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Welcome to the digital logbook of the Art Explora Festival! Discover our resources to prepare or extend your visit, share your impressions and explore the testimonials of other visitors. Explore artist profiles, artworks, educational resources, podcasts, and videos—all conveniently housed in one place.Enjoy your discovery!

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The voices of Marseille
Conference
All audiences
Mediterranean
Podcast

Marseille Voices

Radio Grenouille
Marseille

Discover the "Voices" podcast in Marseille! Hosted by Antoine Sourrieu, this series takes you to meet the inspiring personalities shaping the region's cultural scene. Discover Marseille and the Mediterranean from a new angle through these exclusive interviews recorded during the Art Explora Festival, in partnership with Radio Grenouille.

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Mediterranean Crossed residencies
All audiences
Mediterranean
Video

IN THE EYES OF: BEA BONAFINI - EP.1

Art Explora
Valletta

Discover the first episode of "In the Eyes Of", our series that takes you on a journey of discovery of the Mediterranean through the eyes of the artists who inhabit it.

Italian artist Bea Bonafini, based between London and Barcelona, took part in the programme crossed residencied programme developed as part of the Art Explora festival. During her residency in Malta, she explored the blending of identities and myths resulting from trans-Mediterranean migration and trade. Bea Bonafini explored Neolithic archaeological sites and the way ceramics preserve and transmit myths about mother goddesses and female deities.


Discover the artist and her work in video here!

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Museum boat
All audiences
Video

Festival Art Explora - Highlights from Marseille

Art Explora
Marseille

⛵️ The Marseilles stopover ended on the Old Port, in a warm and festive atmosphere that reflected the unforgettable 13 days of the festival.

🙌 Nearly 60,000 visitors were able to enjoy immersive experiences aboard the museum-boat, marvel at dance shows and artistic performances, sing and dance at concerts and DJ sets, get inspired at captivating lectures, explore photo and video exhibitions in the pavilions, travel through virtual reality experiences, enjoy open-air cinema sessions, and rediscover Marseille and its cultures through a multitude of activities offered in different parts of the city, and much more!

Highlights
Malta Stopover podcast
Conference
All audiences
Seas & oceans
Podcast

Stopover in Malta

Spazju Kreattiv
Valletta

Welcome to the first season of the Art Explora Festival podcast, with our first stopover in Malta! The Art Explora Festival stopover in Malta was organized with Spazju Kreattiv, Malta's National Center for Creativity, under the direction of Daniel Azzopardi. Enjoy all the lectures, conferences and debates in audio format, as if you were there. Find out how artists, curators and cultural and educational organizations are coming together to envision a new perspective on the Mediterranean.

Museum boat
Mediterranean
Mediterranean roaming
All audiences
Crafts
Podcast

Mediterranean roaming

Mediterranean roaming

To understand the thousand and one stories of the Mediterranean wardrobe, ITINÉRANCE invites you to follow the new silk routes. What does a garment say about the person who wears it, makes it or sells it? Through these aural portraits, we attempt to define our vision of fashion, and its creative, environmental and human stakes.

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France
Mediterranean
Podcast
Crafts
Museum boat
All audiences
Video

Festival Art Explora - Highlights from Malta

Art Explora
Valletta

What an unforgettable trip! 🎉 We're opening the memory box to show you some festival highlights. The Art Explora Festival in Malta is: 10 days of festival, 12 children's workshops, 55 events, 95 artists, 21,000 visitors and hundreds of memorable moments. The Art Explora Festival stopover in Malta was organized with Spazju Kreattiv, Malta's National Center for Creativity, curated by Daniel Azzopardi.

Highlights
Museum boat
E-learning
All audiences

Women in Mediterranean art

Art Explora

How are women represented in the arts? What clichés are (too) often associated with them? And what role do they play in creation?

To find out, discover our 4-part journey on Art Explora Academy: head for the Mediterranean countries for a journey through time and culture!

Women artists
Art Explora Academy
School
Museum boat
School
Women in the Mediterranean
Educational booklet

Festival Art Explora educational booklet

Art Explora
As part of the Art Explora Festival's immersive exhibition, we are offering teachers, education professionals and volunteers an educational kit to help them enrich their visit. The kit provides keys to understanding the content of the visit, as well as details on some of the works on display, enabling readers to prepare their itinerary and build activities adapted to all visitors.
Visual Art
Women artists
Mediterranean
Heritage
Ocean Weekend
All audiences
Seas & oceans
Educational booklet

Posidonia: Guardian of the Mediterranean

Fondation de la Mer
Valletta
In Malta, the Art Explora festival and the Fondation de la Mer are joining forces to raise awareness of the need to protect Posidonia, a Mediterranean plant that forms underwater meadows and plays an exceptional role in marine ecology. Download our educational guide to find out more about this remarkable marine plant and how it contributes to biodiversity and climate regulation.
Fauna and Flora
Mediterranean
School

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Key figures

EN 2024

220 000

Visitors
discover the festival and the world's first museum boat

500

Artists
were programmed as part of the various stages

8 000

Schoolchildren and association beneficiaries took part in dedicated tours and workshops

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NoS BILANS D'Escales

At the end of each stopover, our press releases report on the highlights and key figures. Consult them to measure the Festival's impact and follow our actions step by step. 

RABAT 2024

From October 11 to 17, Rabat was alive with performances combining dance, design and circus. A week of intense artistic exchange that attracted 15,000 visitors and raised awareness among 1,620 young people and families of the ecological and cultural challenges facing the Mediterranean. Discover all the highlights in our press release.

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11
OCT.
17
OCT.

DURRËS 2025

From April 10 to 21, the Art Explora Festival dropped anchor in Durrës, attracting 35,000 visitors to its museum boat and quayside pavilions. Conceived by curator Arnisa Zeqo, assisted by Rina Meta, the "Of Cities and Women" program featured some 50 Albanian and international artists. Discover all the highlights of the festival in our dedicated press release.

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10
APR.
21
APR.

MALAGA 2024

From October 31 to November 10, moored at the Muelle Uno, the catamaran-museum attracted 12,000 visitors, while 8,000 people took part in events organized at various venues around the city. With a total of 20,000 participants, this stopover closed the year 2024 on a high note!

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30
OCT.
10
NOV.

VENICE 2024

For the opening week of the Biennale d'Art Contemporain, the museum boat welcomed nearly 4,000 visitors and art world professionals. A unique immersion into the heart of contemporary art, where you'll encounter outstanding works and committed artists. Relive the highlights of this stopover in our dedicated press release.

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17
APR.
22
APR.

TANGER 2024

From September 20 to 29, Tangier attracted 100,000 visitors to a program of concerts and poetic performances. Educational commitment was at the heart of this stopover, with the participation of 140 school groups and associations. All the highlights in our dedicated press release.

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20
SEPT.
29
SEPT.

Malta 2024

Take a look back at our stopover in Valletta, Malta, organized in collaboration with Spazju Kreattiv from March 21 to 31, 2024. Over 21,000 visitors attended the ten-day festival,

download ESCALE BALANCE SHEET
21
MARCH
31
MARCH

Marseille 2024

From June 6 to 18, 2024, over 60,000 visitors discovered the Art Explora Festival and its museum boat. Discover all the highlights in our dedicated press release.

download ESCALE BALANCE SHEET
06
JUNE
18
JUNE

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