Margerita Pule

Margerita Pulè

​​Artist, researcher and curator, with a Masters in Fine Arts.

Conferences, Exhibitions and Works

April 2019

- Group Exhibition: Creative Circuit Ep. 2, Valletta

March 2019

- Group Exhibition: Land Politics, Valletta Contemporary, Valletta

2 December 2018

- Intervention: What Could Be, Isouard Street, Sliema

2018-

- Editor: ArtPaper. Malta’s contemporary art and art sales publication.

16 – 25 November 2018

- Exhibition: The Cement Bakery, within the Mahalla Festival

7 – 9 November 2018

- Conference: 12th UNEeCC Conference, Culture: Inherited or Invented? organised by the University Network of European Capitals of Culture in November 2018, with paper entitled “Europe as a Participatory Art Project”.

1 – 2 November 2018

- Conference: Reconfiguring the Aesthetic, organised by the Dept of Philosophy, University of Malta, with a paper entitled “Nothing to See Here; Protest Under the Guise of Art”.

August 2018

- Performance: L'utopie est morte, vive l'utopie! within Inside the Border, Mdina A performance as Lily Sapiano

21 – 22 July 2018

- Solo Exhibition: No Place Like Home A walking-art and documentation project looking at rapid over-development and speculative-building in urban areas, and their effect on local communities.

7 June 2018

- Intervention: Il-Kamra ta’ Barra A pop-up sitting room in the street, a reclamation of public land, and a social, public invitation, in collaboration with Parking Space Events

18 – 20 April 2018

- Conference: Cultures of Participation - Arts, Digital Media and Politics Conference in Aarhus, in April 2018 with paper entitled “The Risk of Tokenism in Participatory Art”

March – December 2018

- Co-coordination: Taħżiż, a Maltese-language creative writing programme for young people.

25 March – 27 May 2018

- Exhibition participation (as Lily Sapiano): Arċipelagu, 2018

10 May 2018

- Performance: in Subversive Semiotics – a Happening for a Billboard, by artist David Pisani, curated by Bettina Hutschek, Fragmenta Malta.

Since 2017

- Outreach Manager at Spazju Kreattiv, Malta’s national centre for creativity in Valletta.

2017 - 2018

- Creator: RIP Dear Pigeon, a subversive participatory project.

2012 - 2017

- Programme Coordinator at Valletta 2018, European Capital of Culture, curating and programming the ECoC Cultural Programme.

2015 - 2016

- Creator and Archivist of Project Disintegration

2017-

- Peer Evaluation: Member of the Committee of Experts of the Roberto Cimetta Foundation.

2017-

- Peer evaluation: Evaluator on funding programmes managed by Arts Council Malta.

Education

2014 – 2016 University of Malta - Master of Fine Arts in Digital Arts (Distinction)

1996 – 2000 National College of Art and Design, Ireland - Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Craft Design

References

www.facebook.com/events/1231774546972258/

www.facebook.com/events/valletta-contemporary/land-politics/357252601792978/

www.projectdisintegration.org/what-could-be

www.facebook.com/artpaper.press

www.projectdisintegration.org/the-cement-bakery

www.projectdisintegration.org/blog/europe-as-a-participatory-art-project

www.um.edu.mt/events/etc2018

www.facebook.com/utopiannights

www.projectdisintegration.org/no-place-like-home

www.projectdisintegration.org/il-kamra-ta-barra

http://conferences.au.dk/culturesofparticipation2018/

www.tahziz.wordpress.com

www.raphaelvella.com/works

https://fragmentamalta.com/2018/05/02/subversive-semiotics-a-happening-for-a-billboard/

www.projectdisintegration.org/rip-dear-pigeon

www.projectdisintegration.org/about