All A$6m needed for the building will be raised from the
private sector, although the government owns and manages the site
By Louisa Buck. Web only
Published online: 27 June 2012
The Australia Council for the Arts has announced that the
new Australian pavilion at the Venice Biennale is to be designed by
Melbourne-based architectural practice Denton Corker Marshall. The new
building, which the architects describe as “a form of the utmost simplicity: a
white box contained within a black box” is due to be completed in 2015, with
the existing pavilion that has occupied the site since 1988 and was always
intended to be a temporary structure, having its swansong at next year’s
Biennale when it will house the work of Simryn Gill.
Although the site is owned by the Australian federal
government and managed by the Australia Council for the Arts, the government’s
arts funding and advisory body, all of the A$6m ($6.04m) needed for the new
building is to be raised from the private sector. “We don’t have any funds for
capital projects,” says Julie Lomax, the Australia Councils’s director of
visual arts. “We give some money to organisations but our main remit is to
support artists.”
Leading the funding drive is Simon Mordant, joint chief
executive of corporate advisory firm Greenhill Caliburn, who is the
commissioner of the 2013 pavilion. Mordant, who also serves as the chairman of
the Museum of Contemporary
Art in Sydney
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