Happy Birthday to Vince Briffa!
@vincebriffastudio
Today, we celebrate this prominent interdisciplinary Maltese artist, whose work spans to video, painting, sculpture, and installations, exhibited both locally and internationally.
Briffa was part of MICAS's exhibition The Space We Inhabit (2025), where he, alongside other Maltese artists, offered a powerful reimagining of the MICAS spaces.
In this exhibition, Briffa inhabited the space, "serving as both a beginning and an end point, interacting with all senses and considering everything in between. In some ways, my place—or rather, the space that I occupy over the course of my painting practice—is one in which I connect with the medium, both physically and intellectually, providing me with all of the possibilities imaginable in the way I engage with it."
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Awguri lil Vince Briffa!
Illum, niċċelebraw lil dan l-artist Malti interdixxiplinarju li jispikka tant, b’xogħlu mifrux minn vidjo, għal pittura, għal installazzjonijet, u esibit lokalment u internazzjonalment.
Xogħol ta’ Briffa ġie esebit fil-wirja tal-MICAS, ‘L-Ispazju li Ngħammru Fih’ (2025), flimkien ma’ xogħlijiet ta’ artisti Maltin oħra, li flimkien offrew ħsieb ġdid ta’ kif jistgħu jkunu l-ispazji tal-mużew.
F’din il-wirja, Briffa għammar fi spazju, “li servieni bħala l-punt tat-tluq u d-destinazzjoni, waqt li interaġġixxejt mas-sensi kollha u wżint kollox bejn dawn iż-żewġ punti. Xi drabi, posti – jew aħjar, l-ispazju li nokkupa waqt li nkun qed inpitter – huwa wieħed li jintrabat mal-istrument, kemm fiżikament kif ukoll intellettwalment, u jipprovdili l-possibiltajiet kollha immaġinabbli fil-mod li ningaġġa miegħu.”
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1. Artist Vince Briffa. Photo by Bernard Polidano
2. 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙨 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙢𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩, 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙙𝙞𝙚, synthetic polymer and charcoal on wood panels, 3 panels of 245cm x 120cm each, 2025. Arists Collection.
3. 𝗙𝗮𝘂𝘅 𝗣𝗮𝘀, synthetic polymer, mixed media and charcoal on canvas, 130cm x 162cm, 2023. Private Collection. (third left)
4. 𝙋𝙖𝙚𝙨𝙖𝙜𝙜𝙞𝙤 𝙙𝙞 𝙨𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙤, synthetic polymer, mixed media and charcoal on canvas, 180cm x 140cm, 2024. Private Collection. (third right)
