and the Serpentine Galleries. Five Milanese universities and several international research centers add further depth to the exhibition’s research-driven foundation.

Cities © Alessandro Saletta e Agnese Bedini – DSL Studio

 

 

SPECIAL PROJECTS AND LEADING VOICES FROM WORLD OF DESIGN

 

The main exhibition space brings together a lineup of special projects and site-specific commissions by globally recognized architects, artists, and thinkers. Among the highlights are contributions from Pritzker Prize laureates Kazuyo Sejima and Alejandro Aravena, and Elizabeth Diller of Diller Scofidio + Renfro. Artist-filmmaker Amos Gitai explores the visual language of social injustice through cinema, while Theaster Gates brings his practice of social sculpture and ritual to Milan with a large-scale installation.

 

The exhibition design and layout are shaped by six innovative design studios — Abnormal, Studio GISTO, Grace, Midori Hasuike, orizzontale, and Sopa Design Studio — who were tasked with creating spatial experiences that reflect both the fragmentation and the interconnectedness of inequality in the contemporary world.

 

Alongside the opening of Inequalities, Triennale hosts the international conference Art for Tomorrow, organized by the Democracy & Culture Foundation and celebrating its 10th anniversary in Milan. The three-day conference examines the social impacts of arts with prominent guests, leading voices from the world of culture, and moderation by designboom.

 

See designboom’s guide to the exhibition and special projects, below.

Cities, The Inujima Project by Kazuyo Sejima, Say Who © Alessio Ammannati

 

 

cities

 

An imagined geography becomes the stage for Cities, an exhibition conceived as an atlas of inhabited places across the world. In thirty-five site-specific installations by authors from over thirty nationalities, the city is explored as both opportunity and battleground — between wealth and poverty, community and segregation, ecology and development. The exhibition challenges traditional understandings of urban inequality and offers alternative visions for growth.

 

Curation: Nina Bassoli

Exhibition Design: (AB)NORMAL

Grenfell Tower. Total System Failure, a special project included in the exhibition Cities © Alessandro Saletta e Agnese Bedini – DSL Studio

 

 

THE BOOK OF AMOS

 

Shot in a single take on a Tel Aviv street, Amos Gitai’s short film revives the voice of the biblical prophet Amos through actors from Israel and Palestine. Their modern-day denunciation of corruption and violence reflects a stark continuity with the prophet’s ancient words, suggesting that history, conflict, and the city are eternally intertwined.

 

 

GRENFELL TOWER. TOTAL SYSTEM FAILURE

 

This deeply moving installation by Grenfell Next of Kin honors the lives lost in the Grenfell Tower fire. Featuring works by artists including Chris Ofili and Khadija Saye, alongside film and quilted memorials, it exposes systemic failures and community resilience. The exhibition is both testimony and resistance.

 

Curation: Kimia Zabihyan, Grenfell Next of Kin

Grenfell Tower. Total System Failure © Alessandro Saletta e Agnese Bedini – DSL Studio

 

 

The Space of Inequalities / ENVIRONMENT, MOBILITY, CITIZENSHIP

 

Through short films and a local data model, this immersive installation explores inequalities in environmental exposure, access to resources, and citizenship rights. From global patterns to Milan’s own territory, it illustrates how space itself becomes a medium of disparity.

 

Curation: DAStU and CRAFT, Politecnico di Milano

Exhibition Design: (AB)NORMAL

The Space of Inequalities | Photo by Filippo Romano

 

 

Atlas of the Changing World

 

Curated by journalist Maurizio Molinari, this exhibition uses maps as narrative tools to trace a rapidly transforming world. From conflict zones to gender gaps, migration to climate change, it examines how cartography remains essential in navigating the chaos of the present.

 

Curation: Maurizio Molinari

Atlas of the Changing World © Alessandro Saletta e Agnese Bedini – DSL Studio

 

 

Shapes of Inequalities

 

Federica Fragapane’s installation transforms data into organic visual languages, revealing the human dimensions behind inequalities. These data visualizations reject neutrality, instead offering layered, emotional readings of injustice through form and rhythm.

