Irina Gabiani: Curriculum Vitae
Born
1971, Tbilisi, Georgia
Lives and works
Luxembourg
EDUCATION
Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam
1994–1997
Apollon Kutateladze Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, Tbilisi
1990–1994
Nikoladze State Art College, Tbilisi
1986–1990
In 2011, Irina Gabiani participated in the 54th Venice Biennale within the Italian Pavilion at the Arsenale, Venice, Italy.
The project was subsequently presented in Luxembourg at the European Court of Justice and the University of Luxembourg, curated by the Italian Institute of Culture.
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C O U N T R I E S
Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain, Netherlands, Cyprus, Malta, United Kingdom, Israel, Georgia, Ukraine, Armenia, Poland, Bulgaria, Albania, Sweden, Iceland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Hungary, Romania, U.S.A., Mexico, Australia, Canada, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, India, Macau, China, Lebanon, Syria, Morocco, South Africa, Argentina, Cuba, Nepal, Ethiopia.
S E L E C T E D V E N U E S
M U S E U M S
Museum of Contemporary Art of Villa Croce, (Genoa, Italy)
CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux (Bordeaux, France);
Museo della Civiltà Romana (Rome, Italy);
Mudam, Museum of Modern Art (Luxembourg, Luxembourg);
Museo del Cinema (Torino, Italy);
Georgian National Museum – Amiranashvili Museum of Art (Tbilisi, Georgia);
Janashia Georgian National Museum (Tbilisi, Georgia);
Arnot Art Museum (New York, U.S.A.);
Torrance Art Museum (Torrance, U.S.A);
Georgian National Museum – Karvasla (Tbilisi, Georgia);
Arad Art Museum (Arad, Romania);
Kėdainiai Regional Museum (Kėdainiai, Lithuania);
Museo Scuderie Aldobrandini (Rome, Italy);
Museo Pietro Canonica a Villa Borghese (Rome, Italy);
Villa d’Este (Rome, Italy);
Rotermann Salt Storage Arts Centre Museum (Tallinn, Estonia);
Mole Vanvitelliana (Ancona, Italy);
Rocca dei Rettori (Benevento, Italy);
Museo Civico del Broletto (Novara, Italy);
Palazzo Orsini (Viterbo, Italy);
Castello di Frontone (Pesaro e Urbino, Italy);
Malhoa Museum (Caldas da Rainha, Portugal);
Museu de Ceramica (Caldas da Rainha, Portugal);
Leonidze State Museum (Tbilisi, Georgia);
Nicht Museum für Zeitgemäse Kunst (Dresden, Germany)
INSTITUTIONS
Venice Biennale, Italian Pavilion, Arsenale (Venice, Italy);
Bienal Madatac (Madrid, Spain );
Fondazione Benetton (Treviso, Italy);
ZKM Center for Art and Media (Karlsruhe, Germany);
Unione Culturale Franco Antonicelli (Turin, Italy);
Visual Container (Milan, Italy);
Milan Conservatory (Milan, Italy) ;
Tenerife Espascio De Las Artes Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain);
ARTSPACE Tel Aviv (Tel Aviv, Israel);
Estonian Academy of Arts (Talinn, Estonia);
Filmoteca de Andalucia (Cordoba, Spain);
Rich Mix Foundation (London, U.K.);
Zet Foudation (Amsterdam, The Netherlands);
Kunstverein Kärnten ( Karnten, Austria)
Cour de Justice Européenne (Luxembourg, Luxembourg);
Université du Luxemourg (Luxembourg, Luxembourg);
Trois C-L, Centre de Création Chorégraphique (Luxembourg, Luxembourg);
Abbaye de Neunmunster (Luxembourg, Luxembourg);
Medienwerkstatt Bethanien (Berlin, Germany);
Center for Contemporary Art – Pavilion Unicredit (Bucharest, Romania);
Academy of Art (Tallinn, Estonia);
Noass Arts Centre (Riga, Latvia);
Porvoon Taidetehdas Konstfabriken (Porvoo, Finland);
The Cornaro Institute (Larnaca, Cyprus);
Saakashvili Presidential Library (Tbilisi, Georgia);
National Parliamentary Library of Georgia (Tbilisi, Georgia);
Tbilisi Mediathek (Tbilisi, Georgia);
Georgia Center of Contemporary Art (Tbilisi, Georgia);
Europe House (Tbilisi, Georgia);
Art Villa Garicula (Akhalkalaki, Georgia);
The Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art (Yerevan, Armenia);
