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9 maltatoday | WEDNESDAY • 28 MAY 2025 CULTURE Meet the six Maltese artists exhibiting at MICAS this June Malta International Contemporary Art Space has announced its second exhibition, The Space We Inhabit, set for Saturday, 14 June 2025. The six Maltese artists featured are Caesar Attard, Vince Briffa, Austin Camilleri, Joyce Camilleri, Anton Grech and Pierre Portelli, with an exhibition that will include paintings, sculpture, video and sound-based work. Caesar Attard Caesar Attard studied at the Malta School of Art 1966-1973 and has remained consistently active in the local art scene, par- ticipating in exhibitions in Malta and abroad and as member of local art groups Spectrum '67, Vision '74, and Atelier '56. Attard was teacher of Art from 1970 to 1995 and lecturer in Visual Art Practice and History of Art in the Art Department at the Junior College of the University of Mal- ta from 1995 to 2011. In addition to painting, Attard experimented since the 1970s in non-tradition- al art-forms such as participatory art and installations. In addition to showing in a number of group exhibitions in Malta and Europe, Attard has had a number of solo exhibitions: Drawings, at the National Muse- um of Fine Arts, Valletta, in 1980; Fear and Risk, Catholic Institute, Floriana, 1987; Life and Passion in 1992 and Paintings and Draw- ings in 1994, both at The New Gallery, The National Museum of Archaeology, Valletta; the ex- hibition, at the National Museum of Fine Art, Valletta in 2007; the Caesar Attard: a Retrospective Exhibition at the Bank of Valletta Headquarters, St. Venera, 2007; H-ardcore, a multimedia instal- lation and exhibition at St. James Cavalier, Centre for Creativity, Valletta, 2013, and this year in Valletta Contemporary. Vince Briffa Vince Briffa is a multimedia art- ist, curator and researcher. Hav- ing studied drawing and painting as well as media art, his concepts draw from contemporary artistic and aesthetic fields, integrating approaches and concerns from the areas of fine art, sociology, ad- vertising, film studies, literature and philosophy. Over the past forty years, Briffa's work has been exhibited in some of the world's most prestigious museums and galleries including the Malta Pavilion, Venice Art Biennale in 1999 and 2019; the Pierides Museum, Cyprus; the Palais des Nations, Switzerland; the Museum of Modern Art, Liechtenstein; the Casoria Muse- um, Naples; Villa Manin Contem- porary Art, Italy; MAC, Argenti- na; Palais Liechtenstein, Austria; The Museum of Fine Arts, Roma- nia and the Museum of Modern Art, Israel. Austin Camilleri Austin Camilleri works simul- taneously and non-hierarchically in installation, painting, drawing, video and sculpture. Drawing mainly on Western art history, popular culture and power image traditions, he explores the tension between the material and the dig- ital, the personal and public, by layering techniques and modali- ties. Camilleri was born into a fam- ily of artists. He studied at the University of Malta and at the Accademia Pietro Vannucci in Perugia, after being awarded a four-year scholarship in 1991. He is the founder of 356, founding member of stART, Fundazzjoni Klula, and is a visiting lecturer at the Faculty of Built Environment, University of Malta. He has exhibited widely, in- cluding in the Venice Biennale, Ostrale Biennale in Dresden, the Mediterranean Biennale in Tunis, ArtRaker Biennale in Valletta, Bi- ennale for Young Artists in Rome and in Art Knows No Frontiers in Trier. Joyce Camilleri Joyce Camilleri is a Malta-based artist and a member of the De- partment of Visual Arts within the Faculty for the Built Environ- ment at the University of Malta and the founder of Jo Borg Gal- lery, a forum supporting emerg- ing, mid-career and established artists. Camilleri's practice is deeply rooted in drawing and printmak- ing, which informs her painting, and she has pursued extensive training in art pedagogy, theory and practice in Malta and abroad. She holds an M. Ed. Artist Teach- er from the University of West Scotland (2017), a Diploma in Fine Art Printmaking from the Malta School of Art (2008), and a B. Ed. (Hons) in Art from the Uni- versity of Malta (2002). Over the years Camilleri has ex- hibited in local solo and collective shows, international academic exhibitions and graphic art shows across Europe, including the 10th and 11th International Triennale of Graphic Art (2021/4, Bitola), and the first in a series of artistic residencies hosted by the Malta National Community-Art Muse- um (MUZA) in 2021. Anton Grech Anton Grech he studied at the Malta School of Art, at the Acc- ademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, Italy and at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany. Grech was a member of the artistic academ- ic staff at the Kunstakademie and collaborated with several leading German artists. Grech has been teaching at the Malta School of Art and at the University of Mal- ta. He is Head of the Department for Visual Arts within the Facul- ty for the Built Environment at the University of Malta. Grech is founding member of the artists' groups stART and WARTI. Grech has exhibited in Malta and internationally. Personal ex- hibitions include: Argos, a public sculpture for the Cottonera Wa- terfront (2008); Anton Grech, Drawings, National Museum of Fine Arts, Valletta (2005-2006); Anton Grech, Konrad Adenau- er-Stiftung, Berlin, Germany; Anton Grech, Pittura, Vilhena Palace, Mdina (2001) and Anton Grech, Malerei, Ballhaus, Düssel- dorf (1999). Grech represented Malta in Di- alogue with Emperor Qin's War- riors, an international sculpture exhibition in collaboration with Qu Art Brussels and Inspiring Culture, Brussels with exhibitions in Xian, National Museum, China (2011/12) and several subsequent venues in China and Europe. Grech has curated exhibitions of emerging Maltese artists includ- ing Defying Complacency, photo- graphic exhibition, Malta Design Week (2014); I draw, Bank of Val- letta (2012); OUTOFPRINT, Au- berge d'Italie, Valletta (2007). Pierre Portelli Pierre Portelli works mainly in installation, sculpture, video and mixed media art. His work in- vestigates processes of change, interaction and the temporary meeting of social worlds through sculpture, site-specific work, language and sometimes playful tongue-in-cheek undertones. He studied at the Swindon School of Art and Design in the UK and is a founding member of START, a Maltese contemporary art group, and a collaborator of The Little Constellations, a network for con- temporary art. In 2003 he collab- orated with Love Difference and Michelangelo Pistoletto at the 50th Venice Biennale. He is a vis- iting lecturer at the Faculty of Ed- ucation at the University of Malta and is currently the Council Pres- ident of the Malta School of Art. Pierre Portelli has exhibited in national and international institu- tions such as the Ostrale Biennale, Dresden; the Bozar and the Euro- pean Commission, Brussels, Bel- gium; The Malta Maritime Muse- um and The National Museum of Fine Arts in Malta; amongst many other venues. Pierre Portelli has originated cross-disciplinary research-based projects with music composers and performers, choreographers, actors, authors and is a frequent collaborator in theatre produc- tions. He is the co-curator and co-researcher of the ongoing REL•INK Indelible Narratives project initiated in 2016, that re- searches and explores the tattoo history and narratives of Malta and the links with other Mediter- ranean port cities. Entrance fee to exhibitions: €10 with concessions. Access to outdoor spaces, sculpture dis- plays and the shop is free. Please visit www.micas.art for more in- formation and follow @micas- malta on Instagram. Left to right: Casear Attard, Vince Briffa, Austin Camilleri, Joyce Camilleri, Anton Grech and Pierre Portelli