ICONIC FUNGI PORTRAITS
Avatar installation, exhibited at 'Impromptu' show,Schwartz gallery London
Exhibited at Brussels art fair 09 -The Apartment Gallery
Exhibited at In/Flux show- Hackney Transients Art Project, 80 Kingsland rd,London
Exhibited at Brussels art fair 09 -The Apartment Gallery
Exhibited at In/Flux show- Hackney Transients Art Project, 80 Kingsland rd,London
'CUPBOARD LOVE 3'-PROJECT AT GREENWICH FOOTTUNNEL
SPECIMEN SERIES Giclee print 125x170cm
SPECIMEN SERIES Giclee print 125x170cm
SPECIMEN SERIES Giclee print 125x170cm
SPECIMEN SERIES Giclee print 125x170cm
SPECIMEN SERIES Giclee print 125x170cm
INSTALLATION VIEW AT GREENWICH FOOTTUNNEL LONDON 11/08-02/09
Greenwich Foot tunnel London 11 /2008 to 02/2009
DRAWINGS -LARGE SERIES
Organic demon, drawing on board 150x150cm courtesy eleftherios venizelos airport athens
Origins of existeness, drawing on paper, 270x310cm
Dark matter, drawing on paper 150x310cm
Godlessness, drawing on paper, 270x270cm
Iconic heaven,mixed technique on canvas ,150x120cm
Organic demon a, mixed media on board 150x150cm
VIrgin parthenos , drawing on paper,270x270cm
Cloudscape,mixed media on canvas 180x180cm
Cloudscape drawing on paper, 150x170cm
The signifier from Space Odyssey, Drawing on paper 270x170cm
Blackholes-whiteholes ,drawing on paper, 270x290cm
Blackholes-whiteholes darwing on paper 270x310cm
PHOTOGRAPHS 2008-2005
'12 DOMESTIC GODS' PHOTOGRAPHIC PROJECT EXHIBITED AT PRIMO ALONSO GALLERY LONDON 07 AND 'CONNECTED ' AT SPILIOTI PROJECTS,ATHENS 2008
PHOTOGRAPHIC PROJECT BY CHRISTINA MITRENTSE
12 Colour Photographs 30x45cm each
‘12 DOMESTIC GODS’
In an incessant reference to metaphor, which defines the significance of natural occurrences within the everyday, Christina’s Mitrentse projects negotiate the deconstruction of our conceptual mechanisms. She has inhabited a space between knowledge and emotion, where the notion of interpretation is to be found at the same place within the institutionalized information the scientific field and the co-existence of aesthetics.
Within this context, the ‘12 DOMESTIC GODS’ is a photographic project, which deals with the representation of sculptures based on the12 Olympian Greek Gods. It juxtaposes parallels of ‘high art’, antiquity and the contemporary domestic life. This contextual transmission from the banal to the monumental is counter-balanced with the allegory of the imagery, in which the performative narratives function as reconstructions of the primary “narrations” of beauty.
PHOTOGRAPHIC PROJECT ON THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF NATURE 2006
Watermellon lesson at University, colour photograph 60x80cm
Watermellon Lesson at The Nursery,colour photo 60x80cm
DNA structure, colour photo 20x15cm
DNA structure, colour photographs 20x15cm each
Growing Crystals chart, colour photographs,dimensions variable
PHOTOGRAPHIC PROJECT BY CHRISTINA MITRENTSE
12 Colour Photographs 30x45cm each
‘12 DOMESTIC GODS’
In an incessant reference to metaphor, which defines the significance of natural occurrences within the everyday, Christina’s Mitrentse projects negotiate the deconstruction of our conceptual mechanisms. She has inhabited a space between knowledge and emotion, where the notion of interpretation is to be found at the same place within the institutionalized information the scientific field and the co-existence of aesthetics.
