Unfinished Foundation
Unfinished Art Space is an independent, artist-run, nomadic space, showing experimental and contemporary art in Malta. It is a sustainable, independent organisation, that believes in the development, creation and dissemination of contemporary art and artistic research and knowledge. It was born from a need for an independent, flexible and open curatorial project, working with contemporary and experimental visual artists in Malta.
Unfinished Art Space is run by Unfinished Foundation, registered in Malta, with VO Number VO/1740. We are on the island of Malta in the middle of the Mediterranean. We are happy to collaborate with artists, researchers and art spaces from all over the world.
We are dedicated to providing a supportive and creative environment where artists can take risks and developing their ideas, alongside supportive communities and collaborators. We believe that experimental and contemporary art should be an integral part of society, enriching lives, contributing to debate and empowering social change.
We work to;
provide a platform for contemporary artists to show their work;
offer mentorship and support to help artists develop their skills and careers;
create a community where artists can connect with each other, share ideas, and collaborate;
explore important themes through contemporary artistic expression and an exchange of experience, theory and practice;
facilitate intercultural discussion, creative expression, and artistic research;
link local and international initiatives through cultural practice.
Who We Are
Margerita Pulè is a curator, researcher and cultural manager, with a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from the University of Malta and 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 also provides training in career development for artists and curators, and is currently a trainer for CASE Malta.
She programmed much of the cultural programme in the run-up to Valletta 2018, and is currently co-director of Farfara 2031, working on the bid for the title of European Capital of Culture in 2031.
Gianmarco Santirocco settled in Malta after several experiences abroad, in England and Italy. He has worked for many NGOs as a Financial Controller (BirdLife Malta, Deaf People Association Malta, Friends of the Earth Malta). He has written and managed many EU projects (Erasmus, Life+, Interreg), and is currently Treasurer of ECOS (Belgium), CircE, and Unfinished. He has represented Malta since 2020 at the ISO level in two Technical Committees (TC207, TC322) in charge of Green Finance standardisation.
He is a Certified Accountant and Auditor (Italy), completing a B.Com. (Hons.) in Accountancy (Economy of Banking, Finance and Insurance) in Malta and Italy where he obtained professional warrants. Before this, he worked in finance in different economic sectors such as insurance, power generators, scientific instruments, and small undertaking.
Raphael Vella is an artist, educator and curator based in Malta. He has a PhD in Fine Arts (University of the Arts London) and has exhibited his works in many international exhibitions and venues, including Palazzo Bembo (parallel event at the Venice Biennale), Domaine Pommery (Reims, France) and Modern Art Oxford. He is also a full professor at the University of Malta and he co-curated the Malta Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2017 (Homo Melitensis: An Incomplete Inventory in 19 Chapters).
A creator of spatial experiences, a collector of stories and narratives, a facilitator of connections and a mediator between art, communities, contexts and everything in between, Elyse Tonna is a curator and architect who has garnered various experiences in small-to-large-scale projects with diverse collaborators. Her practice spans various disciplines including visual arts, architecture, design, cultural policy, placemaking, cultural heritage and theatre. Her portfolio encompasses roles and collaborations with various institutions and organisations such as Arts Council Malta (ACM), Heritage Malta, Valletta Cultural Agency, and Spazju Kreattiv. She is currently the co-curator and creative director of the Gabriel Caruana Foundation.
In 2024, she co-curated Matthew Attard's work in I WILL FOLLOW THE SHIP, the project selected for the Malta Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia.
Florinda is a community pharmacist and dance artist from and based in Malta. She currently works as a managing pharmacist of a dynamic pharmacy and its associated medical clinics in the centre of Malta, while her artistic practice flows at a slower, gentler pace. She engages in dance- and performance- related projects, taking on various roles as a contemporary dance and screendance performer and maker, researcher, coach and producer.
Florinda also enjoys designing, building, and holding spaces for creativity to emerge. She is particularly interested in how public space feels, and can feel, and searches for unusual ways of engaging with public space(s) through sensorial and affective information. Posthuman feminist notions of response-ability and care are fundamental to both her practices as an artist and pharmacist.