Vince Briffa b. 1958
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Valle Dell O'mbra Della Morte, 2021 SoldVince Briffa, Valle Dell O'mbra Della Morte, 2021Sold
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Sinking Trajectories, 2021Vince Briffa, Sinking Trajectories, 20218,500.00
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Valle Dei Venti, 2021Vince Briffa, Valle Dei Venti, 20212,750.00
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Islands, Artist proof 2 , 2021 SoldVince Briffa, Islands, Artist proof 2 , 2021Sold
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Islands, Artists proof 1 , 2021 SoldVince Briffa, Islands, Artists proof 1 , 2021Sold
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Untitled I , 2019Vince Briffa, Untitled I , 20191,500.00
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Untitled III, 2019Vince Briffa, Untitled III, 20191,750.00
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Out of Time/Necropolis, 2020
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Untitled, 2020Vince Briffa, Untitled, 20202,300.00
My work centres on the co-existence of dualities. It treads blurred borders and investigates uncertain divides between opposing poles. It synthesises extremities, and acts as a seam that binds together disparate realities.
Uncertain of its own actuality, it questions its own being.
I am not a painter or sculptor, I am also not a filmmaker or a writer.
I produce 'work'.
It is my vocabulary. It is the vehicle that best embodies my thoughts and connects all my creative output.
Artist and academic. Works in a variety of media and produces gallery and site-specific work, objects and installations integrating often traditional artistic practices with digital and electronic media.
1958 Born in Malta. Lives and works in Malta. 2000 Graduated in MA Fine Arts with distinction (Leeds University, UK) and 2009 PhD, University of Preston UK. 2011 to today - Head of Department of Digital Arts, University of Malta. 2015 Associate Professorship, University of Malta.
AWARDS:
2019 ‘Omaggio all’Arte ed all’Innovazione a Venezia
2019’ by The Union of Honorary Consuls of Italy (UCOI) and the National Association of Young Innovators (ANGI) - Venice Biennale
2019 - Arts Council Malta.
AFFILIATIONS:
2019 International Associate - CUT Contemporary Fine Arts Lab, Cyprus
2017 Fellow of the Civitella Ranieri Foundation
2016 co-founder of ISTRA Foundation for Arts and Research, Malta
2002 founding member of stART - a group of Maltese contemporary artists
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS, PROJECTS AND PUBLIC COMMISSIONS:
1999 Hermes - 48th Venice Art Biennale - Malta Pavilion, Le Tese dell’Arsenale, Venice, Italy
2000 Hermes - St. James Cavalier Centre for Creativity, Valletta, Malta
2001 Three Pieces - The outer building, Museum of Modern Art, Vaduz, Liechtenstein 2002 Amen - Nemmen - The “Johanniterkirche”, Feldkirch, Austria
2002 Hermes - The Sacristy, “Johanniterkirche”, Feldkirch, Austria
2002 Nixtieq… - Attard Historic Centre, Malta; 2003 Immigrant - Only Atelier, Vienna, Austria
2004 Queen Street Gallery, Belfast, N. Ireland / Villa Manin Centre of Contemporary Art, Udine, Italy
2004 Body Works - Pierides Museum of Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus
2005 MOYA, Vienna, Austria; 2005 re:public - The Vision Centre, Cork, Ireland
2006/7 Selfportrait - A Show for Bethlehem - Show for Peace - Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Naples, Italy and MAC - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Santa Fe, Argentina
2006 Hermes - Galerie der Schwarze Punkt, Konstanz, Germany
2006 Body of Glass – After Caravaggio - The “Johanniterkirche”, Feldkirch, Austria; 2007 Playing God - The Preston Minster, Preston, England
