“My curatorial projects tend to be a running commentary on the current social context, from a historic perspective.

I’m especially interested in the subjectivity of knowledge and its temporal nature.

My work consists of a site-specific artistic dialogue that intertwines historical and architectural context, and its local community.”

about

Alexia Medici (1980, Malta) is an artist and independent curator based in Barcelona since 2006. She loves being around people, and her curatorial projects mediate between social narratives and her investigations based on history and architectural context. This mediation usually results in site-specific exhibitions related to the passage of time, and its effect on the surrounding space and its community.

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Alexia Medici (1980, Malta) es una artista y curadora independiente con sede en Barcelona desde 2006. Sus proyectos curatoriales median entre narrativas sociales y investigaciones basadas en la historia y el contexto arquitectónico. Esta mediación a menudo resulta en exposiciones site-specific relacionadas con el paso del tiempo y su efecto en el espacio circundante y su comunidad.

As part of the exhibition Exterior | Interior at the Fundació Suñol, I got the pleasure to interview artist Teresa Gancedo about her work, her experience exhibiting in the seminal Guggenheim New York exhibition “New Images from Spain” and how her work has evolved since.

Link to the video

bio

Although engaged with art since her childhood, her formal studies are in Communication Studies and Psychology. She worked in advertising and public relations, and eventually, in Barcelona worked as a graphic and web designer. She took a course on the Metàfora Studio Arts Programs which proved to be seminal in her artistic development. 

She has two children. During her maternity break, her artwork which previously was mainly installation based, evolved into photography. Hence her fascination for the interconnection between space and time began. After working in design for 14 years, she assumed the position as coordinator of the art program at Metàfora. The role of coordinator gravitated her art towards curatorship, a role that suited her interests and with which she instantly felt comfortable with, giving her lots of gratification.

Since evolving into a curatorial role, she successfully completed several curatorial courses and curated ambitious site specific art exhibitions, with a focus on the mediation between art and the general public.

timeline / work / life / relevant experience

Upcoming: “Māter”, Arxiu Historic de la Diputació de Barcelona, May-June 2024
Curating “Māter”, The National Archives of Malta, March 2024
Curated Nosaltres, interpretats per les flors: El trencament, ICUB Pere Quart, Nov-Dec 2023
Curated Nosaltres, interpretats per les flors: La transformació, ICUB Farinera del Clot, June-July 2023
Curated Nosaltres, interpretats per les flors: La reproducció, ICUB Casa Elizalde, January-March 2023
Curated Montferry, at Bodega Montferry, July 2022
Curated Exterior | Interior, Fundació Suñol, May-July 2022
Curatorial Talk for Sala d’Art Jove – Territori, lluita i creació, June 2022
Curated Va començar amb l’aigua, a series of six site specific exhibitions, April 2021-February 2022
ARCOGalleryWalks guide during the Barcelona Gallery Weekend 2021
Curated Until the lion learns to write, every story will glorify the hunter at Ca l’Aranyó, March 2020
ARCOGalleryWalks guide during the Barcelona Gallery Weekend 2020
Expanding Exhibitions: Innovative Approaches to Curating, NODE Curatorial Studies 2019
Talk at Sant Andreu Contemporani about L’últim Passatge as part of their curatorial program entitled Pasarse de la raya 2019
Presentations at Escola Barcelona introducing L’últim Passatge to neighboring schoolchildren 2019
Interview by Luis Benvenuty from La Vanguardia about L’últim Passatge 2019
ARCOGalleryWalks guide during the Barcelona Gallery Weekend 2019
Curated L’últim Passatge: an artistic tribute to the residents of Passatge de Piera and Colònia Castells 2019
Artistic collaboration with Katerina Ashche Máquina del Tiempo for L’últim Passatge 2019
Curatorial participation Festa Major Les Corts as a prologue to L’últim Passatge 2018
Socially Engaged Art Projects: Community and Participation, NODE Curatorial Studies Online 2018
Cultural Fundraising, NODE Curatorial Studies Online 2018
ARCOGalleryWalks guide during the Barcelona Gallery Weekend 2018
Participation in EINA Print.ed art fair, Barcelona 2018
Interview by Russian journalist Daria Gavrilo about Passatge de Piera: Interpretation of a Transition 2018
Curated Passatge de Piera: Interpretation of a Transition 2018
Presented the Discourse Project installation series in Malta 2017
Curated Artist Takeover: in the Parc de la Espanya Industrial, 2017
Participated in Artist Takeover: in the Parc de la Espanya Industrial with Discourse [41.3777, 2.1416], 2017
MONA biennial: a work of art in one tweet, 2017
Artist Residency in Motherhood (2017-2020)
Malta Artist Directory interview published, 2017
Participation in Barcelona Gallery Weekend (Compositions: Pep Vidal), 2017
“Times Square Takeover”, Times Square billboards, New York, 2014
“Exposure” See | Me Exhibition Space, Long Island City, New York, 2014
Photographic competition (runner up), Galería ArtMallorca, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 2014
“SCOPE Art Fair” Miami Beach, USA, 2013 “Creatives Rising” See | Me Exhibition Space, Long Island City, New York, 2013
“The Story of the Creative” See | Me Exhibition Space, New York, 2013
“Women in Photography” Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 2013
Photography Open Salon Arles (screening installation), Galerie Huit, Arles, France, 2012
Carrousel du Louvre Salon Contemporary Art Fair “Art Shopping Paris”, France, 2012
Galería Javer Róman, Malaga, Spain, 2012
International Art Fair: Kunstart 2012, Bolzano, Italy
Galería Untitled Bcn, Barcelona, 2012
Malta Design Week, Old University Building, Malta, 2011
Metàfora Studio Arts Program on-site exhibition, Barcelona, 2011
Participation SWAB Art Fair “Postcards” 2011
Can Manyé, Alella, 2011
Galería Untitled Bcn Barcelona, 2011
Metàfora Studio Arts Program on-site exhibition, 2010
Galería Untitled Bcn Barcelona, 2010
Gracia Arts Project Barcelona, 2009
Christine X Gallery, Malta, 2008

Prizes/ Grants

ICUB Temporals 2023

Arts Council Malta, Project Support Grant 2022

Selected press

Related studies

2019: Expanding Exhibitions: Innovative Approaches to Curating, NODE Curatorial Studies
2018: Socially Engaged Art Projects: Community and Participation, Node Center for Curatorial Studies, Berlin
2018: Fundraising cultural: financiación para organizaciones y proyectos artísticos, Node Center for Curatorial Studies, Berlin
2018: A Practical Guide to Curating, Node Center for Curatorial Studies, Berlin
2015-2016: El Torn Barcelona (ceramics) – Hand building and painting with Glazes and Engobes
2013-2014: El Torn Barcelona (ceramics) – Wheel Throwing
2012: Escola Davinci, Barcelona
2010-2011: Metàfora Studio Arts Program
2004: Alfred Briffa, Malta – life drawing classes
1998-2002: Oloug Vethal, Malta – mentorship, private classes
1998-2002: B.Communications and Psychology at the University of Malta
1998: Raymond Pitre, Malta – mentorship, private classes
1996-1998: De La Salle College, Malta (under the tutorage of Olaug Vethal) – Art Advanced Level
1996: The School of Art, Valletta, Malta – academic drawing