Phase 1 of the 39th EVA International opened from 18 September to 15 November 2020, featuring venue-based, online, and offsite presentations by Bora Baboci, Yane Calovski, Eirene Efstathiou, Laura Fitzgerald, Michele Horrigan, Melanie Jackson and Esther Leslie, Áine McBride, Emily McFarland, Eimear Walshe, Driant Zeneli, and Women Artists Action Group. EVA marked the launch with a commissioned online video of spoken word performance by MuRli, God Knows and Hazey Haze. Phases 2 and 3 of the 39th EVA International will open in 2021.