maltabiennale.art 2024
Fri, 01 Mar
|Il-Kalkara
maltabiennale.art 2024 will be held in Malta. Notably, an island that has been challenged in finding its place in existing histories of contemporary Western and non-Western art due to its periods of colonisation and location; that is, being located in the centre of the Mediterranean and on the perip
Time & Location
01 Mar 2024, 00:00 GMT+1 – 30 Apr 2024, 01:00 GMT+2
Il-Kalkara, Triq Marina, Il-Kalkara, Malta
About the event
Atlantis, Utopia, Robinson Crusoe’s island: throughout recorded history, islands have been considered the antithesis to the mainland, but French philosopher Gilles Deleuze proposes islands as containing the intensity of the world itself. The possibility of an island is always the possibility of a world.
maltabiennale.art, happening in 2024, is conceived as a Mediterranean biennale that intends to investigate insular thinking, able to see the island not as a postcard utopia but as a delimitation that produces learning and encounters.
Far from being something pure, the island is always a principle of composition and invention. Located in the centre of the Mediterranean, the island of Malta is an ideal observatory to question current issues in the area and to imagine new possible futures alongside the artists’ vision. Location is the immediate identifier of any isolated land mass; Malta’s maritime lore dates back centuries, and its crucial role throughout history has been…