Within this context, the ‘12 DOMESTIC GODS’ is a photographic project, which deals with the representation of sculptures based on the12 Olympian Greek Gods. It juxtaposes parallels of ‘high art’, antiquity and the contemporary domestic life. This contextual transmission from the banal to the monumental is counter-balanced with the allegory of the imagery, in which the performative narratives function as reconstructions of the primary “narrations” of beauty.
PHOTOGRAPHIC PROJECT ON THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF NATURE 2006
Watermellon lesson at University, colour photograph 60x80cm
Watermellon Lesson at The Nursery,colour photo 60x80cm
DNA structure, colour photo 20x15cm
DNA structure, colour photographs 20x15cm each
Growing Crystals chart, colour photographs,dimensions variable
'THE SECRET SCHOOL' LONDON 2005
The ‘secret school’ manifests itself as an interactive montage of artifacts derived from the Greek myth of the Secret School and debunks the credibility of historical discourses. The Greek artist Christina Mitrentse has responded to this myth by creating a solo project originally located as a site-specific installation, in a World War II bomb –shelter in London.
According to the Secret School narrative, during the Ottoman suppression, the Greek populace used to secretly organise small underground schools in an effort to sustain their education. These were convened in churches, monasteries or on other church grounds, usually at night. Mitrentse’s project awakens the emotional state and uncovers the atmosphere in which “homeless”, populations can find educational, cultural and spiritual shelter. It delivers a system that connects Education, Cultural regeneration, and Fiction and Political freedom. This collective space reveals the form of relational sites in contemporary society by describing the heterogenic relationship among them.
The manifestation contains drawings, sculptures, photography, installation, and sound which personalized within the laboratory of the everyday, inviting a debate between the scientific narrative and the museological approach”.
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 recreating imagery from books, Christina disrupts conventional readings, suggesting poetic ensembles ranging from the personal to the universal. The artist brings all the artifacts together in a nonhierarchical setting to question the process of observing, collecting, recording and displaying in terms of how data is circulated in a number of institutions such as school, library, church, academia, gallery and museum’.
The secret school acts as a metaphor for any contemporary social space, which has subversive counter cultural associations. It recommends a real heterotopy acting as an ‘esoteric’ space which has a fictional attribute while it becomes a carrier in which the questions of how we perceive knowledge can be communicated.
BERN ROSE FARELLY ARTWRITER CURATOR-RECEPTION SPACE
As part of the site specific project the artist has created a short film: THE 'SECRET SCHOOL' Exhibited at Another Roadside Attraction gallery ,screening project at The Griffin,London 2006 -09. At Shefield short film Festival 2006 and Greek-London Film Festival ,London 2008
Specimen I, Handmade leather photographic book,05
Specimen I on log, handmade book,stiched colour photographs 05
Colour photograph on log, 40x32cm
THE SECRET SCHOOL' at TERRA:EXTREMITAS,NDSM-AMSTERDAM 2008
About the Project:
"I am extremely pleased to collaborate with FoolishPeople for the Terra Meta Event at NDSM-werf of Amsterdam. Originally a solo project ‘The Secret School’ was located in a World War II bomb shelter in London, and will evolve within the dialect of The Fiction in 'Terra: Extremitas'. The installation will manifest itself as an interactive montage of artifacts derived from the Greek myth which debunks the credibility of historical discourses. It acts as an ‘esoteric’ space which has a fictional attribute and apocalyptic knowledge only for those who allow themselves to be rescued within it. 'The Secret School' will co-exist as the Last Church within the narrative."
"The Secret School is where the only essence left of faith fights for its survival in the last human hearts...The holy order of the Heavenly Pleroma has come to the BulkHead." John Harrigan director FoolishPeople
CV / PRESS /ARTICLES
Christina Mitrentse ( GR/UK) holds BA Hons fine art from School of Fine Art of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Pg diploma and MA fine art from Chelsea College of Art and Design and PGCE from University of Greenwich London. She has been teaching art and Design at various Colleges in London and has co-curated exhibitions in London and Greece.
AWARDS – HONOURS
2003-2004Full Scholarship for MA in fine art, foundation A.S.Onasis, Athens, Greece.
