Malta Biennale 2026

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Overview

The second edition of the Malta Biennale was held from March 11 to May 29, 2026, under the artistic direction of Rosa Martinez. Clean | Clear | Cut unfolded across 11 historic sites and museums in Malta and Gozo.

Participating Artists

List of Artists

Albert Moya

Amélie Giacomini / Simohammed Fettaka

Austin Camilleri

Concetta Modica

Despina Charitonidi

Georgina Sleap

Halil Altindere

João Marques

Loredana Longo

Maurizio Cattelan

Nina Gerada

Pamela Diamante

Rocio Berenguer

Sandra Zaffarese

Shinji Turner-Yamamoto

Therese Debono

Victor Sonna

Amanda Holiday

Ana Álvarez-Errecalde

Bettina Hutschek

Daniel Cilia

Diyar Shivayi

Griet Dobbels

Ioulia Chante

Katia Sepúlveda

Mahmoud Massad

Melita Couta

Noor Abed

Priscilla Monge

Sachiko Abe

Santiago Sierra Martín

Tania Berta Judith

Vasco Araújo

Wilfredo Prieto

Amandine Arcelli

Anastasia Ax

Catalina Tuca

Daniel De La Barra

Emily Jacir

Guerrilla Girls

Joseph Calleja / Clare Ghigo

Lara Nickel

Mathias Gramoso / Roman Gebhardt

Mohamed Ibrahim Elmasry

Núria Güell / Rosa Casado

Raphael Vella

Salvatore Arancio

Saskia Calderón

Tau Luna

Victor Agius

Women On Waves

List of Pavillions

National Pavilions

Maltese Pavilion – Wonderland: Kaos Kontemporanju

Curator: Katya Micallef

Artists: Ġulja Holland, Pierre Portelli, Roderick Camilleri, Victor Agius, Vince Briffa

Chinese Pavilion – The Realm of Clarity: Ecological Foresight and Civilisational Exchange in Oriental Wisdom

Curator: Ying Jinfei

Artists: Cao Ou, Chen Jian, Chen Qi, Dong Minjie, Fang Limin, Ji Renping, Li Hongbo, Liang Quan, Wang Chao, Wang Xiao, Xu Chentao, Ying Jinfei, Zhang Dazhen

Armenian Pavilion – The Sound of What Was Never Seen

Curator: Sona Hovhannisyan

Artist: Raffi Yedalian

Finnish Pavilion – Bastion of Refugia

Artist: Anna Pesonen

French Pavilion – Facing the Challenge

Curator: Dominique Moulon

Artist: Louis-Paul Caron

Serbian Pavilion – Where to Escape? In Search of Oneself

Curator: Stevan Martinović

Artists: Milorad Panić, Miloš Šarić, Sonja Žugić

Polish Pavilion – Archive of Hesitations

Curator: Ada Piekarska

Artist: Weronika Zalewska

Spanish Pavilion – Vessels of Silence. The Journey and Memory in the Mediterranean

Curator: Elvira Cámara

Artist: Concha García

Thematic Pavilions

A Wall That Isn’t One

Artists: Klelia Siska, Arsenios Zachariadis

Between Land and Sea

Curators: Badr el Hammami, Katharina Fink

Artists: Badr el Hammami, Driss Aroussi, Jaafar Akil, Katrin Ströbel, Mohammed Laouli, Yasmina Ben Ari, Yassine Balbziou

Bullets of Flowers

Curator: Eszter Csillag

Artist: Maria Kulikovska

Doom Pop

Curator: Expanded Media Lab

Artists: Jeremy Ripley, Tra Bouscaren

Dwelling in Fracture

Curator: Minji Kim

Artist: Jiwon Yu

Floating Fragments

Curator: Rolf Laven

Artist: Residents of the Correctional Facility

Isolation

Curator: Ibrahim Shalabi

Artist: Ibrahim Shalabi

Last Ice Stand

Curator: Antar Works

Artist: Antar Dayal

Okuzingiramu

Curator: Nyanzi Wamala

Artists: Namata Birungi, Tereza Maria, Joshua Mulungi Yiga

Qatgħa

Curator: Aditya Singh Bhadoria

Artist: Aditya Singh Bhadoria

Redefining. Polish-Ghanaian Textile Narratives

Curator: Natalia Bradbury

Artists: Eliza Proszczuk, Ernestina Mansa Doku, Marta Nadolle

Repertoire in Intermedial Mode

Curators: Caterina Riva, Sara d’Alessandro Manozzo

Artist: Francesco Bertel

Sea Pavilion – Nothing Precious, Precious Nothing

Curators: Azad Asifovich, Vlad Sludskiy

Artists: Aziza Shaden, Luca Resta

So Good to Feel Real

Curator: Francesca Guerisoli

Artists: The Cool Couple (Simone Santilli, Niccolò Benetton)

Take the Sky Out of Your Belly

Curator: Hara Shin

Artist: Hara Shin

The Counterpoint Pavilion

Curator: Sofie Renap

Artists: Iris Eysermans, Mahmoud Saleh Mohammadi, Maurizio Chiocchetti

Troy Pavilion

Curator: Çanakkale Biennial Initiative

Artists: David Blandy, Georgios Katsagelos, Jakob Gautel, Katrin Korfmann & Jens Pfeifer, Pınar Yolaçan, Seyhan Boztepe

Umanissima Sopravvivenza

Curators: studioamatoriale (Angelo Castucci, Francesco Tola)

Artist: Sergio Racanati

Unwashed

Curators: Peng Feng, Lanfranco Aceti

Artist: Lanfranco Aceti