AFA – Beijing Contemporary Art Centre (Beijing, China);
AFA – Macao (Macau);
The Climate Train (Durban, South Africa);
Osmania University (Hyderabad, India);
La Generale (Paris, France );
Sakura Works (Yokohama, Japan);
Plymouth University (Plymouth, U.K);
Visual Container TV (Milan, Italy);
Wildgen (Luxembourg, Luxembourg);
Collège d’Espagne (Paris, France);
Centre for Contemporary Art Foundation (Kiev, Ukraine);
Goethe Institute Ukraine (Kiev, Ukraine);
Culture Center Laaksola (Akaa, Finland);
Gonçalves Sapinho Cultural Center (Benedita – Alcobaça – Portugal);
Center for Contemporary Art – Pavilion Unicredit (Bucharest, Romania);
Box Videoart Project Space (Milan, Italy);
Cultural Observatory (Szczecin,Poland);
AllArtNow Independent Collective Space (Damascus, Syria);
Espacio Espora (Madrid, Spain);
Alliance Francaise (New Delhi, India);
Società Promotrice Belle Arti (Turin, Italy);
CLAC – Centro Labicano Arte Contemporanea (Rome, Italy);
College d’Espagne (Paris, France);
Rietveld Academy of Art (Amsterdam, Netherlands);
LÁ Art Museum Iceland (Hveragerdi, Iceland);
T H E A T E R S
Teatro Colosseo (Rome, Italy);
Rustaveli Georgian National Theatre (Tbilisi, Georgia);
Georgian State Pantomime Theatre (Tbilisi, Georgia);
Centre de Création Corégraphique (Luxembourg, Luxembourg);
Cinema Massimo (Turin, Italy);
Vörösmarty (Budapest, Hungary );
The Sunflower Theatre (Beirut, Lebanon);
Labia Cinema on Orange (Cape Town, South Africa);
The Bioscope Independent Cinema (Johannesburg, South Africa);
Filmoteca de Andalucía (Cordoba, Spain);
Vörösmarty Cinema (Budapest, Hungary);
G A L L E R I E S
Galerie PJ (Metz, France);
Raffaella De Chirico Arte Contemporanea (Turin Italy)
Nosbaum Reding Gallery (Luxembourg, Luxembourg);
Fellner Contemporary (Luxembourg, Luxembourg);
Giampiero Biasutti studio per l’arte contemporanea (Turin, Italy);
Gian Marco Casini Gallery (Livorno, Italy);
Galleria Giancarlo Salzano (Turin, Italy);
Galerie Beaumontpublic (Luxembourg, Luxembourg);
Luisa Catucci Gallery (Berlin, Germany);
Artreview Gallery (London, U.K.);
Sobering Gallery (Paris, France);
Plateau Gallery (Berlin, Germany);
Photon – Centre for Contemporary photography (Ljubljana, Slovenia);
Galleria Del Ponte (Turin, Italy);
DotBox (Milan, Italy);
Velan Center for Contemporary Art (Turin, Italy);
Zaion Gallery (Biella, Italy);
Nur Gallery (Milan, Italy);
Brancaleone (Rome, Italy);
Galerie Talmart (Paris, France);
Galeria H20, (Barcelona, Spain);
Vovatania Gallery (Kharkov, Ukraine);
Tiwani Contemporary (London, U.K.);
Kulter Gallery (Amsterdam, The Netherlands);
Galerie de la Voûte (Paris, France);
Galerie Octobre (Paris, France);
Savvy Contemporary (Berlin, Germany);
Artspace Gallery (Durban, South Africa);
Galleria Rajatila (Tampere, Finland);
Technopolis (Athens, Greece);
Formwerk (Eskiltuna, Sweden);
City Art Gallery (Kiev, Ukraine);
Guildford Lane Gallery (Melbourne, Australia);
Gallery 9 (Tbilisi, Georgia);
Artarea Gallery (Tbilisi, Georgia)
The Bioscope (Johannesburg, South Africa);
Pink Gallery (Seoul, South Korea);
Mur Nomade (Hong Kong, China)
Shrishty Art Gallery (Hyderabad, India);
Gallery MCUBE (Lalitpur, Nepal);
Gallery (Experiencia) HIEDRA (Buenos Aires, Argentina);
Galeria Rajatila (Tampere, Finland);
ArtSPACE Gallery (Durban South Africa);
August Art Gallery (London, UK);
Total Kunst Gallery (Edimbourg, U.K.);
Wannabee Gallery (Milan, Italy);
B I E N N I A L S A N D F E S T I V A L S
Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2011);
Time is love (5-10);
Sguardi Sonori, Italy (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014);
Cologne Off (2010, 2011, 2013);
Out of Range (2009, 2011, 2013);
Toronto Urban Festival, Toronto, Canada (2013);
