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 land: flight & 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 erasure: speed 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
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
