Irina Gabiani:  Curriculum vitae

Born 1971, Tbilisi (Georgia), lives and works in Luxembourg

Education:

Gerrit Rietveld Academy of Art, Amsterdam 1994-1997

Academy of Art of Tbilisi   1990-1994

School of Art of Tbilisi 1986-1990

Exhibitions

Selected Group exhibitions

2012

Nudi su tele, (upcoming)

Time is love.5, International Video Art Exhibition, Center for Contemporary Art – Pavilion Unicredit, Bucharest, Romania (upcoming)

Time is love.5, International Video Art Exhibition, City Art Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine (upcoming)

Time is love.5, International Video Art Exhibition, Kulter, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Insieme – Together, Abbaye de Neunmunster, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Time is love.5, International Video Art Exhibition, Zet Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Time is love.5, International Video Art Exhibition, Galerie Octobre, Paris, France

Di luce propria, Thirteen light movies, Nur Gallery, Milano, Italy

Time is love.5, International Video Art Exhibition, The Cornaro Institute, Larnaca, Cyprus

Time is love.5, International Video Art Exhibition, Rich Mix Foundation, London, UK

Time is love.5, International Video Art Exhibition, Garage 4141 Gallery, San Diego, USA

Time is love.5, International Video Art Exhibition, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany

Time is love.5, International Video Art Exhibition, DotBox – Video Art Project Space, Milano, Italy

Le 3 du Trois, Irina Gabiani: Recent videos, Centre de Création Chorégraphique Luxembourgeois, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

2011

Biennale di Venezia - 54^th International Art Exhibition, Padiglione Italia, Arsenale, Venezia, Italy

Video Dia Loghi 2011, Velan Centre for Contemporary Art, Torino, Italy

S [small], Zaion Gallery, Biella, Italy

Letters from the Sky – International Experimental Film Festival on Climate change, ArtSPACE Gallery, Durban South Africa

Letters from the Sky – International Experimental Film Festival on Climate change, The Climate Train – Durban Train Station, Durban South Africa

Letters from the Sky – International Experimental Film Festival on Climate change, Labia Cinema on Orange, Cape Town, South Africa

Letters from the Sky – International Experimental Film Festival on Climate change, The Bioscope, Johannesburg, South Africa

Out of range 2011, Castello di Frontone, Pesaro, Italy

Face and Phase, Salar Jung Museum, Hyderabad, India

Positions, Paris – Tbilisi 2011, The National Parliamentary Library of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia

CologneOFF 2011 – St. Petersburg, NCCA – National Center for Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg, Russia

CologneOFF 2011 – Tampere,  Galleria Rajatila, Tampere, Finland

Sguardi Sonori 2011, Infinite Spaces, CLAC – Centro Labicano Arte Contemporanea Roma, Roma, Italy

CologneOFF 2011 – Baltic Sea, Culture’s Observatory – Officyna, Szczecin, Poland

Athens Video Art Festival, Technopolis, Athens, Greece

All Art Now - New Media Art Festival, Damascus, Syria

One Shot – International Film Festival, The Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan, Armenia

Fragments, Arnot Art Museum, New York, USA

Women, Wildgen, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

CologneOFF 2011, Arad Art Museum, Arad, Romania

Magmart / Video under the volcano, International Video art Festival, Universal Forum of Cultures Foundation, Napoli, Italy

CologneOFF 2011 – Ukraine, Centre for Contemporary Art Foundation Kiev, Goethe Institute, Kiev, Ukraine

CologneOFF 2011 – Ukraine, City Art Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine

Sguardi Sonori 2011, Infinite Spaces, Palazzo Orsini, Bomarzo (Viterbo), Italy

Over here, European artists in Garikula, Europe House, Tbilisi, Georgia

CeC 2011, 6^th Carnival of e-Creativity, Sattal Estate, Bhimtal, India

2010

Video Dia Loghi 2010, Velan Centre for Contemporary Art, Torino, Italy

Sguardi Sonori 2010-2011, Infinite Spaces, Palazzo Orsini, Bomarzo (Viterbo), Italy

Delhi International Arts Festival, Cologne Off VI, Alliance Francaise, New Delhi, India

