A REMINDER OF OUR CURRENT EXHIBITIONS - La Biennale di Venezia 2016 

"Stratagems in Architecture: Hong Kong in Venice" and "Coexistence from Macao" have registered 15.000 visitors during the first month of exhibition. You may visit both at Campo della Tana, opposite to the entrance of the Arsenale.

In the Hong Kong exhibition the age-old wisdom of the classical essay Thirty-Six Stratagems, a collection of military tactics applied at wars in ancient China, inspired the solutions proposed by the architects and artists of the exhibition to battle everyday personal and social issues as the extremely high real estate prices, dense living space, the dominant market force, visionless sense and practice to urban renewal, housing planning and environmental friendliness.

Macao's exhibition, instead, pursuits an interactive path to involve visitors to paint the facades of historical buildings and beat mixtures of brown sugar, soil, sand, glutinous rice powder, sea shells, lime powder, among others, to idealy mold the bricks that rise the old walls of the Historic Center. Macao became a Portuguese settlement in the mid-16th century and returned to China in 1999, for which the "Historic Center of Macao" is actually a collection of diverse constructions that witness a coexistence of Chinese and Portuguese cultures. It is now part of the UNESCO World Heritage List 2005.