Maurizio Cattelan must be careful where he hangs his bananas at the upcoming Malta Biennale because the Guerrilla Girls will also be taking part.

Globally renowned for their distinctive gorilla masks and provocative pro-feminism artwork, the Guerrilla Girls’ work focuses on addressing injustice.

They first emerged on the international art scene in 1985, in protest of an exhibition held at the MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where only 13 out of 169 participating artists were women.

Since then, they have undertaken hundreds of projects, from posters and banners to performances and video, and their work has been presented on major international platforms, including the Venice Biennale, São Paulo, Amsterdam, and Art Basel Hong Kong.

Their work was also presented in the publication Guerrilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly, which was listed among the best art books published in 2020, by The New York Times.

In a statement, Malta Biennale pointed out that more than half of all global artists who will participate at the festival are women.

Malta Biennale 2026 opens to the public on 14th March and will run for 11 weeks, until 29th May 2026.

Now in its second edition, the Malta Biennale is an international platform for contemporary art under the patronage of the President of Malta and UNESCO.

It is organised by Heritage Malta across 11 of its museums and heritage sites in Malta and Gozo, bringing history and cultural heritage in dialogue with contemporary art.

Cover photo: Guerrilla Girls