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Anatomy of a Viral Landscape

Atrium / Atrium Approach / Upper Atrium

Maps are flat renderings of 3Dimensional landscapes. They delineate countries, continents, states and bodies of water. Artist Rebecca DiDomenico has cut through layers of code to rearrange geography.

SAAI Factory – Exhibition on Art and AI (Malta Edition)

Spazju Kreattiv St James Cavalier, Castille Place, Valletta

SAAI Factory is an art project initiated by the Hamburg-based artist Christoph Faulhaber. The performer, filmmaker, and author is known for his surprising, bold, and mind-boggling projects that address socially relevant issues and institutional critique.

Wiki Loves Monuments 2022 in Malta

Spaces St James Cavalier, Castille Place, Valletta

The seventh edition of Wiki Loves Monuments, the Guinness World Record holder for the largest photography competition, is taking place again in Malta this year. The competition brings together photographers from around the world to take stunning pictures of our cultural heritage to be shared on Wikipedia.

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