{"id":9044,"date":"2025-02-14T10:25:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T10:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/?p=9044"},"modified":"2025-08-29T03:18:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T01:18:23","slug":"great-expectations-for-the-malta-pavilion-in-venice-malta-in-christies-top-16-at-the-2019-venice-biennale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/great-expectations-for-the-malta-pavilion-in-venice-malta-in-christies-top-16-at-the-2019-venice-biennale\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Expectations for the Malta Pavilion in Venice. Malta in Christie\u2019s Top 16 at the 2019 Venice Biennale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Arts Council Malta is delighted to note that the Malta Pavilion at the 58th Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia has ranked among the top 16 pavilions singled out by the prestigious Christie\u2019s international art magazine for its Pick of the Pavilions at the 2019 edition of the Biennale.<br><br>Titled&nbsp;<em>Maleth \/ Haven \/Port \u2014 Heterotopias of Evocation<\/em>, the Malta Pavilion is also among the 25 national exhibits named by leading arts magazine&nbsp;<em>Frieze<\/em>&nbsp;as \u2018the best on view in Venice\u2019 this year &#8212; out of more than 95 pavilions present at the event.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The acclaim for the Malta Pavilion comes ahead of the public opening on May 11 of the Venice Biennale \u2014 the oldest, largest and possibly the most competitive gig in the art world. Malta\u2019s high rankings mean that the bar has now been raised for the focus and attention that our exhibiting artists Vince Briffa, Trevor Borg and Klitsa Antoniou are set to receive in the next months from art critics and the international art public alike.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With more than 80,000 visitors expected to visit the Malta Pavilion, set up in Venice\u2019s Arsenale, the exhibition curated by Hesperia Iliadou de Subplajo-Suppiej is now set to reach one of the largest audiences ever to encounter the work of Malta\u2019s creative artists on the world stage.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Arts Council Malta team tasked with co-ordinating Malta\u2019s participation at the Biennale is already in Venice with the artists, curator and production team, in an effort to ensure one of Malta\u2019s best showings ever for its arts sector.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Arts Council Malta is confident the country\u2019s success at the Biennale di Venezia will further inspire our local art scene to achieve quality creations that can hold their own anywhere in the world regardless of Malta\u2019s limitations when compared to much bigger countries like the United States, France, Turkey, the United Kingdom, Italy, India and others \u2014 countries whose company Malta now enjoys in&nbsp;<em>Christie\u2019s&nbsp;<\/em>top rankings for Venice&nbsp;2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These results also mean that the rise in government funding for the cultural sector is helping achieve Malta\u2019s international strategic goals for the arts as set out in the Create&nbsp;2020&nbsp;Strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 58th Venice Biennale Art Exhibition runs from May 11 till November 24,&nbsp;2019.&nbsp;More information can be found at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.labiennale.org\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.labiennale.org\/en<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malta in Christie\u2019s Top 16 at the 2019 Venice Biennale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized-mt"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9078,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9044\/revisions\/9078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}