The Korean Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Biennale showcases 'Little Toad, Little Toad: Unbuilding Pavilion,' a reflective exhibition marking its 30th year. It focuses on self-unbuilding and reconfiguring the pavilion into a porous structure influenced by history, nature, and the human experience. Curated by the Curating Architecture Collective, the exhibition features site-specific installations by various artists exploring themes of construction and absence. Yena Young's piece, based on speculative science, imagines a hidden narrative connected to the soil beneath the pavilion, engaging visitors in a dialogue about architecture, time, and existence.
Yena Young's installation shifts the ground beneath the pavilion, imagining it as an accidental capstone over a fossilized mystery involving a headless organism unearthed in 1993.
The exhibition Little Toad, Little Toad: Unbuilding Pavilion reflects on spatial boundaries through subtraction and reinterpretation rather than expansion, marking the pavilion's 30th presence at the Biennale.
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