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Europalia is an annual art festival in Belgium. Every year one country is chosen to display some of their visual arts, plays, music, dance, literature and any other art forms you can imagine.
This year is special because it's not just one country but it's 27: the European Union. This year is our 50th birthday so a cause for celebration!
Agorafolly is a great concept: 27 artists from the 27 countries of the European Union show one piece of art about their idea of the identity of Europe outside on a square in Brussels and one work of art about their idea of the identity of their country inside in "La Centrale Electrique".
This whole "identity"-thing may sound a bit conceptual and boring but trust me: the works are almost all far from boring!
We went to Agorafolly Inside first. For this part you have to pay but it's well worth the visit. It's always interesting to see how people see their own country and how they convey their ideas in works. Most works had a lot of humour in them too so it was a lot of fun.
If you go here be sure to take a close look at the works from Cyprus (see pic), Latvia, Portugal and Slovakia.
At "La Centrale Electrique/De Elektriciteitscentrale" you can get the free map for Agorafolly Outside. The tour takes you through the whole inner city to many interesting places. We didn't have time to do the whole tour at once because it takes quite some time.
If you want to do the tour or at least see some of the works you should not wait too long because several of the works were already vandalized...
Agorafolly Inside runs un till 13-1-2008, Agorafolly Outside runs un till 9-12-2007.
we've been to the inside part also, last week :)
ReplyDeleteloved the hungarian old man eating in another speed, slowakian folk song also, swedish "you ordered Derrida, you got it", and also the basement of the Netherlands ;) Where is Slovenia was also good... Portuguese matchstick building looked good also... well, many good stuff indeed !
we still have to do the outside part, we paid 1€ extra for the walking guide...
If you pay the one euro extra you're supposed to get a guided tour (headphones) and gps (at least that what's the site says). Did you??
ReplyDeleteyes, we did pay the 1 extra, but we didnt have time to do it that afternoon, so we just got a coupon stating that we could get it another day... it's a very long walk all around bruxelles, so we'll keep it for a full frozen but shiny day of december. (knock on wood)
ReplyDeleteAha I wondered how it would work as most people won't be able to do the walk and the exhibit the same day. It's a great walk for such a day ;-)
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