Christine X Curated

11/04/2026

06/04/2026

29/03/2026

I’d like to thank from for the opportunity given to myself and young promising Maltese artist Ammira Arti to participate in this all-female exhibition ‘Acqua Mano Luce’ for women’s month.

It was a pleasure working with such a great gallery and a pleasure getting to know the talented artists participating

I invite anyone visiting Sicily within the next month (until 29th April) to visit this exhibition at Quam in the beautiful town of Scicli.

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29/03/2026

Exhibition | Christine X Art Gallery | Malta

Brief and Never Ending brings together a group of Maltese and international artists to explore the passing of time through material, practice and the intimate rhythms of lived experience. Curated by Emma Weller and presented at Christine X Art Gallery in Sliema, the exhibition features works by Emma Weller, Hallgrímur Helgason, Jessica DeMers, Joana Simaes, Kika Sroka-Miller, Maria Wrona, Martina Vassallo, May Franzen, Nathan Portelli, Shanice Farrugia and Eric Attard.

The exhibition evolved from the first edition of LateNightPrompts, an online creative project and international networking platform for artists. For this edition, the participating artists were invited to respond to the prompt The Passing of Time, resulting in a diverse body of work that culminates in this exhibition.

Across the show, time is approached through multiple lenses: as something measured, as a force that alters matter through exposure and duration, and as a deeply subjective experience shaped by memory and identity. Some artworks engage with repetition and constraint, others observe gradual transformation, while several reflect on the desire to preserve time or regain control over it. Certain works raise questions of visibility and transition, while others reflect on loss associated with time’s passing.

Spanning brutalist minimalism, abstraction, urban and figurative practices, the exhibition reflects the plurality of ways in which time can be encountered and interpreted. Bringing together artists from Malta, Iceland, the USA, Portugal, Poland, Germany and the UK, Brief and Never Ending bridges international contemporary art scenes and presents time as both fleeting and continuous… brief and never ending.

1 – 23 May 2026

28/03/2026

Thanking and the team at for the beautiful set up, ready for this evening.
Anyone in Sicily this weekend are welcome to attend the opening of ‘Acqua Filo Mano Luce’ at 6:30pm today at in Scicli.

With artists and Maltese artist Ammira Arti

24/03/2026

Alexander Tadesse ‘s work ‘Where Movement Ends’ from our current show ENTRY DENIED | This is a satellite event of the Malta Biennale 2026 ( maltabiennale.art ) curated by Christine X Curated and taking place at Christine X Art Gallery has just been featured in Artsy ‘s curated collection ‘Art Under 2,500 US dollars’.

Where Movement Ends reflects the lived reality of artists whose journeys are mapped, funded, and awaited - only to be stopped at administrative borders. It asks what remains when physical mobility is denied. Does movement end at the checkpoint, or does it shift form? In this layered terrain of color and interruption, the work suggests that while the body may be paused, the impulse to move creatively, intellectually, imaginatively persists beyond the barrier.

Info on this work may be found here: https://www.artsy.net/artwork/alexander-tadesse-where-movement-ends

At our ENTRY DENIED viewing room:
https://www.artsy.net/viewing-room/christine-x-art-gallery-entry-denied-a-satellite-event-of-the-malta-biennale-2026?utm_content=viewing-room-share

Or in the curated collection here:
https://www.artsy.net/collection/art-under-2500-dollars?utm_content=collection-share

24/03/2026

Few gallerists have done what Christine Xuereb has for the Fine Art scene in Malta. Since opening her Sliema gallery Christine X in 2004, Xuereb has consistently pulled important exhibition after exhibition out of the hat. Back in 2024, she surprised audiences with an AI art exhibition by long-term....

24/03/2026

If you are in Sicily this weekend and would like to visit the opening of this all female exhibition (including young Maltese artist Mireille Vella) in Scicli, please do attend at Galleria Quam on Saturday 28th March at 6:30pm.

Here’s the exhibition ‘Acqua Filo Mano Luce’ featured in La Sicilia. Thanking Antonio and everyone from Quam for this opportunity : https://www.lasicilia.it/news/cultura-e-spettacoli/3025692/acqua-filo-mano-luce-a-scicli-una-mostra-che-coinvolge-quattro-donne-artiste-tra-italia-e-malta.html

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23/03/2026

On Saturday, 28 March 2026, Quam Gallery in Scicli, Sicily, will open “acqua filo mano luce,” an exhibition curated by Christine Xuereb, featuring four female artists from both Italy and Malta. The Maltese curator brings together artists of diverse backgrounds and techniques; Beatrice Pediconi, Federica Tomasello, Manuela Toselli, and Mireille Vella; creating a richly varied and dynamic exhibition.

The project is grounded in the idea of diversity as a source of strength, shaped by the sensitive and distinctive artistic voices of the participants. As curator Christine Xuereb writes, the exhibition “invites us to reconsider which voices, materials, and methods have been historically marginalised.” She further explains that “fragility is not seen as weakness; rather, it is understood as openness, a condition that allows for change, movement, and renewal.”

The exhibition presents Beatrice Pediconi’s refined paper works, featuring delicate floral forms created through a unique and authentic technique; Federica Tomasello’s evocations of marine landscapes, infused with the soft Mediterranean glow of pastel dust; Manuela Toselli’s richly textured compositions, characterized by personal hues and painterly threads; and Mireille Vella’s work, which deconstructs and reimagines natural imagery.

Conceived by Antonio Sarnari of Galleria Quam in Scicli, this project brings together female artists from northern Italy and the Mediterranean, united by diverse practices in painting and contemporary visual language.

“Acqua filo mano luce” will open on Saturday, 28 March at 6:30 pm at Quam Gallery, located at via F. Mormino Penna 79 Scicli in Sicily in the presence of curator Christine Xuereb and the participating artists. Admission is free, and guided tours of the exhibition will be available in both Italian and English. The exhibition will run until 28 April.

21/03/2026

UNSTAMPED MIND
by Alexander Tadesse
Acrylics on canvas
88cm by 88cm
92cm by 92cm framed
2025

Available for viewing at the gallery or on the online viewing room on Artsy: https://www.artsy.net/viewing-room/christine-x-art-gallery-entry-denied-a-satellite-event-of-the-malta-biennale-2026?utm_content=viewing-room-share

In Unstamped Mind, a central figure emerges from a field of vivid yellows, ochres, and reds seeming steady, frontal, and unhidden. The face holds a quiet defiance, surrounded by gestural silhouettes that seem to press inward and overlap, like voices, expectations, or systems seeking to define and contain. Yet the gaze remains direct, unmarked by approval or refusal.

White strokes sweep across the chest like fragments of erased text or unfinished documentation, marks that resemble the language of forms and official seals, but remain incomplete. The background pulses with movement of layered bodies, shifting profiles, and abstracted forms that suggest both community and scrutiny. There is intensity here, but also clarity.

Unstamped Mind speaks to the refusal to let bureaucracy determine identity or worth. While visas are stamped or denied, the mind, with imagination, intellect, creative force, cannot be processed through a consular file. The painting becomes a declaration that even when mobility is restricted, thought remains sovereign. The body may wait at borders, but the mind travels freely, unstamped and uncontained.

This work is currently being exhibited at ENTRY DENIED | This is a satellite event of the Malta Biennale 2026 maltabiennale.art(curated by Christine X Curated ) at Christine X Art Gallery , until 9th April 2026

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14/03/2026

A satellite event of the Malta Biennale 2026, the exhibition challenges the romanticised ideal of the ‘global artist’ by exposing the realities that underpin international cultural participation