FRAGMENTA

We are pleased to announce our first event in 2017: On invitation of FRAGMENTA, Berlin-based German artists Sonya Schönberger and Christof Zwiener have chosen to investigate and have a critical look at the ferry terminal of Cirkewwa, which is the only connection between the islands of Malta and Gozo. The central hall of the waiting area has become the chosen location for the artists’ site-specific interventions. This space, situated between departure and arrival, and thus equipped with a certain “tristesse”, […]

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A tower with a plank facing outwards … John is confused. John is on holiday in Malta, and on this glorious sunny October Sunday afternoon, he goes to the popular sandy beach of Ghajn Tuffieha. Suddenly, he spots the tower – his curiosity walks him to the cliff edge, overlooking the neighbouring Ghajn Tuffieha bay. In front of the Ghajn Tuffieha watchtower, a beautiful young woman approaches John and invites him to have a look inside. John startles – it […]

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For the upcoming FRAGMENTA-event on October 23rd, Maltese artist Aaron Bezzina will present new objects and a site-specific installation entitled “Memento Mori: Hints Taken From Terror Management Theory”. All presented works take their point of departure from Terror Management Theory (TMT), which claims that culture and art provide meaning in an insecure world by being a manifestation of concerns with our own mortality. Photo Credit: Still from “Flight From Death”, a documentary about “The Denial of Death” by Ernest Becker. […]

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It all started with a story: “All day long the little boy worked hard in field and barn and shed; but every day, when the work was done, there came an hour which was all his own…” In the story (dated 1903) I am referring to, a poor boy sees Golden Windows every day from his room, and imagines the rich people living behind these glistening windows… The announcement for the FRAGMENTA-event UNTITLED (Ix-Xemx) was clear and ominous at the […]

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DUE TO UNFAVORABLE WEATHER REPORTS THE EVENT HAS MOVED FROM SEP 25TH TO SUNDAY OCTOBER 2ND! The next FRAGMENTA-event is going to take place at St. Thomas Bay in Marsascala on Sunday, October 2nd. Artist Sandra Banthorpe invites visitors to the poetic site-specific installation “UNTITLED (Ix-Xemx)”. According to calculations, the sun will set at 18.44 after a day-duration of 11h and 56min length. BEST VIEWING TIME: 17:30 to 18:30 UNTITLES (ix-xemx) is based on a story which accompanied Sandra during […]

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On April 24th 2016, FRAGMENTA was holding a 1-day-event with two guided tours around the topic of “Outside Development Zones” with German artist Erik Göngrich. What does art have to say about Outside Developent Zones, does art have a say at all in political issues? It all had started with a demonstration FRAGMENTA attended in Valletta in 2015, organized by Front Harsien ODZ and various NGOs, to protest against the development at Zonqor point, which according to the local plan […]

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FRAGMENTA is holding a 1-day-event with 2 guided tours around “Outside Development Zones” with German artist Erik Göngrich. You might ask: Outside of what? Outside of city structures would mean that one finds oneself immediately in nature or immersed in agricultural areas. In such a case, one is in a field, but not in a zone… Visitors are invited to a specific presentation on site, and to participate at a tour to some of these “fields” and discuss them and […]

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It all started with the Old Testament, as many things did: “My sister, my spouse, is an enclosed garden, an enclosed garden, a fountain sealed up,” reads the Song of Songs: “Hortus conclusus soror mea, sponsa, hortus conclusus, fons signatus“. Hortus conclusus literally means “enclosed garden” and is both an emblematic attribute of the Virgin Mary in Medieval and Renaissance poetry and art, as well as a genre of actual garden. For the 1-day-event of the same name, FRAGMENTA presented […]

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