Alessandro Bava

Group XLIV, 2017
ARCHITECTURE

www.aayr.xyz

Born 1988 in Naples, Italy
Lives in London, United Kingdom

Education

Architecture, Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, United Kingdom
Architecture, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

Professional Experience

2014
- Bava and Sons, London, United Kingdom

2013
- vPPR Architects, Longon, United Kingdom

2011
- Acconci Studio, New York, United States

2010
- Marc Forned/TVM, New York, United States

2009
- ecoLogic Studio, London, United Kingdom

2008
- Work PGLF/Tartaglia Partnership, Milan, Italy

Workshops

2010
- ecoLogicStudio, Cybergarden, Architectural Association, London, United Kingdom
- ecoLogicStudio, Urban Pavilions, Simply Rhino/Grasshopper, London, United Kingdom

Teaching

2014
- Guest Critic, UCL Bartlett MArch GAD RC5: Philippe Morel & Thibault Schwartz
- Guest Critic, AA First Year, Fabrizio Ballabio, Maria Giudici

2010
- Visiting Lecturer, BA History and Theory of Architecture, Politecnico di Milano

Lectures & Talks

2014
- “Home ‘14,” (with AIRBNB Pavilion) AA School of Architecture, London, United Kingdom
- “Everything That Is Solid Melts Into Airbnb,” (with Andrea Branzi, AIRBNB Pavilion), Swiss Institute, New York, United States
- “Extinction Marathon,” Serpentine Galleries, London, United Kingdom
- “Swiss Pavilion Marathon,” XIV Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy
- “89plus Resources Panel,” with Hans Ulrich Obrist et.al., LUMA Stiflung, Zurich, Switzerland

2013
- “Architecture Publishing,” panel discussion with Jack Self, Marlie Mul, Tom Weaver

2010
- “Computing Architectural Concepts,” Architectural Association, London, United Kingdom

2009
- “New York Undergrounds,” lecture, Milan Film Festival, Milan, Italy

Exhibitions

2014
- “N.E.A.T Google Cultural Institute and 89plus,” Fondation Cartier pour l’Art
Contemporain, Paris, France
- “AIRBNB Pavilion,” XIV Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy
- “Community Development Meeting + Do More Of What They Love,” with AIRBNB Pavilion, 63rd 77th Steps, Bari, Italy
- “The Office,” with AIRBNB Pavilion, ACL Partners, Paris, France
- “Basic Zone,” curation, Bernadette Corporation, Dena Yago, Juliette Bonneviot, Ilja
Karilampi, Casamadre, Naples, Italy

2009
- “Building for Bouwkunde,” Nai Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- “EcoMachines,” with AAInter10, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

2008
- “Everyville,” XII Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy

Competitions

2012
- BAB AL BAHRAIN, Honorable Mention

2011
- Building for Bouwkunde Rotterdam, shortlisted, special mention

Books & Writing

2015
- “Civitate Dei, Holy Experiments and the Heavenly American Gridiron City,” in “The
Architecture of Sacred Space,” AA Publications, London

2014
- “City of God,” with Harry Burke, Version House, Berlin
- “Home 2014,” Fulcrum #96
- “Catfish Homes, Airbnb and the Domestic Interior Photography,” Rhizome
- “Any Random Thing, Giuseppe Pagano and Chinese 3D Printing,” Issue 14, Pin-Up Magazine
- “Say hello to ghostmodernity: Keller Easterling's Subtraction,” Architectural Review, October 2014
- “Everything Everywhere, Corporate Aesthetics,” Fulcrum #89

2014
- “Interview with Philippe Morel,” Rhizome

Publications

2015
- “Rituals and Walls: The Architecture of Sacred Space,” AA Publications

2014
- “Interview,” L’Uomo Vogue, July/August 2014
- “AIRBNB Pavilion,” PIN-UP Magazine, Issue 14

2013
- BAB AL BAHRAIN, Domus Special, February 2013

2012
- “Deepthroat Diary,” JunkJet, Issue 5
- “ecoLogicStudio, Systemic Architecture,” Routledge

