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

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