An exhibition called Cloud Pergola/The Architecture of Hospitality, by several Croatian authors, will represent Croatia at this year's Venice Biennale architecture exhibition which will take place from May 26 to November 25.

The 16th International Architecture Exhibition, part of La Biennale di Venezia, will be titled Freespace and curated by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, co-founders of the award-winning Grafton Architects company.

“With the aim of promoting the ‘desire’ of architecture,” the edition focuses on the question of space, the quality of space, open and free space, said the chair of La Biennale di Venezia, Paolo Baratta.

The exhibition will include 71 projects from around the world, with the preview taking place on May 24 and 25, and the awards ceremony on Saturday, May 26.

The presenter of the Croatian exhibition in Venice, architect Bruno Juricic, said he imagined the project as a site-specific ambiance, an installation that crosses the boundaries of architecture, art, engineering, robotic fabrication and computational models.

The exhibition is structured through the interplay of three interventions: Cloud Drawing by Alisa Andrasek and Bruno Juricic, To Still the Eyes by Vlatka Horvat, and Ephemeral Garden by Maja Kuzmanovic and FoAM (Foundation of Affordable Mysticism).

The Croatian pavillion in Venice will open on May 25, said the Croatian Culture Minister, Nina Obuljen-Korzinek, at the promotion of the installation at the Ministry for Culture last Wednesday.