Gabriel Zammit is a curator, writer, producer and project manager working across contemporary art, publishing and education.
Zammit’s curatorial and research interests include outsider and vernacular creativity, the relationship between craft and contemporary art, mythology, and experiences that sit outside established cultural categories. His approach is informed by aesthetic and critical theory, particularly the writings of Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno and W. G. Sebald. He has curated and produced exhibitions ranging from focused solo projects with individual artists to expansive research-led exhibitions bringing together artworks and artefacts spanning thousands of years.
Between 2022 and 2025, Zammit held the position of Programmes and Initiatives Officer at the Malta Society of Arts, where he directed a multidisciplinary contemporary arts programme spanning visual arts, music, performance, public events and publishing. Alongside programme direction, he contributed to the institution’s wider development, including funding, partnerships and audience growth. In 2025, one of the Society’s flagship programmes was nominated for Arts Council Malta’s Premju Għall-Arti for Best Programme.
Zammit is also a part-time lecturer at the University of Malta, teaching criticism, art theory and related subjects within the Departments of Education and Digital Arts. As a writer and art critic, he regularly contributes to books, catalogues, newspapers, journals and other cultural platforms.
He is a member of the Valletta Contemporary Advisory Board and a member of IKT – International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art. In 2023, he was shortlisted for Arts Council Malta’s Premju Għall-Arti for Best Young Creative Practitioner.
Experience
2026
Producer. Innocent Passage: a Performance by Núria Güell & Rosa Casado.
Malta Biennale, Heritage Malta.
2025
Curator. Wens: Comfortable Silence, a solo exhibition by Rebecca Bonaci. Valletta Contemporary, Valletta.
Curator and Producer. The Sound of You Dreaming: a solo exhibition by Paul Scerri. Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta. Funded by the Malta Arts Fund.
2024
Curator. Matthew’s Dream: The cloud of unknowing. Installation work by Paul Scerri. Valletta Contemporary, Valletta. Funded by the Malta Arts Fund.
Curator. Clay / Craft / Concept: Contemporary ceramics ancient histories. Collective exhibition. Malta Society of Arts, Valletta. Produced and funded by the Malta Society of Arts.
2023
Curator and Producer. Il-Ħabba tal-Għajn: a solo exhibition by Alex Dalli. Malta Society of Arts, Valletta.
Lecturer (ongoing) Art Theory and Criticism. Department of Education, University of Malta.
Lecturer (ongoing) Comparative Approaches to Art, Design and Visual Culture. Department of Digital Arts, University of Malta.
2022
Programmes and Initiatives Officer (until 2025) Malta Society of Arts, Valletta.
Curator and Producer. Groundwaters: outsider perspectives and visions of elsewhere. Collective exhibition. Valletta Contemporary Gallery, Valletta. Funded by the Malta Arts Fund.
Curator and Producer. Sea Sunset Moon: variations on solitude. Collective exhibition. Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta. Commissioned and funded by Fondazzjoni Kreattivita.
2021
Research Support Officer (until 2022) SoNAR Global, mobilising social sciences against infectious threats. Department of Anthropological Sciences, University of Malta.
Curator and Producer. Darkness at Noon. Collective exhibition. The Splendid, Valletta. Funded by the Malta Arts Fund.
Communications Manager. Alessia’s Project. Short-film and workshop series. Produced by Cynthia Bonnici, Florinda Camilleri, Francesca Mercieca, Niels Plotard. Funded by the Malta Arts Fund.
2019
Producer. Departures: Pawlu Grech a life in perspective. Concert and exhibition. Malta Society of Arts, Valletta. Funded by the Malta Arts Fund.
2016
Editorial Director (until 2017) Student’s Philosophy Society, University of Malta.
Awards and Memberships
2025, 2026
Member Malta Entertainment Industry Association (MEIA) Visual Art Subcommittee
2025, 2026
Member Valletta Contemporary Arts Advisory Board
2025
Clay / Craft / Concept shortlisted for Premju Għall Arti Best Visual Arts Project
2024, 2025, 2026
Member IKT International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art
2023
Shortlisted for Premju Għall Arti Young Creative Practitioner Award
2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Chairperson Malta Society of ArtsArts Advisory Board
2021
Darkness at Noon shortlisted for ArtzID Best Exhibition Community Award
Education
2023
Curating Contemporary Art. Chelsea College of Arts, London.
CASE, Creative and Social Entrepreneur Programme. In Place of War, and The University of Manchester. Workshops in Malta.
2022
A Practical Guide to Curating. NODE Centre for Curatorial Studies. Online course with Nora Mayr, Berlin.
Cheek to Cheek Feedback Workshop. DASArts Dance Studios, Amsterdam. Workshops with Manolis Tsipos in Malta.
2017
MA Philosophy, Aesthetics and Art-Theory. Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University, London. Dissertation Leaning Against the Current of Time: On WG Sebald’s Presentation of the Unrepresentable.
2016
BA (Hons) Philosophy. Department of Philosophy, University of Malta. Dissertation The Enigma of a Non-Enigmatic World: On Quentin Meillassoux’s Philosophy of Absolute Contingency.