2002-2003Full Scholarship for post graduate studies in fine art, Micheli foundation, Athens, Greece.
1999 Scholarship from National Foundation (I.K.Y.), Greece.
1999 'Artwork Commission at Venizelos Airport,Athens ,Greece
1997' 4th Heineken art' (prize winner), Thessaloniki, Greece.
1995 Scholarship from National Foundation (I.K.Y.), Greece.
SOLO SHOWS/PROJECTS
2009 Christina Mitrentse selected works, Modern Artist Gallery,Berkshire,UK
2009 Building my Library , NO: ID gallery London
2006 Under playing with familiar dead things, Μeskalito gallery,London
2006 Visions Kappatos Gallery at Macedonia Palace Hotel, Greece,curator Thouli misirloglou. Visions Kappatos Gallery at Athens Imperial Hotel, Greece
2005 The Secret School, old bomb shelter, Islington, supported by RAT London
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2009
- Museum of the People, Utrophia project space,curated by Evie Manning,London
- Hackney Transients, public research project curated by Marsha Bradfield, Ada str. gallery,London
- Jumble sale and auction, The Residence gallery, London
- Brussels art Fair 09, the Apartment gallery Athens
- Impromptu Schwartz gallery,East London(catalogue)
- Crack, Marie LIoyd,Hackney Empire theater,London
-Artists Films,Another Roadside attraction gallery,London
2008
- BLANK alternative art market,Blank gallery,Brighton,UK
- CUPBOARD LOVE 3, Public installation-Commission at Greenwich Foot
tunnel,London
- FISHMARKET ART FAIR- Fishmarket Gallery, Northampton,UK
- RCA Secret-Royal College of Art,London
- Salon 08 at Islington Art Factory, London
- London-Greek Film Festival,Hellenic Centre,London
-ABC Tree gives,ABC Tree house ,Amsterdam
- Terra: Extremitas The End Of the Earth, NDSM- Werf Amsterdam,( exhibited project :SecretSchool )
-Olympolis Contemporary Art-International Festival, Platamona Castel, Greece
- Decima Arts Club, Decima gallery,Hackney wick London
-‘Connected’,Spilioti Projects,Bacaro,Athens
- Emerging artists at Onasis Foundation,Athens,Greece
- Artist Book Library,Geek Fest Biennale,Dorset,UK
-Decima gallery editions summer art fair,Hackney wick,London
2007
-‘The New Lexikon’ The Apartment gallery,Athens,Greece
- Run Rabbit Run, Primo Alonso gallery,Hackney,London
-‘ Salon Local’, Space gallery ,Finsbury park,London
- Summer show, Art Pavilion, Mile End Park,London
-‘Another roadside attraction’, short film screening ,Griffin ,London
-‘Addressed to the hat’10artist/curators,Mezcalito gallery,London
- Summer exhibition 2007,Royal academy of arts,London
-‘Octopad arts’opening show, Octopad gallery,London
-One.c, what is domestic, Devon,Uk
- The Marmite Prize ,Residence gallery,London
2006
-‘For John Peel show’,nomoregrey gallery,London
-The Flat Pack ,alternative project space about DIY culture,co-curator in collaboration with reception space,London
-An outing’,Contemporary Greek Art, Leonidas Beltsios Collection, Greece (catalogue)
-‘Notions of drawing’s house Exhibition Space, London, UK, (co-curator)
-Draw-Drawing2, Foundry, London biennale 2006,
-'The attender' La viande gallery, London (Catalogue)
-The collection, Nikos Alexiou collection, International festival Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
-‘Who cares about Greek art? ’International group show, Zoi’s space, (co- curator), Athens, Greece (Catalogue)
2005
-‘’Rooms to Let’’ Codra 2005- Action Field, Thessaloniki Greece. (Catalogue)
-‘’IDEA, you are the curator you are the decorator’,Tudor Rd gallery, London
-Arts unwrapped, open studios, temporary contemporary gallery London
2004
-"MA Fine Art “Final shows " Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts, London, UK. (Catalogue)
-"Draw-Drawing” gallery 32, London biennale 2004, London
-"Emerging artists explore cinema " Griechische Kultustiftung, Berlin, Germany. (Catalogue)
-"Emerging artists explore cinema " Cinema museum Thessaloniki, Greece
2003
-"PG dip final show, Chelsea College of art and design, University of the Arts London,(Catalogue)
2002
-" Bi-reality ", Curator Harris Savvopoulos, Art Forum Vilka Gallery, Greece.
