Founder + Director
CurrentFounder and Director at BLITZ, Valletta – an independently run space hosting arts and culture events, such as exhibitions, film nights, public talks and workshops. Headed the team, ran internships programmes, organised workshops and events. Curated, organised and branded a number of successful exhibitions, both solo and group shows, initiated BLITZ funded projects, liaising with publishers and press and has collaborated with numerous organisations – educational, commercial and art institutions. As founder and director of Blitz, Alexandra has led numerous projects in collaboration with both local and international institutions, such as the Royal College of Arts (London) and Central Saint Martins University of the Arts (London). In 2015 she initiated the Blitz Residency Programme which has invited multidisciplinary artists from Berlin, London, Wroclaw, Athens, Kuwait, Paris and Istanbul. Blitz has also co-produced a large scale project, Transformer, in collaboration with Central Saint Martins University of the Arts London that built relationships between a Maltese artistic context and an international cultural network of artist-run organisations (AROs) through a series of border-crossing curatorial and artistic exchanges. Transformer focuses on the dynamic generated by AROs and their engagement with contingencies of the present, engendering artistic discourse with partners from Athens, Barcelona, Morocco and London.– www.blitzvalletta.com