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

Danube

Rhine

Rhine

Tejo

Tejo

Vistula

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.

Liquid Becomings — the European Pavilion 2024 — is a travelling pavilion and radically networked stage. It takes the form of four creative journeys by small boats along four of Europe’s greatest rivers: the Danube, the Rhine, the Tagus, and the Vistula. The four journeys are crossing 11 countries, travelling a combined distance of 1.394 kilometres.

After sailing on the four European rivers, the artistic crews will come together in Lisbon for a three-day festival on 7-9th November 2024.

The European Pavilion 2024 is commissioned by the European Cultural Foundation.

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

Visiting the Sobralinho Palace

Visiting the Sobralinho Palace

The crew's visiting the Sobralinho Palace and the main rehearsal of the contemporary opera "Clepsydra" by invitation of the Inesthetica Theatre...

Castelo de Almourol

Castelo de Almourol

From Constância to Vila Nova de Barquinha, passing through Castelo de Almourol.

Blog

Notes from the rivers

‘Rewilding’ to become anew

‘Rewilding’ to become anew

“A river is a river is a river…” Since 2015, the Polish artist collective FLOW has been sailing the Vistula. The European Pavilion 2024 - Liquid...

Liminal spaces and fluid borders

Liminal spaces and fluid borders

The Danube is many things at once. During our two-week journey on the M.S. Fusion, we cross the following borders: Hungary/Serbia, Serbia/Croatia,...

Events

Podcast

Listen Let’s Talk Liquid Becomings

Lisbon, Portugal

7th-9th November