 

Project by: Federica Fragapane

Installation and Exhibition Design: Midori Hasuike

Shapes of Inequalities © Alessandro Saletta e Agnese Bedini – DSL Studio

 

 

Radio Ballads

 

Building on a BBC radio format from the 1950s, Radio Ballads returns with four contemporary commissions exploring care, labor, and community in East London. Created through years of collaboration, these films give voice to those whose stories often go unheard.

 

Curation and Production: Serpentine: Amal Khalaf, Former Curator, Civic Projects; and Elizabeth Graham, Former Associate Curator, Civic Projects Layla Gatens, Former Assistant Curator, Civic Projects with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director; Natalia Grabowska, Curator at Large, Architecture and Site-specific Projects; and Damiano Gulli, Triennale Milano

Radio Ballads © Alessandro Saletta e Agnese Bedini – DSL Studio

 

 

Milan. Paradoxes and Opportunities

 

Through data and artistic collaboration, this project identifies six paradoxes that define Milan today: juxtapositions of wealth and poverty, visibility and marginalization. Artists reinterpret these contradictions, creating a living archive of the city’s fragmented identity.

 

Project Coordinator: Seble Woldeghiorghis 

Curation: Damiano Gullì and Jermay Michael Gabriel, direttore Black History Months Milano
Scientific Advisor: SI Lab Bocconi – Alessandra Casarico, Felix Eychmüller, Chiara Serra

Exhibition Design: orizzontale

Milano. Pradoxes and Opportunities © Alessandro Saletta e Agnese Bedini – DSL Studio

 

 

Towards a More Equal Future

 

The Norman Foster Foundation presents innovative projects — from refugee shelters to affordable housing and city regeneration — that use design as a tool for equity. This exhibition showcases how architecture can address pressing social and environmental inequalities.

 

Curation: Norman Foster and the Norman Foster Foundation

Towards a More Equal Future © Alessandro Saletta e Piercarlo Quecchia – DSL Studio

 

 

471 DAYS

 

A monumental memorial to the 2023–25 Gaza War, this installation uses 471 suspended fabric columns to represent each day of conflict. Through casualty data, satellite imagery, and personal stories, Filippo Teoldi brings visibility and dignity to individual lives often reduced to statistics.

 

Project by: Filippo Teoldi

Installation and Exhibition Design: Midori Hasuike

471 Days © Alessandro Saletta e Agnese Bedini – DSL Studio

 

 

Portraits of Inequalities: Pittura di Classe

 

A new perspective on Milan’s Ca’ Granda portrait collection. On view are thirty portraits of men and women, created between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries. This time, the collection of notable figures is observed from a different perspective—that of a representative of another social class, portrayed by Giacomo Ceruti, the painter often referred to as the ‘Homer of the poor’.

 

Curation: Giovanni Agosti and Jacopo Stoppa

In collaboration with: Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico
Lighting Design: Pasquale Mari

Portraits of Inequalities. Pittura di Classe © Alessandro Saletta e Agnese Bedini – DSL Studio

 

 

We the Bacteria: Notes Toward Biotic Architecture

 

Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley present an architectural manifesto for microbial coexistence. From gut health to planetary ecosystems, the installation argues that to understand inequality is to understand biology, and to design accordingly.

 

Curator: Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley

Exhibition Design: GRACE

We the Bacteria © Alessandro Saletta e Agnese Bedini – DSL Studio

 

 

The Corner Problem

 

This short film by Diller Scofidio + Renfro turns the humble architectural corner into a site of philosophical and hygienic drama. A meditation on invisibility, resistance, and the limits of design.

 

Film by: Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with Frank Willens
Directed by: Elizabeth Diller

The Corner Problem

 

 

A Journey into Biodiversity: Eight Forays on Planet Earth

 

From human cities to octopus reefs and fungal networks, this exhibition redefines cities as cohabitations between species. A planetary journey that questions anthropocentrism and explores diverse models of ecological interdependence.

