Young Maltese artist Aaron Bezzina, 26, one of the laureates of the Artists’ Development Programme 2015, is among the artists chosen to take part in the Malta National Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2017.
Artist-curators Raphael Vella and Bettina Hutschek have selected artists of Maltese origin or based in Malta for their conceptual exhibition: “Homo Melitensis: An incomplete inventory in 19 chapters”.
By bringing together a collective of artists who work across a variety of mediums, they present a playful, poetic compilation of unique artefacts that interpret and define the imaginative spirit of the Maltese identity: language, politics, history, myths, religion and gender.
This marks the official return of a Malta Pavilion to the Venice Biennale – the oldest and most prestigious event in the international visual art calendar – for the first time in 17 years as well as the start of a major international programme of cultural activity by Malta, whose capital city, Valletta, will be the European Capital of Culture 2018.
