Matri-Archi(tecture) I HOMEPLACE – A LOVE LETTER

In the organizer's words:

ROTUNDA PROJECT 2023/24

The up-and-coming architects from Matri-Archi(tecture) bring their own and other people's experiences of life in the diaspora to the Pinakothek der Moderne. They focus on the construction of belonging far from home and the question of identity.

For the installation "Homeplace", Matri-Archi(tecture) designs the rotunda as a place for critical reflection on the spatial expression of living and home with assemblages of textiles, sound and narratives.

The exhibition is divided into three parts: An expansive curtain of beads stretches from the dome to the first floor of the rotunda, creating an atmosphere that is both transparent and intimate. The installation is complemented by a soundscape based on a series of voices from the diaspora, exploring ideas of dwelling and home. Matri-Archi(tecture) opens and expands "Homeplace" with an Imbizo (Zulu: gathering) that activates the installation during the vernissage.

Matri-Archi(tecture) is an association comprising a network of interdisciplinary spatial practitioners dedicated to the development of African spatial education and providing a venue for artistic collaboration through design, art and architectural research projects. As a constellation of multidisciplinary spatial practitioners, Matri-Archi(tecture) recognizes the value of collaboration across multiple worlds and worldviews, working together in various African and European cities.

Matri-Archi(tecture) has exhibited at the Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein (2021), the Chicago Architecture Biennale (2021) and Nairobi Design Week (2019), among others. The association won the "Best New Practices" award (2021) of the architecture platform Archdaily and was highlighted in the architecture magazine Arch+ for contemporary outstanding feminist spatial practice (2022). The group is also represented in the exhibition "Building Africa: The State of Things!" at the Keyes Art Mile in August 2023 in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Involved in this project are: Afaina de Jong, Abdé Batchati, Aisha Mugo, Margarida Waco and Khensani Jurczok-de Klerk.

Khensani Jurczok-deKlerk is an architect from Johannesburg, South Africa. She is the founder of Matri-Archi(tecture). From October 2023 she will be doing her PhD at the gta Institute for History and Theory of Architecture, ETH.

Margarida Waco is an architect and author. She is a lecturer at the Royal College of Art and editorial advisor to The Funambulist.

Afaina de Jong is an architect and researcher. She is the founder of AFARAI and head of the MA Contextual Design at the Design Academy Eindhoven.

Aisha Mūgo is a researcher and film photographer from Mombasa, Kenya. She works at the intersection of urbanism and migration.

Abdé Batchati is an architecture student at the TU in Munich. She is interested in community-based and self-managed systems and is involved in various activist groups concerned with intersectional justice.

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Price information:

10 euros | reduced 7 euros | Sunday admission 1 euro | day ticket 12 euros