Unknown Unknowns

Unknown Unknowns is the nerve center of the 23rd International Exhibition: more than 100 works and installations by international artists, researchers and designers deal with the unknown.

What do we actually know about the Universe? Unknown Unknowns seeks to answer a series of questions about what we still "don't know we don't know": from the evolution of the city to the oceans, from genetics to astrophysics. 

Do we truly understand gravity? In line with the themes of Unknown Unknowns and with a view to reuse and sustainability, the staging for the show is wholly created with 3D printing. It was produced in the exhibition spaces of Triennale by large printers.

What is the sound of the Earth? The show includes a special work by Japanese artist Yuri Suzuki, a project that creates changing soundscapes from across our world to break down cultural borders.

What architectural structures are essential for survival in space? Decalogue for Space Architecture by SOM provides a set of guiding principles for all who seek to define the next generation of space architecture.

What is the destiny of the Milky Way? Using new media, Refik Anadol's work proposes an aesthetic conceptualization of galactic collision in a sublime digital play of light and color. 

The show also includes site-specific installations, including Tomás Saraceno's Particular matter(s), a composition of light and air, in which trillions of molecules collide and disperse, creating a sound inaudible to the human ear and shaping a microscopic world of their own.

In a world of practicality and industrial objects, the exhibition enables visitors to reflect and question about the world we live in.