Born 1971, Tbilisi (Georgia), lives and works in Luxembourg
Education: Gerrit Rietveld Academy of Art, Amsterdam
1994-1997 Academy of Art of Tbilisi
1986-1990 School of Art of Tbilisi
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions / performances
2022
Irina Gabiani and Katarzyna Kot-Bach: Circular, Fellner Contemporary, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2021
Irina Gabiani: Théâtre Intérieur, Galerie PJ, Metz, France
2020
2019
Irina Gabiani, Across the Universe, Galleria Raffaella De Chirico, Turin, Italy
Irina Gabiani, Game without rules, Gian Marco Casini Gallery, Livorno, Italy
2018
The end is your choice, (with M.P. Feiereisen, P. Lamesch), Nosbaum Reding Projects, Luxembourg
2017
2016
Unrolling the Universe,Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia
2015
Irina Gabiani – Recent videos, Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia
Irina Gabiani: Micro e Macro cosmi, Galleria Giampiero Biasutti, Torino, Italy
New Videos and works at Le “3 Du Trois”, Banannafabrik, Luxembourg, 2015
2014
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, Cour de Justice Européenne, Luxembourg
54a 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
CologneOFF 2011– Le Musée di-visioniste, Cologne OFF & Video Channel
2010
2009
2007
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
The Slaves of the system, live performance, Georgian State Pantomime Theatre, Tbilisi, Georgia
1997
Performance at the Millennium II Symposium, Academy of Art, Tallinn, Estonia Performance for the Academy’s Open day, Rietveld Academy of Art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Selected Group exhibitions
2023
Art Busan – International Art Fair, with Galerie PJ, Busan, Korea (upcoming)
2022
Strumento Musicale, Galerie PJ, Metz, France
Rhizome DC, Washington DC, USA
Casa degli Angeli, Porto Antico di Genova, Genova, Italy
Never Cross The River Twice, Kunstverein Kärnten, Klagenfurt, Austria
“Peace letters to Ukraine”, The New Museum of Networked Art, Cologne
Irina Gabiani, Brent Birnbaum, and James Brown, Galerie PJ at Bienvenue Art Fair, Paris, France
“Artists for Ukraine”, Mudam – Contemporary Art Museum, 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
Irina Gabiani’s work at the exhibition: 20×20 Eventi 2020, UnimediaModern, Genova, Italy
2020
TIME is Love.12 [Show 4], Universal Feelings: Myths & Conjunctions, WE OPEN SPACE
& WIENSTATION, Vienna, Austria
Nicht Museum für Zeitgemasser Kunst at Neumarkt Dresden, Dresden, Germany
TIME is Love.12 [Show 3]-New Zealand, Universal Feelings: Myths & Conjunctions
NewmediaFest 2020 – The 365 days diary, “The female eye”, visible online
NewmediaFest 2020, The 1st Corona Festival, visible online
2019
Angeli e Artisti, Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, Italy
F is for Feminin, Hyperflexion Contemporary Art, Port Elisabeth, South Africa
Sa zgva ri (სა ზღვა რი) -The border, Poti Pavilion, Poti, Georgia
Artificial identity, Live Hive Gallery at Art With Me, Arts & Ecoculture Festival, Tulum, Mexico
Hyperflexion Contemporary Art, Port Elisabeth, South Africa
Rotation Artworks, Raffaella De Chirico Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
2018
Declinando il libro d’artista, Unimediamodern, Genova, Italy
Time is Love.11, Mulhouse Art Contemporain, Mulhouse, France
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 [Show 1], International video art program, Lilly Agius Gallery, Sliema, Malta
2017
Time is Love.10, STRANGLOSCOPE, Mostra Internacional de Audio Video/Film
Florianopolis, BRASIL
Time is Love.10, Strangloscope, Mostra Internacional de Audio Video/Film
Florianopolis, Brasil
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, Bordeaux, France
TIME is Love. 10 [Show 6]- International video art program Gallery MCUBE
Lalitpur – Nepal
TIME is Love.10 [Show 5], SOFIA UNDERGROUND, Performance Art Festival,
Sofia, Bulgaria
Festival International d’Art Vidéo de Casablanca (FIAV), Morocco
TIME is Love.10 [Show 4] FIVAC – International Video Art Festival of Camaguey, Cuba
TIME is Love.10 [Show 3] Plymouth University, Plymouth, U.K.