Video Dia Loghi, Turin, Italy (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012);
National Arts Festival Grahamstown, South Africa (2012 );
Le 3 du Trois, Luxembourg (2017);
Art for Freedom, Tbilisi, Georgia (2014);
Human Emotion Project (2009, 2010, 2013);
London East Festival, London, UK (2009);
Letters from the sky, Durban, South Africa (2011);
Athens Video Art Festival, Athens, Greece (2011);
One Shot International Film Festival, Yerevan, Armenia (2011);
New Media Art Festival, Damascus, Syria (2011)
CeC – Carnival of e-Creativity, Bhimtal, India (2011);
Magmart, Milano, Italy (2011);
Delhi International Arts Festival, Delhi, India (2010);
Artisterium, Tbilisi, Georgia (2009, 2010);
Simultan Festival, Timisoara, Romania (2010);
Busho – Budapest International Short Film Festival (2010);
Optica Festival, Madrid, Spain (2009);
Fest i nova, Garikula, Georgia (2009);
Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburg (2008);
Luxembourg Design Biennale, Luxembourg (2012);
Berliner liste, Berlin, Germany (2016);
List I Ljosi Light Festival, Iceland (2016);
Luxembourg City Film Festival, Luxembourg (2016);
Digital Marrakech 5, International Media Art & Digital Cinema Festival, Marrakech, Morocco (2016);
Heartearth, International Videoart Project (2016);
FIVAC – International Video Art Festival of Camaguey, Cuba (2017);
Sofia Undergound Performance Art Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria (2017);
Future Imperfect Symposium, Plymouth Universiy, Plymouth, U.K. (2017);
FIAV, 23éme édition du Festival International d’Art Vidéo de Casablanca, Morocco (2017);
WAC Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France (2017);
Addis Video Art Festival, Addis Ababa – Ethiopia (2017);
A R T F A I R S
Art Beijing, Beijing, China (Beijing China);
ARCO Madrid (Madrid, Spain);
Art Busan (Busan, South Korea);
Bienvenue Art fair (Paris, France)
S E L E C T E D A W A R D S
Third International Art Prize Arte Laguna
Sculpture – Best Foreign Artist
Third International Art Prize Arte Laguna
8° Premio Nazionale d’Arte Città di Novara
International Video Festival “Letters from the sky”
International Video Festival “Letters from the sky”
P U B L I C A N D P R I V A T E C O L L E C T I O N S
Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro (Milan, Italy);
The National Parliamentary Library of Georgia (Tbilisi, Georgia);
Georgian National Museum – Amiranashvili Museum of Art (Tbilisi, Georgia);
Rustaveli Georgian National Theatre (Tbilisi, Georgia);
Georgian State Pantomime Theatre (Tbilisi, Georgia);
La Iglesia de los Angeles (El Milagro);
S E L E C T E D S O L O E X H I B I T I O N S / P E R F O R M A N C E S
2026
Irina Gabiani, Every object in the sky looks like a star, Raffaella De Chirico Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
2025
Irina Gabiani: Portraying the Universe, Nosbaum Reding Gallery I 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, Turin, Italy
2018
The end is your choice, (with M.P. Feiereisen, P. Lamesch), Nosbaum Reding Gallery, Luxembourg
2017
Sinestesia Universale, Irina Gabiani – videos and Ruggero Laganà – music, Conservatorio di Milano, Milan, 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, Turin, 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
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, Turin, 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
S E L E C T E D G R O U P E X H I B I T I O N S
2026
TERRA: Elemento de Presença, Museu do Vinho de Alcobaça, Alcobaça, Portugal
Crossings, video installation, Creative Climate Awards 2026 (Human Impacts Institute), New York, USA
Crossings – Video installation, FemLink‑Art, Vidéoformes Festival, Centre Camille-Claudel, Clermont‑Ferrand, France
“Cartography of Monochrome Feelings” – “Unarchived Semiotics”, AFA’s Foundation, Tbilisi, Georgia.
