UK Pavilion at 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale to Address Brexit

The United Kingdom has selected a team led by architects Adam Caruso and Peter St John of Caruso St John, along with artist Marcus Taylor, to curate its national pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. Their proposal, titled 'Island' after a passage from Shakespeare's The Tempest, will transform the pavilion into a public space for debate on Brexit. The Biennale runs from May 26 to November 25, 2018, under the theme 'Freespace' curated by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara. Caruso St John recently won the RIBA Stirling Prize for Damien Hirst's Newport Street Gallery and have worked on projects including Nottingham Contemporary, Tate Britain, and Gagosian galleries. This will be Marcus Taylor's debut at the Venice Biennale, though he has collaborated with the architects before, including on a shortlisted design for London's Holocaust Memorial. The British Council's Sarah Mann described the installation as stimulating and likely to provoke debate.