 

Curated by: Telmo Pievani
In collaboration with: Massimo Labra and Maria Chiara Pastore, National Biodiversity Future Center
Exhibition Design: Studio GISTO

A Journey Into Biodiversity. Eight Forays on Planet Earth, work by Marta Cuscunà © Alessandro Saletta e Agnese Bedini – DSL Studio

 

 

THE REPUBLIC OF LONGEVITY

IN HEALTH EQUALITY WE TRUST

 

By 2050, over two billion people worldwide will be aged sixty or older, marking a global shift from old age to an age of longevity. The Republic of Longevity responds with an exhibition that elevates five simple yet powerful Ministries — Purpose, Sleep Equality, Food Democracy, Physical Freedom, and Togetherness — as democratic tools to narrow the widening gap in health and wellbeing. The project collects everyday practices for longer, healthier lives, while confronting the inequalities that determine access to such lives in the first place.

 

Curation: Nic Palmarini with Marco Sammicheli

Exhibition Design: Sopa Design Studio

The Republic of Longevity. In Health Equality We Trust © Alessandro Saletta e Agnese Bedini – DSL Studio

 

 

NOT FOR HER

AI REVEALING THE UNSEEN

 

With quiet intensity, Not For Her uses artificial intelligence to expose what we fail to see: the deeply embedded gender disparities in professional environments. Through a multimedia triptych and an interactive installation, the work erodes the clarity of perception to reveal how invisible barriers distort our workplaces and assumptions. Here, it asks visitors to reconsider what fairness, visibility, and change really mean.

 

Project by: Politecnico di Milano
Conceived by: Donatella Sciuto, Rettrice Politecnico di Milano
Curated by: Nicola Gatti, Ingrid Paoletti, Matteo Ruta, Politecnico di Milano

Not for Her. AI Revealing the Unseen – Politecnico di Milano © Luca Trelancia

 

 

CLAY CORPUS

 

In Clay Corpus, Theaster Gates intertwines the poetic legacies of Japanese potter Yoshihiro Koide and Italian designer Ettore Sottsass. Drawing on his training in Tokoname, Gates wraps Sottsass’s intimate Casa Lana in Koide’s humble vessels, which evoke the Sanpomichi hill where generations of Japanese potters once displayed their wares. Through this cultural and material exchange, the exhibition celebrates craft as a spiritual act, where even the most utilitarian form can hold cosmic meaning.

 

Work: Theaster Gates

Clay Corpus © Alessandro Saletta e Agnese Bedini – DSL Studio

 

 

THE FRAGILITY OF THE FUTURE

 

In the forecourt of the Palazzo dell’Arte, monumental papier-mâché animals — an elephant, whale, giraffe, and hippopotamus — stand vulnerable and unguarded. These works by Jacopo Allegrucci appear both celebratory and mournful, confronting viewers with the majestic species we are on the brink of losing. Created from fragile and biodegradable papier-mâché, the sculptures capture not just the ephemerality of wildlife, but the instability of the systems that threaten it.

 

Work: Jacopo Allegrucci

The Fragility of The Future | Alessandro Saletta e Piercarlo Quecchia-DSL Studi © Triennale Milano

 

 

interNATIONAL participations EXPLORE LOCAL DIMENSIONS OF INEQUALITY

 

As with each edition, the Triennale Milano International Exhibition also includes a rich and diverse array of international participations, invited through official government channels under the auspices of the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE). These official exhibitions offer localized perspectives on the global theme, responding through architectural models, urban investigations, social design strategies, and cultural storytelling. Each display becomes a lens through which visitors can observe how inequality manifests — and is resisted — across different geographies and communities. Cities — historically places of opportunity, yet today areas where differences are often intensified — are at the heart of the International Participations’ exhibition projects. Participating countries have been invited to focus on a specific urban or spatial dimension, contributing to a collective reflection on the most forward-thinking political proposals for a society in which differences are embraced as resources to be reconfigured into new forms of community.

 

Stay tuned as designboom breaks down each participating country’s exhibition, below.

 

 

AUSTRALIA

Land Use Inequality

 

Australia presents Land Use Inequality at the 24th Triennale Milano International Exhibition. Promoted by Monash University and curated by Monash Urban Lab with Baracco+Wright Architects, the exhibition critiques the legacy of colonial settlement and urban sprawl in Melbourne. Since 1835, low-rise housing on unceded land has expanded the city’s footprint, generating a web of ecological, social, and First Nations inequalities. The display reflects on how continued low-density development displaces ancient ecosystems and sacred sites, challenging visitors to reimagine land use from a multispecies, justice-oriented perspective.

