08/03/2021
📣Special Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in memoriam: Lina Bo Bardi 👏🏼
The italian architect, designer, scenographer, artist and critic naturalized as a Brazilian citizen, is the recipient of this prize on the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia that will open to the public on Saturday May 22nd 2021.
The acknowledgment was recommended by Hashim Sarkis, curator of the Biennale Architettura 2021, and approved by the Board of Directors of La Biennale di Venezia.
“The artist’s freedom has always been ‘individual’, but true freedom can only be collective. A freedom aware of social responsibilities, which can knock down the frontiers of aesthetics…” Lina Bo Bardi
The phenomenal life and work of Lina Bo Bardi has long addressed the central question of this year’s International Architecture Exhibition: How will we live together?
The Special Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement is a long overdue recognition for an illustrious career straddling between 🇮🇹 and 🇧🇷for re-enlivening the role of the architect as an enabler of society, and for a woman who simply represents the architect at her best.