2007 Body of Glass – After Caravaggio - Auberge d’Italie, Valletta, Malta
2007 6collabor8 - Palais Liechtenstein, Feldkirch, Austria
2007 Analogue and Digital - Fieldgate Gallery, London, England
2009 Sounds and Visions - Tel Aviv Museum of Modern Art, Israel
2009 Heterotopia - Gallery No. 68, Valletta, Malta
2011 Terrain Vague - St. James Cavalier, Centre for Creativity, Valletta, Malta
2012 Merry-go-round - Interactive Sculpture, Larnaca Airport, Larnaca, Cyprus
2013 Logos - Sta. Barbara church, Valletta, Malta
2014 Kiss the Sky - Pjazza Teatru Rjal, Valletta, Malta
2015 Ghoqda - Monument for EU-Africa Summit, Castille Square, Valletta, Malta
2016 The Space in Between - K.B. Gallery, Kaposvár, Hungary
2018 Flowerheads - Arte Gallery, Victoria, Gozo
2019 Outland - 58th Venice Art Biennale - Malta Pavilion, Le Tese dell’Arsenale, Venice, Italy
2020 Out of Time - Arthall Gallery, Victoria, Gozo.
SELECTED COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS:
1982 Contemporary Art Exhibition - Cathedral Museum, Mdina, Malta
1983 Ggajta - British Legion and Ta’ Cenc Hotel, Gozo
1983-1990 Maltafest - Auberge de Provence, Valletta, Malta
1984 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Piccadilly, London, England
1985 Marriott Hotels Contemporary Art Exhibition, Christie’s Sales Rooms, London; 1985 Chenil Galleries Contemporary Painters - Kings Cross, London, England
1986 Italian and Maltese Artists - Hotel Phoenicia, Floriana, Malta
1988 Mostra Internazionale d’Arte - Museo del Risorgimento, Rome
1988 The Art of a Rising Generation - Chamber of Commerce, Valletta, Malta
1989 Maltese Artists in Florence - Galleria Renzo Spagnoli, Florence, Italy
1989 Malta -25 Sena Indipendenti - Auberge de Provence, Valletta, Malta
1990 Inaugural Exhibition - The Gallery, Sliema, Malta
1991 Maltese Art - Cairo and Alexandria; 1991 Malta Week - Moscow, Russia
1992-3 Maltese Contemporary Art - Travelling Exhibition, Germany
1992 European Paintings - Gallery 100, St. Julians, Malta
1993 Iljieli Mediterranji - In-Nudo fl-Arti Maltija - Floriana, Malta
1994 Contemporary Sacred Art in Malta - Mdina, Malta; 1994 Iljieli Mediterranji - Dan... Din... Jien, Floriana, Malta
1994 Iljieli Mediterranji - Dan... Din... Jien, Floriana, Malta
1994 Expressions ‘94 - AZAD, Casa Pereira, Valletta, Malta
1994 Gallery Glage - Konigstein, Germany
1995 Works - Institute of Visual Arts, Valletta, Malta
1995 Woman in Maltese Art - Auberge de Provence, Valletta, Malta
1995 First Biennale of Malta - Valletta, Malta
1996 Maltafest - Valletta, Malta
1996 Kreativa - Museum of Fine Arts, Valletta, Malta
1996 Contemporary Christian Art - Mdina, Malta
1997 Maltafest - Valletta, Malta
1997 Euromed Conference - Valletta, Malta
1998 WTDC Conference - Valletta, Malta
1998 Labyrinth Gallery - Valletta, Malta
1999 Re-interpreting Preti - Museum of Fine Arts, Valletta, Malta
2000 From Hagar Qim to the Ring of Brodgar - Maritime Museum, Cottonera, Malta
2000 25th Anniversary of the Republic of Malta Exhibition - Gallerija il-Foyer, National Labour Centre, Hamrun, Malta