2011
- “ecoLogicStudio, The World Dubai Marine Life Incubators,” AA Publications

2010
- “AD Territory: Architecture Beyond Environment,” AAInter10

2009
- “Building for Bouwkunde Ideas Competition,” Nai Rotterdam

JURY

Andreas Fogarasi
Gabu Heindl
Catrin Lorch
Beatrix Ruf
Christoph Thun-Hohenstein

Luis Ortega Govela

Group XLIV, 2017
ARCHITECTURE

www.aayr.xyz

Born 1988 in Tampico, Mexico
Lives in London, United Kingdom

Education

Architecture, Architectural Association, London, United Kingdom
Architecture, London Metropolitan University, London, United Kingdom

Selected Work Experience

2012/13
- architectural assistant, David Kohn Architects, London, United Kingdom

2010
- architectural assistant, Ushida Findlay Architects, London, United Kingdom

2008 - 2011
- first assistant to art director / set designer David White, London, United Kingdom

2010
- artist’s assistant, Madeleon Vriesendorp Koolhaas

2009
-assistant to art director / set designer Shona Heath, London, United Kingdom

Selected Projects

2014 - ongoing
-- founder, AIRBNB Pavilion:
- AIRBNB Pavilion Exhibition, curation, 14th Venice Architectural Biennale
- “Everything that is solid melts into airbnb,” talk, Swiss Institute New York, United States
- “Home 2014,” talk, Architectural Association, London, United Kingdom
- “Morphing Overnight,” group show, Seventeenth Gallery, London, United Kingdom
- “Schoner Wohnen,” exhibition, Armada, Milan, Italy

Additional Experience
- regular contributor to “Fulcrum” and “Architectural Review” publications
- guest lecturer, 2014, Architectural Association, London, United Kingdom
- external critic, Intermediate Unit 12, Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, United Kingdom
- external critic, 2010 & 2011, Foundation and First Year, London Metropolitan University, London, United Kingdom

JURY

Andreas Fogarasi
Gabu Heindl
Catrin Lorch
Beatrix Ruf
Christoph Thun-Hohenstein

Octave Perrault

Group XLIV, 2017
ARCHITECTURE

www.aayr.xyz

Born 1988 in Saint-Malo, France
Lives in London, United Kingdom

Education

Sociology & Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths University, London, United Kingdom
Architecture, Architectural Association, London, United Kingdom

Work Experience

since 2013
- freelance architect:
- artist assistant (Amalia Ulman, Ed Fornieles, Ana Rajcevic, 18+, …)
- architecture collaborator (DPA, Sam Jacob Studio, Lab-Top Rendering, …)
- set-designer for “The Camus Incident,” shortlisted by the Barbican and Oxford Samuel Becket Theatre Trust

since 2014
- co-founder & active member of åyr
- First Year Studio tutor, Architectural Association

2014 - 2016
- contributing editor at Fulcrum (weekly print publication, with Bedford Press & AA School)

2012
- tutor, Architectural Association Visiting School, with Pascal Schoening and Goswin Schwedinger, Nice, France

2011
- executive producer (archive and copyright research for the documentary “Bob Marley: The Making of a Legend”), Trenhorne Films, London, United Kingdom

2009
- photography and studio assistant, Jonathan Becker, New York, United States

2010
- Marc Forned/TVM, New York, United States

2009
- ecoLogic Studio, London, United Kingdom

2008
- Work PGLF/Tartaglia Partnership, Milan, Italy

Publications & Exhibitions

2015
- contributor to “Architectural Review, Harvard Design Magazine,” (as åyr)

2014
- contributor to “Fulcrum,” Rhizome.org (as åyr)-

2013
- “Digital Sociability,” Fulcrum #74, Bedfors Press, September 2013

2011
- “Tidal Gallery,” Footprint across Fresh Snow, Wimbledon Space, United Kingdom

