Introduction
Born 1971, Tbilisi (Georgia), lives and works in Luxembourg.
The Universe in its holistic essence is the focus of the research of Irina Gabiani 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.
Irina Gabiani works with drawing, painting, installation, video and performance.
Her works have been shown internationally in galleries, institutions, museums, festivals and biennials (including the Venice Biennale).
Biography
Selected solo exhibitions / Performances
2025
Portraying the Universe, Nosbaum Reding | Projects, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2024
Irina Gabiani: Minimal – Complexity, Galerie PJ, Metz, France
2022
Irina Gabiani: 10 videos, The Caucasians 2 – solo feature from Georgia, Peace Letters to Ukraine 11, The New Museum of Networked Art, Online Show
Irina Gabiani and Katarzyna Kot-Bach: Circular, Fellner Contemporary, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2021
Irina Gabiani: Théâtre Intérieur, Galerie PJ, Metz, France
2020
New works – online exhibition, Centre de Création Chorégraphique Luxembourgeois-Banannefabrik, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2019
Irina Gabiani: Game without rules, Gian Marco Casini Gallery, Livorno, Italy
Irina Gabiani: Across the Universe, Raffaella De Chirico Arte Contemporanea, Torino, Italy
2018
The end is your choice (with M.P. Feiereisen, P. Lamesch), Nosbaum Reding | Projects, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2017
Sinestesia Universale, Irina Gabiani – videos and Ruggero Laganà – music, Conservatorio di Milano, Milano, Italy
Irina Gabiani: Unrolling the human body, Centre de Création Chorégraphique Luxembourgeois – Banannefabrik, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2016
Irina Gabiani, Unrolling the Universe, Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia
Take off your veil and Slave of your own system – live performances, 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 – live performances, within Time is Love.8, Galerie Sobering, Paris, France
Irina Gabiani: New videos and works, Centre de Création Choregraphique Luxembourgeois – Banannefabrik, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2014
Irina Gabiani: Sélection d'oeuvres – Dessin et Video, Centre de Création Chorégraphique Luxembourgeois – Banannefabrik, 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
54. Biennale di Venezia, Padiglione Italia, Lussemburgo, Irina Gabiani e Sonia Sion, curated by the Italian Institute of Culture, Cour de Justice Européenne, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
54. 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
Irina Gabiani: 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
Selected Group exhibitions (until 2010)
2024
“Magic”, FemLink-Art, Visualcontainer[.Box], Milan, Italy
Back And Forth, Raffaella De Chirico Arte Contemporanea, Milano, Italy
“Magic”, FemLink-Art, at LÁ Art Museum Iceland, Hveragerdi, Iceland
A psalm for the wild built, Luisa Catucci Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Qui non c'è niente da leggere, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, Genova, Italy
2023
Face au Rêve, Galerie PJ, Metz, France
Bienal Madatac 12, Art for Freedom, Sala Berlanga, Madrid, Spain
Cross Cities 2023, Artarea Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
Arco Madrid, Madatac, Art for Freedom, Madrid, Spain
2022
Strumento Musicale, Galerie PJ, Metz, France
Casa degli Angeli, Porto Antico di Genova, Genova, Italy
Never cross the same river twice, Kunstverein Kärnten, Klagenfurt, Austria
Peace letters to Ukraine, The New Museum of Networked Art, Cologne, Germany
Artworks for Ukraine, MUDAM, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
20×20 Eventi 2020, Museum of Contemporary Art of Villa Croce, Genova, Italy
2021
My mother, my father and I, Muratcentoventidue Artecontemporanea, Bari, Italy
20×20 Eventi 2020, UnimediaModern, Genova, Italy
Luxembourg Film Festival, Openscreen, 11th edition, Casino Luxembourg – Forum d'art contemporain
2020
NewMediaFest2020 ‘9 – The 365 Days Diary, Launch of Corona! Shut Down? – Corona Film Collection, online show
Time is Love.12, Universal Feelings: Myths & Conjunctions, We Open Space & Wienstation, Vienna, Austria; Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Dunedin, New Zealand; ELY Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; Cruce Centre of Contemporary Art, Madrid
2019
Angeli e Artisti, Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, Italy
Sa zgva ri– The border, Poti Pavilion, Poti, Georgia
F is for Feminin, Hyperflexion Contemporary Art, Port Elisabeth, South Africa
Artificial identity, Gallery Live Hive at Art with me, Arts & Ecoculture Festival, Tulum, Mexico
Radical, Hyperflexion Contemporary Art, Port Elisabeth, South Africa
Rotation Artworks, Raffaella De Chirico Contemporary Art, Torino, Italy
2018
Declinando il libro d'artista, Unimediamodern, Genova, Italy
Time is Love.11, International Video Art Exhibition, Mulhouse Art Contemporain, Mulhouse, France; Galerie Toolbox, Berlin, Germany; Ex-New Contemporary Art Center, Sulbiate, Italy; Casablanca International Video Art Festival, Casablanca – Morocco; CCA Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, UK; Lilly Agius Gallery, Sliema, Malta
Nero Positivo / Nero Negativo, Gian Marco Casini Gallery, Livorno, Italy
2017
