As\u00a0 part of its commitment to sharing culture with as many people as possible, Art Explora launched in 2024 the Art Explora Festival, a travelling festival that sails across the seas and oceans on board the world\u2019s first museum boat. It brings visitors innovative artistic and cultural experiences free of charge on board the museum boat, as well as quayside and in a range of venues in the host cities. The programming includes immersive visual, sound, and virtual reality experiences, exhibitions, and a rich live programme featuring concerts, dance, discussions, and workshops.<\/p>\n
After welcoming over 300,000 visitors<\/strong> across its previous Mediterranean stopovers the Art Explora Festival<\/strong> is now setting its course for Croatia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n From 12 to 20 September 2025<\/strong>, the festival and its unique museum boat will dock at Karolina Rije\u010dka Pier in the Port of Rijeka<\/strong> for the very first time. The live programme is curated by Branka Ben\u010di\u0107<\/strong>, Croatian curator and Director of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka<\/strong>.<\/p>\n \u201cMobility and artistic creation are powerful tools to help challenge perspectives and share images and stories to create different relationships with the world. Boarding a boat is an experience in itself; it\u2019s even more remarkable when you find unique artistic and cultural endeavours on that boat, as well as quayside.<\/em>\u201d Programme for the Art Explora Festival in Rijeka from 12 to 20 September 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n In Rijeka, the festival will take place on board the museum boat, quayside with a stage and a workshop space, and in a range of venues in the host cities, such as the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art and the City Museum of Rijeka.<\/p>\n Immersive experiences on board the museum boat<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n On the upper deck<\/strong>: An immersive audio experience centered around the richness and diversity of the Mediterranean, designed and produced by IRCAM (the French Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics\/Music at the Pompidou Centre in Paris) and Ircam Amplify.<\/p>\n Inside the boat: <\/strong>Travel through time and space with the Mediterranean Wonders virtual reality series. Developed with Ubisoft, this installation allows you to experience iconic Mediterranean cities such as Athens, Alexandria, and Venice.<\/p>\n The live program curated by <\/em><\/strong>Branka Ben\u010di\u0107<\/strong>, Croatian curator and Director of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka. <\/strong><\/p>\n A multidisciplinary and free programme of performances, concerts, screenings, dance, talks and workshops will be opened to everyone.<\/p>\n \u2018\u2019With the title Behind the tide, the concept of the Art Explora Festival stopover in Rijeka will inspire our connection to the sea, and bring forward cross-Mediterranean cultural influences intertwined in the plethora of identities that trigger our imagination, responsibility and awareness.<\/em><\/p>\n Behind the tide brings together a multilayered program of discourse, screenings, workshops, performance and music dedicated to the sea and resonating with the local context, it’s environment, stories, histories and future perspectives. Immersive sound and images, will engage with perspectives of emancipatory female voices, fragments of mythology and heritage of antiquity, issues of modernization and demodernization, archival documentary film heritage, the transnational perspectives and sounds and echos of marine life and aquatic ecosystems, to highlight potential turning points in the reconceptualization of\u00a0 the relationship with the sea.<\/em><\/p>\n The program will navigate between geophysical, historical and imaginative narratives. It will reveal a network of relationships, discovering old and new horizons. The sea brings forward complex and contradictory feelings,\u00a0 feelings of belonging and connectedness with the world, while at the same time it is about the distance and the unknown. Artists look at many ways, at the realities, histories and the sensory experiences that orient the collective reimagination.\u2019\u2019 <\/em>\u00a0Branka Ben\u010di\u0107, art historian and curator of the Croatian stopover of the Art Explora Festival<\/strong><\/p>\n Branka Ben\u010di\u0107 is an art historian and curator based in Croatia. She is the director of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka.<\/p>\n SAVE THE DATE <\/strong><\/p>\n FRIDAY 12 SEPTEMBER \u2013\u00a0 Afternoon Inauguration of the Art Explora Festival Accor <\/strong> About Art Explora Festival<\/strong> www.artexplora.org\/festival<\/a> About Art Explora<\/strong> www.artexplora.org<\/a> From 12 to 20 September 2025, the festival and its unique museum boat will dock at Karolina Rije\u010dka Pier in the Port of Rijeka for the very first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_trash_the_other_posts":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[142,376],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-departments","category-cultural-institutions"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nFr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Jousset, Art Explora Chairman<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nKarolina Rije\u010dka Pier Port of Rijeka<\/p>\n
\nAs one of the Art Explora Festival\u2019s main partners, the Accor Group played a key role in its inaugural success. This partnership, formalised in Marseille, reflects Accor\u2019s commitment to sharing the arts with as many people as possible. Sensitive to the challenges faced by Art Explora, Accor, together with its employees, its ALL – Accor Live Limitless loyalty programme and its hotels, is ready and waiting to support the festival in every country along the way. The partnership draws on the Accor Group\u2019s ALL -Accor Live Limitless reservation platform and loyalty programme to offer exclusive experiences for its members at the festival<\/p>\n
\nThe Art Explora Festival is a touring festival that travels across seas and oceans on its museum boat, offering free access to innovative artistic and cultural experiences.
\nThe festival is hosted aboard the world\u2019s very first museum boat, quayside in exhibition pavilions, and in various locations within its host cities, with a programme that combines exhibitions, virtual reality, performances, conventions, film screenings, concerts and more.
\nFrom Spring 2024 until Autumn 2027, the museum boat will travel to 15 countries in the Mediterranean; the cradle of great civilisations and a melting pot of many cultures. It will bring together artists, curators and cultural, educational and community organisations to collectively imagine a new vision of the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>@artexplorafestival<\/a><\/p>\n
\nArt Explora is an international organisation that inspires new encounters between arts and audiences – locally, nationally and internationally.\u00a0 Its imaginative contemporary approach encourages new forms of access participation and engagement with arts and culture, pushing boundaries with digital technology and mobile programmes. It works in partnership with artists, cultural organisations and communities, exploring all art forms and creating transformative cultural experiences for everyone. Art Explora is a charitable organisation founded in 2019 by philanthropist and entrepreneur Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Jousset, with offices in France and the UK, bringing together many partners and over 2,000 volunteers.<\/p>\n
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