Ruth Bianco

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Ruth Bianco

Ruth Bianco creates work and projects in contemporary fine art contexts; shows her work internationally, operating between studios in malta and england; received postgraduate and doctoral fine art education at the university for the creative arts, kent, uk; has taught and supervised postgraduate fine art at the university for the creative arts uk and at transart institute (europe/usa); lectures in fine art within the departments of visual arts, architecture and urban design, and digital arts at the university of malta, and supervises postgraduate fine art and architectural thesis and exhibition projects; is currently advisor for contemporary art and culture on malta government ministerial boards for the coordination of capital cultural projects (cbcp), and on the national commission for unesco. [1]

My art practice springs from an urge to unfix.. looking upon my materials as processes, seeking threads of connections in the boundaries between information and transformation. Engaging with machinic space, I investigate territoriality as a way to unravel creative connections and produce art and projects in contexts of contemporary fine art practice. Concerned with tenuous boundaries, ideas and themes freely fuse the geo-spatial and temporal with the social in varied settings, testing gaps between controlled and spontaneous art environments.

Earlier research in fine art probed conceptual notions of disappearance or expansion in terms of space, informed by issues of deterritorialisation and dislocation - see Ground Erasure. This interrogation focused on exploring the reterritorialising strategies of the contemporary artist operating with technology, examining "actor-network" as a method to balance machine-human interaction. It is the liminal zones between destratification and restratification - creating an abstract topology of intersections on the plateau - that inspired a context for my work. Connectivity continues to inspire my research interest in relation to the cultural expression of the digital platform, shaping and informing contemporary art.

Space is my material.. I am interested in space as agency - how it acts and is acted upon. The art process for me provides similar agency for unexpected ways of de-framing and revealing.

My art roams situations of interventional space exploring multi media from time-based to tangible, digital to tactile - projection, photography, drawing and collage, sculpture and actions - as ways to question how space is traversed.. empowered, transgressed, consumed, automated, expanded, shrunken, journeyed.[2]Ruth Bianco

Education

  • 2005: phd fine art, university for the creative arts / university of kent at canterbury, kent, uk
[thesis: ground erasure - an investigation of the notion of "territory" through theories of deterritorialisation and machinic connectivity];
  • 1999: ma fine art, university for the creative arts / university of kent at canterbury, kent, uk
[thesis project: veils of absence - site and light]
  • 1995: cert. diplomatic studies, mediterranean academy in diplomatic studies / university of malta
[dissertation: the basel convention and the transboundary movement of hazardous wastes and their disposal]
  • 1991: post graduate cert. education, university of malta
[dissertation: art as an enhanced medium in education]
  • 1985: ba honours english literature, university of london, london, uk


Research Award
  • 2000: phd full tuition scholarship awarded by kiad / universtiy for the creative arts, kent, united kingdom

Exhibitions[3]

