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Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2024 Curatorial Competition

Submission: 4 April, 2023
Registration: 4 April, 2023
Language: English/ Estonian
Prizes: Please see the details below
Fees: Free
Type: Open

 

The Estonian Centre for Architecture announces the curatorial competition of the seventh international Tallinn Architecture Biennale TAB 2024.

Organized by the Estonian Centre for Architecture (ECA), The Tallinn Architecture Biennale (TAB) is an international architecture festival held since 2011. The festival contributes to creating and promoting a high-quality built environment by addressing timely issues, providing a platform for discussion, bringing together top players, delving into the present and future, and introducing local architectural culture. TAB’s program offers events for the top of the field, young professionals just starting out in the field of architecture, and a broader audience of architecture enthusiasts

Full Curatorial Competition Conditions

TAB aims to promote a high-quality built environment; provide an international platform for Estonian architecture; highlight new ways of thinking and create a vision in the field of architecture. The main organizer of TAB is the Estonian Centre for Architecture (ECA). TAB 2024 takes place between September and November. It consists of a main program curated by a team of curators and a separate satellite program. The TAB 2024 curatorial competition aims to find the best theme for the seventh biennale and a team of curators to organize the event. The main events will reveal the curator’s ideas not only in architecture but in society at large. The best examples from the previous biennales are when all the main events are woven into a complementary whole.

The curator(s) of TAB 2024 will be expected to choose and flesh out a theme for the biennale, create and curate content, and bring in exhibition/symposium participants. ECA provides production support to the curators throughout the biennale.

Participation

The curatorial competition is public and open to everyone. The team of curators should include at least one person who is well-versed in Estonian architecture and speaks Estonian. If the team participating in the competition does not have such a person, the ECA will help the curators find a suitable person after the conclusion of the curatorial competition.

The competition consists of two stages. For Stage I, the teams will submit a written entry, and for Stage II, they will present it orally to the jury. The jury may cancel Stage II if the winner can be determined in Stage I.

Questions can be submitted in Estonian or English; the competition entries must be in both Estonian and English. The deadline for submitting the written curatorial concept for the biennale is 4 April at 20:00 (Tallinn, Estonia). Competition entries must be submitted digitally to info@tab.ee.

Schedule

The competition will take place between 30 January and 4 April 2023. The jury will invite the authors of up to five best entries to present their work to the jury in Stage II. Based on the presentations, the jury will determine the winner and two runners-up. The jury has the right to cancel the Stage II. The results of the competition and the jury’s final report will be announced on 27 April 2023 at the latest.

A virtual public briefing for TAB 2024 will be held on 14 February. The briefing will discuss TAB as an architecture festival and the rules of the curatorial competition in more detail; the thematic recommendations for the Tallinn vision competition will be introduced.

  • 30 January: Announcement of the competition
  • 14 February at 4 pm (Tallinn time): briefing via Zoom together with TAB 2022 curator Areti Markopoulou.
  • 4 April: Deadline for submitting entries
  • 12 April: Results of Stage I
  • 19 April: Stage II, jury meets with the teams
  • 27 April: Publication of results

>> Go to the competition’s website <<<