Alexandra Aquilina (b. 1987) is a screen printer and multi media artist based between Malta and Berlin.
Intimate and irreverant, Alexandra’s work is about sharing her thoughts and experiences as a woman growing up on patriarchal Meditarranean island steeped in history, with her audience in a bold but personal manner. For her, the act of creation is a way to explore and process dichotomous aspects of this way of life, though the visual iconogrophy of spiritual and historic themes surrounding Maltese society. She takes these visuals a step further by merging and blending them and reinterpreting them through the use of modern and found materials.
Alexandra combines her printmaking background with photography, light and sculpture, using materials that range from resin to fabric and embroidery, perspex, wood and metal.
2023/2024 - The spazju kreattiv art collection - an open research (MT)
Curator: Daniel Azzopardi. Research Sarah Deshayes Borg
2023 - 100 artworks from emerging artists (publication)
Arts to Hearts project in collaboration with Milan Art Institute
2023 - F A R R E A C H (berlin art week, de)
Curated by R-Gallery. MaHalla, Berlin, Germany
2023 - Shrine: finding solace in the chaos of life (solo exhibition, mt)
Curated by Lisa Gwen. MUŻA (National Museum of Art), Valletta, Malta
2023 - Crush (DE)
Curated by Aquilina and Finnegan. Retramp, Berlin, Germany.
2023 - Triumph of Women (Berlin, DE)
Curated by Irina Rusinovich. Haze Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
2023 - Closing Night (MT)
Curated by Lily Agius. Lily Agius Gallery, Sliema, Malta.
2022 - My Body. My Blood. (Online)
Curated by Sibling Collaborative. Sibling Collaborative, United Kingdom.
2022 - New Era II (Gr)
Art Number 23, Athens, Greece
2021 - Athens Open Art (GR)
Art Number 23, Athens, Greece
2021 - {v} Art + Feminism (MT)
Curated by Lisa Gwen. Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta, Malta.
2020 - Protest & Protect (online)
Feminist Art Museum
2020 - Mini/Maxi Prints (DE)
Gallerie Heike Arndt DK, Berlin, Germany
2020 - Spread the Ink (MT)
Curated by Alexandra Aquilina. Studio 104, Valletta, Malta.
2020 - Artna (Online)
Curated by Malta Community of Illustrators
2020 - 20x20 (MT)
Curated by Christine Xuereb. Christine X Gallery, Sliema, Malta.
2018 - Creative Maltese in Parallel (Ire)
Curated and Created by Moira Zahra.
2014 - Malta Design Week (MT)
Fort St. Elmo, Valletta, Malta
CV - EDUCATION, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & ASSOCIATIONS
September 2023: Master Class THE ARABIAN PENINSULA: A History of Visual Representation by Ghada AlMuhanna (BAI, Berlin)
February 2021 (ongoing): Member of People of Print
November 2019: CMYK Screen Printing Workshop (Print Club, London)
August 2019: UDK Summer Courses: Berlin Appeals 2019 – Poster Design Workshop (Universität der Künste, Berlin)
April 2014 – August 2014: Intensive Drawing Course (Private Tuition by Chris de Souza Jensen)
2009 – 2011: BTEC Higher National Diploma in Graphic Design (MCAST Art and Design, Malta)
2005 – 2008: Bachelor of Psychology (Hons.) (University of Malta, Malta)
2004: Fashion Design Course (Manzoni Fashion School, Malta)