 

Commissioner: Monash University
Curator: Monash Urban Lab with Baracco+Wright Architects

Exhibition Design: Baracco+Wright Architects

Australia – Land Use Inequality

© Nigel Bertram

 

 

ANGOLA

Made in Angola

 

In Angola, a bottom-up design movement is emerging. It takes its competence from artisanal skills and local sustainable materials and creates products with a strong local identity. These productions are made in laboratories located in the city of Luanda, helping to create skills and job opportunities for the weakest sections of the population. The Made in Angola exhibition tells the story of emerging Angolan design, its places, protagonists, and products. The exhibition is created through a co-creation process that involves different local actors (artisans, videomakers, architecture students, urban explorers, and cultural animators) in a design workshop held in Luanda.

 

Promoter: Italian Embassy in Luanda, Ao Criativa 

Curators: Eugenia Chiara and Chiara Mittler

Exhibition Design: Anju Konikkara George in collaboration with Pedro Mvemba Cidade and students

Angola – Made in Angola

Workshop at AO Criativa © Joshua Photographer for AO Criativa

 

 

ARMENIA

(ordinary) architecture

 

Armenia presents (ordinary) architecture, a conceptual exploration of everyday spaces and their transformative potential. Promoted by LFA and curated by a collective including Arsen Karapetyan and Yury Grigoryan, the display centers around the humble garage — a relic of Soviet urbanism now reimagined as a flexible platform for creative community. This abstract garage space echoes Yerevan’s evolving urbanity and reveals how architecture’s most unassuming elements can embody deep social meaning.

 

Commissioner: National Library of Armenia

Curators: Arsen Karapetyan, Yury Grigoryan, Bogdan Peric, Andrey Mikhalev, Aleksei Lashkov, Dana Smagina
Promoted by: LFA (Library for Architecture)

Armenia – (ordinary) architecture

“Antarain” by Aleksei Lashkov

 

 

AUSTRIA

Soft Image, Brittle Grounds

 

Austria’s Soft Image, Brittle Grounds is a research-driven media installation by Felix Lenz. Promoted by Vienna’s MAK and curated by Marlies Wirth, the exhibition unpacks the entangled inequalities emerging from digital systems and extractive economies. Through speculative narratives and multi-channel video, it critiques the simplification of complex realities under technological rationalism, while offering a queer, ecological counter-perspective to contemporary power structures.

 

Promoter: MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna

Curator: Marlies Wirth

Project by: Felix Lenz

Austria – Soft Image, Brittle Grounds

© Felix Lenz

 

 

CHILE

ImAGIne Chile

 

Through ImAGIne Chile, Chile invites visitors to envision a future shaped by Artificial General Intelligence and collective imagination. Promoted by Sebastián Errázuriz Studio and ACQUIS, and curated by Errázuriz, the pavilion celebrates the Chilean capacity to innovate amid scarcity. It encourages global collaboration in designing technological futures that are equitable and adaptive.

 

Promoters: Sebastián Errázuriz Studio + ACQUIS

Curator: Sebastián Errázuriz
Production: Pedro Comparini & ACQUIS

Chile – ImAGIne Chile

 

 

CHINA

Balancing Dynamics: The Law of Civilization Development

 

China presents Balancing Dynamics, a vision rooted in traditional philosophy yet addressing contemporary challenges. Curated by Yongqi Lou, the pavilion explores inequality as a generator of equilibrium. Featuring contributions from five leading universities, it proposes localized, interdisciplinary solutions — from aging populations to urbanism — embodied in experimental forms such as aquaponics and 3D-printed infrastructure.

 

Promoter: Construction Industry Sub-Council, CCPIT

Curator: Yongqi Lou

 

 

CUBA

La Habana Ciudad Patrimonial – Diffused Urbanity

 

Cuba’s La Habana Ciudad Patrimonial exhibition, curated by Jorge Fernández Torres, reflects on Havana’s unique urban restoration process and its approach to dissolving inequalities through cultural preservation. It celebrates the social equilibrium maintained within the city’s historic center, resisting elitism and segregation through grassroots heritage practices.

