AEXN architects
THE TUMULUS, exhibition design
Year: 2025
Gross built area: 10 m²
Project location: Plazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy
Building function: Cultural
Design: Tomas Grunskis, Vaiva Žemaitytė
Video, photos: Norbert Tukaj
Publication: Tadas Karpavicius
Model: Linas Mazūras (GetScale)
Manufacturers: UAB AKOpanel
Host: European Cultural Centre Italy
Sponsors: UAB exterus, UAB reynaers aluminium, UAB vadasiga
AEXN architecture studio presents THE TUMULUS Crematorium and Columbarium Park at the 7th edition of the international architecture exhibition in Venice.
At Time Space Existence, this architecture is reinterpreted through a spatially immersive installation. The central exhibition element — a sculptural table — reflects the tumulus metaphor, hosts site model and publication. Sound-absorbing panels used to clad the surrounding exhibition walls and design elements acoustically softens space within Palazzo Bembo, thus reflecting the project’s core themes of silence, ritual, and spatial transformation.
About Time Space Existence
Since 2012, Time Space Existence has been a major biennial architecture exhibition organised and hosted in Venice by the European Cultural Centre. Exploring the fundamental philosophical concepts of Time, Space, and Existence, the exhibition brings together a diverse and international group of participants from various disciplines.