Introduction
Born 1971, Tbilisi (Georgia), lives and works in Luxembourg
After studying at the Academy of Art in Tbilisi, Irina moved to Amsterdam where where she studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy
Irina Gabiani works with drawing, painting, installation and sculpture as well as video and performance.
The Universe in its holistic essence is the focus of the research of the artist according to whom we all belong to a unique system, to a "big organism" imagined as a kind of complex, interrelated chain, of which we and everything around us, are a part.
Her works have been shown on an international level, either in galleries, institutions, museums, or in festivals and biennials (including the Venice Biennale).
Education
Gerrit Rietveld Academy of Art, Amsterdam 1994-1997
Academy of Art of Tbilisi 1990-1994
School of Art of Tbilisi 1986-1990
Selected Solo exhibitions / Performances
2017
Sinestesia Universale, Irina Gabiani ? videos and Ruggero Laganà ? music, Conservatorio di Milano, Milan, Italy
Le 3 du Trois, Irina Gabiani, Unrolling the human body, Luxembourg
2016
Irina Gabiani, Unrolling the Universe, Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia
Take off your veil and Slave of your own system, within Time is Love.9, Plateau Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2015
Irina Gabiani ? Recent videos, Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia
Irina Gabiani: Micro e Macro cosmi, Galleria Giampiero Biasutti, Torino, Italy
Take off your veil and Slave of your own system, within Time is Love.8, Galerie Sobering, Paris, France
Le 3 du Trois, Irina Gabiani: New videos and works, Centre de Création Choregraphique Luxembourgeois, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2014
Le 3 du Trois, Irina Gabiani: Sélection d?oeuvres ? Dessin et Video, Centre de Création Chorégraphique Luxembourgeois, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2012
Irina Gabiani: Unknown world, Videos and works, Georgian National Museum ? Amiranashvili Museum of Art, Tbilisi, Georgia
Irina Gabiani: Videos and works, Design City Luxembourg 2012 ? Luxembourg Design Biennale, Lago, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2011
54a Biennale di Venezia, Padiglione Italia, Lussemburgo, Irina Gabiani e Sonia Sion, curated by the Italian Institute of Culture, Cour de Justice Européenne, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
54a Biennale di Venezia, Padiglione Italia, Lussemburgo, Irina Gabiani e Sonia Sion, curated by the Italian Institute of Culture, 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
CologneOFF 2011? Le Musée di-visioniste, Cologne OFF & Video Channel
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, Art Gallery, Leonidze State Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia
The Slaves of the system, Georgian State Pantomime Theatre, Tbilisi, Georgia
Selected Group exhibitions
2018
The end is your choice, (Marie-Paule Feiereisen, Irina Gabiani, Philippe Lamesch), Nosbaum Reding Projects, Luxembourg
Declinando il libro d?artista, Unimediamodern, Genova, Italy
Time is Love.11, Galerie Toolbox, Berlin, Germany
Les mains de l?espoir, Paris, France
Nero Positivo / Nero Negativo, Gian Marco Casini Gallery, Livorno, Italy
Lucca Art Fair 2018 ? Gian Marco Casini Gallery, Lucca, Italy
TIME is Love.11, Casablanca International Video Art Festival, Casablanca ? Morocco
TIME is Love.11, CCA Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, UK
TIME is Love.11, Lilly Agius Gallery, Sliema, Malta
2017
La Parola alle immagini, Gian Marco Casini Gallery, Livorno, Italy
New Landscape, CAPC musée d?art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
Sinestesia Universale, Irina Gabiani and Ruggero Laganà, Dalla M alla XXL, Conservatorio di Milano, Milan, Italy
TIME is Love.10, SOFIA UNDERGROUND Performance Art Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria
Festival International d?Art Vidéo de Casablanca (FIAV), Morocco
TIME is Love.10, Plymouth University, Plymouth, U.K.