 

Commissioner: Oficina del Historiador de la Ciudad

Curator: Jorge Fernández Torres

Cuba – La Habana Ciudad Patrimonial – Diffused Urbanity

Photo by Néstor Martí, Cuba

 

 

CZECH REPUBLIC

The Momentum of a Decision

 

The Czech Republic presents The Momentum of a Decision, a powerful critique of housing policy and its failures in Prague. Promoted by the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague and curated by Janek Rous and Karolina Kripnerova, the exhibition investigates homelessness as a systemic political issue. It challenges the privatization narrative and calls for a renewed responsibility for affordable housing.

 

Promoter: Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague

Curators & Designers: Janek Rous, Karolina Kripnerova, Magdalena Rutova

Czech Republic – The Momentum of a Decision

 

GUINEA-BISSAU

Tici Humanidadi: Weaving Humanity

 

Guinea-Bissau’s Tici Humanidadi is a poetic installation advocating for global solidarity through the metaphor of weaving. Promoted by its consulate in Italy and curated by Kiyomi Kawaguchi and Nú Barreto, the display showcases local textiles, art, and storytelling. It emphasizes shared humanity, dignity, and the need to overcome entrenched inequalities.

 

Promoter: Consulate of Guinea-Bissau in Italy

Curators: Kiyomi Kawaguchi and Nú Barreto

Exhibition Design: Nú Barreto

Guinea-Bissau – Tici Humanidadi: Weaving Humanity

Crushing Labor © Samba Baldé

 

 

LEBANON

and from my heart I blow kisses to the sea and houses

 

Lebanon presents and from my heart I blow kisses to the sea and houses, a deeply personal meditation on Beirut’s coastal architecture and collective trauma. Curated by Ala Tannir and supported by AFAC and the Graham Foundation, the exhibition mourns and reimagines a historic home shattered by violence and neglect. It blends artistic strategies to honor memory, resistance, and urban care.

 

Promoters: Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC)

Curator: Ala Tannir

 

 

NORTH POLE TRANSBORDER PARTICIPATION

Liminal Phantoms—The Rebirth of a Landscape

 

The North Pole Pavilion presents Liminal Phantoms, an ecological meditation on post-extractive landscapes. Designed by Alejandro Haiek Coll and promoted by Arctic and Um Arts Research Centers, it narrates the slow regrowth after territorial violence. Through sensorium and metaphor, it evokes the resilience of nature and the urgency of ecological justice.

 

Promoters: Arctic Research Center and Um Arts Research Center and Circolo Scandinavo

Exhibition Design: Alejandro Haiek Coll / Laboratory of Intersectional Ecologies / Umeå University – School of Architecture
Research Team: Lolo Rebecca Rudolph, Tomas Mena, Luis Pimentel, Aram Badr, Atakan Colac, Raquel Colacios, Sevan Mohammadpour, Cesar Velando, Hana Osman, Irina Urriola

 

 

PERU

Relatos Chicha

 

By transforming lettering into a tool of resistance and collective pride, the artist Elliot Tupac brings oral and artisanal traditions into the contemporary in Peru’s exhibition. Heir to the artisanal tradition of the poster-makers of Huancayo, he tells part of the story of Lima’s informal settlements, following with a personal gaze the birth of Chicha culture: a collective identity that emerged in the 1980s from the migration of millions of people from the provinces to the capital in search of new opportunities.

Peru Pavilion © Courtesy of Elliot Tupac

 

 

POLAND

A Brief Vacation

 

Poland’s A Brief Vacation offers a sensory and spatial exploration of regenerative urbanism. Curated by Katarzyna Roj and promoted by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, the exhibition invites visitors to recline, reflect, and reimagine cities as spaces of care and renewal. Drawing from cinema and sanatoriums, it connects crisis with healing, and infrastructure with dignity.