  • 2016: waw - women's art world, marrakech musuem, marrakech, morocco;
  • 2016: aqua, art in architecture curated project, bam arts & music festival, balzan, malta;
  • 2015: birdfall, inspired in china presented by maltese artists, chinese cultural centre, valletta, malta;
  • 2015: virtuoso, studio 104, valletta, malta;
  • 2015: finding ogygia for ogygia's nymph issasonus ensemble, kennedy center for performing arts, washington dc, usa;
  • 2015: finding ogygia for ogygia's nymph issasonus ensemble, sitar arts center, washington dc, usa;
  • 2015: float, art in architecture curated project, faculty for built environment foyer, university of malta;
  • 2015: film and fame, unesco conference, orange grove, corinthia palace attard, malta (solo);
  • 2014: regret, la marie du 8eme arrondissment, paris, france (solo);
  • 2014: startle a start documentary, st james centre for creativity, valletta, malta;
  • 2014: made in mt, dar malta, brussels, belgium;
  • 2014: gallery open, store street gallery, bloomsbury, london;
  • 2013: gallery open, one alfred place, bloomsbury, london;
  • 2013: video collage, fem-link international art video and film, paris, france;
  • 2013: regret and other works, sofia-press gallery, sofia, bulgaria (solo);
  • 2013: camouflage, revolution, and desire, palazzo de piro cultural centre, mdina, malta (solo);
  • 2013: variations from the studio, la giarra, valletta, malta (solo);
  • 2013: xxix sarajevo winter festival '13 art of touch, city gallery collegium artisticum sarajevp, bosnia and herzegovina ;
  • 2013: seven women, palazzo de piro, mdina, malta;
  • 2013: stemperando biennale, istituto d'arte contemporanea, la biblioteca nazionale centrale di roma, rome, italy;
  • 2012: camouflage, revolution, and desire (with richard davies), opus 64 galerie, sliema, malta (solo);
  • 2012: stemperando biennale, istituto nazionale d'arte contemporanea, la biblioteca nazionale di cosenza, cosenza, italy;
  • 2012: eu v18 visiting delegation and birgu festival, maritime museum, birgu, malta;
  • 2012: stemperando biennale, istituto nazionale d'arte contemporanea, la biblioteca nazionale di torino, turin, italy;
  • 2012: camouflage, revolution, and desire (with richard davies), the horse hospital, bloomsbury, london (solo);
  • 2012: 6:6 collective, lilly agius gallery, sliema, malta;
  • 2012: conference lounge, valletta campus university of malta, valletta, malta;
  • 2011: three artists three composers, upper galleries, st james centre for creativity, valletta, malta;
  • 2011: malta week, berlaymont, brussels, belgium;
  • 2010: spaces in between, concent-art e.v., berlin, germany;
  • 2010: spaces|spazji strait street, malta arts festival, valletta, malta;
  • 2010: shelter, ottakring project, vienna, austria;
  • 2010: la boutique soho place stephanie, excelles, brussels (solo);
  • 2010: projected vision II espace apollonia, strasbourg, france;
  • 2009: videoworks, remont gallery, belgrade, serbia (solo);
  • 2009: the world next door international video and filmmakers, mca malta contemporary art, marsa, malta (curated show);
  • 2009: windows upon oceans, apollonia european art exchanges, strasbourg, france;
  • 2009: square, gallery no 68, valletta, malta;
  • 2009: maltese connection, citric gallery, brescia, italy;
  • 2008: dans la nuit des images, grand palais, paris, france;
  • 2008: eight eighteen 8:18 start project, mca malta contemporary art, marsa, malta;
  • 2008: bv gallery transart tutors, landes-kultur zentrum, linz, austria;
  • 2008: rencontres internationales, haus der kulturen der welt, berlin, germany;
  • 2008: tourism dot com, national museum of fine art, valletta, malta (solo);
  • 2008: mile of paper, national museum of fine art, valletta, malta (curation);
  • 2008: rencontres internationales, complejo el aquila, madrid, spain;
  • 2008: amaze/a-maze culture festival, sztuka fabryka bau-huis, sint-niklaas, belgium;
  • 2008: projected vision travelling show, apollonia european exchanges, strasbourg, france;
  • 2008: open studio, rue baron lambert, brussels, belgium (solo);
  • 2007: guest artist, artitude gallery, sliema, malta;
  • 2007: rencontres internationales paris/berlin, video-library espace consultation documentaire, paris, france;
  • 2007: notte bianca, upper barrakka gardens, valletta, malta;
  • 2007: researchers of europe, meditation space, st james centre for creativity, valletta, malta (solo);
  • 2007: bezruc opava festival, dum umeni house of arts, opava, czech republic (solo);
  • 2007: video performance event, bezruc festival, galerie fiducia, ostrava, czech republic (solo);
  • 2007: video summer programme, citric gallery, brescia, italy;
  • 2007: virtual residence, faux mouvement centre d'art contemporain, metz, france;
  • 2007: rencontres internationales berlin, babylon movie theatre, berlin, germany;
  • 2007: the philosophical brothel, st james centre for creativity, valletta, malta;
  • 2007: rencontres internationales madrid, circulo de bellas artes, madrid, spain;
  • 2007: asylum seekers questioning spaces, marsa open centre, albertown, malta;
  • 2007: duration questioning spaces, 4-vaults valletta waterfront, valletta, malta;
  • 2007: fragments from the studio questioning spaces, biaggio steps, valletta, malta;
  • 2007: artifecture a fictitious public sculpture, start newspaper project, malta today, malta;
  • 2007: crossings, espace camille claudel, amiens, france;
  • 2006: rencontres internationales paris/berlin, paris-villette theatre, paris, france;
  • 2006: gallery artists show, citric gallery, brescia, italy;
  • 2006: webcast short docs, four docs, channel4.com, united kingdom;
  • 2006: femmes d'europe, espace rendezvous de lices, saint tropez, france;
  • 2006: don't run over the birds please, national museum of fine arts, valletta, malta (solo);
  • 2005: touching land, chapter house canterbury cathedral, canterbury, england (solo);
  • 2005: outdoor interventions, south-east coastline, kent, england (solo);
  • 2005: blitz start project, war shelters, birgu, malta;
  • 2005: future hope, hsbc, canary wharf, london;
  • 2005: parallel screenings, herbert read gallery university for the creative arts england / waikato university new zealand;
  • 2004: breakthrough, grote kerk den haag, the hague, netherlands;
  • 2004: nieuwe eu landen, regentenkamer kunstzentrum, the hague, netherlands;
  • 2003: public intervention, world aids day 21st december '03, city gate, valletta, malta (solo);
  • 2003: borders booklaunch and print show, st james centre for creativity, valletta, malta;
  • 2003: borders start project, pinto wharf, valletta waterfront, malta;
  • 2002: cdak international design '02, seoul, korea;
  • 2002: arts festival gibraltar, calpe festival, gibraltar;
  • 2002: traverses, herbert read gallery, kent, england;
  • 2002: cityspaces start project, valletta, malta;
  • 2002: uber groupshow, portomaso, st julians, malta;
  • 2001: cdak international design '01, seoul, korea;
  • 2001: malta at heidelberg, heidelberg castle, germany;
  • 2001: 9th wave art-fair of korea, seoul, korea;
  • 2000: millenniumbookartroject touring: barbican centre; centerprise hackney london; bowen west theatre gallery, bedford, uk;
  • 2000: seoul ecograda international, seoul, korea;
  • 2000: art in malta today inaugural exhibition, st james cavalier centre for creativity, valletta, malta;
  • 2000: harlech printmaking-open, harlech, wales;
  • 2000: cdak international design 2000, seoul, korea;
  • 1999: kiad masters, ica institute of contemporary art, london, uk;
  • 1999: turning the inside out, kiad, canterbury, kent, uk.

