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.
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
Wandering around Salvaterra de Magos
Bogdan, Leila, Neda wandering around Salvaterra de Magos.
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
From Constância to Vila Nova de Barquinha, passing through Castelo de Almourol.
From Rio de Moinhos to Constância
From Rio de Moinhos to Constância.
Blog
Notes from the rivers
We Are Bodies of Water: Contemplative Art for Liquid Becomings
My three-year old daughter, eager to help, is stationed at the kitchen sink with a scrub brush in her hand. Washing, or slopping water from one bowl...
Thankonomy: Cultivating Connections Through Gratitude
Thankonomy develops tools for 🐵social animals. We're not looking for 🤖world domination; just encouraging small interventions to make this world a...
‘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
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,...
Direct from the Boats
Follow our journey on social media
Events
The European Pavilion 2024: Liquid Becomings | Imagining the Future of Europe
7th-9th November Lisbon The European Pavilion 2024 Liquid Becomings | Imagining the Future of Europe [Portuguese version below] An artistic...
28th September in Utrecht | Liquid Becomings x Sonnenborgh Museum
Liquid Becomings x Sonnenborgh Museum Utrecht Future transformations | Zooming out, Looking at the stars 5:00 - 10:00 pm An Evening at the...
1st October in Rotterdam | A Futuring LAB: Liquid Becomings x Buitenplaats Brienenoord
Tuesday 1st October Rotterdam - A Futuring LAB Liquid Becomings x Buitenplaats Brienenoord** 2:30 - 10:00 pm Organised together with Buitenplaats...
29th Sept | Liquid Becomings in Krakow: public event at the Dom Utopii in Nowa Huta
Sunday 29th September Open programme in Dom Utopii in Nowa Huta 1:00 pm - arrival at the marina in Mogila, walk/parade through Nowa Huta, guided...
Podcast
Listen Let’s Talk Liquid Becomings
Listen Let’s Talk Liquid Becomings: Episode 6 – Alternative Anti-growth Models
https://open.spotify.com/episode/43yMVNmM9LojE1GQ2lAyP0?si=faf5bab82e2b4c4b In partnership with Resonance FM and Espaço Agora Now, we’re broadcasting a series of programmes following the progress of Liquid Becomings: the European Pavilion 2024. For the Liquid...
Listen Let’s Talk Liquid Becomings: Episode 5 – Old and New Public Spaces
https://open.spotify.com/episode/32lEudaDXnaSH45M1dXrH5?si=503ddf82b0db4e6c In partnership with Resonance FM and Espaço Agora Now, we’re broadcasting a series of programmes following the progress of Liquid Becomings: the European Pavilion 2024. This week, we’ll be...
Listen Let’s Talk Liquid Becomings: Episode 4 – The European Cultural Foundation
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4736Gu5apT1uyXYZkRsLzv?si=bf28a8b607e843db In partnership with Resonance FM and Espaço Agora Now, we’re broadcasting a series of programmes following the progress of Liquid Becomings: the European Pavilion 2024. The European Pavilion...
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...