-" Trash art “, Gas workshop, Ozon magazine, Athens, Greece.
-" Recycle art ", Gas workshop, Ozon magazine, Athens,Greece
2001
-“Balkan festival for emerging artists”, Platamonas Castle,Greece
2000
-" Trash art “, Gas workshop, Ozon magazine, Athens,
-“Hellenic competition” selection of project and exposure at the national airport “El.Venizelos” Athens, Greece.
1999
-"7 emerging artists ", Art Forum Vilka gallery, Greece. (Catalogue)
1998
-" PICTOR " a European workshop, under supervision Professors: Horst Hellinger and Marcus Sarpen, Gete institute, Thessaloniki, Greece. (Catalogue publication)
-" Days of expression and creativity, Melina Merkuri Foundation", Pavilion II, Thessaloniki, Greece.
-" 5th Heineken art ", Macedonian museum of contemporary art, (award winner) Thessaloniki, Greece. (Catalogue)
-" The other crown ", Mylos gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece.
1997
-" 15 + 15 Thessaloniki - Düsseldorf ". Curator Jannis Kounellis,Thessaloniki Port,warehouse 4, Greece. (Catalogue)
-"4th Heineken art ", Macedonian museum of contemporary art, Greece.
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? international group show ,Iraklidon 16, Athens Greece 02/2006
-Secret school, site specific solo show in an old bomb shelter, Islinghton, London, 08/05
SELECTED PRESS-ARTICLES
. AN magazine london, Impromptu article, April 2009
.Timeout London,Impromptu,March 2009
. Artslant online feature,New York 2008
. FAD fast art news website-Interview London 2008
. AN magazine ,Cupboard love feature,London 2008
. This is London,-website, exhibition feature,London 2008
. South London press-Mercury- Article on Cupboard Love project ,London 2008
. Paraskinio, weekly national news -Artist Profile, Athens 2008
. Omogeneia ana-mpa ,Interview, Athens 2008
. Saloniki.org Time exhibition feature,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
. Freeze magazine, Run rabbit Run article, September issue,London 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
COLLECTIONS
Mitrentses' Artworks can be found in private collections in Greece,Germany ,England, including Tate Archive,Alexandros Onassis foundation, Nikos Alexiou Collection Greece, Beltios private Collection, Karathodoros private Collection, Theoharakis foundation, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary art Greece, Griechische Kultustiftung collection Berlin, Maria Alteman collection New York.
Time exhibition-Talk at Stephen Lawrence Gallery,London 08
OCCUPY MY TIME is pleased to present: CUPBOARD LOVE 3.
Curated by Sue Cohen
CHRISTINA MITRENTSE AND JONAS RANSON IN A PUBLIC ART COMMISSION At THE GREENWICH FOOT TUNNEL. Cutty Sark - Island Gardens Station, Greenwich London.Opening Hours: Work presented in the lifts : 1 DECEMBER 2008-1 FEBRUARY 2009
Monday to Saturday 7.00am-7.00pm and Sunday 10.00am-5.30pm Works presented at the spiral staircases 24 hours.
Meet the artists on Saturday 6th of December 11.00am–14.00.