2010
- “Tidal Gallery,” Takenaka Exhibition, Japan

2009
- “Biological Gateway,“ publication in “Bioluminescent Metropolis,“ BldgBlog.com

Other

2014
- lecturer, Home 2014, with AIRBNB Pavilion, Architectural Association, London, United Kingdom
- guest lecturer “The end of place as we know it,” Strathclyde conference, Glasgow, United Kingdom

2013
- external critic, Inter13, Architectural Association, London, United Kingdom
- co-writer, Salpa’s Journey – a Road Movie,” official selection Rotterdam Film Festival 2014

2012
- contributor, “IMPORT / EXPORT,” Kassel School of Architecture Floating Pavilion, documenta (13), Kassel, Germany

JURY

Andreas Fogarasi
Gabu Heindl
Catrin Lorch
Beatrix Ruf
Christoph Thun-Hohenstein

Anna Jermolaewa

Group XLIV, 2017
FINE ARTS

www.jermolaewa.com

Born 1970 in St. Petersburg, Russia
Lives in Vienna, Austria

Education

Art, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria
Art History, University of Vienna, Austria

Selected Exhibitions

2016
- “Anna Jermolaewa, Beide Weiß,” 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria
- “Anna Jermolaewa. A Noble Experiment,” Kunsthaus Nexus, Saalfelden, Austria

2015
- “Anna Jermolaewa. Good Times, Bad Times,” WRO Art Centre, Wroclaw, Poland
- “Anna Jermolaewa. Good Times, Bad Times,” Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
- “Kiss, Motherhood, Untitled,” Function Room, London, United Kingdom

2013
- Kerstin Engholm Galerie, Vienna, Austria
- “The Way Up,” Victoria Gallery, Samara, Russia
- “Anna Jermolaewa and Audronė Vaupsiene, A SORT OF HOMECOMING,“ CAC Vilnius, Lithuania

2012
- “Art is Concrete. And so is Truth?, Camera Austria, Graz, Austria
- “Anna Jermolaewa,” Galerie Johann Widauer, Innsbruck, Austria
- “Anna Jermolaewa. Das vierzigste Jahr,“ Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria

2011
- “Handschuhe aus Gummi, Putzkittel und Wischmopp,“ Arbeiterkammer Wien, Vienna, Austria
- “Filme von Anna Jermolaewa,” kunstraum lakeside, Klagenfurt, Austria
- “Kinoglaz,” XL Gallery, Moscow, Russia
- “Step Aside,” Institute of Contemporaty Art, Sofia, Bulgaria

2010
- “ANNA JERMOLAEWA | KREMLIN,” EDS GALERIA Mexico City, Mexico

2009
- “
RATS,” XL-Gallery, Moscow, Russia
- “Anna Jermolaewa, Peter Kogler,” Galerie 422, Gmunden, Austria
- “Engholm,” Engelhorn Galerie, Kunstverein Friedrichshafen, Germany

Teaching

2005-2011
- Professor of Media Art, University of Arts and Design, Karlsruhe, Germany

Awards and Grants

2014
- ISCP Artist Residency and New York Studio Grant, Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture

2011
- Outstanding Artist Award

2009
- Preis der Stadt Wien

2006
- T-Mobile Art Award

2004
- Förderungspreis der Stadt Wien

2002
- Ursula Blickle Förderspreis

2000
- Professor-Hilde-Goldschmidt-Anerkennungspreis
- SCA Kunstpreis
- Pfann-Ohmann-Preis

1999
- Römerquelle-Preis

Collections
- Stedelijk Museum
- Friedrich Christian Flick Collection
- Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma
- MUMOK – Museum Moderner Kunst
- Stiftung Ludwig, Wien
- Volpinum Kunstsammlung
- MUSA
- Museum auf Aubruf, Vienna
- Tiroler Landesmuseums Ferdinandeum
- Vehbi Koc Foundation
- Kontakt – The Art Collection of Erste Group
- Belvedere
- Landesgalerie Linz
- Wien Museum
- Bank of Austria Collection
- EVN Collection
- Arbeiterkammer Wien

