British Council Kenya announces team for Venice architecture exhibition 2025
The British Council Kenya has selected a team of architectural practitioners to represent the UK at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia 2025.
The collaborative UK-Kenya curatorial team selected is Cave_bureau co-founder and directors Kabage Karanja and Stella Mutegi, Owen Hopkins, director of the Farrell Centre at Newcastle University, and Dr Kathryn Yusoff, Professor of Inhuman Geography at Queen Mary University of London.
A panel of architects, educators and cultural professionals from across the UK and Kenya, chaired by the British Council’s Sevra Davis, selected the winning team from a shortlist of four proposals.
The exhibition will be held from May 24 to November 23, 2025, in Venice, Italy, and will explore architectures of repair, restitution and renewal conceiving architecture as a practice that is implicated in empires of extractive geology.
It looks at how decarbonising and decolonising of architecture can be further explored and expressed.
British Council Country Director Kenya Tom Porter said: “This landmark collaboration at the Venice Architecture Biennale presents a timely opportunity to celebrate creative collaboration between the UK and Kenya on a global stage. The programme will be a highlight of our UK Kenya Season 2025. The team’s ambition to explore repair, restitution, and renewal will inspire important conversations and bring nuanced perspectives to architecture’s impact on people and our planet.”