The artists present installations within the spiral staircases situated beneath the glazed domes at each side of the Edwardian Greenwich foot tunnel.3D Works are also installed in the hidden cupboards concealed within the lifts. In the tunnel we have no consciousness of the external; time becomes eternal, while the works installed form a link with the world of quasi-science and the investigations of nature, to that of commerce. The artists reflect upon the current artistic and economic reality to create their personal narrations as a means of inventive strategy for exploring the geography of the city. This takes pedestrians off their predictable paths and jolts them into an awareness of the urban landscape, its resonances and symbolism. The artworks extrapolate conflicting modes of environment to co-exist with a transcendent result. They present both sides of the river, both realities, both views. In Mitrentse’s poetical ’in favour of the real’ pictures, the meaningful objects appear to reveal the secret unseen side of things by creating visual allegories, leading the viewer into elliptic, enigmatic narratives. Christina refers to both nature as a cultural construction and to historical identity as policy of communication and propaganda. Ransons’s images explore a dark and fantastical Edwardian world, one which lay in opposition to the pre-conceived notions of gentility and high culture, propriety and social manners. Images coalesce in an allusion to invented cultural interpretations of good and evil which the city projects. It is in this unique space that the artists comment on the modern notions of cultural value and they invite the audience to engage with physical and emotional events re-evaluating the urban ‘regeneration’.
www.occupymytime.co.uk www.christinamitrentse.com www.jonasranson.com
PRESS RELEASE
Gallery Primo Alonso proudly presents: RUN RABBIT RUN
Show from 7th to 30th September 2007 ,Gallery Primo Alonso, 395/397 Hackney Rd. London E2 8PP www.primoalonso.com
Run Rabbit, Run takes the work of eight international London based artists, and throws them together in Gallery Primo Alonso in order to explore our perceptions and expectations and create a dialogue. Painting, drawing, sculpture, video projection and installation will all be part of this show. Essentially these elements create a life size rabbit run that deals with the extrapolation and elevation of the day to day, as well as ideas of the parochial and the political.What started as a challenge to force the viewer to see and use the gallery's space differently, became a challenge to integrate work that is diverse in techniques and subject matter, while trying to establish a coherent dialogue throughout the exhibition as a whole. Artists:
Richard Cramp Christina Mitrentse
Harry Meadows Renata Fernandez
Helene Kazan Sharon Rankin
Flor Kent Max Viccardi
CHRISTINA MITRENTSE CLASSROOM PROJECT ,KAPPATOS GALLERY AT IMPERIAL HOTEL,ATHENS
WORD ROBE MAZAGINE A JOURNAL ABOUT THE FUTURE OF LANGUAGE LONDON 2006
'An Outing' CONTEMPORARY GREEK ART FROM BELTIOS COLLECTION, exhibition catalogue
www.beltsioscollection.gr
AWARDS – HONOURS
2003-2004Full Scholarship for MA in fine art, foundation A.S.Onasis, Athens, Greece.
2002-2003Full Scholarship for post graduate studies in fine art, Micheli foundation, Athens, Greece.
1999 Scholarship from National Foundation (I.K.Y.), Greece.
1999 'Artwork Commission at Venizelos Airport,Athens ,Greece
1997' 4th Heineken art' (prize winner), Thessaloniki, Greece.
