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