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PRESS RELEASE 01.09.23
An overwhelming 2527 proposals have been submitted from 75 countries around the world! The selection team will now be looking into each proposal in detail, selecting the contemporary art proposals which will bring together Malta’s first art biennale.
PRESS RELEASE 23.08.23
The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation, UNESCO, has just
granted its patronage to maltabiennale.art, which will be held in Malta for the first time in the
coming year. UNESCO’s patronage is considered as a high form of recognition for this art
festival, which while still its infancy, has already garnered a strong and encouraging global
response from artists, and is clearly set to become the focal cultural event of 2024 in Malta.
PRESS RELEASE 09.08.23
With less than seven months to go before maltabiennale.art opens to the public, the islands are abuzz with activity in preparation for their first international contemporary art biennale, which promises to be the region’s cultural highlight of 2024.
PRESS RELEASE 26.07.23
Malta is gearing up to host its first ever international contemporary art biennale, titled maltabiennale.art, taking place in spring of 2024. A first for the islands, the biennale will be investigating the island’s identity, shaped by periods of colonisation and location in the heart of the Mediterranean.
PRESS RELEASE 13.07.23
A first-time biennial has no tradition to bow to, no historic exhibition pavilions to populate. It is faced with a blank canvas – an ideal space for shaping the imagination. To understand how best to do this, it is essential to know that Malta is the smallest state in Europe (a full eight times smaller than Luxembourg);
cartographically it is located south of Tunis, and its language is a hybrid of Romance and Semitic languages written in the Latin alphabet.
PRESS RELEASE 31.05.23
Preparations are well underway for Malta to host its first international art biennale next spring, titled baħar abjad imsaġar taż-żebbuġ, curated by Artistic Director Sofia Baldi Pighi and chaired by Mario Cutajar, President of maltabiennale.art.
An open call has been issued for national and international artists to partake in the first edition of maltabiennale.art taking place between March and May 2024. The call invites contemporary artists worldwide to submit thematically relevant work manifesting in any medium
Press Coverage
Malta’s First International Biennale Receives Over 2500 Proposals From 75 Countries
The anticipation surrounding the inaugural edition of maltabiennale.art, an international contemporary art festival, has reached new heights as the call for proposals draws to a close.
UNESCO grants patronage to Malta Art Biennale
UNESCO has granted its patronage to the Malta Art Biennale, which will be held for the first time in 2024. UNESCO’s patronage is considered a high form of recognition for this art festival, according to Heritage Malta, who said the event will be a focal cultural event next year.
IL-UNESCO TAGĦTI L-PATRUNAĠĠ TAGĦHA GĦAL AVVENIMENT INTERNAZZJONALI TAL-ARTI LI GĦALL-EWWEL DARBA SE JSIR F’MALTA
L-UNESCO, il-fergħa tal-Ġnus Magħquda għall-Edukazzjoni, ix-Xjenza u l-Kultura, tat il-patrunaġġ tagħha lill-maltabiennale.art, festival internazzjonali tal-arti li, għall-ewwel darba, se jsir f’Malta s-sena d-dieħla.
2,500 proposta minn 75 pajjiż interessati fil-maltabiennale.art
L-ewwel edizzjoni tal-maltabiennale.art, festival internazzjonali tal-arti li ser isir is-sena d-dieħla, qed jattira interess kbir. Fl-għeluq tas-sejħa internazzjonali għall-proposti, l-organizzaturi ħabbru li rċevew 2,527 proposta ta’ arti kontemporanja minn artisti ġejjin minn 75 pajjiż differenti.
300 foreign artists apply for participation in Malta Biennale
Malta will host the Arts International Biennale between March and May next year. Spread in localities from Valletta to Cottonera and Gozo, the event includes drama, music, exhibitions and the educational aspect.
THE MALTESE ISLANDS WILL HOST THE MALTABIENNALE.ART UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF UNESCO
For the first time under the patronage of UNESCO, the maltabiennale.art 2024 will be held to explore the Mediterranean, reflected in the theme for the biennale’s first edition: Baħar Abjad Imsaġar taż-Żebbuġ (White Sea Olive Groves) through contemporary art.
