The British Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale opens to the public on Saturday with GBR – Geology of Britannic Repair, an exhibition that uses the Rift Valley as a lens to examine geology, resource extraction and empire.

Curated by a team led by Nairobi-based practice Cave_bureau, the exhibition features six gallery installations exploring how architecture might engage with legacies of colonialism and environmental degradation. The curators include Cave_bureau’s Kabage Karanja and Stella Mutegi, writer and curator Owen Hopkins, and geographer Kathryn Yusoff.

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