Open Studio Project 1993-98

xemxija shipwreck promenade, malta; a project for studio actions, outdoor scavenging and spatial interventions;

  • 1998: cell in the studio;
  • 1997: a-political seat;
  • 1997: space in a fish box;
  • 1996: walks, trips and retrievals;
  • 1993: found objects.

Solo

  • 1998: anima mundi intervention, corradino prisons, malta;
  • 1996: monoliths and portals, galeri het bourlahuis, antwerp, belgium;
  • 1996: farben aus malta, stadtbibliothek neuss, dusseldorf, germany;
  • 1995: visions from an island, e.tage del a.rte, galerie der stadt, adenau, germany;
  • 1993: intimations of immortality, national museum of fine arts, valletta;
  • 1993: earlier works, azad centre for political studies, valletta.

Group

  • 1998: malta week, sarasota opera house, florida, usa;
  • 1998: international telecommunications conference, mediterranean conference centre, valletta;
  • 1998: permanence in dignity, st james cavalier, valletta;
  • 1997: il-mara, westin dragonara suite, st julians;
  • 1997: iva institute of visual arts, valletta;
  • 1995: landscape in art mid-med bank awards, chamber of commerce, valletta;
  • 1995: women in maltese art 1600-1995, national museum of archaeology, valletta;
  • 1992: portrait in art, libyan arab cultural institute, sliema;
  • 1992: maltese landscape, national museum of fine arts, valletta.

Art Groups and Festivals 1980-98

  • malta international arts festival summer exhibition;
  • iljieli mediterranji arts festival;
  • mithna ta' ganu gabriel caruana gallery;
  • arti sagra biennale, mdina cathedral museum;
  • art discussion group, azad centre for political studies;
  • nghinu bl-arti, annex national museum fine arts.

External links

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