Spanish architect and educator Andrés Jaque has been selected as the Chief Curator of the 13th Shanghai Biennale that is slated to take place starting on November 13, 2020. 

Jaque is currently the Director of the Advanced Architectural Design Program at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP). He is also the founder of the Office for Political Innovation, an architectural practice based in New York City and Madrid. In 2018, Jaque co-curated the Manifesta 12, the "European Nomadic Biennale," in Palermo, Italy with Bregtje van der Haak, Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, and Mirjam Varadinis.

In a press release announcing his selection, Jaque writes, "It will be my priority that the city of Shanghai is not only a venue but also a fundamental actor in the discourse, content, and experience of the Shanghai Biennale," adding, "I very much look forward to working with agile artists to develop new productions in response to specific sites."

Jaque continues: "New commissions will also be conceived with Shanghai-based groups, collectives, associations, or professionals, as a way to assemble different kinds of sensitivity and knowledge through art-making, and moreover, as a way to empower the legacy the Biennale leaves for the social tissues the city is constituted on."

According to the Biennale organizers, the theme of the exhibition will be unveiled in January 2020. The Biennale will run from November 13, 2020 through March 28, 2021. 

Listen to episode eighteen of Archinect Sessions, "Moonwalking Or (The Expected Virtue of Social Architecture) with Andres Jaque, winner of MoMA PS1's YAP":