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Dying Planet

Space B, Spazju Kreattiv St James Cavalier, Castille Place, Valletta

Dying Planet is a solo exhibition of illustrations and paintings about climate anxiety and existential dread by illustrator, designer and visual artist, ‘iella’ (Daniela Attard) a body of illustration work and paintings focusing on climate anxiety and existential dread.

150 | Richard Ellis

Space C, Spazju Kreattiv St James Cavalier, Castille Place, Valletta

The Richard Ellis Archive consists of 39,000+ glass negatives documenting the period in Malta and Gozo between 1861 and 1938.

SACES – Architecture Student EXPO 2022

Studios St James Cavalier, Castille Place, Valletta

The Architecture Student EXPO is a celebration of everything the Faculty for the Built Environment does at the University of Malta.

Inaction is a Weapon of Mass Destruction

Space C, Spazju Kreattiv St James Cavalier, Castille Place, Valletta

Inaction is a Weapon of Mass Destruction is an art project meant to shed light on the mediatic processes utilised to spread information about war and its effects on the viewer.

Marlands

Spazju Kreattiv St James Cavalier, Castille Place, Valletta

Maritima-Islands is a communicative space for the institutions, artists, researchers and public of the Mediterranean with a special focus on the islands of the region. It is created for people to exchange their experiences, to motivate them to gain new knowledge, encourage them to conduct collective artistic work and recognise the uniqueness of the islands, as well as to spread this knowledge beyond the targeted area as these islands.

Anamnesis

Space C, Spazju Kreattiv St James Cavalier, Castille Place, Valletta

The project is an introspective visual art exhibition by Clint Calleja, consisting of paintings, sculptures, photography and installations revolving around the theme of ‘Trauma and Memory’. The artworks will be unfolding through autobiographical recollections that remain imprinted in his memory. Unfortunately, most of these are of a traumatic nature.

INSULAR

Space B, Spazju Kreattiv St James Cavalier, Castille Place, Valletta

INSULAR is a photographic project that focuses on the everyday life and destiny of young men from the African diaspora, recently settled on the island of Malta. Offering a sensitive portrait of this new community, the weaving of portraits, landscapes and still lives sets a poetical narration that attempts to create a sense of belonging; the semblance of a home in the making between here and there.

When the Moon Waxes Red

Space A, Spazju Kreattiv St James Cavalier, Castille Place, Valletta

In an age of advanced climate crises, the earth should be read as if it were a script that needs to be interpreted. This links to traditional knowledge, shifts in perspectives and norms and raises the question: What if we pluralised our ideas about the world and acknowledged that the current understanding of the future that has dominated the world for centuries simply leads to a dead(ly) end?

A New Gothic

Space C, Spazju Kreattiv St James Cavalier, Castille Place, Valletta

"A New Gothic" presents the fourth and most ambitious exhibition to date by the emerging contemporary figurative painter Ġulja Holland.

the wind blows… …waves in all directions

Spazju Kreattiv St James Cavalier, Castille Place, Valletta

Across a 46,000km coast surrounded by 22 countries, LGBTIQ+ people simultaneously enjoy civil rights, face criminal action, can legally have their gender recognised, are socially and/or legally oppressed because of their gender, go through genital mutilation at birth, live under harsh systems be it socio-economic issues, nationalism and colonialism; and this only touches the surface of the multitude of experiences and challenges. 

Representing Pride

Space B, Spazju Kreattiv St James Cavalier, Castille Place, Valletta

Representing Pride is a process based curatorial photography collection, premiering never-before- seen works focussed on LGBTQIA+ stories, by eight individual photographers from around the

Art Explora Festival Installation

Spaces St James Cavalier, Castille Place, Valletta

Spazju Kreattiv's Space B is set to undergo a captivating transformation into an immersive installation during the Art Explora festival. This unique space offers a sneak peek into the array of creative projects showcased at the port.

European Digital Treasures – An exhibition of short films on the management of centennial archives in the 21st century

Atrium / Atrium Approach / Upper Atrium

Over the last decades, institutions with archival holdings have invested important resources to offer access to digitized items. These “digital treasures” are thus included as primary sources to free access portals, but they do not have a transformation process nor generate economic returns. Digital collections have enormous potential for changing the way that information is used, and for developing new ways of preserving, collecting, organizing, propagating and accessing knowledge.

ENEMY (a peace conference) – Exhibition

Space B, Spazju Kreattiv St James Cavalier, Castille Place, Valletta

ENEMY (a peace conference) is the first part of a performance trilogy in relation to the wars in Europe. Having completed an initial long-term work entitled BARBARE on the member countries of the European Union from 2019 to 2022, Zone -poème- took on Europe with a view to creating a work for peace and questioning the figure of the enemy.

Migration Nation

Space C, Spazju Kreattiv St James Cavalier, Castille Place, Valletta

MIGRATION NATION is an extensive project and exhibition on Climate Migration by London based and internationally active Maltese artist IELLA, curated by Margerita Pule', with contributions from the Malta Community of Illustrators and experts from multidisciplinary arts and sciences.