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A collective installation brings together interventions by six teams of artists, professionals and curators from European cultural institutions to celebrate the legacy of the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion. Cross-Occupancies converts this icon of modern architecture into a microcosm of the relationship between human experience and the natural world. The works reflect the character of each region, in a dialogue between the apparent universality of this building and themes such as maintenance, care and refuge.
Under the title Listening to Care, the Lisbon Triennale invited artist Sara Morais to design the sound piece 'Onde começa a visita?' (Where does the visit start?), which invades the pavilion with a multilingual audio guide and invites visitors to lose themselves among the sounds, voices and languages of those who take care of this space on a daily basis.
In English – Where does the visit start?
In Catalan – On comença la visita?
In Spanish – ¿Donde empieza la visita?
In Portuguese – Onde começa a visita?
Saturday, 17 February
11h — Opening and authors presentations
12h — Listening to Care tour
13h — Debate on natural resources: At the Beach + Nature Morte
16h — Performance Argita Prifti: Oda Mediterra
17h — Performance Pari Banu Asgar: Queer Deities in Migration
Sunday, 18 February
11h — Authours presentations
12h — Listening to Care tour
12h30 — Round table Pavilion 13
The installation Pavilion Cross-Occupancies is part of the New Temporality project, supported by the European Commission and involving seven institutions. The collective programme, developed between 2022 and 2025, aims to build a continental platform that documents, investigates, and values shared temporalities, while reflecting on notions of permanence and stability associated with architecture's spatial dimension.
The consortium's first engagement with the city of Barcelona was facilitated through a cooperation journey from 19 to 25 October 2023. The programme included work sessions and exploratory visits to local organisations and collectives working on the urban resources of the Catalan capital, with the goal of driving the creation of content for the collective exhibition Pavilion Cross-Occupancies. Each cultural agent subsequently invited individuals from the fields of art, architecture, or curatorship to develop an intervention (including performances or installations) using the pavilion designed by the German architect as a living, evolving resource to be temporarily inhabited and transformed. The outcome also reflects the experience and background brought by the participating institutions, emphasising the similarities between local contexts and Barcelona.
Alongside the tour promoted by the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, the trip also provides an opportunity to plan the next programme cycle, in the wake of the Messy Studio held in the Georgia Pavilion at the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale. This four-year programme bringing together seven countries is supported by the European Commission and made its debut in 2022, passing through Berlin with a debate at the Floating University, Lisbon with an open forum at the Triennale 2022 and Albania, for the debut of the Tirana Triennale.