A Giancarlo Salzano, pensatore sorprendente e geniale, Galleria Del Ponte, Torino, Italy
TIME is Love.10, Artspace, Tel-Aviv, Israel
TIME is Love.10, ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
HearteartH, International Videoart Project from Berlin, VisualContainerTV, Milan, Italy
2016
TIME is Love.9, TEA Museum ? TENERIFE ESPACIO DE LAS ARTES, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
Frames on Canvas, Galeria H2O, Barcelona, Spain
HearteartH, [.BOX], the videoart project space of VisualContainer Milan, Italy
HearteartH, Group Global 3000, Berlin, Germany
HearteartH, BERLINER LISTE 2016 | Kraftwerk Berlin, Germany
Time is Love.9, Mur Nomade, Hong Kong
Time is Love.9, Galerie de la Voûte, Paris, France
Open Screen, Luxembourg City Film Festival, Headquarters Magic Mirrors, Luxembourg
Time is Love .9, Plateau Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2015
Letters From The Sky, La Generale, Paris, France
Time is Love .8, Sakura Works, Yokohama Community Design Lab, Yokohama, Japan
Time is Love .8, Sobering Galerie, Paris, France
Liaisons, Rassegna di video arte, Punto Enel, Milano, Italy
Transborda Overflow, Books & Movies Festival, Alcobaça, Portugal
Time is Love .8, Gallery Kulter, A Lab, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Time is Love .8, Expressive Arts Institute, San Diego, California, USA
2014
Time is Love .7, Galerie Talmart, Paris, France
Time is Love .7, Pink Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Time is Love .7, Vovatania Gallery, Kharkov, Ukraine
Transborda / Owerflow, Alcobaca Historic Center, Alcobaca, Portugal
Time is Love .7, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance (CA), USA
Sguardi Sonori 2014, Stars, Museo Pietro Canonica a Villa Borghese, Roma, Italy
Georgian Video Art, Tbilisi Mediathek, Tbilisi, Georgia
Art for Freedom (Ukraine and Georgia), Saakashvili Presidential Library, Tbilisi, Georgia
2013
Fonlad 2013 ? Espaço Artes, Multimédia e Performance, Coimbra, Portugal
Human Emotions Project ? Love and Hate, Artreview Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Cologne Off 2013 ? Georgia, Center of Contemporary Art, Tbilisi, Georgia
Cologne OFF 2013, JCIC Vilnius and Kedainiai Regional Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania
Out of Range 2013, Castello di Frontone, Frontone (Pesaro e Urbino), Italy
Toronto Urban Film Festival 2013, Toronto, Canada
2012
Video Dia Loghi 2012, Velan Centre for Contemporary Art, Torino, Italy
Time is Love .5, Center for Contemporary Art ? Pavilion Unicredit, Bucharest, Romania
Le 3 du Trois, Irina Gabiani: Slow movements, Trois C-L, Bannanefabrik, Luxembourg
La Collezione dell?Associazione Culturale Darko Store, Sala Mostre Municipio, Carignano (Torino), Italy
Time is Love .5, Tiwani Contemporary, London, UK
Sguardi Sonori 2012, Gino on my mind, Teatro Colosseo, Roma, Italy
Letters from the Sky, National Arts Festival 2012, Grahamstown, South Africa
Time is Love .5, City Art Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Insieme ? Together, Abbaye de Neunmunster, Luxembourg
Time is Love .5, Zet Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Di luce propria, Thirteen light movies, Nur Gallery, Milano, Italy
Time is Love .5, Rich Mix Foundation, London, UK
Time is Love .5, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Le 3 du Trois, Irina Gabiani: Recent videos, Trois C-L, Bannanefabrik, Luxembourg
2011
Biennale di Venezia ? 54th 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, Labia Cinema on Orange, Cape Town, South Africa
Letters from the Sky ? The Bioscope, Johannesburg, South Africa
Positions, Paris ? Tbilisi 2011, The National Parliamentary Library of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia
CologneOFF 2011 ? Tampere, Galleria Rajatila, Tampere, Finland
Sguardi Sonori 2011, CLAC ? Centro Labicano Arte Contemporanea Roma, Roma, Italy
Athens Video Art Festival, Technopolis, Athens, Greece
One Shot, 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
CologneOFF 2011 ? Ukraine, Centre for Contemporary Art Foundation Kiev, 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
2010
Video Dia Loghi 2010, Velan Centre for Contemporary Art, Torino, Italy
Sguardi Sonori 2010-2011, Palazzo Orsini, Bomarzo (Viterbo), Italy
Sguardi Sonori 2010-2011, Museo della Civiltà Romana, Roma, Italy
Artisterium 2010, 3rd Tbilisi International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia
Cologne Off VI ? 6th Cologne International Videoart Festival, Cologne, Germany
Art Beijing 2010, Contemporary Art Fair, Artist Cinema, 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 ? Portugal, Malhoa Museum, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
Artisterium 09, 2nd Tbilisi International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Georgian National Museum, 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
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, Tbilisi, Georgia
Collettiva Vincitori Premio Nazionale Città di Novara, Museo Civico del Broletto, Novara, Italy
HEP ? Portugal, Museu de Ceramica, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
Tbilissi Underground, Cosmopolis ? Espace International de la Ville de Nantes, Nantes, France
2008
Video Dia Loghi 2008, Velan Centre for Contemporary Art, Torino, Italy
8° Premio Nazionale d?Arte Città di Novara, Finalist Artists Exhibition, Video Section, Museo Civico del Broletto, 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
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