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26th October - 13th November 2025
For six weeks, R Gallery in Sliema took on the form of a shared artists’ studio, becoming a site for trial and error, for projects in motion, and for unfolding ideas.
Rather than following a predetermined curatorial plan, R OPEN unfolded as an experiment. It asked urgent questions facing cultural spaces worldwide: How were gallery spaces used? What role did they play? Did inherited models of display still hold relevance? It also posed a curious enquiry into artistic practice: what became possible when artists were given time, space, and freedom to develop their practice, to collaborate, and to test ideas in dialogue with each other and the public?
Throughout the six weeks, the gallery remained in transition. Works were provisional, open-ended, and in progress. The making of art was not hidden from view but placed at the centre, with process recognised as equally significant as outcome. Visitors were invited, not simply to observe, but to engage with artistic work in flux, shifting the gallery from being a site of presentation to one of negotiation
Featured artists:
Aaron Bezzina, Tom Van Malderen, Duška Malešević, Laura Besançon, Julian Vassallo, Rachelle Bezzina
24th July - 29th August 2025
A pop-up activist art installation, curated by Andrew Borg Wirth and assembled together with the Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation, highlighting seven unresolved justice cases in Malta. Through a curated table display of personal artefacts, the project evokes empathy and remembrance. Accompanying artworks by socially engaged artists amplify its call to witness, reflect, and advocate for justice and political accountability
Featured artists:
Adrian Abela, Bettina Hutschek, Sebastian Tanti Burlo, Gulja Holland
Marlon Tabone and Sonia Lenzi.
29th November - 29th December 2024
Curated by Charlie Cauchi, The Assembly features a collection of fresh perspectives from local and international emerging artists.
Featured is: Leitu Bonnici, Leo Chircop, Freya Doggett, Shanice Farrugia, Yana Fenech, Miriam Galea, Julian Micallef, Tiziana Schembri, Sarah Scicluna,
Sarah Maria Scicluna, Lucia Seifert, Alison Shaw, Domnick Sorace, Philip Steele, Pep Walls, Rasha Belle Zammit Cutajar and performative intervention by Charlene Galea.
10th June - 31st August 2024
In ancient Greece the female body was defined by excessive moisture and deemed less articulated than it’s idealised male counterpart. To participate in wetness was to be more porous to the world and the processes of life at the cost of form.
But liquidity is inescapable and in its very nature uncontainable, it eventually seeps and penetrates even the most polished and disciplined of structures. In ‘Hygro’ The female nude becomes a conduit, ebbing and flowing across time and space it asserts itself within a shimmering web of material relations, creaturely associations and looping cycles of life and decay.
HYGRO is a solo exhibition by Honey Long and Prue Stent
15th March - 1st May 2024
MONUMENT stands as a testament to the enduring spirit of artistic independence and innovation. It is a celebration of the boundless power of four local artists' work and practice. Four artists grounded on an island, whose work resonates with the echoes of its past, present, and future.
MONUMENT is an interdisciplinary group exhibition by Charlie Cauchi, Jon Banthorpe, Teresa Sciberras, and Gilbert Calleja.
12th October - 3rd December 2023
SEBASTIAN TANTI BURLÒ:
FROĠA / FARRAGO
Froġa/Farrago, Sebastian Tanti Burlò’s latest solo exhibition, presents a collection of oil paintings that build on Burlò’s expanding conversation with his perceived surroundings.The varying themes and aesthetics take us across the painter’s experiences living between Siġġiewi, Florence, and London.
13th September -17th September Berlin Art Week 2023
Far Reach
FAR REACH is a vortical act to create and inhibit a world of one’s own - rooted in a desire to reach, standing as a beacon apart from, yet deeply intertwined with, the world around it.
38 artists based in Malta and Berlin reach within their personal geographies, moving beyond fleshed representation to embody, provoke, and resist a world pulsating with contradictions and complexities that weight down to define and box.
In this belief, the works fuse material with the meta and physical, unbounded, to conspire worlds that are alternative, all-encompassing, enveloping and far-reaching.
Archives
June 21st - August 5th 2023
zvezdan reljić: JA, JA, JA!
In the boundless expanse of artistic genesis, we stand before the luminary Zvezdan Reljić, the mythical progenitor of the cosmic art continuum. From the primordial depths of the void, Reljić emerged as a transdimensional architect, moulding the very fabric of existence into a kaleidoscope of paradoxical formlessness.
April 20 - June 3 2023
norbert francis attard:
event & being
Event & Being exists in the echoes of culturally-defining moments that shape contemporary Malta. In this solo show, Norbert Francis Attard objectifies particular aftermaths in the exercise of power by transfixing and immortalizing them as we do in our collective consciousness.
February 23 - April 8 2023
Group show:
oikos logia
A rich survey of contemporary work exploring the (dys)functional relationship between humans and habitat. By Adrian Abela, Jon Banthorpe, Anna Calleja, Showzen Kajima, Tom Van Malderen, Cyril Sancereau, Ian Schranz, Stefan Spiteri, Ritty Tascum and Sam Vassallo.
November 10 - December 3 2022
kane cali:
I don't have a theory
i just have a feeling
Detached from an obsessive search for meaning, Kane Cali’s work explores his process driven by emotional response, memory and external stimuli through an organic use of candescent colours and serial repetitions in fragmented, figurative forms.
September 22 - October 31 2022
julien vinet: error code 8003
If an object only exists through its primary definition, what becomes of it when it is seen by a different, profane, alienated or alien gaze? This is the question that French contemporary artist Julien Vinet contemplates with his solo exhibition Error Code 8003 (id est Malfunction in the system) at R Gallery, a new contemporary art space in Sliema.
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