2000 Edinburgh Festival - City Art Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2000 Year Zero - Galeria d’Art Zero, Barcelona, Spain
2000 Millennium Celebrations - Floriana, Malta
2000 MAFA Degree Show - Bretton Hall College, Wakefield, England
2002 UBER - Portomaso, Paceville, Malta
2002 Cityspaces - YMCA Valletta Festival, Malta
2003 Borders - Pinto Wharf, Valletta, Malta
2003 Invisible Cities - St. James Centre for Creativity, Valletta, Malta
2003 La Mostra Impossibile - Birgu, Malta
2004 Body Works - Pierides Museum of Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus
2004-5 Instant Europe - Villa Manin Centre of Contemporary Art, Udine, Italy
2005 Collective - MOYA, Vienna, Austria
2006 Oasis International - Japanese and Maltese Artists - Mediterranean Conference Centre, Valletta, Malta
2006-7 Crossings - Malta, Cyprus, France - Travelling Contemporary Collective Exhibition
2006-7 Selfportrait - A Show for Bethlehem - Show for Peace - Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Naples, Italy and MAC - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Santa Fe, Argentina
2007 Search for a Space - Various Venues, Malta
2007 Caravaggio - quote... unquote - Various Venues, Malta
2007 Visions in the Nunnery - The Nunnery Gallery, Bow Arts Trust, London, England
2007 The Philosophical Brothel - St. James Centre for Creativity, Valletta, Malta
2007 6collabor8 - Palais Liechtenstein, Feldkirch, Austria
2007 6collabor8 - The Citadel, Rabat, Gozo, Malta
2007 Analogue and Digital - Fieldgate Gallery, London, England
2008 Watch - Museum of Fine Art, Valletta, Malta
2008 Sea Dreaming - St. James Centre for Creativity, Valletta, Malta
2008 Scent - St. John’s Cavalier, Valletta, Malta
2008 Eighteighteen - Malta Contemporary Art, Marsa, Malta
2009 Sounds and Visions - Tel Aviv Museum of Modern Art, Israel
2009 Ten - Gallery No. 68, Valletta, Malta
2009 The Life Model - Between Nude and Naked - Gallery No. 68, Valletta, Malta
2009 hello... @ ART PRAGUE 2009 - Art Prague, Prague
2010 With Love? From Me to You - The James Taylor Gallery, London
2011 I fought the X and the X won - National Museum of Fine Arts, Cluj, Romania and National Museum of Fine Arts, Valletta Malta
2011 Festival Rues d’été - Graulhet, France
2012 Wicc imb Wicc (Contemporary Self Portraiture) - St. James Centre for Creativity, Valletta, Malta
2012-3 Stemperando - Torino, Cosenza, Roma, Italy
2014 Identita’ - AZAD, Republic Street, Valletta, Malta
2015 The Culture of Ageing - St. James Centre for Creativity, Valletta, Malta
2015 Virtuoso – Studio 104, Valletta, Malta
2016 Terrain Vague - MADATAC 07 - Madrid Videoart and New-Media Audiovisual Art Festival, Madrid, Spain
2016 I am my photograph – Cologne Off 2016, India
2017 Small Amnesias - Rhythms of Vision, Teatru Manoel, Valletta, Malta
2017 The Malta Stock Exchange Art Exhibition – Malta Stock Exchange, Valletta, Malta 2017Human Matter - MSA Valletta, Malta
2017-8 White Memory - 1989/2018 Art in Malta and Poland, Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta, Malta
2017-8Avlea - Closing exhibition, Pafos2017 European Capital of Culture, Markideio Theatre, Paphos, Cyprus
