About me

Short Bio

Elyse Tonna is an architect, cultural manager and curator. She is interested in contemporary visual arts yet creates and manages projects within the creative sector. She is the Arts Coordinator of ACT and works at the Gabriel Caruana Foundation.
Looking for

Learning. Sharing. Experiences. Networks.
Other Roles Art Activist, Artist Managers, Cultural Manager, Curator, Project Manager
Skills Advocacy Curation Leadership Management Team Player

Education

Education History

1/ University of Malta, Oct.2017, Aug.2020, MA Cultural Heritage Management, Malta 2/ University of Malta, Oct.2008, Jun,2013, Bachelor’s in Architecture and Civil Engineering, Malta

Experience

Exhibitions

Il-Ħajja
ongoing, Curator
Palazzo de la Salle, Valletta

Solo exhibition by Mario Agius

 

fuse
ongoing-2021, Curator
Valletta Design Cluster, Valletta Cultural Agency

 

ħożż il-ħsejjes
2019, Co-Curator, Co-Creative Director and Exhibition Designer
The Mill (Gabriel Caruana Foundation, Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta

Gabriel Caruana Foundation, instrument inventors initiative (NL), Mighty Box, Raffaella Zammit, Wen Chin Fu, Marvin Zammit, Andrea Pullicino, Community 

 

Constellation Malta
2018, Producer (Valletta 2018 Foundation), Curated by Rosa Martinez
Multi-sited, Malta

Chiharu Shiota, Austin Camilleri, Forensic Architecture and Forensic Oceanography, Kjung-Jin Cho, Saskia Calderon, Eulalia Valldosera, Marina Abramovic, Tania Berta Judith

 

in between
2018, Assistant Curator
Galleria Biffi Arte, Piacenza, Italy

Vince Briffa, Aaron Bezzina, Andrea Zerafa, Trevor Borg, Ryan Falzon, Francesca Mercieca, Joe Smith

 

Aesthetics of Disappearance
2018, Curator
Malta Society of Arts, Palazzo de la Salle, Valletta

Solo Exhibition by Nick Inguanez

 

Baħħ Blu, Book in the Sea
2018, Location Manager/Producer (Valletta Design Cluster, Valletta 2018 Foundation)
Grand Harbour, Lower Barrakka Gardens

Atelier Omoya (JPN), Studio Production Lab (JPN), Glen Calleja, ACT, Jennings Falzon

 

Human Matter
2017, Co-Curator
Malta Society of Arts, Palazzo de la Salle, Valletta

Vince Briffa, Aaron Bezzina, Joe Smith, Jean Paul Azzopardi, Justin Falzon, Victor Agius, Alexandra Pace, Raphael Vella, Kane Cali, Sabrina Calleja Jackson, Elisa von Brockdorff, Caesar Attard, Paul Scerri, Giola Cassar, Ritty Tacsum, University of Malta Students