Documentary: Make Materials Matter
Louisiana Channel: Make Materials Matter2025
location: Venice producer: marc-christoph wagner and simon weyhe camera: simon weyhe edit: simon weyhe copyrights: louisiana channel, louisiana museum of modern art, 2025
On behalf of Louisiana Channel, photographer Simon Weyhe has been documenting the work with the Danish Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 between December 2023 and April 2025. During this period, Søren Pihlmann was interviewed by Founding & Managing Editor of Louisiana Channel, Marc-Christoph Wagner, on multiple occasions.
The resulting documentary offers a layered insight into the making of the pavilion – as a physical structure, a collaborative process, and a set of evolving ideas. You can watch the full film here.
The work shown being carried out is made in collaboration with:
- Felix Hilgert (Lehmag AG / ETH Zürich)
- Julian Christ (University of Copenhagen)
- Serkan Karatosun, Katja Irene Møller (Technical University of Denmark)
- Victor Boye, Alberte Hyttel Reddersen et al. (Royal Danish Academy – Architecture)
- Yasuhiro Kaneda
- Carlotta Borgato and Jan Boelen
- M+B Studio srl
- Gjerulff & Lassen A/S
- Spazio Legno Venezia srl
- Studio Gisto
- Oxara AG
The documentary is generously supported by The Dreyer Foundation.