BIO

Christina Mitrentse (Thessaloniki, 1977) is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and independent curator. She lived and worked in London for two decades. Her practice is defined by the book as both form and content, as well as a metaphor for the human condition—one that embodies both body and life. Through installations, wall-mounted works, handmade sculptures, performances, drawings, and collages, she explores issues related to gender, preservation, archiving, evaluation, and the transmission of knowledge within a contemporary global reality in crisis. The network “Ecofeminism–Forests–Trees–Trunks–Paper–Books–Fungi–Mycelium–Decomposition–Regeneration” constitutes a conceptual and organic chain within her practice, further developed in the solo exhibition Wood Wide Web.

Within a digitised and information-saturated reality, she initiated the ongoing project Add To My Library (2011–), a prolific and systematic methodology (#BDF – Bibliographic Data Flow) that compiles favourite book titles selected by international communities, forming an infinite yet performative Meta-library. It examines how the book, as a diagram, shapes what it generates: memory, thought, orthodoxy, belief, insight, compulsion, arousal, imagination, and authority.

In the BOOKSCAPE series, she transforms physical hardbacks into colourful canvases, exploring post-internet, text-based “landscapes.” Popular hashtags and abbreviations function as a new logos, archiving digital language and offering a meditation on the nature of informational abundance.

In the sculptural series Wounded Books (2007–), Mitrentse extend the metaphor of the book as a human body. She physically intervene by shooting books that reference sociopolitical disasters, creating literal wounds in their surfaces. These marks signify the enduring conflict of ideas, while also commemorating deterioration and expressing an urgent need for healing within humanity.

Her work has been included in art publications The Word Is Art (Thames & Hudson, 2018), Unselfmarked, Reconceiving the Artists' Book (Uniformbooks, 2015) and Portable Magic – A History of Books and Their Readers, (Penguin Literary Criticism, 2023 )and has been exhibited in international museums, galleries and fairs such as: Tate Modern, Royal Academy of Arts, ICA London, Art Brussels, London Art Fair, Art Rotterdam, Liverpool Biennial, Bodrum International Biennial (Turkey), NDSM-Werf (Netherlands), Gallery Nadine Feront - GNF (Brussels), The Stephen Lawrence Gallery (University of Greenwich, England), Central Booking NYC, The Centre for the Book Arts N. Y, San Francisco Center for the Book, Rise Berlin, Helsinki Contemporary, MOMus, EMST (Greece) among others.

Her work is held in public and private collections including Tate Archive, MOCA London, Senate House, Book Arts UWE, University of the Arts - UAL, Women's Art Library Goldsmiths University, Fine Art Society London, Penguin Collectors Society, (England), WWW Foundation Washington, Book Art Center NYC, M. Altenman NYC, (USA) Mol's Collection (Netherlands), Greek Cultural Foundation (Germany), National Library and Archives of Iran, Benaki Museum, Onassis Foundation, MIET, Alpha Bank, Jewish Museum of Athens, El. Venizelos Airport (Greece). She lives and works in Athens and London.

Download Christina Mitrentse’s full CV (PDF, English) HERE, including education, awards, solo exhibitions & projects, group exhibitions, curatorial practice, selected articles & reviews, talks & symposiums, public art & art fairs, collections, and teaching experience.