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10/12/2025

Interview | Rosa Martínez | Maltabiennale.art

RETHINKING THE BIENNALE
Rosa Martínez on shaping global art discourse and redefining curatorial practice through clarity, disruption, and cultural responsibility.

Printed copy - out this weekend from Agenda (Malta & Gozo).

https://artpaper.press/interviews/clean-clear-cut/

28/11/2025

Exhibition | Valletta Contemporary

"Deep Throat investigates our collective inability to look away from the performative antics of the most powerful people in the world. In an age when politics has been reduced to a spectacle, what remains of the spectator, watching anonymously from a dark room?"

Interview by Gabriel Zammit with the curator - of Art from Elsewhere: Deep Throat - Rachel Rits-Volloch, the founder of MOMENTUM on www.artpaper.press and in print soon.

Exhibition closes Saturday 29 November 6-9pm with a performance by Rachelle Bezzina at 8.30pm.

24/11/2025

Video installation | at Rosa Kwir

The Pity Party – a video installation and publication by Samira Damato and Teodor Reljić opened at Rosa Kwir on the 22nd of November and runs until Thursday 27th November.

The Pity Party explores grief, death, tradition, and the strange intimacy of the online world. The project emerged from a series of real digital conversations, WhatsApp chats, voice notes, and social media messages, exchanged between Damato and Reljić in the period following their fathers’ deaths.

These raw, imperfect exchanges became an unofficial archive of mourning: messages that spilled across platforms and emotional registers, shifting between confession, dark humour, anger, numb practicality, and the inherited weight of cultural expectations. In the wake of loss, the artists found themselves navigating not only the private terrain of grief but also the ways technology mediates, fragments, and sometimes softens our most vulnerable moments.

The Pity Party transforms those digital traces into a shared creative language. The original messages serve as a source text – translated, abstracted, and reimagined – to inspire artworks that blur the boundaries between memory and imagination, immediacy and reflection, the physical and the virtual. The Pity Party invites visitors to consider how mourning moves through contemporary communication channels, and how personal sorrow can become a site of connection, storytelling, and quiet resistance.

The work unfolds through a multi-screen installation that follows a ‘Griever’ as he attempts to mourn the death of a loved one, only to be interrupted by others, who seek to impose rituals and expectations. The installation is accompanied by a short publication, featuring excerpts of the artists’ personal conversations, along with original images, collages and graphic interventions.

This project is supported by Arts Council Malta.

13/11/2025

Opening on the 14th November at the National Library of Malta, Valletta, Francesca Balzan’s solo exhibition Incunabula 1474–2025, curated by Justine Balzan Demajo, presents a new collection of sculptures.

The exhibition bridges the historical and the contemporary through an innovative sculpture installation, inspired by the
National Library’s collection of early printed books; the 15th century incunabula. The base of these sculptures is 3D printed in porcelain, and from there, Francesca’s hand takes over, completely manipulating and reshaping the form to give each sculpture an individual character. The contrast between the precise lines created by the printer and the distinct, sometimes rough yet detailed features moulded by Francesca creates an engaging dialogue.

One that highlights the coexistence between the digital and the handmade, reminding us that, even in an age of rapid technological progress, the human hand and mind remain profoundly relevant, and can, in many ways, still overpower the machine.

Incunabula 1474–2025 runs until 12 December, 2025 at the National Library of Malta, Valletta. Entrance is free.
Monday – Friday, 830am - 430pm, Saturday until 1230pm.

07/11/2025

BLOW-UP: Art, Fashion & Cinema from 1960 to Today
08 Nov – 04 Jan

City of Art presents BLOW-UP, a major new exhibition exploring the transformative relationship between art, fashion, and cinema from the 1960s to today.

The exhibition examines how, over the past six decades, image-making has evolved from documenting reality to actively shaping and distorting it.

Taking its title from Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1966 masterpiece Blow-Up, the exhibition reflects on how cinema once mirrored the world around it, but now, in an era of hyper-visual culture, images themselves define our perception of truth. Across four distinct rooms, the exhibition juxtaposes iconic artefacts of the 1960s with contemporary works, posing Antonioni’s enduring question: is all that remains of the real that which resists being seen?

The BLOW-UP exhibition brings together works and artefacts by, or featuring, Helmut Newton, Christian Dior, Andrew Grima, Andy Warhol, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Joana Biarnés, David Hockney, and Sylvia Plath, among others–a list which also includes
Maltese artists.

This is City of Art’s second multidisciplinary project to be presented at Spazju Kreattiv, following the success of its previous collaboration. Alongside the main exhibition, BLOW-UP
will be accompanied by an extensive public programme of talks, performances, and publications…

[Photos at the opening by Artpaper]

07/11/2025

“Works that capture energy in the most beautiful of ways” - Prof. Keith Sciberass, presentation and walk-through of ‘Burning Waters’ with work by Arcangelo Sassolino at , complimented with work by the late Victor Pasmore, today, 7 November.

The exhibition situates Sassolino’s practice within the lineage of Abstract Expressionism, a movement once defined by pure gestural freedom. But where mid-century abstraction relied on the artist’s hand and eye, Sassolino revives its spirit through natural energy and material transformation. His work is not a repetition of history, but a return to the origin of art itself - as an inner expression, a reflection of life, and an extension of the human psyche. - Artpaper.

Feature in the latest Artpaper - available from VP Gallery & Agenda in Malta & Gozo.

Burning Waters, runs until the 3rd of January 2026. Monday to Thurs between 10am and 5pm (last entry at 4pm), Fridays 2-7pm (last entry at 6pm), and Sat 10am-3pm (last entry at 2pm). Tickets can be purchased at the door. This exhibition is commissioned by Arts Council Malta in collaboration with Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti.

06/11/2025

25/10/2025

Maltese painter and political cartoonist, Seb Tanti Burlò invited the High Commissioner to view his new exhibition, FamiliaR at the Gallery at Green & Stone in London.

Tanti Burlo put up this exhibition with three other artists: his wife Lydia Cecil, a representational painter working between the UK and Malta; her mother Katie Rockley, a landscape painter; and their long-time family friend sculptor Adam Roud.

The Maltese artist is exhibiting paintings of places at heart to him, such as Siġġiewi, Għar Lapsi Tower and the English countryside.

If you'd like to view this exhibition, it is open from 20 October until 1 November at The Gallery at Green & Stone, 251 - 253 Fulham Road, London, SW3 6HY.

24/10/2025

MICAS hosts rare European survey of Milton Avery, inspiration for Rothko and Gottlieb, together with works from contemporary American and European artists Henni Alftan, March Avery, Harold Ancart, Andrew Cranston, Gary Hume, Nicolas Party and Jonas Wood… Read full press release on the artpaper website www.artpaper.press.

24/10/2025

https://bookings.micas.art/en-gb