Limbo Portrait, foto di Ethel Tawe
Conference
Emil Grip
November 2 2025, 6.00pm
Free admission upon registration
During Milan Arch Week 2025, we present a lecture by Emil Grip, co-founder of Limbo Accra, entitled Architectures in Limbo.
This lecture by Emil Grip, co-Founder of Limbo Accra, explores the concept of “limbo” as both a cultural metaphor and an architectural condition. Drawing on literature, beginning with Dante’s Divine Comedy, art and contemporary practice, it reframes unfinished or abandoned buildings not as failures, but as spaces of possibility. Through recent projects, and the founding of the newly minted institution, Limbo Museum, the talk considers how paused architecture can open up new frameworks for art, design, and spatial practice, inviting a reassessment of how we imagine and engage with the future of the built environment.
Emil Grip is a director and researcher working at the intersection of architecture, design and contemporary art. He is the founder of Limbo Accra and Limbo Museum, two pioneering institutions that re-imagine cultural infrastructure through experimental design and spatial innovation. Emil has led projects and installations presented at major international fairs including Venice Architecture Biennale (2025), Triennale Milano (2025), Sharjah Architecture Triennial (2023) and Chicago Architecture Biennale (2023) among others. His practice draws on a background in education and is inspired by a vision of cross-pollinating everything, everywhere.
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Parte di: Milano Arch Week 2025
Highlights
Veduta notturna dell’abitazione a cupola geodetica di Füller, progetto dell’allestimento dell’architetto Roberto Mango, realizzata nel parco Sempione per la decima Triennale
Una modella posa all'interno della Mostra di oggetti per la casa (o Mostra Oggetti d'uso), nel Padiglione USA progettato dagli architetti Lodovico Barbiano di Belgiojoso, Enrico Peressutti e Ernesto Nathan Rogers
Tre modelle percorrono il Ponte che collega il Palazzo dell'Arte con l'area verde antistante, progetto degli architetti Aldo Rossi e Luca Meda
Installazione luminosa "Luce spaziale" di Lucio Fontana sul soffitto dello Scalone d’onore. Nel vestibolo del primo piano, decorazione parietale di Bruno Cassinari