The team behind the Pavilion of the Republic of Serbia at the Venice Biennale includes architects Davor Ereš, Jelena Mitrović, and Igor Pantić, who bring innovative insights into architecture and computational design from their academic and professional work. Mitrović brings innovative insights into architecture and computational design from their academic and professional work, while designers Ivana Najdanović and Sonja Krstić bring deep expertise in materiality and textile intelligence from their work in knitwear and fashion.
For his part, Petar Laušević incorporates the necessary creativity and knowledge of renewable energy to drive the installation and transform it into a dynamic structure. Together, the team is an expression of a generationally and disciplinarily diverse practice model that embraces traditional, digital, and collective intelligence to shape architecture in a changing world.

Pavilion of the Republic of Serbia at La Biennale di Venezia. Photograph by ReportArch / Andrea Ferro Photography.
Made of wool, a material rarely associated with architecture, "Unraveling: New Spaces" is an immersive and constantly evolving pavilion. Conceived as a truly circular installation, "Unraveling" generates no waste. All the materials used in the installation return to their original configuration at the end of the exhibition: a thread. In this sense, the proposal invites us to rethink architecture as something transient and adaptable, encouraging special care for materials.
An immersive and constantly evolving pavilion, shaped with algorithmic precision that follows a slow, guided choreography. Hanging from the ceiling in catenary curves, the woven segments link the delicate Serbian tradition of weaving and architectural discipline in a contemporary expression.

Pavilion of the Republic of Serbia at La Biennale di Venezia. Photograph by ReportArch / Andrea Ferro Photography.
The Serbian proposal, composed of 1.2 x 5 meter woven fabrics, is a mobile structure that unravels over time as a series of small motors powered by solar panels slowly but steadily pull the threads. Inviting visitors to interact with it from multiple perspectives, the pavilion moves, relaxes, or subtly deforms.
Ephemeral and unexpected. Thanks to the effect of the central light, which highlights its gradients of transparency and density, visitors will encounter a different configuration on each visit. "Unraveling" is a poetic gesture that merges Serbian artisanal traditions with pioneering research. An example of a multidisciplinary effort that challenges contemporary construction methods, demonstrating that architecture is a tactile practice with the potential to evolve, deform, and begin anew.