 

Promoter: Adam Mickiewicz Institute, BWA Wrocław Galleries of Contemporary Art

Curator: Katarzyna Roj

Architect: Aleksandra Wasilkowska

Poland – A Brief Vacation

Wasilkowska Transsanatorium 2025

 

 

PUERTO RICO

Once Upon Three Femisites

 

Puerto Rico presents Once Upon Three Femisites, a moving investigation into spatial complicity in gendered violence. Curated by Regner Ramos and promoted by the University of Puerto Rico School of Architecture, the pavilion retraces the tragic story of Alexa Neulisa Luciano through digital, physical, and ephemeral landscapes. It reclaims these sites as spaces of memory, critique, and protest.

 

Promoter: University of Puerto Rico School of Architecture

Curator: Regner Ramos

 

QATAR

Tiamat

 

Through Tiamat, Qatar constructs a contemporary architectural experiment in stone. Promoted by Design Doha and created by AAU ANASTAS, the ribbed vault structure references ancient arches and desert ecologies. Blending material innovation with cultural heritage, the pavilion explores resilience, craft, and environmental responsibility in collaboration with Palestinian artisans.

 

Promoter: Design Doha — Qatar Museums Research

Project by: AAU ANASTAS (Elias and Yousef Anastas)

Qatar – Tiamat

ADN D3 © Edmund Sumner

 

 

ROM & SINTI NATION

Motherland Otherland

 

Rom & Sinti present Motherland Otherland, an exhibition promoted by ERIAC and UNAR and curated by Dijana Pavloviç and Hanna Heilborn. Through the work of artists like Małgorzata Mirga-Tas and Sead Kazanxhiu, the pavilion amplifies Romani voices and exposes the inequalities embedded in European cultural narratives. It calls for recognition, representation, and justice.

 

Promoters: European Roma Institute of Arts and Culture (ERIAC) and UNAR

Curators: Dijana Pavloviç, Hanna Heilborn

Commissioner: Movimento Kethane

Rom & Sinti – Motherland Otherland

Roma pavilion Building home © Giovanni Hänninen

 

 

SAUDI ARABIA

Maghras, A Farm for Experimentation

 

Saudi Arabia’s Maghras, A Farm for Experimentation is a contemplative exhibition rooted in its namesake Maghras, a community farm in the ancient oasis of Al Ahsa — once water-rich, now under ecological strain. Defined by a symbolic square of four palm trees, the display captures field recordings, artefacts, and speculative design responses to shifting agro-ecosystems. Visitors are invited into conversations around preservation, resilience, and imagining a restorative future between land and people.

 

Curators: Lulu Almana and Sara Al Omran

Commissioner: The Ministry of Culture of Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia – Maghras, A Farm for Experimentation

TM Saudi Arabia Image courtesy of Maghras

 

 

TOGO

Out of Fashion

 

A bold critique of waste colonialism, Togo’s Out of Fashion installation transforms discarded jeans from Lomé’s Hedzranawoe market into architecture. It exposes the environmental and social damage caused by fast fashion’s leftovers dumped in Africa, while showcasing the ingenuity of design as resistance and reclamation.

 

Curators & Designers: Studio NEiDA (Jeanne Autran-Edorh & Fabiola Büchele)

Producer: Atelier Lissanon, with Françoise Autran

Togo – Out of Fashion

Main Building at Hedzranawoe market by architect Da-Blèce Afoda-Sebou, Lomé, Togo 2024. Image Studio NEiDA

 

 

UKRAINE

Inhale/Exhale!

 

Ukraine presents a raw, poetic exhibition confronting the fracture lines of war between frontlines and relative safety, between victim and witness. Set in Western Ukraine, Inhale/Exhale! is about inequality, emergence and disappearance, the artefacts of the victim. It urges visitors to exchange sympathy for respect, exploring the realities of disability, trauma, and coexistence in a divided society struggling toward healing.

 

Curator: Khrystyna Berehovska

Promoter: ZAG Gallery

Ukraine – Inhale/Exhale!

 

UNITED NATIONS

Parallel Realities

 

The United Nations’s Parallel Realities is an immersive exhibition curated by the SDG Action Campaign. Through provocative visual storytelling by Uğur Gallenkuş and global changemakers’ testimonies, it explores how inequality fractures our world and offers hope through collective action. The space invites each visitor to reflect, connect, and act.

 

Promoter & Curator: United Nations SDG Action Campaign

What a Wonderful World

United Nations – Parallel Realities

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