Time is Love.10, International Video Art Exhibition, Addis Video Art Festival, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Strangloscope, Mostra Internacional de Audio Video/Film, Florianopolis, Brasil; Gallery (Experiencia) Hiedra, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Sofia Underground, Performance Art Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria; FIVAC – International Video Art Festival of Camaguey, Cuba; Plymouth University, Plymouth, U.K.; Artspace, Tel-Aviv, Israel; ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
Net-RRjet, Please prove you are not a robot, Gallery of Arts Faculty, University of Pristina, Pristina, Kosovo
La Parola alle immagini, Gian Marco Casini Gallery, Livorno, Italy
500 Angeli & Artisti, Reggia di Monza, Monza, Italy
New Landscape, week-end de l'Art Contemporain, International video art screening, CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
Sinestesia Universale, Irina Gabiani – videos and Ruggero Laganà – music, Dalla M alla XXL, musiche per tutte le taglie, dal flauto in do al flauto contrabbasso, Conservatorio di Milano, Milano, Italy
Festival International d'Art Vidéo de Casablanca (FIAV), Casablanca, Morocco
A Giancarlo Salzano, pensatore sorprendente e geniale, Galleria Del Ponte, Torino, Italy
HearteartH, International Videoart Project from Berlin, VisualContainerTV, Milano, Italy
2016
Time is Love.9, International Video Art Exhibition, Tea Museum – Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain; Digital Marrakech 5, International Media Art, Digital Cinema Festival Morocco, Morocco; Spectrum Festival, Villach, Austria; Mur Nomade, Hong Kong, China; Galerie de la Voûte, Paris, France; List I Ljosi Light Festival, Seydisfjordur, Iceland; Plateau Gallery, Berlin, Germany
HearteartH, Group Global 3000, Berlin, Germany; Berliner Liste 2016 | Kraftwerk Berlin, Germany; Medienwerkstatt Bethanien, Berlin, Germany; [.BOX], the videoart project space of VisualContainer Milan, Italy
Frames on Canvas, Galeria H2O, Barcelona, Spain
Luxembourg City Film Festival, Open Screen, Headquarters Magic Mirrors, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2015
Letters from the sky, La Generale, Paris, France
Liaisons, Rassegna di video arte, Punto Enel, Milano, Italy
Transborda Overflow, Books & Movies Festival, Alcobaça, Portugal
Time is Love .8, International Video Art Exhibition
2014
Time is Love .7, International Video Art Exhibition
Transborda / Owerflow, International expanded cinema and Video Art screening, Alcobaca Historic Center, Alcobaca, Portugal
Sguardi Sonori 2014, Stars, Museo Pietro Canonica a Villa Borghese, Roma, Italy; Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona, Italy
Georgian Video Art, Tbilisi Mediathek, Tbilisi, Georgia
Art for Freedom (Ukraine and Georgia), Saakashvili Presidential Library, Tbilisi, Georgia
2013
Fonlad 2013 – Mostra Internacional de Video Arte, Espaço Artes, Multimédia e Performance, Coimbra, Portugal
Human Emotion Project – Love and Hate, Artreview Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Cologne Off 2013 – Georgia, Center of Contemporary Art, Tbilisi, Georgia
Cologne OFF 2013, A virtual memorial Vilnius 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, International Video Art Exhibition
Irina Gabiani: Slow movements, Centre de Création Chorégraphique Luxembourgeois – Banannefabrik, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
La Collezione dell'Associazione Culturale Darko Store, Sala Mostre Municipio, Carignano, Italy
Sguardi Sonori 2012, Gino on my mind, Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona, Italy; Teatro Colosseo, Roma, Italy
Letters from the Sky, National Arts Festival 2012, Grahamstown, South Africa
Insieme – Together, Abbaye de Neunmunster, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Di luce propria, Thirteen light movies, Nur Gallery, Milano, Italy
Irina Gabiani: Recent videos, Centre de Création Chorégraphique Luxembourgeois – Banannefabrik, Luxembourg, 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
Out of range 2011, Castello di Frontone, Pesaro, Italy
Positions, Paris – Tbilisi 2011, The National Parliamentary Library of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia
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
Magmart / Video under the volcano, International Video art Festival, Universal Forum of Cultures Foundation, Napoli, Italy
Over here, European artists in Garikula, Europe House, Tbilisi, Georgia
CeC 2011, 6th 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
Delhi International Arts Festival, Cologne Off VI, Alliance Francaise, New Delhi, India
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 – Human Emotion Project, Culture Center Laaksola, Toijala, Finland; Ivazion, Geneva, Switzerland; AFA – Beijing Contemporary Art Centre, Beijing, China
Faces, Gonçalves Sapinho Cultural Center, Benedita Alcobaça, Portugal
Art Beijing 2010, Contemporary Art Fair, Artist Cinema, Beijing, China
Awards
2008
Third International Art Prize Arte Laguna, Sculpture, Best foreign artist
Third International Art Prize Arte Laguna, Sculpture, Virtual Jury Prize
8° Premio Nazionale d'Arte Città di Novara, Video, III prize
2011
International Video Festival “Letters from the sky”, Video, Top 10 Award Winner
International Video Festival “Letters from the sky”, Video, Judges' Prize Winner