The annual Antepavilion commission is an initiative to develop, construct and display experimental structures offering emerging artists, makers and architects an opportunity to create new work within a complex urban environment.
For 2025 the Antepavilion brief returns to the location at the origins of the competition: the North-West corner of the Hoxton Docks rooftops. The prominence of this position has made it Antepavilion’s signature display space since 2016 when it was first occupied by Matthew Butcher‘s Floodhouse. Since then it has hosted a series of displays of art/architecture and performances.
The Antepavilion competition is open to everyone; no qualifications are required. We make available some specialist skills, particularly metalworking and structural engineering support. But the overriding requirement is that entrants must be able to make and install their work essentially themselves.
As usual, the 2025 brief is open to broad interpretation. Entrants need have regard only to the location where their proposal is to be realised and the platform, podium or plinth as its base. But, again as usual, it is useful to be aware of the background and history of the Antepavilion and its home, Brunswick and Columbia Wharves.
You can find that in the full here: antepavilion.org/2025
Budget Up to £25k to cover construction cost and prize money with prize not to exceed 40% of the total budget. Entries are required by midnight on 14th March.
Illustrated: the Potemkin Theatre / Maich Smith Architects Antepavilion from 2019