“Modern and Contemporary Georgian Art”, Georgian State Museum of Theatre, Music, Cinema and Choreography, Tbilisi, Georgia
2025
Forma e Oltre, Galleria Del Ponte, Turin, Italy
Peace Letters to Ukraine – the Christmas in Blue and Yellow in Solidarity, Alphabet Art Centre, Cologne, Germany
Les 95 artistes de la Collection “Transports croiséś”, Marie-Paule Feiereisen-Studio 104-43, Paris, France
Self portrait, Femlink, Contemporary Art Museum South Iceland – Listasafn Árnesinga, Hveragerði, Iceland.
RetroQuito’25, RetroCologne’25, Alphabet Art Centre, Cologne, Germany
2024
“Magic”, FemLink-Art, Visualcontainer[.Box], Milan, Italy
Back And Forth,Raffaella De Chirico Arte Contemporanea, Milan, 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, Genoa, 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
Art Busan, with Galerie PJ, Busan, South Korea
Arco Madrid, Madatac, Art for Freedom, Madrid, Spain
2022
Strumento Musicale, Galerie PJ, Metz, France
Rhizome DC, Washington DC, USA
Casa degli Angeli, Porto Antico di Genova, Genoa, Italy
Never cross the same river twice, Kunstverein Kärnten, Klagenfurt, Austria
Peace letters to Ukraine, The New Museum of Networked Art, Cologne, Germany
Irina Gabiani, Brent Birnbaum, James Brown, Galerie PJ at Bienvenue Art Fair, Paris, France
Artworks for Ukraine, MUDAM – Contemporary Art Museum, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
20×20 Eventi 2020, Museum of Contemporary Art of Villa Croce, Genoa, Italy
2021
My mother, my father and I, Muratcentoventidue Artecontemporanea, Bari, Italy
20×20 Eventi 2020, UnimediaModern, Genoa, 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, at:
- 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
Nicht Museum für Zeitgemasser Kunst, Neumarkt Dresden, Dresden, Germany
New media Fest 2020 – The 365 days diary, The female eye, online show
NewmediaFest 2020, The 1st Corona Festival, online show
2019
Angeli e Artisti, Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, Italy
Sa zgva ri (საზღვარი) – 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, Turin, Italy
2018
Declinando il libro d’artista, Unimediamodern, Genoa, Italy
Time is Love.11, International Video Art Exhibition, at:
- 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
Les mains de l’espoir, Paris, France
Nero Positivo / Nero Negativo, Gian Marco Casini Gallery, Livorno, Italy
Lucca Art Fair 2018, with Gian Marco Casini Gallery, Lucca, Italy
2017
Time is Love.10, International Video Art Exhibition, at:
- 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, Milan, Italy
Festival International d’Art Vidéo de Casablanca (FIAV), Casablanca, Morocco
A Giancarlo Salzano, pensatore sorprendente e geniale, Galleria Del Ponte, Turin, Italy
HearteartH, International Videoart Project from Berlin, VisualContainerTV, Milan, Italy
2016
Time is Love.9, International Video Art Exhibition, at:
- 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, Cina
- Galerie de la Voûte, Paris, France
- List I Ljosi Light Festival, Seydisfjordur, Iceland
- Plateau Gallery, Berlin, Germany
HearteartH, at:
- 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
Georgian Video Art Screening, The Jane Hotel, NY, U.S.A.
