Among the collateral events of the Biennale Architettura 2021 until November 21 at Palazzo Malvasia Palumbo Fossati, the large and almost completely internationally unknown building work of Svetlana Kana Radević, a famous Montenegrin and Yugoslav architect, is exhibited.
The exhibition will show original drawings, photographs, and correspondences from her personal archive, a trove of newly-discovered materials that make it possible to contextualize and historicize an exceptional, overlooked figure of postwar architecture.
The exhibition, curated by Dijana Vucinic and Anna Kats, aims to significantly expand her representation within the architectural canon by exhibiting the highlights of her built work for the first time: the Hotel Podgorica (1964-1967) and the Hotel Zlatibor (1979-1981), with expansive public spaces that welcomed both locals and visitors to commingle in environments that made socialist broadly luxury accessible; the Petrovac Apartment Building (1967), with its sculptural façade and expansive apartment layouts; as well as the Monument to Fallen Fighters at Barutana (1980), a sculptural memorial landscape that commemorates local anti-fascist fighters.
Website: www.labiennale.org
Location: Palazzo Palumbo Fossati, San Marco 2597
Schedule: until November 21, 2021
