GBR – Geology of Britannic Repair
10 May – 23 November 2025
Re-centring architecture’s relationship to geology is crucial not only for understanding its past and present, but also for imagining how it might evolve differently in the future. GBR: Geology of Britannic Repair is a unique UK–Kenya collaboration that seeks to unearth ‘other architectures’ – alternatives that offer possibilities for repair, restitution and renewal.
Curated by Kabage Karanja, Stella Mutegi, Kathryn Yusoff and Owen Hopkins, the exhibition’s geographical, geological and conceptual focus is rooted in the British Pavilion’s alignment along an axis that stretches from Britain in the north-west to Kenya and the Great Rift Valley in the south-east. From this ‘rift’ emerge a series of installations that propose architectures grounded in their relationship to the earth, resisting conventional extractive practices and demonstrating resilience in the face of climate breakdown, as well as social and political upheaval.
Exploring the relationship between architecture and colonisation as parallel, interconnected practices, the exhibition is made up of a series of installations by Cave_bureau, Mae-ling Lokko and Gustavo Crembil, Thandi Loewenson and the Palestine Regeneration Team / PART (Yara Sharif, Nasser Golzari and Murray Fraser).
Rather than presenting fixed solutions, the exhibition seeks to uncover what architecture and colonialism have long marginalised, transforming the British Pavilion into a space for reimagining the relationship between architecture and the earth.