ANDREW BORG WIRTH

AMEN NEMMEN (2026) BY VINCE BRIFFA FILMING JULY 2026 LINK IN BIO. 📸 AMEN NEMMEN, Vince Briffa, 2002 project supported by the Digital Presence Office, @archdioceseofmalta

URNA FROM MALTA IS THE LONDON DESIGN BIENNALE AWARD WINNING PAVILION FOR 2025. It is only through radical approaches that we can ensure a return to beauty. The best way to express my thoughts right now is to reproduce what we said at yesterday’s launch in London. Thank you to everyone who has joined and supported us on this journey so far. URNA is Andrew Borg Wirth, Anthony Bonnici, Matthew Attard Navarro, Thomas Mifsud, Stephanie Sant, Anne Immelé and Tanil Raif. URNA is the Malta Pavilion at London Design Biennale, commissioned by Arts Council Malta and made possible through support from Halmann Vella, Gasan Foundation, Embassy of France in Malta, Malta Enterprise, Visit Malta, KM Malta Airlines and all other partners. Photos by Charlie Pike

@natalialassallem on mother’s day @labiennale @artpaper.press @artscouncilmalta

@habitual_body_monitoring2 curated by @the_chus_martinez for the Danish pavilion: subversion, pornography, cicciolina and the fertility crisis. Loved what this felt like and set out to do. @labiennale @artpaper.press @artscouncilmalta

What the garden sounds like as people walk around an incredible Holy See Pavilion, listening to a sonic landscape with interventions by artists including @thisispattismith @brianeno and @fkatwigs , triggered by sensors nested within the flora on its path. I quickly tried to type out what Patti Smith laments when you sit in the cave-like chapel and took photos of people contemplating the canal whilst listening to water-triggered piece by @soundwalkcollective . It is refreshing, in such an overly stimulating visual experience -a biennale- for listening to become the primary act. Curatorially, this is perhaps the best monument to Koyo Kuohoh’s imperative within the whole event. Commissioned by the @dicasterycultureeducation , this is the Holy See sharing space with external, conflicting and critical voices. The radicality of this clash of perspectives, experiences and beliefs within this sacred space, is precisely in line with the method we have been developing for the @adfculture within the Maltese context. Creating a space for confrontation of worldviews, the pavilion maximises what is universal: our bodies, nature and the cosmos. It was a long, 70 minute wait, even after having booked a slot, but it was well worth it. Curated by @hansulrichobrist and Ben Vickers. @labiennale @artpaper.press @artscouncilmalta

@ei.arakawa.nash for Japan: babies, the promise of the future, hope, art, a scaffold, and poetry. @labiennale @artpaper.press @artscouncilmalta

The most intense days, encounters, art, and then this. We haven’t left for Venice yet but so much already to think and talk about. Kiefer, in his seven palaces, speculates on the constant attempt to reach towards the divine. They force you to look up, towards the constellations that you then see on his monumental paintings. Concrete, the most brutal, man-made substance, is made to appear fragile, like the relationships between those who conceived it. Alchemy and melancholy, sublime but at the same time harrowing. A room full of curators on a Congress deliberating how to deliberate a crumbling world order. We arrived from Turin yesterday and leave Milan to Venice tomorrow. Supported by @artscouncilmalta

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Very grateful for 12 weeks in Paris as one of 43 laureates of a residency at the Cité internationale des arts in collaboration with the Institut Français. 🙏 @citedesartsparis @if_officiel @franceinmalta