Sguardi Sonori 2010-2011, Infinite Spaces, Museo della Civiltà Romana, Roma, Italy

Artisterium 2010, 3rd Tbilisi International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Imagine the future, Georgian National Museum - Tbilisi History Museum “Karvasla”, Tbilisi, Georgia

Simultan Festival, Timisoara, Romania

Madame 2 (Women about women), Gallery 9, Tbilisi, Georgia

Busho, Budapest International Short Film Festival, Vörösmarty, Budapest, Hungary

Cologne Off VI - 6th Cologne International Videoart Festival, Cologne, Germany

Video Performances, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India

Carmen, Variations on the theme of Carmen, Gallery 9, Tbilisi, Georgia

Visual Ensemble, Shrishti Art Gallery, Hyderabad, India

HEP - Finland, Culture Center Laaksola, Toijala, Finland

Faces, Gonçalves Sapinho Cultural Center, Benedita Alcobaça, Portugal

Art Beijing 2010, Contemporary Art Fair, Artist Cinema, Beijing, China

HEP - Switzerland, Ivazion, Geneva, Switzerland

HEP - China (Beijing), AFA - Beijing Contemporary Art Centre, Beijing, China

2009

Video Dia Loghi 2009, The Vitruvian Woman Video-installation, Museo del Cinema - Cinema Massimo, Torino, Italy

Video Dia Loghi 2009, The Vitruvian Woman Video-installation, Velan Centre for Contemporary Art, Torino, Italy

HEP – Macao, AFA, Macao, China

Sguardi Sonori 2009, Festival of Media and Time based Art, Hep, Rocca dei Rettori, Benevento, Italy

HEP - Portugal, Malhoa Museum, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal

Optica Festival Madrid 2009, Festival Internacional de Videoarte, Espacio Espora, Madrid, Spain

Out of range, Castello di Frontone, Pesaro, Italy

Artisterium 09, 2^nd Tbilisi International Contemporary Art Exhibition, The manifest of changes and an inner experience, Georgian National Museum - Tbilisi History Museum “Karvasla”, Tbilisi, Georgia

Sguardi Sonori 2009, Festival of Media and Time based Art, Hep, Scuderie Aldobrandini, Roma, Italy

Optica Festival Paris 2009, Festival International d’art vidéo, Collège d’Espagne, Paris, France

Optica Festival Cordoba 2009, Festival Internacional de Videoarte, Filmoteca de Andalucia, Cordoba, Spain

Fest i nova, International Festival of Contemporary Art – Garikula 09, Hep – Georgia, Art Villa Garikula, Akhalkalaki, Georgia

Sguardi Sonori 2009, Festival of Media and Time based Art, Hep, Villa d’Este, Tivoli, Roma, Italy

13eme Rencontre d’Art Contemporain - L’Art Contemporain de Géorgie, Chateau de Saint Auvent, Saint Auvent, France

Stop waiting Georgia, Georgian National Museum - Tbilisi History Museum “Karvasla”, Tbilisi, Georgia

Collettiva Vincitori Premio Nazionale Città di Novara, Museo Civico del Broletto, Salone Arengo, Novara, Italy

HEP - Portugal, Museu de Ceramica, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal

Tbilissi Underground, Cosmopolis - Espace International de la Ville de Nantes, Nantes, France

HEP – Italy - Roma (2nd Rome screening), Brancaleone, Roma, Italy

HEP – Spain, La Sala, Valladolid, Spain

The Vitruvian Woman Video Project, Formverk Art Space, Eskilstuna, Sweden

HEP  -  Italy - Roma, Brancaleone, Roma, Italy

On CDOs and Double Clubs, London East Festival, August Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Human Emotion Project (HEP - Australia), Guildford Lane Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2008

Minividfest 2, Total Kunst Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Video Dia Loghi 2008, Velan Centre for Contemporary Art, Torino, Italy

Dipinti e grafiche di 40 artisti contemporanei, Martinarte, Torino, Italy

8° Premio Nazionale d’Arte Città di Novara, Finalist Artists Exhibition, Video Section, Museo Civico del Broletto, Salone Arengo, Novara, Italy

Third International Art Prize Arte Laguna, Finalist Artists Exhibition, Sculpture – Installation Section, Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche - Spazi Bomben per la Cultura, Treviso, Italy

