• Projects

    Projects and Exhibitions by Darren Tanti
Judith after Caravaggio by Darren Tanti In Search of the Unknown
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2025 - In Search of the Unknown

In Search of the Unknown offers a rare glimpse into the creative process before artworks reach resolution. Conceived as an open studio, the project reveals the discoveries, experiments, challenges, and unexpected directions that shape artistic practice, inviting audiences to engage with creativity as an evolving search for meaning, possibility, and transformation.

...and now it is time to remedy by Darren Tanti at APS Mdina Biennale 2023 Mediterranean Goddesses
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2023 - Mediterranean Goddesses

The fourth edition of the APS Mdina Cathedral Contemporary Art Biennale, directed by Giuseppe Schembri Bonaci, explores the theme Mediterranean Goddesses. Continuing the Biennale's ethos of renewal and dialogue between tradition and contemporary issues, it reflects on spirituality, fertility, and the mythological roots of the Mediterranean as aesthetic responses to today's global and environmental challenges.

Laughing Cavalier after Frans Hals Remember / Dismember
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2023 - Remember / Dismember

In Remember / Dismember, Darren Tanti reinterprets 17th- and 18th-century masterpieces from memory, reconstructing artworks through abstraction, colour, composition, and light before layering elements of the original. The exhibition brings together paintings, abstract works, and six high-relief sculptures in a salon-hang display that wraps the walls in historical reinterpretation and contemporary explorations of memory and art.

Identity of an Island Identity of an Island
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2022 - Identity of an Island

Darren Tanti’s Identity of an Island grows from the artist’s Gozitan ancestry and his longing for Gozo as home. Centred on Longing for Home, the project draws a line between Xagħra, Calypso’s Ogygia, and Odysseus’ yearning for Ithaca, turning myth and bloodline into a meditation on belonging.

Inaction is a Weapon of Mass Destruction INACTION IS A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION
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2022 - INACTION IS A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION

Darren Tanti’s exhibition Inaction is a Weapon of Mass Destruction examines the role of inaction and media manipulation in shaping perceptions of war. Through analytical, ironic, and sometimes cynical works, the project highlights how misinformation can influence public opinion on humanitarian and military matters. Experts from journalism, film, art, education, and the military contribute via talks and workshops. This project was nominated for the ACM’s Best Production: Visual Art 2023.

4th International Biennale of Artworks on Paper 4th International Biennale of Artworks on Paper
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2022 - 4th International Biennale of Artworks on Paper

The "4th International Biennale of Artworks on Paper" was a collective exhibition held at the Museum of Kozara, featuring works on paper that blended traditional and experimental printing, digital photography, and mixed media. The exhibition was also called "Grafika" and showcased a range of artistic practices on paper.

Art Interrupted Art Interrupted
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2022 - Art Interrupted

The concept of Non-Finito, or the art of unfinishedness, celebrates the beauty and mystery of incomplete works. Whether left unfinished deliberately, through loss of interest, or unforeseen circumstances, such art invites the viewer’s imagination to complete it. The Non-Finito embodies fascination and openness, showing that art’s power often lies in what remains unresolved.

AĦMAR ĦELU W'QARES AĦMAR ĦELU W'QARES
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2021 - AĦMAR ĦELU W'QARES

This project pauses artistic experimentation to reflect on life’s fragile balance between joy and sorrow. Inspired by Tanti’s experiences of birth and death, it reimagines historical paintings to link personal memory with collective humanity. Blending sacred imagery and intimate recollection, unified by red’s symbolism, the exhibition meditates on mortality, love, and life’s cyclical continuity.

Regaining a Pardise Lost Regaining a Paradise Lost
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2020 - Regaining a Paradise Lost

The APS Mdina Cathedral Contemporary Art Biennale, themed Regaining a Paradise Lost: The Role of the Arts, explores how spirituality and art inspire environmental preservation. Directed by Prof. Schembri Bonaci, it emphasizes digital and installation art within Mdina Cathedral Museum. Highlighting spirituality’s unifying power, it reflects on Malta’s climate legacy and art’s role in shaping moral and ecological awareness.

Ostrale Biennale Ostrale Biennale
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2019 - Ostrale Biennale

The second edition of the Biennale and the 12th OSTRALE explore the theme “ism,” examining ideologies, artistic movements, and social constructs as guiding frameworks and boundaries. Through diverse cultural venues, the exhibition invites reflection on how art, media, and socio-political discourses intersect, reshaping perceptions, values, and collective understanding.

Imago Mundi Imago Mundi
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2018 - Imago Mundi

Imago Mundi Highlights, launched in 2017 by the Benetton Foundation, expands the global Imago Mundi collection with a transnational focus. Featuring around 200 innovative artists annually, it showcases both established and emerging voices. Malta’s Tanti joins renowned figures like Christo and Zaha Hadid, contributing unique perspectives to contemporary visual culture.

Nisga Nisga
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2018 - Nisga - Storja Kontemporanja

Nisġa: Storja Kontemporanja weaves together Malta’s modern and contemporary art, creating a rare dialogue across generations. By juxtaposing the works of foundational artists like Kalleya, Apap, Cremona, Barthet, Camilleri, and Portelli with contemporary digital and installation-based interventions, the exhibition reflects the layered identity of the Maltese artist, bridging tradition and innovation while situating local practice within a wider European and international context.

HomoMelitensis HomoMelitensis
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2017 - HomoMelitensis - Biennale of Venice

With just two prior sightings at La Biennale di Venezia in nearly 60 years, the Malta Pavilion is much like a rare bird with virtually no past, no long tradition, or history of participation.

2016 - Washington DC - Maltese Embassy Crossing the trampoline
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2016 - Washington DC - Maltese Embassy

Drawing which is featured in the Republic of Malta's Embassy in Washington DC.

2016 - Inspired in China Inspired in China
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2016 - Inspired in China

Darren Tanti (b.1987) captures the attention of the viewer by the universality of his images. He merges east and west, bonds contemporary and past masters, fuses past and present and seems to shed doubt on the notion of national art.

2015 - Mdina Cathedral Contemporary Arts Mdina Cathedral Contemporary Arts
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2015 - Mdina Cathedral Contemporary Arts

“...the corps(e) of the Reality – if there is any – has not been recovered, is nowhere to be found. And this because the Real is not just dead (as God is), it has purely and simply disappeared.”

2014 - Space Time Existence Space Time Existence
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2014 - Space Time Existence

The three small oil paintings by Darren Tanti that are featured in the exhibition Time, Space, Existence in Palazzo Mora as part of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2014, form part of an installation called Valletta 2225.

2013 - Din Mhix Tazza Study
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2013 - Din Mhix Tazza

"Din mhix tazza" is an anthropological-artistic study aiming to connect women from Bormla in their domestic and urban environment with researchers and various artists.

Mood Board Mood Board
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2013 - Divergent Thinkers 2

We live in a world of images. Our eyes and minds are constantly bombarded with hundreds of images from every direction just to persuade us and convince us of their verity.

Mara tal-velu Mara tal-velu
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2012 - I Draw

This is the second in a series of shows in which the BoV board has directed its attention towards the younger generation of Maltese visual artists rather than the established or professional artists who have been showcased in a series of retrospectives over some 10 years.