A once significantly smaller arts and culture sector is stepping out of the shadows. At a recent Vision 2050 consultation, policymakers, artists, and academics explored how creativity can shape the nation’s future, balancing heritage, innovation, and economic growth. From theatre to publishing, gymnastics to urban design, the long-overlooked Cinderella sector is finally being recognised as central to Malta’s social and economic story.
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The annual HUMS Yuletide gathering has become a familiar fixture in the University of Malta’s calendar, but it remains distinctive in bringing together scholars who otherwise rarely share academic spaces, inviting them to think and reflect together. Last year’s event hosted a range of speakers who exemplified the interdisciplinary and playful ethos of the annual event, now linked to the catchphrase ‘erudite but light’.
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Celebrating Maltese artists and their work, the Malta Arts Council’s RETOLD initiative brings the MALETH exhibition back from the Venice Biennale to its homeland. Featuring powerful works by Vince Briffa and Trevor Borg, this series invites local audiences to engage with themes of identity, refuge, and belonging through contemporary Maltese art.
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You’re alone in a dark room, your laptop casting flickering shadows as a horror film builds to a crescendo. The music tightens. A breath catches. Something is coming. And you? You can’t look away. In fact, no matter how absolutely terrified you are, you’re loving every second of this. How does that make sense?
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Looking for a fun and exciting activity fitting for children and grown-ups alike? Science in the City offers inspiring activities throughout the whole month of September. And, between the 26th and 27th, Science in the City hosts the Street Festival and the Performance Festival.
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Imagine walking into Malta’s National Museum of Fine Arts in 1969, expecting serene saints or picturesque landscapes, and instead finding canvases studded with shattered glass and swirls of cement. Visitors at the time were stunned. Was this really the work of Emvin Cremona, the nation’s beloved painter of churches and stamps? Fast forward to today, and those very works are on display again at the Victor Pasmore Gallery run by Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti in Valletta, inviting a fresh look at a Maltese modern art pioneer who broke away, quite literally, from tradition.
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Is-Siġġijiet is not just about chairs. It is also about nothingness and meaninglessness, miscommunication and isolation – that type when you look back and realise you never amounted to much. It’s a stark irrelevance that gnaws at you and makes you desperate to hold onto whatever significance you can and say ‘yes, it wasn’t all for nothing’. It’s not a comforting thought, but the script does well in hiding that with its quips and gags.
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Six Malta-based artists come together to reflect on space as more than place but as process, memory, boundary, and emotion. Their works in painting, sculpture, and installation unfold across the MICAS galleries in a layered, open-ended conversation.
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When film students from the University of Malta teamed up with scientists, they uncovered previously hidden stories and created documentaries that bring Malta’s lesser-known histories and research to life.
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‘We make place, and our actions influence how place is shaped and develops,’ reflects multidisciplinary artist, Dr Trevor Borg. Place is a multilayered term that has been used in various contexts over the years. While place and space often converge, they each carry distinct characteristics. How do the specificities of place and space emerge through contemporary art?
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