2018 Contemporary Inside 2018 - Junior College, Msida, Malta
2018 Metafourisms – Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta, Malta
2018 Visual Acoustics – VIVA, The School of Art, Valletta, Malta
2018 Metafourisms – Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta, Malta
2018 Nisga - Storja Kontemporanja – Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta, Malta
2018 Understatement – OKNO Gallery, Slubice, Frankfurt am Oder, Poland
2018 IN BETWEEN - lo sguardo dell’arte fra due continenti – Biffi Arte, Piacenza, Italy
2019 Ostrale Art Biennale – Dresden, Germany
2019 Imprint IV – MSA, Valletta, Malta
2019 Collective Exhibition – Valletta Contemporary, Valletta, Malta
2021 Collective Exhibition – Marie Gallery 5, Mosta, Malta
2021 Collective Online Exhibition – IN/BREAK, Transept 2021, ITIA, University of St Andrews, Scotland
2022 OUTLAND – Sonorities Festival, Queen’s Film Theatre, Belfast, Northern ireland
2022 Signature Collective Exhibition – Obelisk Gallery, Balzan, Malta
2022 Identity of An Island - Alternative Perspectives – Astra Theatre, Victoria, Gozo, Malta
2022 Meta Landscapes - Representations and Perspectives –Valletta Contemporary, Malta.
SELECTED CURATORIAL EXHIBITIONS:
1995 Collective Works - Institute of Visual Arts, Valletta, Malta
1996 Kreativa - Museum of Fine Arts, Valletta, Malta
2001-2 Uncertain Objects - Paintings by J. Michael Anderson - Museum of Fine Arts, Valletta, Malta
2004 I feel guilty - Video and Installation by Ian Attard - St. James Cavalier Centre for Creativity, Valletta, Malta
2004 The A to Z of family planning - Graphic Art by Marco Scerri - St. James Cavalier Centre for Creativity, Valletta, Malta
2005 [R][R][F]2005--->XP/VideoChannel - curator for Maltese Participation – Memory & Identity, Cologne, Germany
2005 Digital Discourse - An International Media Art exhibition for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Malta - St. James Cavalier Centre for Creativity, Valletta, Malta
2007 Borges and Peccata Mundi - Prints by J. Michael Anderson - St. James Cavalier Centre for Creativity, Valletta, Malta
2007 Artifecture - A stART initiative - Malta Today newspaper
2007 Analogue - (co-curator) Pioneering Video from UK, Canada and Poland 1968-88 - St. James Cavalier Centre for Creativity, Valletta, Malta
2008 Watch - A collaborative exhibition with the Unit for Contemporary Art Practice, Leeds University - The National Museum of Fine Arts, Valletta, Malta
2008 Rencontres Arles - curator for Maltese participation, Arles, France
2009 Austin Camilleri & Pawl Carbonaro - curator for the two artist show at the Münchner Künstlerhaus, Munich
2011 Unshackled Transformation - (co-curator), St. James Cavalier Centre for Creativity, Valletta, Malta
2011 Valletta Photography Festival - (co-curator), various venues in Valletta and Auberge d’Italie, Valletta, Malta Malta
2012 H-ardcore - Contemporary Art by Caesar Attard, St. James Cavalier Centre for Creativity, Valletta, Malta
2013 Forces - Ceramics by George Muscat, St. James Cavalier Centre for Creativity, Valletta, Malta
2013 Re-Visit, the Contemporary Face of Faith - Seven interventions in seven churches, Valletta, Malta; 2013 Art Project Ggantija - Ars Vitae Ensemble - Ggantija Temples, Gozo, Malta
2013 Tampered Evidence - (co-curator), Blitz gallery, Valletta, Malta
2013 Pyrokinesis - paintings by David Xuereb, Ta’ Xbiex, Malta
2014 Eccentricks - sculpture by Emanuel Bonnici, St. James Cavalier Centre for Creativity, Valletta, Malta
2014 Made in MT: Maltese Art Now - Malta House, Brussels, Belgium
2014 Art project Ggantija Final Exhibition - Victor Agius - St. James Cavalier Centre for Creativity, Valletta, Malta
2014 Selfie - Ziguzajg Festival, St. James Cavalier Centre for Creativity, Valletta, Malta; 2015 The Overlooked Performance – Photography by Alex Attard, St. James Cavalier Centre for Creativity, Valletta, Malta
2016 Re-Collection – Ceramics by Tony Briffa, St. James Cavalier Centre for Creativity, Valletta, Malta
2016 Layers – Ars Vitae Ensemble, St Agatha Catacombs, Rabat, Malta
2017 In Transit - Contemporary Media Art by Artists from Malta - NRW-Forum, Dusseldorf, Germany and Town Hall, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
2018 Electromorphologies - Pioneering video art and its language – Valletta Contemporary, Valletta, Malta
2019 Video Vortex XII exhibition - co-curator with Dr Toni Sant – Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta, Malta
2019 The Beach - Gabriel Buttigieg – Academy of Fine Arts, Gdansk, Poland
2021 Spaces in Suspension - Joe Smith & Therese Debono – St. James Cavalier Centre for Creativity, Valletta, Malta.
PAPERS, ESSAYS AND TALKS:
2000 The Art of J. Michael Anderson, curatorial essay, Museum of Fine Art, Valletta 2000 Memory, Sight and Expectation, The Moving Image as Continuous Memory, talk, Leeds University, UK
2003-4 Immigrant, curatorial essay, Museum of Fine Art, Valletta
2004 Nixtieq… On Fine Art and the Advertising Billboard, curatorial essay, Attard, Malta
2004 I Feel Guilty, curatorial essay, St. James Centre for Creativity, Malta
2004 The A to Z of Family Planning, curatorial essay, St. James Centre for Creativity, Malta
2004 Maltese Contemporary Art, paper presentation, Artists in Transit Conference; Rotterdam
2004 Absence as Presence: Reflections on the body of work entitled Immigrant, talk, Queen Street Studios, Belfast
