Curator and producer: Vladimir Belogolovsky, Curatorial Project, New York, USA
Zaiga Gaile of Zaigas Gailes Birojs, Riga, Latvia
Sergei Tchoban of Tchoban Voss Architekten, Berlin, Germany
Zhang Yingfan & Bu Xiaojun of Atelier Alter Architects, Beijing, China
Robert Konieczny of KWK PROMES in Katowice, Poland
Nikoloz Lekveishvili of TIMM Architecture, Tbilisi, Georgia
Ashot & Armine Snkhchyan of snkh., Yerevan, Armenia
Exhibition Design: Jie Song & Weili Zhang, Shanghai, China
Graphic Design: Peter Bankov, Prague, Czech Republic
Video Editing: Akshay V Sukumaran, Trivandrum, Kerala, India
No Doubt About It traces the intentions and design strategies of six international projects. Three theaters, two museums, and one residential block are examined in different stages of development through assertive positions that emerged from experimenting with intuitive ideas and perpetual doubts. The exhibition provides a platform for intentionally diverse, even contradictory ideas that are charged by innovation and ecological concerns, individualism and collaboration, artistry and pragmatism, and fundamentally free from any ideology and defiant of the consensus of any kind. Six projects are shown through architectural models, drawings, animations, the curator’s interviews with the architects, and manifesto-like quotes.
Zaiga Gaile presents her unique vision for the historical Wagner Theater situated in the heart of Riga, which was initiated by the architect’s husband, an entrepreneur and Latvia’s former PM, Māris Gailis. Sergei Tchoban displays his freehand drawings from performance-like sessions with professors and students of the Waldorf School in Magdeburg for a new Festival Hall on the school’s landscaped campus. Atelier Alter’s Zhang Yingfan and Bu Xiaojun draw our attention to their adaptive reuse project, the Dali Transformer Theatrical District in the ancient city of Dali in Yunnan. Robert Konieczny returns to the project he completed a decade ago, Przelomy Dialogue Centre in Szczecin, where he initiated the site’s landscape improvements. Nikoloz Lekveishvili integrates his study of a traditional gossip balcony into the ground-up residential block, Metra Hills, in Tbilisi. Finally, the husband-and-wife team, Ashot and Armine Snkhchyan have been transforming the Yerevan Museum of Modern Art, a 1980s Soviet Modernist icon.
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