Irina Gabiani is a contemporary artist whose work explores interconnectedness, perception and the deceptive construction of reality. Growing up in Soviet-occupied Georgia, she experienced how illusion and fabricated narratives can reshape collective vision, obscuring reality as it truly is. According to the artist, reality functions as an interconnected organism, of which we and everything around us are a part.
Her multidisciplinary practice spans drawing, painting, video art and installation, inviting audiences into thought-provoking dialogues between the micro and macro worlds. Her art invites viewers to reflect on the fluid boundaries between the individual and the universe, emphasizing the profound and often invisible connections that shape our understanding of existence. She frequently transforms images from contemporary magazines by overlaying hand-drawn lines and extending motifs across multiple figures or surfaces, creating visual chains and cyclical structures.
Her work has been shown internationally at institutions including the Venice Biennale, CAPC – Musée d’Art Contemporaine Bordeaux, Mudam Luxembourg, Georgian National Museum, Museo Nazionale del Cinema Torino, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Art Beijing, ARCO Madrid, Art Busan and more.
The works of Irina Gabiani have been exhibited in the following Countries:
Italy, Luxembourg, Austria, France, U.K., Germany, Portugal, Spain, Cyprus, Malta, Israel, Georgia, Ukraine, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Sweden, Iceland, Finland, The Netherlands, Armenia, U.S.A., Australia, Canada, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, Mexico, India, Hungary, Albania, Macao, China, Lebanon, Syria, Morocco, South Africa, Argentina, Cuba, Nepal, Ethiopia.
Irina Gabiani has participated in 2011 at the 54th Venice Biennale.