Romeo Roxman Gatt is a multidisciplinary artist who works between Malta and London. Performance, text, painting, video, sound, photography and sculpture all play a role in the artist’s engagement with questions concerning sexuality, identity and gender. For a while now, the artist has been working with themes of humanising and interacting with consumer objects: making the inanimate iconic and fetishised. His fascination with car culture as well as his critical observation of macho behaviour (most specifically in relation to Maltese men), persists.
Romeo has an MA in Visual Communication from the Royal College of Art and was a former associate artist at Open School East, a non-accredited alternative art school model with a focus on inclusion and co-production. Recent Exhibitions include; Rear View, Biblioteka, London (UK), When the Moon Waxes Red, Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta (MT), Queer Art Spaces 23, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna (AT), AWOL, R Contemporary, Sliema (MT), Carousel, Set Lewisham, London (UK), Traffic, LUVA Gallery, London (UK), Trans Tales for Toxic Times, We are Ugly Duck, London (UK), Shocked Quartz, London, (UK), City Entwined, Paradise Row, London (UK), Virile, The House of Barnabas, London (UK). Romeo’s work has been shown at ICA (UK), as part of the Bloomberg New Contemporaries, and in the Malta Pavilion, as part of the 57th Venice Biennale, Viva Arte Viva.
He is also interested in documenting and archiving trans and queer experiences. Gatt has recently co-founded a project called Rosa Kwir which is the first queer-focused project space and contemporary art gallery in Malta. The project revolves around alternative notions of masculinity, bringing together stories of Maltese trans men, non-binary & masculine of centre people. As part of Rosa Kwir, Gatt co-curated alongside Charlie Cauchi; She said Darling With a “K”: Reimagining Katya Saunders, Spazju Kreattiv, Malta, Tender & Masculine Group Show, Rosa Kwir, Malta, Rosa Kwir: A Queer Archive, Rosa Kwir, Malta.