1995 Scholarship from National Foundation (I.K.Y.), Greece.
SOLO SHOWS/PROJECTS
2009 Christina Mitrentse selected works, Modern Artist Gallery,Berkshire,UK
2009 Building my Library , NO: ID gallery London
2006 Under playing with familiar dead things, Μeskalito gallery,London
2006 Visions Kappatos Gallery at Macedonia Palace Hotel, Greece,curator Thouli misirloglou. Visions Kappatos Gallery at Athens Imperial Hotel, Greece
2005 The Secret School, old bomb shelter, Islington, supported by RAT London
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2009
- Museum of the People, Utrophia project space,curated by Evie Manning,London
- Hackney Transients, public research project curated by Marsha Bradfield, Ada str. gallery,London
- Jumble sale and auction, The Residence gallery, London
- Brussels art Fair 09, the Apartment gallery Athens
- Impromptu Schwartz gallery,East London(catalogue)
- Crack, Marie LIoyd,Hackney Empire theater,London
-Artists Films,Another Roadside attraction gallery,London
2008
- BLANK alternative art market,Blank gallery,Brighton,UK
- CUPBOARD LOVE 3, Public installation-Commission at Greenwich Foot
tunnel,London
- FISHMARKET ART FAIR- Fishmarket Gallery, Northampton,UK
- RCA Secret-Royal College of Art,London
- Salon 08 at Islington Art Factory, London
- London-Greek Film Festival,Hellenic Centre,London
-ABC Tree gives,ABC Tree house ,Amsterdam
- Terra: Extremitas The End Of the Earth, NDSM- Werf Amsterdam,( exhibited project :SecretSchool )
-Olympolis Contemporary Art-International Festival, Platamona Castel, Greece
- Decima Arts Club, Decima gallery,Hackney wick London
-‘Connected’,Spilioti Projects,Bacaro,Athens
- Emerging artists at Onasis Foundation,Athens,Greece
- Artist Book Library,Geek Fest Biennale,Dorset,UK
-Decima gallery editions summer art fair,Hackney wick,London
2007
-‘The New Lexikon’ The Apartment gallery,Athens,Greece
- Run Rabbit Run, Primo Alonso gallery,Hackney,London
-‘ Salon Local’, Space gallery ,Finsbury park,London
- Summer show, Art Pavilion, Mile End Park,London
-‘Another roadside attraction’, short film screening ,Griffin ,London
-‘Addressed to the hat’10artist/curators,Mezcalito gallery,London
- Summer exhibition 2007,Royal academy of arts,London
-‘Octopad arts’opening show, Octopad gallery,London
-One.c, what is domestic, Devon,Uk
- The Marmite Prize ,Residence gallery,London
2006
-‘For John Peel show’,nomoregrey gallery,London
-The Flat Pack ,alternative project space about DIY culture,co-curator in collaboration with reception space,London
-An outing’,Contemporary Greek Art, Leonidas Beltsios Collection, Greece (catalogue)
-‘Notions of drawing’s house Exhibition Space, London, UK, (co-curator)
-Draw-Drawing2, Foundry, London biennale 2006,
-'The attender' La viande gallery, London (Catalogue)
-The collection, Nikos Alexiou collection, International festival Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
-‘Who cares about Greek art? ’International group show, Zoi’s space, (co- curator), Athens, Greece (Catalogue)
2005
-‘’Rooms to Let’’ Codra 2005- Action Field, Thessaloniki Greece. (Catalogue)
-‘’IDEA, you are the curator you are the decorator’,Tudor Rd gallery, London
-Arts unwrapped, open studios, temporary contemporary gallery London
2004
-"MA Fine Art “Final shows " Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts, London, UK. (Catalogue)
-"Draw-Drawing” gallery 32, London biennale 2004, London
-"Emerging artists explore cinema " Griechische Kultustiftung, Berlin, Germany. (Catalogue)
-"Emerging artists explore cinema " Cinema museum Thessaloniki, Greece
2003
-"PG dip final show, Chelsea College of art and design, University of the Arts London,(Catalogue)
2002
-" Bi-reality ", Curator Harris Savvopoulos, Art Forum Vilka Gallery, Greece.
-" Trash art “, Gas workshop, Ozon magazine, Athens, Greece.
-" Recycle art ", Gas workshop, Ozon magazine, Athens,Greece
2001
-“Balkan festival for emerging artists”, Platamonas Castle,Greece
2000
-" Trash art “, Gas workshop, Ozon magazine, Athens,
-“Hellenic competition” selection of project and exposure at the national airport “El.Venizelos” Athens, Greece.
1999
-"7 emerging artists ", Art Forum Vilka gallery, Greece. (Catalogue)
1998
-" PICTOR " a European workshop, under supervision Professors: Horst Hellinger and Marcus Sarpen, Gete institute, Thessaloniki, Greece. (Catalogue publication)
-" Days of expression and creativity, Melina Merkuri Foundation", Pavilion II, Thessaloniki, