exhibitions & projects


selected exhibitions 1999-2009


2009

July                                     soho [2-video installation]
                                            Remont Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia

June                                    the world next door [curated project: ruth bianco]
                                            MCA - Malta Contemporary Art, Marsa, Malta

May                                    maryan & rahma [video]
                                           Windows upon Oceans, Apollonia European Art Exchanges, Strasbourg, France        

April                                   dead famous [bookart media]  
                                           Square (collective show), No 68, Valletta, Malta

March/April                       selection of works [videos & tagworks]
                                           Maltese Connection (ruth bianco & pierre portelli), Citric Gallery, Brescia, Italy        

2008

Dec                                    spectacle [video]
                                           Dans la Nuit, des Images, Grand Palais, Paris, France

Dec                                    black island [video sculpture installation]
                                           Eight Eighteen, MCA - Malta Contemporary Art, Marsa, Malta

Aug                                    tourism dot com [joint installation: ruth bianco & richard davies]
                                           BV Gallery, Landes-Kultur Zentrum, Linz, Austria

July                                    maryan and rahma [video]        
                                           Rencontres Internationales, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany       

June/July                          tourism dot com [joint installation: ruth bianco & richard davies]
                                          National Museum of Fine Arts, Valletta, Malta

June/July                          mile of paper [bookart group show, curated: ruth bianco]
                                          National Museum of Fine Arts, Valletta, Malta

May                                   maryan and rahma [video]        
                                          Rencontres Internationales, Complejo El Aguila, Madrid, Spain

Apr                                    soho & spectacle [videos]
                                          Amaze / a Maze Culture Festival,  Sztuka Fabryka, Bau-huis, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium

March                               maryan and rahma [video]        
                                          Projected Vision (Traveling show), Apollonia European Exchanges, Strasbourg, France

Feb                                   open studio [works on paper]
                                         Rue Baron Lambert, Brussels, Belgium
                                
2007

Nov                                   weathertalk & portrait of an upsidedown tree [videos]
                                         Artitude Gallery, Sliema, Malta

Nov                                   maryan and rahma [video]
                                         Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Video-Library Espace Consultation Documentaire, Paris, France

Oct                                   portrait of an upsidedown tree [video - son et lumière]
                                         Upper Barrakka Gardens, Valletta, Malta

Sept                                  zoni [video installation, drawings and research exhibition]
                                         Researchers of Europe, Meditation Room, St James Cavalier Centre for Creativity, Valletta, Malta

Sept/Oct                          zoni:  maryan and rahma;  port of call [video installation and drawings]
                                         Bezruc Opava Festival, Dum Umeni - House of Arts, Opava, Czech Republic
                                         zoni [video performance]
                                         Galerie Fiducia, Ostrava, Czech Republic

July                                  tunnel vision;  speed journeys [videos]
                                         Video Summer Programme, Citric Gallery, Brescia, Italy
       
June/Sept                        sealand [double video projection]
                                         Faux Mouvement - Centre d'Art Contemporain, Metz, France

June                                 spectacle [video]
                                         Rencontres Internationales Berlin, Babylon Movie Theatre, Berlin, Germany

May/June                         soho [2-video installation]
                                         The Philosophical Brothel, St James Centre for Creativity, Valletta, Malta

May                                  spectacle [video]
                                         Rencontres Internationales Madrid, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain           

May                                  maryan and rahma;  i try to make myself invisible [projection installation]
                                         Asylum Seekers (Questioning Spaces Project), Marsa Open Centre, Albertown, Malta

Apr                                   speed journeys [video installation]
                                         Duration (Questioning Spaces Project), Valletta Waterfront - 4 Vaults, Valletta, Malta

Apr                                   tidal dialogues in process [videos, drawings & photographs]
                                         Fragments from the Studio (Questioning Spaces Project),  Biaggio Steps, Valletta, Malta        

Feb                                   shark heads in cast steel [digital art]
                                         Artifecture - A Fictitious Public Sculpture Project, Start media arts project, Malta Today, Malta

Jan                                    sealand [double video projection]
                                         Crossings, Espace Camille Claudel, Amiens, France

2006

Nov/Dec                           spectacle [video]
                                          Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris-Villette Theatre, Paris, France
                                                
Sept                                  film drawings [works on paper]
                                         Citric Gallery, Brescia, Italy

July/Sept                          mortal chains [short doc]
                                         Webcast documentaries, Four Docs, Channel4.com, UK                

July/Aug                           speed journeys [video installation]
                                         Femmes d'Europe, Espace Rendez-vous de Lices, Saint Tropez, France
                                       
Mar/Apr                            don't run over the birds, please [projection]
                                         National Museum of Fine Arts, Valletta, Malta

2005

Sept                                 touching landflight & spectacle [videos]; wall of prayer [paper & light installation]
                                        Chapter House, Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury, England                                       

June                                 red sunday [spatial interventions & photographs]
                                        south-east coastline sites, Kent, UK

Apr/May                          solution [installation: photographs, soap bars, tree trunks, red siren light]
                                        Blitz, War Shelters, Birgu, Malta

Apr                                  red alert [bookwork]
                                        Future Hope, HSBC, Canary Wharf, London

Mar                                  ground erasurespeed Journeys & tunnel vision [projection installation]
                                        Parallel screenings:  Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury, UK and Waikato University, New Zealand
                                       
2004
                                       
July/Aug                         wall of prayer [floor installation & video]; if i just turn and run and red alert [bookworks]                                          
                                        Breakthrough - EU accession exhibition
                                        Grote Kerk Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands
                                      
Nov                                 wall of prayer [floor installation & video]; if i just turn and run and red alert [bookworks]             
                                        Nieuwe EU Landen - EU accession exhibition
                                        Regentenkamer, Kunstzentrum, The Hague, Netherlands

2003                                 

Dec                                  don't brand me love me [public intervention: PVC banners, 200 balloons. postcards]
                                        World Aids Day project 21st December 2003, City Gate monument, Valletta

June                                 bookwork [cloth suspension]
                                        Borders Booklaunch & Print Exhibition, St James Cavalier, Valletta, Malta
                                        
Feb                                  wall of prayer [installation: paper & light]
                                        Borders, Pinto Wharf, Malta
                                                                   
2002

Dec                                  if... [digital enlargement]
                                        CDAK International Design, Korea

Oct                                  traces of traces [digital prints]
                                        CALPE Festival, Gibraltar

Sept                                 if i just turn and run [bookwork]; worldsnaps [digital reconstructions]
                                        Traverses, Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury, UK

July                                  demarcations [installation: photographs, plastic, barrier tape]
                                        Cityspaces, Valletta, Malta

Feb                                  weathertalk [video installation]; worldsnaps [digital reconstructions]
                                        Uber group-show, Portomaso, St Julian's, Malta
                                       
2001
                                                                                
Dec                                  y-war [collage]
                                        CDAK, Seoul, Korea                                                                               

Sept                                traces of traces [digital prints]
                                        Heidelberg Castle, Germany

Mar                                  printworks [digital prints]
                                        9th WAVE art-fair, Korea
 
2000
        
Nov                                 losing touch [handmade book]
                                       MillenniumBookProject UK - touring exhibition:
                                       Barbican Centre; Centerprise Hackney London; Bowen West Theatre Gallery, Bedford
                            
Oct                                 printworks [digital prints]
                                       Seoul Icograda Exhibition, Seoul, Korea

Sept                               intermorphstices [video sculpture installation: projection, paper suspension, lightboxes]                        
                                       Art in Malta Today - inaugural exhibition, St James Cavalier Centre for Creativity, Valletta, Malta
                                     
Aug                                traces of traces [digital prints]
                                       Harlech Printmaking-Open, Harlech, Wales
 
July                                 printwork from veils of absence [digital enlargement]
                                       CDAK International Design Exhibition, Seoul, Korea                
                                 
1999
                                     
Dec                                printworks from veils of absence [digital enlargements]
                                       KIAD Masters, ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art, London

Sept                               veils of absence [video sculpture installation: projection, fabric, light, stone]
                                       Turning the Inside Out, KIAD, Canterbury, Kent, UK
                                     


selected exhibitions 1985-1998

solo:

1998                              cell [sculptural installation]
                                       Corradino Prisons, Paola, Malta
                                       
1997                              retrievals [found object installation]
                                       Open Studio, Xemxija, Malta

1996                              monoliths and portals of an island [works on paper]
                                       Galerie Het Bourlahuis, Antwerp, Belgium

1996                              farben aus malta [works on paper]
                                       Stadtbibliothek Neuss, Neuss, Dusseldorf, Germany

1995                              visions from an island [works on paper]
                                       E.Tage del A.rte, Galerie der Stadt, Adenau, Germany

1993                              intimations of immortality [works on paper & terracotta]
                                       Museum of Fine Arts, Valletta, Malta

1993                              dark studies [paintings]
                                       AZAD, Valletta, Malta

1993-1998                   open studio of onging work, Xemxija, Malta

group:

1998                             Malta Week, Sarasota Opera House, Florida, USA
1998                             International Telecommunications Conference, Med. Conference Centre, Valletta
1998                             Cathedral Museum Art Biennale, Mdina Cathedral Museum, Mdina
1997                             Malta International Arts Festival, Manoel Theatre, Valletta
1997                             Il-Mara (Maltese/American collaboration), Westin Dragonara Suite, St Julian's
1997                             Institute of Visual Arts (IVA), South Street, Valletta
1996                             Malta International Arts Festival, Mediterranean Conference Centre, Valletta
1995                             Landscape in Art (Mid-Med Awards), Chamber of Commerce, Valletta
1995                             Woman in Maltese Art 1600-1995, National Museum of Archaeology, Valletta
1992                             Portrait Collective, Libyan Arab Cultural Institute, Sliema
1992                             Maltese Landscape, Museum of Fine Arts, Valletta
1990-1997                  Malta International Arts Festival, National Museum of Archaeology, Valletta
1990-1998                  Iljieli Mediterranji Arts Festival, various sites
1990-1998                  Mithna ta' Ganu, Gabriel Caruana Windmill Gallery, B'Kara
1985-1989                  Art Discussion Groupshows, various sites



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