German Pavilion: Ruin – Henrike Naumann & Sung Tieu

Walk up to the German Pavilion and the 1938 portico with GERMANIA over it is hidden. In its place is a graffitied East Berlin prefab, made from more than three million marble mosaic stones. Sung Tieu copied it 1:1 from the block on Gehrenseestraße where she lived as a child, a home for Vietnamese contract workers now being demolished.

Inside, the central hall belongs to Henrike Naumann, who died in February at 41 with the work mostly complete. On walls the mint green of Soviet army barracks, furniture is mounted in relief: midcentury chairs cut in half along the top, a semi-flattened living room in greys and blacks. Tieu's side rooms are spare, built around aluminium outlines of her mother's body.

Studio International called it one of the strongest pavilions. At times the vertical dancers of Il Posto drop from the high windows to the floor. It's in the Giardini, covered by the €30 Biennale ticket, Tuesday to Sunday, 10am to 6pm, until 22 November.