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OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen . photos: © Frederik Vercruysse . + archdaily
OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen, in partnership with visual artist Richard Venlet and graphic designer Joris Kritis, were appointed as curators and architects of the 25th Biennale Interieur in Kortrijk, Belgium.
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The main theme SILVER LINING – INTERIORS is conceived by the curatorial team. With ‘SILVER LIVING’, they bring a tribute to the 25th festive edition of the Biennale Interieur, while the subtitle ‘INTERIORS’ aims to explicate the possibilities of the designed environment.
No one knows the exhibition halls of Kortrijk Xpo better than the architectural practice OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen. In 2009 they drafted the masterplan of Kortrijk Xpo. Based on a meticulous grid of precisely 5.7 by 5.7 metres, they constructed a new office block as well as a modular gallery around the exhibition halls. The gallery structures and defines the site. For INTERIEUR 2016, the grid will function again as an organisational structure and framework. OFFICE will light up the external gallery and the circulation areas within the exhibition halls with a festive and guiding ‘SILVER LINING’ construction. The ambition is to develop the totality of the setting for INTERIEUR 2016 to a ‘city in the city’: an urban indoor and outdoor space where design, art and architecture meet.
OFFICE proposes a strong architectural envelope that will hold diverse initiatives for the festive 25th edition of the Biennale: a Biennale that celebrates design in the broadest sense and that functions like a city, operating day and night.
INTERIORS is at the heart of the SILVER LINING edition. A selection of international guests will be invited to create solo or duo presentations: concise and relevant installations by designers, architects and artists with a focus on the creation of a ‘total’ interior.
Central to INTERIORS is the idea that furniture and objects are not single items, but part of the organised space. With INTERIORS, the curators attempt to understand the contextual meaning of objects and avoid that they will solely be consumed as autonomous trophies. We spend most of our time in a designed environment and live with objects, but are they sufficiently and correctly explicated in their totality?
The Biennal Interieur 2016 takes place from 14-23 October 2016.