2005 Contemporary Practice, talk, Contemporary Art Practice, University of Leeds, UK
2005 Digital Discourse, curatorial essay, St. James Centre for Creativity, Malta
2006 Playing God-On interactive database video narratives, paper presentation, Electronic and Digital Art Unit, UCLan, Preston
2007 Alternative Journeys, paper presentation, Crossings Conference, University of Amiens, France
2007 The body we own and the body we are, Quoting Caravaggio, essay, Arts Council, Malta
2008 Amid the Mundane and the Extreme, essay, NY Arts Magazine, Vol 13 No. 11/12, Nov. 2008, pp. 98-99
2008 No. 68 Redprints, The house that is destined for memories and the memories that are meant for a house, essay, Redprints exhibition catalogue, Blitz, Valletta
2008 Ebba’s Sketchbook, essay, Choppy Books, 2008, p. 177
2008 Choosing Malta’s photographers for the “Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles”, essay, Lensculture, Summer 2008
2008 The (inter)national (inter)face of (inter)action - a look at some of the technologically technologically interactive works at the 52nd International Venice Biennale, essay, Art In-Sight: Artists’ Film, Video and Installation, Filmwaves, Issue 35, Obraz Productions Ltd., Spring 2008, pp. 14-18
2009 Projected Visions - Video Art in Malta, essay, Apollonia online
2009 The Poetics of Poiesis - Austin Camilleri & Pawl Carbonaro, curatorial essay, Münchner Künstlerhaus, Munich
2009 Between a Kiss and the Naked Truth, essay, The Live Model - between Nude and Naked, Malta Arts Festival, 2009, pp. 24-31
2011 Introduction, Valletta Photographic Festival, Valletta
2011 Terrain Vague, essay, Terrain Vague, St. James Centre for Creativity, Valletta
2011 Franklin Furnace, talk, book review, National Museum of Fine Art, Valletta
2012 Seeing is Believing, paper and talk at the National Museum of Fine Arts, Malta 2012 Only and Where are you from? online essays Norbert Attard website
2012 Contemp(t)orary Art, talk, Palazzo Falson, Mdina
2012 The Invention of the Frame, ‘I yam what I yam - l-Invenzione’ film launch, essay and presentation, St. James Centre for Creativity, Valletta
2012 The place-moment: a time-marching-on-the-spot as witnessed by the constantly displaced view of the photographic camera, essay, Soul Searching, Sergio Muscat website
2012 The Matter of Moments and the Moments that Matter, essay, Traces of Traces, St. James Centre for Creativity, Valletta
2012, pp. 4-5; 2012 The space between clouds, essay, Shooting Society - Documenting Contemporary Life in Malta (C. Borg, R. Vella eds.), Midsea Books, 2012, pp. 40-43
2012 H is for Human, curatorial essay, H-ardcore, St. James Centre for Creativity, Valletta, 2012, pp. 4-5; 2012 Unni Askeland, talk, National Museum of Fine Arts, Valletta
2013 Reckoning the Forces, curatorial essay, Forces, St. James Centre for Creativity, Valletta, 2013, pp. 2-5
2013 Art Project Ggantija 2013, introduction, Ggantija Art Project, Gozo
2013 Re-Visit, talk, St. James Centre for Creativity, Valletta
2013 A Journey in Three Instalments, essay and talk, Tampered Evidence, Blitz, Valletta, 2013, pp. 8-20
2013 Fringe, talk, Sergio Muscat, Palazzo Depiro, Mdina
2013 Pyrokinesis, curatorial essay and talk, David Xuereb, Ta’ Xbiex
2014 The creative strategies of juxtaposition and hybridisation, essay, Eccentricks, Emanuel Bonnici, St. James Centre for Creativity, Valletta
2014 Art Project Ggantija 2013, introduction, St. James Centre for Creativity, Malta
2014 Made in MT: Maltese Art Now, talk, Dar Malta, Brussels; 2014 Researching Art and Design through Practice: A critical engagement with context, Visual Arts Research in Higher Education, essay, Malta Review of Educational Research, Malta
2015 Searching for Meaning in Chaos, essay, Alex Attard website
2015 The Digital Romantic, Pawlu Mizzi, essay, Her Majesty, Valletta
2015 Discovering Art using Technology: The Selfie Project, Dingli, A., Seychell, D., Briffa, V., Handbook of Research on Creative Technologies for Multidisciplinary Applications, IGI Global, 2015
2016 Re-Collecting identity through Obsolescence and Reusability, curatorial essay, Re-Collection, St. James Centre for Creativity, Valletta
2016 Unfolding the layers of memory in time and space, curatorial essay, Layers catalogue, St Agatha Catacombs, Rabat, Malta
2016 Co-existing dualities - the art of being inbetween, artist's talk, K.B. Gallery, Kaposvár, Hungary
2018 Grasping at the contemporary, Interview, Malta Today
2018 Electromorphologies - Pioneering video art and its language – curatorial talk and gallery walkthrough - Valletta Contemporary, Valletta, Malta
2018 Public talk – Civitella Castle, Umbria, Italy
2018 DRHA Conference – Keynote speech, Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta, Malta
2018 Artist’s talk – OKNO Gallery, Slubice, Frankfurt am Oder, Poland
2018 Artist’s talk – Biffi Arte, Piacenza, Italy
2018 Exhibition inauguration speech – Saudade, Gabriel Buttigieg, MSA, Valletta, Malta; 2019 Artist’s talk – Rotary Club, Valletta, Malta
2019 Being on the Beach – curatorial essay, The Beach catalogue, Gabriel Buttigieg 2019 Artist’s talk – Video Vortex, Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta, Malta
2019 Keynote speech - Video Vortex XII conference – Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta, Malta 2020 Foreword, Survivors II art photography publication by Joe Smith, Malta.
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