

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Exhibition Opening: Gilbert Calleja Paintings
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 13 Mar, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Fri, 13 Mar, 2026 at 09:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Gilbert Calleja: Paintings
A solo exhibition by Gilbert Calleja 

Exhibition Opening: 13th March | 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Exhibition Dates: 13th March – 25th April 2026 | Wed - Sat | 2pm - 7pm (closed public holidays)

Entrance is free
VALLETTA CONTEMPORARY
15, 16, 17, East Street, Valletta

In this exhibition, Gilbert Calleja explores living bodies as processes that are constantly changing, expanding, contracting, morphing into, or breaking away from the space that contains them. In Calleja’s works, the body is reactive and unruly, and the inhabited space remains fluid and ambiguous.

The paintings and drawings presented in this exhibition are largely composite pieces, made up of different wood panels layered with various construction materials, paints, pencil, charcoal, or ballpoint pen. The works are built through successive layers of different media and materials, but they also bear the marks of extensive reworking, visceral incisions, defacements, and the destruction of prior images. It is from within this dialogue between construction and destruction that Calleja’s exploration of the human form emerges.

The artist employs the composite form as a deliberate strategy to engage the public in rethinking the body as a tangle of limbs within entropic environments. The multitude of panels that make up the composites invites us to look, and then look again, at the same body in flux. This reiterative process draws attention not only to the reflexivity in the representation of the body that the artist seeks to evoke, but also engages us in a discourse of temporality. The recurrence of the same functions as an analytical method, interrogating the evolving relationships within a set of spatial coordinates that continually attempt, albeit unsuccessfully, to discipline the body into a semblance of unity.

Calleja’s works challenge us to consider identity as a process of negotiating being-in and becoming-with the spaces and environments, whether real or imaginary, that we inhabit.

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Gilbert Calleja (1978) is a documentary photographer and multimedia artist focusing on long-term socially engaged projects in Malta and around the Mediterranean. His main focus is creative storytelling based on ethnographic research methods.

Gilbert obtained his PhD in Creative Media from the Centre for Research and Education in the Arts and Media (CREAM) at the University of Westminster, London with a study on ‘Ethnography and experimental non-fiction storytelling: relating the experiences of Maltese Fishermen’. Apart from working extensively (2013-present) with fishermen he has also dedicated several years to working with transgender persons (LIMINAL, 2013).

He has studied history of art and fine arts at the University of Malta (2000) and the University of Paris, Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne (2004).

His work has been published and exhibited in Malta (2006-present), at the Venice Biennale (2017), in Brussels (2017, 2012), at the Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles (2008) and at the Caochangdi Photospring, Beijing, China (2008), amongst others.
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Valletta
- **state**: MA
- **country**: Malta
- **location**: 15,16,17 Triq Lvant (East Street), VLT1253 Valletta, Malta
- **lat**: 35.89678
- **long**: 14.51463
- **full address**: 15,16,17 Triq Lvant (East Street), VLT1253 Valletta, Malta, 17 Triq il-Lvant, Valletta, VLT, Malta

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- **organizer**: Valletta Contemporary (https://allevents.in/org/valletta-contemporary/12775583)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Fri, 13 Mar, 2026 at 06:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 15,16,17 Triq Lvant (East Street), VLT1253 Valletta, Malta, 17 Triq il-Lvant, Valletta, VLT, Malta
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Valletta Contemporary
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, exhibitions, fine-arts, contests, storytelling, holiday
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