The exhibition at this year's Venice Biennale will be created by zerozero

On March 17, 2008, a Czech-Slovak jury led by the director of the Moravian Gallery in Brno, Mark Pokorný, and composed of representatives from the Association of Architects of Slovakia, the Institute of Architecture and Urbanism of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, the Slovak National Gallery, and the National Gallery in Prague selected the winning project for the exhibition pavilion of the Czech and Slovak Republics at the 11th International Architecture Biennale in Venice 2008.

In a competition with 19 authors and 22 projects, the Prešov-based studio zerozero won with the theme In the Kitchen and Architecture: Cooking Architecture and the Architecture of Cooking. The authors of the project are architects Irakli Eristavi and Martin Jančok.

Among the finalists, the jury also included the project Birdhouse by architects Stano Bachleda, Ján Ťupek, Katarína Novomestská, and the studio Maat arch, along with the project by architects Ján Pernecký, Ivan Príkopský, and Tomáš Szoke, named after this year's biennale theme Out There: Architecture Beyond Building / Out There. Architecture beyond construction/building. The author of the theme and also the curator of the international exhibition is the American architectural historian and critic Aaron Betsky, who has been the director of the Cincinnati Art Museum in the USA since 2006.

For the media, the biennale will open on September 11, 12, and 13; the exhibitions will be accessible to the public from September 14 to November 23, 2008.