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, Milan, Italy
Transborda Overflow, Books & Movies Festival, Alcobaça, Portugal
Time is Love .8, International Video Art Exhibition, at:
- Sakura Works, Yokohama Community Design Lab, Yokohama, Japan
- Sobering Galerie, Paris, France
- National Institute of Fine Arts – Tetouan, Morocco
- Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain
- Gallery Kulter, A Lab, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Zeta Art Center & Gallery, Tirana, Albania
- Expressive Arts Institute, San Diego, California, USA
2014
Time is Love .7, International Video Art Exhibition, at:
- Galerie Talmart, Paris, France
- Pink Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
- Vovatania Gallery, Kharkov, Ukraine
- Photon – Centre for Contemporary Photography, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Torrance Art Museum, Torrance (CA), USA
Transborda / Owerflow, International expanded cinema and Video Art screening, Alcobaca Historic Center, Alcobaca, Portugal
Sguardi Sonori 2014, Stars, at:
- Museo Pietro Canonica a Villa Borghese, Rome, 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 (Vilnius) and Kėdainiai Regional Museum (Kėdainiai), 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, Turin, Italy
Time is Love .5, International Video Art Exhibition, at:
- Center for Contemporary Art – Pavilion Unicredit, Bucharest, Romania
- Tiwani Contemporary, London, UK
- City Art Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
- Kulter, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Zet Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Galerie Octobre, Paris, France
- The Cornaro Institute, Larnaca, Cyprus
- Rich Mix Foundation, London, UK
- Garage 4141 Gallery, San Diego, USA
- Savvy Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
- DotBox – Video Art Project Space, Milan, Italy
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, at:
- Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona, Italy
- Teatro Colosseo, Rome, 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, Milan, 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, Turin, Italy
S [small], Zaion Gallery, Biella, Italy
Letters from the Sky – International Experimental Film Festival on Climate change, at:
- ArtSPACE Gallery, Durban South Africa
- The Climate Train – Durban Train Station, Durban South Africa
- Labia Cinema on Orange, Cape Town, South Africa
- 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, at:
- Tampere, Galleria Rajatila, Tampere, Finland
- Baltic Sea, Culture’s Observatory – Officyna, Szczecin, Poland
- Arad Art Museum, Arad, Romania
- Centre for Contemporary Art Foundation Kiev, Goethe Institute, Kiev, Ukraine
- City Art Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Sguardi Sonori 2011, Infinite Spaces, at:
- CLAC – Centro Labicano Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy
- Palazzo Orsini, Bomarzo (Viterbo), Italy
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
Magmart / Video under the volcano, International Video art Festival, Universal Forum of Cultures Foundation, Naples, 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, Turin, Italy
Sguardi Sonori 2010-2011, Infinite Spaces, at:
- Palazzo Orsini, Bomarzo (Viterbo), Italy
- Museo della Civiltà Romana, Rome, Italy
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, at:
- 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
2009
Video Dia Loghi 2009, The Vitruvian Woman Video-installation, at:
- Museo del Cinema – Cinema Massimo, Turin, Italy
- Velan Centre for Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy
Sguardi Sonori 2009, Festival of Media and Time-based Art, at:
- Rocca dei Rettori, Benevento, Italy
- Scuderie Aldobrandini, Rome, Italy
- Villa d’Este, Tivoli, Rome, Italy
HEP – Human Emotion Project, at:
- Malhoa Museum, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
- AFA, Macao, China
- Museu de Ceramica, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
- Brancaleone (second screening), Rome, Italy
- La Sala, Valladolid, Spain
- Brancaleone, Rome, Italy
- Guildford Lane Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Optica Festival 2009, Festival Internacional de Videoarte, at:
- Espacio Espora, Madrid, Spain
- Collège d’Espagne, Paris, France
- Filmoteca de Andalucia, Cordoba, 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
Fest i nova, International Festival of Contemporary Art – Garikula 09, Hep – Georgia, Art Villa Garikula, Akhalkalaki, Georgia
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
Tbilissi Underground, Cosmopolis – Espace International de la Ville de Nantes, Nantes, France
The Vitruvian Woman Video Project, Formverk Art Space, Eskilstuna, Sweden
On CDOs and Double Clubs, London East Festival, August Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2008
Minividfest 2, Total Kunst Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Video Dia Loghi 2008, Velan Centre for Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy
Dipinti e grafiche di 40 artisti contemporanei, Martinarte, Turin, 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
Arte tra i piedi, Wannabee Gallery
Arte tra i piedi, La Posteria, Milan, Italy
2007
Not closed, Galerie Beaumontpublic, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Otto donne ed un mistero, Zaion Gallery, Biella, Italy
2003
Collettiva, Galleria Giancarlo Salzano, Turin, Italy
2000
Group Exhibition, National Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
1999
157a Esposizione Arti Figurative, Società Promotrice Belle Arti, Turin, Italy
1997
Rietveld Academy Jewellery Department in Porvoo, Porvoon Taidetehdas Konstfabriken, Porvoo, Finland
Millenium II, International Jewellery Art Exhibition, Rotermann’s Art Centre, Tallinn, Estonia
Uit Antwerpen–uit Amsterdam, Der workshop Unter dem Kometen, Gallery Ademloos, Den Haag, Netherlands
1996
Schuttingtaal, Open air exhibition, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Public collections
Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan, 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
Georgian Embassy, Berlin, Germany
Museum of Contemporary Art of Villa Croce, Genoa, Italy
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
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