Mela – Reggie Burrows-Hodges
The latest exhibition to fill the halls of the Malta International Contemporary Art Space (MICAS) is Mela by Reggie Burrows hodges – the California-born artist of international acclaim exhibiting in Europe for the first time. The major solo exhibition, curated by MICAS Artistic Director Edith Devaney, comprises a new body of work of over 30 paintings created during the artist’s extended time in Malta in 2025, informed by his experiences on the islands, its people, landscapes, culture and history. Until 30th August.
Icons of Film – Lorenzo Agius
British-Maltese photographer Lorenzo Agius is hosting a major exhibition of over 60 portraits of icons from the world of cinema taken throughout his distinguished career. Curated by Prof Charlene Vella, his works are on display at Corinthia Palace in Attard, timed to coincide with this year’s Mediterrane Film Festival. Through Lorenzo’s lens, audiences are invited to encounter some of the most recognisable faces of contemporary film as powerful photographic icons, offering a visual celebration of cinema’s enduring power to shape memory, desire and cultural imagination. Until 31st July.
Two Springs – Yang Tang
Artist Yang Tang presents two groups of works, a collection of paintings of peach blossoms produced in her native China and around 60 small works focusing on wildflowers in Malta, all of which are on display at the Malta Society of Arts in Valletta. Each work in this exhibition focuses on a single plant, framing the viewer’s gaze to experience each flower individually, inviting visitors to slow down, let the eye adjust, and stay a little longer with what is there in front of them. 2nd-30th July.
Identities Beyond Borders – Collective exhibition
In this collective exhibition on display at MUŻA in Valletta, 22 Italian artists reflect on the concept of identity in a world shaped by ecological crises, migration, geopolitical instability and cultural fractures. Promoted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation to mark the 25th anniversary of the Farnesina Collection, and developed in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institutes, the exhibition – curated by Benedetta Carpi De Resmini – unfolds across three thematic sections: Roots of Resistance, Geographies of Detachment, and Unstable Ecologies – each exploring the tensions of the contemporary world from different perspectives. Until 16th August.
Avatars, Monsters, {Robots}, Ghosts – Letta Shtohryn
Ukranian artist Letta Shtohryn explores the shifting boundaries between the human and the posthuman through four figures: avatars, monsters, robots and ghosts. Using video, installation, performance and digital technologies on display at Valletta Contemporary, the exhibition asks what these figures do, reflects on how war, AI, machine vision, game engines and archives reshape the ways we see, remember and relate to one another. Each figure, in its own way, appears as an extension of the human, and as a form of life in its own right. 3rd July-14th August.
Record of Nighttime – Pietru Farrugia
In this solo exhibition by Pietru Farrugia, the artist’s long-standing relation to dream is presented through a selection of drawings in graphite, ink, and silverpoint on display at Il-Kamra ta’ Fuq in Mqabba. Made slowly through rubbing, scratching, staining, stippling, and repeated return, the works, curated by Melanie Erixon gather as figure, object, landscape, residue, and trace. Record of Nighttime reveals images from dreams, some reflecting on the atmosphere after a dream, the charged stillness, the partial image, the sense of something having passed through. 10th-26th July.
Main image featuring Icons of Film by Lorenzo Agius / Photo via Corinthia Palace
