Chiaroscuro - an exhibition of paintings, conversations between darkness and light (Exhibition Opening Night)
Thu 30 Oct
|Grand Master's Palace, Valletta
As part of this year’s edition of The Three Palaces Festival, the festival will be curating an exhibition of paintings, etchings, and drawings at The Grandmaster’s Palace in Valletta.
Time & Location
30 Oct 2025, 10:00 – 09 Nov 2025, 09:30
Grand Master's Palace, Valletta, 58 Republic St, Valletta, Malta
About the event
Chiaroscuro - an exhibition of paintings
conversations between darkness and light
As part of this year’s edition of The Three Palaces Festival, the festival will be curating an exhibition of paintings, etchings, and drawings at The Grandmaster’s Palace in Valletta. We have invited established artists to submit their work as part of a collective exhibition from October 29 to November 9, 2025. Alongside this, the festival has issued a call for younger artists, students, as well as self-taught artists from (or residing in) Malta, to be part of a larger and prestigious exhibition in this most exceptional space. The work is inspired by the concept of chiaroscuro and the contrast and dialogue between darkness and light.
The opening night will include a short performance of choral works linked to the genius who took the technique of chiaroscuro to its extremities – Caravaggio, paving the way to tenebrism –…