Margerita works on site-specific, politically-engaged projects, championing contemporary art in Malta, and working in particicular with feminist and contra-hegemonic ideas.
Margerita Pulè is an artist, curator, researcher and cultural manager, with a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from the University of Malta. She is founder-director of Unfinished Art Space, an independent and nomadic space showing contemporary art in Malta, through which she engages in an open, collaborative and symbiotic curatorial practice. She is also a founder-member of the Magna Żmien Foundation, which digitises 20th century analogue home archives, forming a community archive accessible to researchers and artists. She is currently a researcher on the Horizon 2020 project Acting on the Margins Arts as Social Sculpture (AMASS), measuring the impacts of socially engaged art practice. Until recently, she was editor of ArtPaper, Malta’s quarterly art publication, and still contributes regularly to its online and printed content. She is currently immersed in the island of Farfara, investigating its history and origins through Farfara Archives (in collaboration with Elise Billiard Pisani), and looking to future possibilities with Farfara 2031 (in collaboration with Maren Richter, Toni Attard, Karsten Xuereb). Recent curatorial projects include Futuring Islands (co-curation, 2022, Studio Eckermann/Nestler, Vienna; The Ordinary Lives of Women (co-curation, 2022, Spazju Kreattiv), Past Continuous (solo show, Alex Urso, 2021, ŻiguŻajg Festival), Debatable Land(s) (co-curation, 2020, at Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna), Strangers in a Strange Land (group show, 2020, MUŻA), and Daily Bread (co-curation, 2019, Gabriel Caruana Foundation).
site : https://www.margeritapule.org/