WATERFRONTS

At the beginning of WATERFRONTS, before any art was made, forty-six people in Sweden, Greece and Croatia sat down with us to describe what climate change was doing to the place they live. The findings were not surprising. Rising temperatures. Water scarcity. Biodiversity loss. Emotional strain, described in language that people were often slightly embarrassed to use. And, everywhere, a gap between what environmental policy says and what environmental policy does - policies perceived as...

On 8 June 2026, the WATERFRONTS Concluding Conference began at Centar za mlade Zadar and finished on a beach in Bibinje, standing on the coastline the project spent two years talking about. The morning We opened the Conference with the artworks. All nine works produced across Gothenburg, Bibinje, and Mytilene are shown together for the first time. Glass from Sweden. Dance film and painting from Croatia. Ceramics and photographic collage from Lesvos. Then a conversation about artivism in...

Over two years, WATERFRONTS produced nine artworks. They were made by seven artists and one collaborating glass artist, across three coastlines and three European seas, in two distinct phases. This is all of them. Community Artivism Three works, made with communities rather than about them. Ninety-one people contributed directly. Around four hundred and fifty more encountered the results. FORM, COLOR & EMOTIONS - Darja Nordberg & Martina Claesson, Gothenburg. Twenty-five participants in a...