until Monday November 24 2025
Fondazione Prada Venice
Ca' Corner della Regina, Santa Croce
Venice
Italy
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“Diagrams” is an exhibition project conceived by AMO/OMA, the studio founded by Rem Koolhaas, for the Fondazione Prada Venice venue, Ca’ Corner della Regina, investigating the visual communication of data as a powerful tool for constructing meaning, comprehension or manipulation and a pervasive instrument for analyzing, understanding and transforming the surrounding world. It seeks to foster dialogue and speculative reflection on the relationship between human intelligence, scientific and cultural phenomena, and the creation and dissemination of knowledge.
The exhibition, on view on the ground and first floors of the 18th-century Palazzo Ca’ Corner della Regina, gathers more than 300 items, including rare documents, printed publications, digital images, and videos, spanning from the 12th century to the present day and related to various geographical and cultural contexts. This material is displayed according to a thematic principle that reflects not only contemporary world urgencies but also, de facto, demonstrates the diagram’s transversal and diachronic nature. The exhibition system, designed by AMO/OMA according to the “now urgencies” principle, is structured according to nine primary topics: Built Environment, Health, Inequality, Migration, Environment, Resources, War, Truth, and Value. These themes are illustrated in the central room of the first floor in a series of vitrines arranged in parallel to one another.
The project benefits from the extensive research conducted by Fondazione Prada in close collaboration with Rem Koolhaas and Giulio Margheri, Associate Architect at OMA. The expertise of Sietske Fransen, Max Planck Research Group Leader, Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, was instrumental.
Central to the exhibition is also AMO/OMA’s design practice, which has integrated diagrammatic forms as architectural tools since the 1970s.
The exhibition also includes the contributions of other significant and recent environmental design and urbanism practices developed by international platforms like Atmos Lab and Transsolar, as well as by investigative practices and scholars such as Theo Deutinger and SITU Research.
