The
European
Pavilion
2024
MS FUSION Donaukanal Wien. Photo © Rainer Prohaska-Bildrecht 2021.
Four Rivers. Four Journeys.
27 August–1 November 2024
Lisbon festival: 7–9 November 2024
Danube
Rhine
Tejo
Vistula
4 River Textiles © Siniša Ilić 2024
Curators: Bojan Djordjev, Laura Kalauz, Maria Magdalena Kozłowska, Siniša Ilić, Alfredo Martins, Annette Mees, Naomi Russell and Olga Uzikaeva, with Agnieszka Brzezanska and Ewa Ciepielewska.
espaço agora now in partnership with Teatro Meia Volta, MS Fusion, United Artist Labor, FLOW.
Participating artists: Alicja Wysocka, Bogdan Djukanović, Carola Uehlken, Elodie Olson-Coons, Elina Rodriguez, Flavia Barbosa Pinheiro, Gonçalo M. Tavares, Gosia Kepa, Isabel Soany, Jaka Škapin, Keli Freitas, Katarina Popović, Leila Chakroun, Małgorzata Kuciewicz, Małgorzata Markiewicz, Marija Balubdžić, Marta Niedbal, Martin Schick, Mette Sterre, Neda Kovinić, Niel de Vries, Paula Diogo, Pio Sebastian Torroja, Patryk Zakrocki, Romuald Krezel, Saskia Tamara Kaiser, Sophie Thun and Viktor Vejvoda
Production and technical team: Lucy Atkinson, Ricardo Costa, Dragana Jovović, Aleksander Rakezić, Mariana Rolim, Ana Raquel Rodrigues, Ana Paula Teixiera and Hannah Tully
Boats and Captains
MS-Fusion: Rainer Prohaska, Hanna Priemetzhofer, Florian Sorgo
FLOW: Piotr Jedynasiak
Content Marketing: Mandy Martinez
Social Media Manager: Flávia Ruas
Films: Dušan Čavić and Dušan Šaponja / Marka Žvaka
Podcasts: Donald Hyslop for Resonance FM
Press representative: Heidi Vandamme
Belgrade Press representative: Monika Husar / KomunikArt
Lisbon Press representative: Cláudia Duarte / This is Ground Control
Navigation Diary
Amulets made onboard
Amulets made by Patryck Zakrocki for the Vistula crew while sailing.
By the bonfire
Moored in Kazimierz Dolny
Well, we moored in Kazimierz Dolny and we will stay there for a while - drying everything that got wet and remembering the many kilometers of FLOW...
Vistula’s sunset are really breathtaking
The last goodbye from the Danube crew
The artists crew on their last goodbye at Golubac Marina, meanwhile the MS Fusion is being dismantled.
MS Fusion being dismantled at the end of the Danube journey
The MS Fusion being dismantled right after the end of the Danube journey, at Đerdap/Kladovo, Serbia.
Flow on route
Collective writing exercise
One of the last activities on the banks of the Danube: a collective writing exercise.
A beautiful sunset at Vistula
A beautiful sunset at the Vistula river.
Duck ponton at Veliko Gradište
A small stop on the route
The boat needed to be lifted to cross the threshold from the Kozienice Power Station.
Welcoming the new artist on crew
It’s the 5th day of the European Pavilion 2024: Liquid Becomings. New girl @eustachy on board. The sky is still clear. @espacoagoranow...
The curatorial team of the Vistula crew
The curatorial team of the Vistula crew: Agnieszka Brzeżańska, Ewa Ciepielewska, Maria Magdalena Kozłowska. Crew: 11 people on board. It’s the 4th...
At Grocka
Morning at Grocka.
At Sava
Along the Sava yesterday morning with Alexandra and Branko from the Sava Embankment group.
Visiting Magacin Macura in Serbia
The arrival at Stari Banovci in Serbia, between Novi Sad and Belgrade, where the Danube crew visited Magacin Macura on Sunday 25th August.
Patterns on the Water Surface by Niel de Vries
I’ve been observing the patterns on the water surface and making little pictograms that refer to these patterns. In the coming days I’ll use these...
Departing from Warsaw by Agnieszka Brzeżańska
Stari Banovci Danube by Siniša Ilić
Stari Banovci Danube by Siniša Ilić
Travel notes in Vukovar by Elina Rodríguez
In a notebook that serves as an exchange of practices, a 'trans acciones utópicas'* between Anuk (an Argentinian artist colleague) and me, and now,...
Blog
Notes from the rivers
Life on boats at Liquid Becomings: The European Pavilion 2024
As part of Liquid Becomings: The European Pavilion 2024, when creative journeys take place aboard a boat, unique and challenging layers are added to...
Invisible intentions: in the departure lies the dream
There is a strong poetic in ‘departures’. Departures link with ‘orginations’ in the many senses of that word. ‘Points of departure’, for instance,...
Confluence | Water meets water, merges, flows on…
Ever since I got involved with Espaço Agora Now and its European Pavilion project ‘Liquid Becomings’, the word ‘Confluence’ has taken on much...
The European Pavilion 2024: Liquid Becomings launched in Belgrade
On 29 June in Belgrade, the curators and consortium of Liquid Becomings announced the participating artists and sailing routes of the boats....
Direct from the Boats
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Podcast
Listen Let’s Talk Liquid Becomings
Listen Let’s Talk Liquid Becomings: Episode 3 – Of Boats and Borders
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5HnzTW2Yfyqz8vQgATMOsK Donald Hyslop at Resonance FM is supporting the Liquid Becomings: the European Pavilion 2024 project with a series of programmes following the participants as they traverse the rivers of Europe. The episode...
Listen Let’s Talk Liquid Becomings: Episode 2
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0gnlY2KLjvQMFweTWWaW85?si=REHd8sl5RxStGBt_Nr18qQ Resonance FM is supporting the Liquid Becomings: the European Pavilion 2024 project with a series of programmes following the participants as they traverse the rivers of Europe. In this...
Listen Let’s Talk Liquid Becomings (Begins)
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4fKy3ksExIIqcJUIoIZIgq?si=mH-p8GQgRy2WkQDNVwNcjg In this first episode with Donald Hyslop + Resonance FM, and as they launch the project in Belgrade on 29n June, the curators behind Liquid Becomings share more about the concept of...