Golden Goose launches the 2025 Architecture Biennale with Marco Brambilla’s first major solo exhibition in Italy, curated by Jérôme Sans
Words Domenico Costantini
Golden Goose marked the opening of the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale with Altered States, the first extensive solo exhibition in Italy by acclaimed artist Marco Brambilla, hosted at HAUS—its cultural platform and creative hub in Marghera, Venice. Curated by Jérôme Sans, co-founder of the Palais de Tokyo, the exhibition transforms the post-industrial space of HAUS into a hybrid environment that merges physical architecture with cinematic hallucination.
Composed entirely of imagery and sound sourced from film, Altered States blurs the line between reality and illusion, drawing on the collective unconscious to construct multi-layered video installations and immersive audio-visual environments. Brambilla—renowned for his monumental works at The Sphere in Las Vegas and Times Square in New York—uses cutting-edge media, including virtual reality and digital collage, to investigate the spectacle of pop culture and its entanglement with technological mediation.
Structured as a series of five distinct environments, the exhibition offers a fragmented yet cohesive journey through dreamlike landscapes where memory, fantasy, and desire converge. The show positions cinema as both medium and metaphor—an altered state in itself—while questioning how media technologies shape perception and consciousness.
Altered States opens to the public on May 10 and 11 as part of HAUS Week, featuring a wider program of performances, workshops, and talks dedicated to art, culture, sport, and sneaker design, aimed at engaging the local Venetian community through creative dialogue and cultural exchange.
