BIO

Christina Mitrentse (Thessaloniki, 1977) is an interdisciplinary artist, educator and independent curator. She lived and worked in London for two decades. Her work combines a variety of media and techniques, including drawing, silkscreen, book-sculpture, collage, installations, and processes, such as the ongoing participatory projects Add to My Library (#ATML), which proposes the de-institutionalization the book, and the Bibliographic Data Flow (#BDF), which brings together book titles, enriching a #MetaLibrary. Through her artistic research and practice she raises questions around the genre, preservation, archiving, evaluation and transmission of knowledge in the current condition of global crisis.

Her work has been included in art publications The Word Is Art (Thames & Hudson, 2018) and Unselfmarked, Reconceiving the Artists' Book (Uniformbooks, 2015) 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.