The 10th Cairo International Biennale was opened at the Museum of Modern Art in Cairo where more than 120 artists from all over the world, including Malta, are exhibiting traditional oil paintings to “weirdo-tech” installations.

The Malta Council for Culture and the Arts selected a triptych of paintings by Luciano Micallef and a bronze sculpture by Charles Sammut as Malta’s exhibits.

Malta’s participation was made possible through the kind support of the Malta Tourism Authority and the Embassy of Malta in Cairo.

Launched in 1984, the Cairo International Biennale was the first of its kind in the Arab region. The Cairo International Biennale has established itself as one of the major events in North Africa. Regional and international prestige is derived from the city’s name, Cairo, the capital of Al-Mo’ez, the centre of Arab culture, which has inspired civilisations across the world.

This year’s symposium was entitled Collage as a Metaphor. The sessions tackled various aspects of contemporary culture: theatre of memory, faces of modernity, conceptual collage, concrete rejoins virtual reality.

The speakers at the three-day symposium were from Egypt, Morocco, Kuwait, Tunisia, Germany, US, Australia and Malta; Luciano Micallef was one of the speakers.