Minividfest, Edinburgh Art Festival 2008, Total Kunst Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Perezagruzka 3 –  New Georgian Art Festival, Teatr.doc, Moscow, Russia

Arte tra i piedi, Wannabee Gallery and La Posteria, Milano, Italy

2007

Not closed, Galerie Beaumontpublic, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Otto donne ed un mistero, Zaion Gallery, Biella, Italy

2003

Collettiva, Galleria Giancarlo Salzano, Torino, Italy

2000

Group Exhibition, National Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia

1999

157a Esposizione Arti Figurative, Società Promotrice Belle Arti, Torino, Italy

1997

Rietveld Academy Jewellery Department in Porvoo, Porvoon Taidetehdas Konstfabriken, Porvoo, Finland

Millenium II, International Jewellery Art Exhibition, Rotermann’s Art Centre, Tallin, Estonia

Uit Antwerpen–uit Amsterdam, Der workshop Unter dem Kometen, Gallery Ademloos, Den Haag, The Netherlands

1996

Schuttingtaal, Open air exhibition, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1995

Group Exhibition, Karvasla - Tbilisi History Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia

1993

Young Georgian Artists, Chateau de la Bourbansais, Pleugueneuc, France

1992

Group Exhibition, White Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia

Solo exhibitions / performances

2012

Irina Gabiani: Videos and works, Design City Luxembourg 2012 – Luxembourg Design Biennale, Lago, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

2011

54^a Biennale di Venezia, Padiglione Italia, Lussemburgo, Irina Gabiani e Sonia Sion, Cour de Justice Européenne, Luxembourg

54^a Biennale di Venezia, Padiglione Italia, Lussemburgo, Irina Gabiani e Sonia Sion, Université du Luxembourg, Luxembourg

CologneOFF 2011 - Beirut, Solo Artist Irina Gabiani, Shams - The Sunflower Theater, Beirut, Lebanon

CologneOFF 2011 – Riga, Solo Artist Irina Gabiani, Waterpieces International Contemporary Art Festival, Noass Arts Centre, Riga, Latvia

2010

Irina Gabiani: Reflections, Video Performances & Video Art, The National Parliamentary Library of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia

2009

Unknown reality, Fest i nova, International Festival of Contemporary Art, Art Villa Garikula, Akhalkalaki, Georgia

2007

Video Dia Loghi 2007, Videoinstallazioni: I. Gabiani / G. Cugno, Unione Culturale Franco Antonicelli, Torino, Italy

Looking at the world vice versa, Rustaveli Georgian National Theatre, Tbilisi, Georgia

Samaia or Triamazikamno, live performance, Rustaveli Georgian National Theatre, Tbilisi, Georgia

Samaia or Triamazikamno, live performance, Georgian State Pantomime Theatre, Tbilisi, Georgia

2006

When I look at myself, Art Gallery at the Leonidze State Museum of Georgian Literature, Tbilisi, Georgia

The Slaves of the system, live performance, Art Gallery at the Leonidze State Museum of Georgian Literature, Tbilisi, Georgia

The Slaves of the system, live performance, Georgian State Pantomime Theatre, Tbilisi, Georgia

2005

Drawings, Georgian Cultural Centre Mziuri, Moscow, Russia

1997

Performance at the Millenium II Symposium, Academy of Art, Tallin, Estonia

Performance for the Academy’s Open day, Rietveld Academy of Art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1995

Public Library of Barn, Barn, The Netherlands

1994

Gvelis Perangi, White Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia

Public collections

Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milano, Italy

Rustaveli Georgian National Theatre, Tbilisi, Georgia

Georgian State Pantomime Theatre, Tbilisi, Georgia

La Iglesia de los Angeles, El Milagro, Argentina

The National Parliamentary Library of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia

Awards

2008 Third International Art Prize Arte Laguna, Sculpture, Best foreign artist

2008 Third International Art Prize Arte Laguna, Sculpture, Virtual Jury Prize

2008 8° Premio Nazionale d’Arte Città di Novara, Video, III prize

2011 International Video Festival “Letters from the sky”, Video, Top 10 Award Winner

2011 International Video Festival “Letters from the sky”, Video, Judges’ Prize Winner