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 May 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.

An extended documentary has been released, presenting the studio’s work from the past three years.
It premiered during the Copenhagen Architectural Biennial and is now available on Louisiana Channel.

Furthermore, the film has been selected for screening at:

- Copenhagen Architecture Biennial : Copenhagen (19.09.2025)
- Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam (10.10.2025+11.08.2025)
- Copenhagen Architecture Biennial : Odense (14.10.2025)
- Bergen internasjonale filmfestival (16.10.2025+21.10.2025)
- Architecture & Design Film Festival : New York (16.10.2025)
- Copenhagen Architecture Biennial : Copenhagen (16.10.2025)
- Copenhagen Architecture Biennial : Aalborg (18.10.2025)
- Architecture Festival Zürich (19.10.2025)
- Architecture & Design Film Festival : Los Angeles (22.10.2025-27.10.2025)
- Architecture & Design Film Festival : Vancouver (5.11.2025-9.11.2025)
- Architecture & Design Film Festival : Toronto (12.11.2025-15.11.2025)
- Architecture & Design Film Festival : Mumbai (08.01.2026-11.01.2026)

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.

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