JURY

Andreas Fogarasi
Gabu Heindl
Catrin Lorch
Beatrix Ruf
Christoph Thun-Hohenstein

Alina Schmuch

Group XLIV, 2017
FINE ARTS

alinaschmuch.de

Born 1987 in Muenster, Germany
Lives in Berlin, Germany

Education

Art, Karlsuhe University of Arts and Design, Karlsruhe, Germany
Art, Academy of Fine Arts Muenster, Germany

Selected Exhibitions & Lectures

2016
- “Overwritten Ground,” film in cooperation with Forensic Architecture, “Reporting from the Front,” Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy
- “Performing Grace,” film in Bruno Latour‘s “Reset Modernity!,” ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
- “We can,” multichannel installation, Open Studios, Jan van Eyck Academie Maastricht, the Netherlands
- “We can,” Kunstverein Dusseldorf, Germany

2015
- “It‘s all all underneath the floor. It‘s all between the walls,” Vienna, Austria
- “Script of Demolition,” Villa der Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany
- “Script of Demolition,” best Photo-book selection, Fotobookfestival, Kassel, Germany

2014
- “Script of Demolition,” lecture performance, Fink Sprengtechnik, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
- “Ritual,” publication in the Webplatform An Inquiry into the modes of existence by Bruno Latour
- “The Walk. From Naples to Pompei,” curated by Nils Olsen and Fredi Fischli, ETH Zurich, gta Ausstellungen, Zurich, Switzerland
- “Reenactment of WW1,” multi-channel installation, European Culture Days, Prinz Max Palais, Karlsruhe, Germany

2013
- “Erasmus Effect,” film for Kuehn Malvezzi, Museum MaXXi, Rome, Italy
- “HAUSEN – Konkrete Substanz und die Möglichkeit einer Sitzgruppe,” 45cbm Kunsthalle Baden Baden, Germany

2012
- “Space, Time, Dignity, Rights,” in cooperation with the UN, GIZ, Centre of Architecture Germany, Berlin, Germany
- “The New Jerusalem Project,” group exhibition and lecture with Philip Ursprung

2011
- “Kontanimierte Räume,” group exhibition initiated by Anna Viebrock, Karlsruhe, Germany
- screening of “winterfest,” 16mm short film, ZKM | Karlsruhe, Germany

2010
- “
Über Zukunft reden wollte er auch nicht mehr,” a multi-channel projection of YouTube videos in cooperation with Steffen Zillig

2009
- “
Installation homesick,” Kunsthalle Münster, Muenster, Germany

Teaching

2015/16
- Guest Lecturer, University of Arts and Design, Karlsruhe, Germany

Awards and Grants

2015/16
- Award 11 for Documentary Photography, Wüstenrot Stiftung, Germany
- Research Stipend, Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, the Netherlands
- Stipend, Kunststiftung Baden Württemberg, Germany

2013/14
- ZKM Award for the exhibition “The Walk and The New Jerusalem Project,”

Artist Books & Publications

2016
- “Two Times One,” editor and contribution, Maastricht 2016

2015
- “Script of Demolition,” pin-up magazine, Spector Books, New York, 2015

2014
- “Script of Demolition,” Spector Books, Leipzig, 2014
- “Siedlung rot beige (begrünt),” photographic essay, trans magazine, 2014

2013
- “LOSK,” photographic essay, Domus Magazine, Rozzano (1), 2013
- “LOSK,” in collaboration with Franca Scholz, text by Joseph Grima and Simon Bieling Spector Books, Leipzig 2013 (Images 5)
- “Komische Strahlung und Notes from Underground,” Bauwelt Magazin, Edition Nr. 8, Berlin, 2013
- “Multifunktionsfabrik 22,” author & editor, Karlsruhe, 2013

JURY

Andreas Fogarasi
Gabu Heindl
Catrin Lorch
Beatrix Ruf
Christoph Thun-Hohenstein