AIRBNB Pavilion

ÅYR’s Newcomers @ PNI, Oct 7 – Nov 7

7 October 2015
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ÅYR, the collective formerly known as AIRBNB Pavilion, opens their new exhibition Newcomers at London’s Project Native Informant on October 7 and runs until November 7.

Founded by Fabrizio Ballabio, Alessandro Bava, Luis Ortega Govela and Octave Perrault, the collective got its former name during the XIV Architecture Biennale in Venice, when it exhibited in apartments rented through AirBnB. The name change comes under legal pressure from the apartment rental company and in 2015, the collective opted for a new name and, with it, a new show.

Newcomers is a push back of sorts, using what Philipp Ekardt calls “architecturally informed digital rendering and imaging techniques” to create “a new sort of depth”.

See the PNI website for details. **

AirBnB Pavilion, 'Community Development Meeting' (2014). Courtesy the artists.
AirBnB Pavilion, ‘Community Development Meeting’ (2014). Courtesy the artists.
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Bold Tendencies Opening, May 27

26 May 2015
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London’s Bold Tendencies opens its doors with the help of AirBnB Pavilion, Metahaven and Richard Wentworth on May 27.

The non-profit organisation, which has taken over an abandoned multi-storey car park in Peckham, launches its summer 2015 programme with a big opening on May 27. It includes events involving visual art, architecture, music, theatre, film, and literature, will continue on until September 27, with curator Attilia Fattori Franchini ensuring a number of names through the course of the summer including those already mentioned, as well as Robin Steegman, Leo Liccini, and Xavier Dolan.

See the Bold Tendencies website for details. **

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Schöner Wohnen @ AirBNB Pavilion, Mar 3 – 29

2 March 2015

Milan’s Armada art space is bringing in a site-specific project developed by AIRBNB Pavilion titled Schöner Wohnen and running from March 3 to 29.

With AIRBNB Pavilion acting as interior designers, the furniture and decoration borrowed from members of Armada gets recomposed into a single installation exploring the blurred lines in how these objects exist – as familiar home furnishings and as the fetishized commodities of Pinterest boards and Instagram feeds.

The press release for the exhibition writes: “As the contemporary furniture store takes off the image of the home and domestic environments increasingly assume the vestiges of Pinterested boards in space, the status of our objects as the (biographical) signifiers of our dwelling selves is ever more at threat.”

See the Armada exhibition page for details. **

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