A Giancarlo Salzano, Pensatore sorprendente e geniale, Galleria Del Ponte, Torino, Italy
TIME is Love.10 [Show 2] Artspace, Tel-Aviv, Israel
HearteartH, Iternational Videoart Project form Berlin, VisualcontainerTV, Milan
Time is Love.10, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe – Germany
2016
TIME is Love.9 [Show 6], DIGITAL MARRAKECH 5 International Media Art & Digital Cinema Festival, Morocco
Frames on Canvas, Galeria H2O, Barcelona, Spain
Georgian Video Art Screening, The Jane Hotel, NY, U.S.A.
HearteartH, [.BOX], the videoart project space of VisualContainer in Milan, Italy
Time is Love.9, Spectrum Festival, Villach, Austria
HearteartH, Group Global 3000, Berlin, Germany
HearteartH, BERLINER LISTE 2016 | Kraftwerk Berlin, Germany
Heartearth, Medienwerkstatt Bethanien, Mariannenplatz, Berlin
Time is Love 9., Spectrum Festival, Villach, Austria
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, Luxembourg
Time is Love.9, List I Ljosi Light Festival, Seydisfjordur, Iceland
Time is Love. 9, Plateau Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2015
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
TIME is Love.8 [Show 5] National Institute of Fine Arts, Tetouan – Morocco
Time is Love .8, International Video Art Exhibition, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain
Transborda Overflow, Books & Movies Festival, Alcobaça, Portugal
Time is Love .8, International Video Art Exhibition, Zeta Art Center & Gallery, Tirana, Albania
TIME is Love.8 [Show 1],EXPRESSIVE ARTS INSTITUTE, San Diego, California,
USA
2014
Sguardi Sonori, Stars, Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona, Italiy
Art for freedom, Saakashvili Presidential Library, Tbilisi, Georgia
Sguardi Sonori, STARS, Museo Pietro Canonica, Villa Borghese, Rome , Italy
TIME is Love. [Show 6 ] International video art program, TORRANCE ART MUSEUM, California, U.S.A.
Georgian Video Art Book and Video Art show at Tbilisi Mediathek, Tbilisi, Georgia
TIME is Love.7 [Show 5] International video art program, Photon Gallery, Slovenia
TIME is Love.7 [Show 4]VOVATANYA GALLERY, Kharkov, Ukraine
TIME is Love.7 – [Show 2], PINK GALLERY, Seoul, Korea
Irina Gabiani’s video at: Time is Love Paris, Galerie Talmart, Paris, France
Irina Gabiani’s works at Trois C-L, Centre de Crèation Choreographique Luxembourgeois, Luxemobourg
2013
HEP 2013 – Human Emotion Project “Love & Hate”Love & Hate screens at Artreview, London, UK 2013
Cologne OFF 2013, A virtual memorial Vilnius 2013, JCIC Vilnius and Kedainiai Regional Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania
Toronto Urban Film Festival 2013, Toronto, Canada
Out of Range 2013, Castello di Frontone, Frontone (Pesaro e Urbino), Italy
Cologne Off Georgia, Center of Contemporary Art, Georgia, Tbilisi 2013
Fonland Digital Art Festival, Portugal, 2013
2012
Video Dia Loghi 2012, Torino, Italy
Time is love.5, International Video Art Exhibition, Tiwani Contemporary, London, UK
Sguardi Sonori 2012, Gino on my mind, Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona, Italy
Sguardi Sonori 2012, Gino on my mind, Teatro Colosseo, Roma, Italy
Letters from the sky, National Arts Festival 2012, Grahamstown, South Africa T
ime is love.5, International Video Art Exhibition, Tiwani Contemporary, London, UK
Time is love.5, International Video Art Exhibition, City Art Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
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 – 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, 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
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, 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, 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
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
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, 2nd 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
Sguardi Sonori 2009, Festival of Media and Time based Art, Hep, Villa d’Este, Tivoli, Roma, Italy
Stop waiting Georgia, Georgian National Museum – Tbilisi History Museum “Karvasla”, Tbilisi, Georgia
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
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
Public collections
Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milano, Italy
Georgian State Museum of Theatre, Music, Cinema and Choreography, Tbilisi, Georgia
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
Georgian National Museum – Amiranashvili Museum of Art 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