Irina Gabiani

Tbilisi, 1971
Lives and works in Luxembourg

Irina Gabiani is a contemporary artist whose work explores interconnectedness, perception, and the construction of reality. Growing up in Soviet-occupied Georgia, she experienced how fabricated narratives can reshape collective vision, obscuring reality as it is. For the artist, reality functions as an interconnected organism of which we, and everything around us, are an integral part.

Her multidisciplinary practice spans drawing, painting, video art, and installation, focusing on the relationship between the microcosm and the macrocosm. Her work explores the fluid boundaries between the individual and the universe, tracing the invisible connections that shape our experience of existence.

Gabiani frequently transforms images sourced from contemporary magazines, overlaying them with hand-drawn lines and extending motifs across figures and surfaces. This process creates visual networks and cyclical structures that reflect systems of connection and continuity.

SOLO SHOWS (SELECTION)

2026
Every object in the sky looks like a star, Raffaella De Chirico Arte Contemporanea, Milan

2025
Portraying the Universe, Nosbaum Reding Gallery Projects, Luxembourg

2024
Minimal – Complexity, Galerie PJ, Metz

2022
Irina Gabiani and Katarzyna Kot-Bach: Circular, Fellner Contemporary, Luxembourg
10 Videos – The Caucasians 2, The New Museum of Networked Art, Online

2021
Théâtre Intérieur, Galerie PJ, Metz

2020
New Works, Banannefabrik, Luxembourg

2019
Game without Rules, Gian Marco Casini Gallery, Livorno
Across the Universe, Raffaella De Chirico Arte Contemporanea, Turin

2018
The End Is Your Choice (with M.P. Feiereisen, P. Lamesch), Nosbaum Reding Gallery, Luxembourg

2017
Sinestesia Universale, Conservatorio di Milano, Milan
Unrolling the Human Body, Banannefabrik, Luxembourg

2016
Unrolling the Universe, Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi

2015
Recent Videos, Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi
Micro e Macro cosmi, Galleria Giampiero Biasutti, Turin

2012
Unknown World – Videos and Works, Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi

2011
54a Biennale di Venezia – Padiglione Italia, Luxembourg, Irina Gabiani & Sonia Sion, curated by the Italian Institute of Culture, Cour de Justice de l'Union Européenne, Luxembourg
54a Biennale di Venezia – Padiglione Italia, Luxembourg, Irina Gabiani & Sonia Sion, curated by the Italian Institute of Culture, Université du Luxembourg

GROUP SHOWS (SELECTION)

2026
TERRA: Elemento de Presença, Museu do Vinho de Alcobaça, Alcobaça
Creative Climate Awards – Crossings, Human Impacts Institute, New York
Cartography of Monochrome Feelings – Unarchived Semiotics, AFA Foundation, Tbilisi
Modern and Contemporary Georgian Art, Georgian State Museum of Theatre, Music, Cinema and Choreography, Tbilisi
Crossings – Video Installation, FemLink-Art, Vidéoformes Festival, Centre Camille-Claudel, Clermont-Ferrand

2025
Forma e Oltre, Galleria Del Ponte, Turin
Peace Letters to Ukraine, Alphabet Art Centre, Cologne
Self Portrait, FemLink, Contemporary Art Museum South Iceland – Listasafn Árnesinga, Hveragerði

2024
Back And Forth, Raffaella De Chirico Arte Contemporanea, Milan
Qui non c'è niente da leggere, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, Genoa
A Psalm for the Wild Built, Luisa Catucci Gallery, Berlin

2023
Face au Rêve, Galerie PJ, Metz
Bienal MADATAC 12 – Art for Freedom, Sala Berlanga, Madrid
Art Busan, Galerie PJ, Busan
Art for Freedom, MADATAC at ARCOmadrid, Madrid

2022
Strumento Musicale, Galerie PJ, Metz
Artworks for Ukraine, MUDAM, Luxembourg
Never Cross the Same River Twice, Kunstverein Kärnten, Klagenfurt

2021
My Mother, My Father and I, Muratcentoventidue Artecontemporanea, Bari

2020
Time is Love.12 – Universal Feelings: Myths & Conjunctions, We Open Space & Wienstation, Vienna
Nicht-Museum für zeitgemäße Kunst, Neumarkt Dresden, Dresden

2019
Angeli e Artisti, Santa Maria della Scala, Siena

2018
Lucca Art Fair, Gian Marco Casini Gallery, Lucca
Time is Love.11, International Video Art Exhibition, CCA Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
Nero Positivo / Nero Negativo, Gian Marco Casini Gallery, Livorno
Declinando il libro d'artista, Unimediamodern, Genoa

2017
ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
New Landscape, Week-end de l'Art Contemporain, International Video Art Screening, CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux

2016
Time is Love.9, International Video Art Exhibition, TEA – Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife

2014
Torrance Art Museum, Torrance (CA)
Photon – Centre for Contemporary Photography, Ljubljana

2013
Toronto Urban Film Festival 2013, Toronto

2012
Time is Love.5, International Video Art Exhibition, Savvy Contemporary, Berlin

2011
54ª Biennale di Venezia – Padiglione Italia, Arsenale, Venice