HOME Venice Biennale
At the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, the Australian Pavilion asked a single question: what reminds you of home?
HOME was an all-Indigenous-led exhibition that defined home not as a building but as Country, a living network of landscapes, waterscapes, memories, and ancestral ties. Bradley Kerr was part of the curatorial design sphere led by Creative Directors Michael Mossman, Jack Gillmer and Emily McDaniel, alongside Clarence Slockee, Kayle Salvatori, and Elle Davidson, nominated to represent the voice of First Nations design practitioners on one of architecture's largest international stages.
The pavilion was built around a circular rammed earth structure with sand underfoot and natural earthen elements throughout. Over a hundred architecture students from eleven universities across Australia contributed small, touchable objects representing their own meanings of home. Visitors were invited to touch the exhibits, walk in the sand, and leave their mark in clay or ochre.
The result was not a static exhibition. It was a space that changed with every person who entered it, shaped by presence, touch, and the accumulation of personal stories. Country was not a backdrop. It was the frame through which every story was told.
HOME was covered by The Local Project and drew significant international attention to the question of what it means to centre Country in architectural practice at a global scale.
Read more about it here:
