Dati
Il-Ġimgħa 13 ta' Marzu - Il-Ħadd 10 ta' Mejju 2026
Butler, li fiha tħeġġeġ għal futur ibbażat fuq l-interdipendenza, it-trasformazzjoni u l-immaġinazzjoni. Ispirata mill-insistenza tagħha li llum il-bidla hija l-unika kostanti, l-esebizzjoni tiġbor flimkien artisti internazzjonali li xogħolhom jiċċaqlaq bejn involvimenti kritiċi mal-preżent u proposti spekulattivi. It-tifsira toħroġ fil-vojt, fl-għama u fil-fratturi tar-realtà kontemporanja, immarkata mill-kriżijiet, il-gwerer, it-trawmi u t-taqlib. Minflok ma jippruvaw ibassru x’se jiġri, l-artisti jittraċċaw il-kontorni tal-futur mill-art ’il fuq. Ix-xogħlijiet tagħhom jaħdmu bħala kostellazzjonijiet; marbuta, provviżorji u emerġenti. Jirrifjutaw il-koerenza bħala punt finali fiss, il-proġetti fl-esebizzjoni jħallu spazju għall-kuntradizzjoni, it-tensjoni u t- trasformazzjoni, waqt li jgħixu fuq orizzont ta’ potenzjal li jirreżisti l-għeluq u l-stat komplut.
Ikklikkja hawn biex tniżżel il-ktejjeb
Avveniment addizzjonali
Il-Ħadd 22 ta' Marzu fil-11 ta' filgħodu
Żjara kuratorjali (iffaċilitata mill-maniġer tal-proġett Christine Xuereb).
Is-Sibt 9 ta' Mejju fis-7 ta' filgħaxija
Finissage: Lejla mal-Ponks Collective. Malta.
Il-PONKS jagħlqu A Few Rules for Predicting the Future b’wirja tax-xogħol tagħhom, We Still Have Time. Wieħed mill-PONKS jirreċita ċ-ċiklu poetiku li jinsab fix-xogħol, li jdawwar bejn id-dubju u sens imbiegħed ta’ possibbiltà, filwaqt li l-ieħor ibiddel ir-ritmu tiegħu, u jfixkel l-influss. Il-wirja mhijiex kompletament ikkontrollata u lanqas totalment aċċidentali. F’dan l-ispazju instabbli, il-lingwa, il-materja u ż-żmien jiltaqgħu għal mument qasir, qabel ma jċedu.
Ikklikkja hawn biex tirreġistra
Kuratriċi
Maren Richter
Disinn tal-Esebizzjoni
Keit Bonnici
Maniġjar tal-Proġett
Christine Xuereb
Artisti
Firas Shehadeh / Palestina
Gabi Dao / Kanada
Nyamakop / Afrika t’Isfel
Ponks Collective / Malta
Simona Andrioletti / Italja (f’kollaborazzjoni ma’ Riccardo Rudi u b’kontribuzzjonijiet ta’ Noah “Aviann” Kretschmann u Luca Napoli)
Sophia Bulgakova / Ukrajna
Grammar of Urgencies f’kollaborazzjoni ma’ Agung Kurniawan / Indoneżja
Almagul Menlibayeva / Każakstan
Behzad Khosravi Noori / Iran u Pakistan
Berhanu Ashagrie Deribew / Etjopja
Hatem Bourial / Tuneżija
transparadiso (Paul Rajakovics, Barbara Holub) / Awstrija
Yara Mekawei / Eġittu
Klaus Schafler / Awstrija
Dan il-proġett hu kkummissjonat minn Spazju Kreattiv u appoġġjat mill-Ambaxxata tan-Netherlands f’Malta u mill-Ministeru Federali għad-Djar, l-Arti, il-Kultura, il-Midja u l-Isport, tar-Repubblika tal-Awstrija.
Fwieħa għall-installazzjoni ‘Sorry Mum’ sponsorjata minn Areon.
Saqqu sponsorjat minn Smart Materials / Huggah.
Dates
Friday 13th March - Sunday 10th May 2026
A Few Rules for Predicting the Future takes its title from a 2000 essay by Afrofuturist Sci-Fi writer Octavia E. Butler, in which she calls for a grounded futurity shaped by interdependence, transformation, and imagination.
Taking inspiration from her insistence that today change is the only constant, the exhibition brings together international artists whose works move between critical engagements with the present and speculative propositions. Meaning emerges in the gaps, blind spots, and fractures of contemporary reality, marked by crisis, wars, traumas and upheaval. Rather than attempting to predict what is to come, the artists trace the future’s contours from the ground up. Their works operate as constellations; interlinked, provisional, and emergent. Refusing coherence as a fixed endpoint, the projects in the show hold space for contradiction, tension, and transformation, inhabiting a horizon of potential that resists closure and completion.
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Satellite Events
Sunday 22nd March at 11 AM
Curatorial tour (facilitated by project manager Christine Xuereb).
Saturday 9th May at 7 PM
Finissage: An evening with Ponks Collective. Malta.
PONKS close A Few Rules for Predicting the Future with a performance with their work, We Still Have Time. One PONK recites the poetry cycle within the work, that circles between doubt and a distant sense of possibility, while the other shifts its rhythm, disturbing its flow. The performance is neither fully controlled nor entirely accidental. In this unstable space, language, matter and time meet briefly, before giving way.
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Curator
Maren Richter
Exhibition Design
Keit Bonnici
Project Management
Christine Xuereb
Artists
Firas Shehadeh / Palestine
Gabi Dao / Canada
Nyamakop / South Africa
Ponks Collective / Malta
Simona Andrioletti / Italy (in collaboration with Riccardo Rudi and contributions of Noah “Aviann” Kretschmann and Luca Napoli)
Sophia Bulgakova / Ukraine
And Grammar of Urgencies in collaboration with Agung Kurniawan / Indonesia
Almagul Menlibayeva / Kazakhstan
Behzad Khosravi Noori / Iran and Pakistan
Berhanu Ashagrie Deribew / Ethiopia
Hatem Bourial / Tunisia
transparadiso (Paul Rajakovics, Barbara Holub) / Austria
Yara Mekawei / Egypt
Klaus Schafler / Austria
This project is commissioned by Spazju Kreattiv and supported by the Embassy of the Netherlands in Malta and Federal Ministry of Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport, Republic of Austria
Perfume for ‘Sorry Mum’ installation sponsored by Areon.
Mattress sponsored by Smart Materials / Huggah.
