Norbert Francis Attard
Curator: Dr Nikki Petroni
5 April 2025 – 29 June 2025
Transitions presents artworks by Norbert Francis Attard, created during key transitional phases in his artistic career. Living and working between Malta, Gozo, Berlin, and now also Seoul, Attard continually shifts both his physical and creative life in pursuit of new or alternative ways of thinking and producing. The exhibition highlights these crucial yet relatively unknown in-between stages, undertaken while Attard was transitioning from one period of artistic development to the next. Each phase reveals his experimentation with found objects and materials, forms, and themes – processes that ultimately led to the renewal of his practice. On display is a selection of works from each transitional phase spanning the years 1970 to 1999.
Norbert Francis Attard was born in 1951 and began as a self-taught painter and graphic artist before turning to installation art in 1998. In 1977, he graduated in Architecture from the University of Malta and practised as an architect for twenty years until 1996. Between 1978 and 1979, he lived in Germany, working with Licht in Raum, directed by Johannes Dinnebier, one of Germany’s pioneers in light design. Today, Attard’s contemporary art practice spans architecture, sculpture, photography, video, and installation, through which he explores his deep interest in places and their memories. Blurring the boundaries between disciplines, he integrates the physicality of sites with their layered histories, treating them as products of place, social interaction, and generative processes.
The exhibition can be visited during the museum opening hours, from 09:00 to 17:00, Monday to Sunday (including public holidays). Admission is free.
