The Japan Pavilion at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition \u2013 La Biennale di Venezia (held in Italy from May 10 to November 23, 2025) presented a vision of the future with generative AI as a site for dialogue opened \u201cin-between\u201d humans, non-humans and the environment. The exhibition featured a rarely seen configuration where two works \u2014one, an installation in the ground-floor pilotis and outdoor space by SUNAKI (a collaborative studio led by Sunayama Taichi and Kiuchi Toshikatsu), the other an installation in the first-floor gallery by Fujikura Asako and Ohmura Takahiro\u2014were combined in a reciprocal way to resonate as a single piece. The curation was led by Aoki Jun and Iemura Tamayo.<\/p>\n
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Utilizing the partially renovated spaces of the mu seum\u2019s former office building (now named Ohsui House) that was constructed in 1933 on the museum grounds at the time of its founding, this homecoming exhi bition invites the three entities\u2014the curatorial team and two artist teams\u2014that intersected at the exhibition in Venice to independently reconfigure the works for display in Kyoto. While home-coming exhibitions of the Japan Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia have been held in the past, this is the first attempt to hold such an event outside of Tokyo in both the art and architecture fields. By hosting it here in Kyoto, a city home to numerous higher education institutions of art and archi tec-ture, we aim to foster further cultural ex change and creative develop ment both in Japan and internationally. <\/p>\n
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