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Christina Mitrentse

 
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Fungi portrait, 80x60cm Mixed Technique on canvas 2008
   
Christina Mitrense’s sculptures and works on paper re-create the quasi-scientific truth expressed in science books. In an incessant reference to metaphor, which defines the significations of natural occurrences within everyday life, Mitrentse’s work proposes the deconstruction of our conceptual mechanisms. By re-contextualizing groups of objects and by recreating imagery from books, Mitrense disrupts conventional readings, suggesting poetic ensembles ranging from the personal to the universal (in terms of how data is circulated in a number of institutions such as school, library, academia,gallery, museum).
   

Christina Mitrentse

1977 born in thessaloniki, Greece

Lives and works in london, United Kingdom

Education

2007-2008 PGCE (Post graduate certificate in education) University of Greenwich. Art and Design lecturer at Epping Forest College.
2003-2004 MA fine art, Chelsea College of art and design, University of the Arts London
2002-2003 PG diploma in fine art, Chelsea College of art and design, University of the Arts London.
1995-2000 BA Hons, School of Fine Art, visual and applied arts department of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

Grants

2003-2004 Funding for MA in fine art, Public benefit foundation A.S.Onasis, Athens, Greece.
2002-2003 Full Bursury for post graduate studies in fine art, Micheli private foundation, Athens, Greece.
1999 Scholarship from National Foundation (I.K.Y.).
1997 4th Heineken art " (prize winner solo publication), MOCA Greece.
1995 Scholarship from National Foundation (I.K.Y.), Greece.
Her artworks are included in private and public collections in London and Europe.

Solo Exhibitions

-‘Secret School’ project in an old bomb shelter, Islington, collaboration with RAT www.receptionspace.org/artists.htm
-’Visions - A Contemporary Art Show’, Kappatos Gallery at the Macedonia Palace Hotel - Thessaloniki Greece www.kappatosgallery.gr
-Visions- A Contemporary Art Show, Kappatos Gallery at Athens Imperial Hotel-Athens Greece. (Catalogue publication)

Group Exhibitions

2008 - Cupboard Love 3, Greenwich foottunel- public sculpture comission .organised by Occupy my Time, London 12/08
- Another Roadside Attraction,Film Screening- Griffin,London
- Salon- Islington Art Factory, London 11/08
- TIME ,Stephen Lawrence gallery.London 10/08
- The Marmite Prize for Painting, Studio 1.1 ,London
- Homeless gallery,Shoreditch Town Hall,De-construction Community, London
- ABC Tree house ,Building a Room to Read, Amsterdam
- Terra: Extremitas Meta Event The End Of the Earth, Foolish People at NDSM- Amsterdam,( exhibited project :Secret School installation) www.FoolishPeople.org 08/08
-Olympolis Contemporary Art-International Festival , Video presentation at Platamona Castel, Greece www.olympolis.gr 08/08
- Decima Arts Club, Decima gallery,Hackney wick London
www.decimagallery.com 07/08
-‘Connected’,Spilioti Projects,Bacaro,Athens 08/08
- Emerging artists at Foundation Onasis,Athens,Greece 06/08
- Artist Book Library,Pingo Arts Vending Machine,Geek Fest
Biennale,Dorset,UK www.geekfest.org.uk 07/08
-Decima gallery editions summer art fair, artists products,Hackney wick,London 07/08 www.decimagallery.com
2007 -‘The New Lexikon’ The Apartment gallery,Athens,Greece www.theapartment.gr
- Run Rabbit Run, Primo Alonso gallery,Hackney,London www.primoalonso.com
-‘ Salon Local’, Space gallery at Finsbury park,London
- Summer show, Art Pavilion, at Mile End Park,London

Projects

CURATORIAL- PROJECTS
-The flat pack’, independent group show in a domestic space Deptford, London 10/2006
-The attender, La viande gallery, shoreditch, London ,03/2006
-Who cares about Greek art? Zois’space, Athens, Greece 02/2006
-Secret school, solo show in an old bomb, shelter, Islington London,
- Assistant curator of Kelly O Reilly - Stephen Lawrence gallery Trigger ‘-Hosted by United Arts Village, Heritage Centre, London.

Collections

I’ve been exhibiting works since 1997 and have been in private collections in Greece, Germany and England including, Alexandros Onassis foundation, Nikos Alexiou Collection, Beltios private Collection, Karathodoros private Collection, Theoharakis foundation, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary art, Griechische Kultustiftung collection.

Bibliography

•Omogeneia.ana-mpa.gr, online interview, November 2008
Backround, Portrait Feature- weekly newspaper, Greece 2008
• Nothing for the people, Volume 1, 2,3, Young Mountains, London 2008
• Context ,life style magazine – spring issue, Athens 2007
• Word robe a journal about the future of language, Issue 2 London, 2006
• Frieze magazine, The attender exhibition- September 2006
• Highlights art magazine, issue 20,Athens 2006
• GAP, issue 09,Athens 2006
• Velvet, Athens February 2006
• Ozon, Athens February 2006
• AO magazine issue 30, Foundation AS Onasis, February 2006
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Christina Mitrentse

23-25 Wilton Way
unit 12 e8 3ee
london

07969184101
mitrentse@yahoo.com
www.christinamitrentse.com




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