Re/defining Polish–Ghanaian Textile Narratives
Organised by the OmenaArt Foundation and LuginsLand of Art, this thematic pavilion on display at the Old Armoury of the Knights of Malta in Birgu as part of the Malta Biennale 2026 displays monumental textile installations that build a collective narrative of memory, relationships, and interdependence. Artists Ernestina Mansa Doku, Marta Nadolle and Eliza Proszczuk intertwine their Polish and Ghanaian heritage into historical narratives through weaving traditions, exploring themes of history and solidarity between Poland and Ghana. Until 29th May.
Legacy – Marie Louise Kold
As part of the celebrations marking 25 years of Spazju Kreattiv, metal artist Marie Louise Kold will be displaying a new sculpture, Legacy, within St James Cavalier featuring metal and traditional Maltese limestone. Copper elements that were carefully patinated, bent or polished are placed atop a limestone base that has part of the Maltese constitution CNC engraved onto its surface. The sculpture will be added to the national centre for creativity’s permanent collection. 16th April-24th May
Surface Code: Wind · Heat · Dust – Yeoul Son
In this body of work on display at Valletta Contemporary, artist Yeoul Son presents a body of work that investigates how environmental forces can be translated into material form. Across four interconnected works, Son uses real-time and recorded atmospheric data – wind, temperature, humidity, and dust – collected in Malta and Gozo to generate digital surfaces, moving images, and physical objects, treating data as an active agent capable of shaping form, texture, and temporality. Until 25th April.
Gilbert Calleja: Paintings
Gilbert Calleja’s solo exhibition at Valletta Contemporary explores living bodies as processes that are constantly changing, expanding, contracting, morphing into, or breaking away from the space that contains them. His paintings and drawings – largely composite pieces made up of different wood panels layered with various construction materials and media – bear the marks of extensive reworking, defacements, and the destruction of prior images. It’s from within this dialogue that Calleja’s exploration of the human form emerges. Until 25th April.
Beyond the Light – Simone Geraci & Federico Severino
The April exhibition at The Phoenicia Malta, curated by Charlene Vella, introduces Maltese audiences to two contemporary Italian painters. Simone Geraci’s work centres on the human figure as a site of introspection, depicting bodies that dissolve into softly modulated atmospheres, while Federico Severino, by contrast, constructs paintings entirely through light and colour, suggesting landscape through Mediterranean horizons, dawn light, and atmospheric transitions. Together, the artists establish a dialogue between body and atmosphere, presence and horizon, inviting reflection on the relationship between the self and its environment. Until 29th April
A Few Rules for Predicting the Future
Inspired by an essay with the same name written in 2000 by Afrofuturist Sci-Fi writer Octavia E. Butler, in which she calls for a future shaped by interdependence, transformation and imagination, this exhibition at Spazju Kreattiv brings together international artists whose works move between critical engagements with the present and speculative propositions. Curated by Maren Richter, the artists invite audiences into a shared space to not only explore but imagine building a future, which requires not just critique, but practice and collective effort. Until 10th May
Main image: Valletta Contemporary exhibition / Photo by Michaele Zammit
