The British Council has announced that the British Pavilion at the next Venice Architecture Biennale will be curated by a team of UK-based curators in collaboration with a trio of Penang-based artisans.

Planned to mark "70 years of diplomatic relations" between UK and Malaysia, the curation of the pavilion will be led by Grymsdyke Farm founding director Guan Lee and IDK founder Mike Lim, supported by writer and lecturer Maria McLintock and curator and sound artist Ben Swaby Selig.

The UK-based curation team will collaborate with artisans Ng Chi Wang, Lee Shao Chin and Koh Eng Keat to create the Festival of Hungry Ghosts with the pavilion.

Top: Ng Chi Wang, Lee Shao Chin and Koh Eng Keat with Guan Lee. Photo by Lim Chun Huang. Above: Lee with Mike Lim, Maria McLintock and Ben Swaby Selig.…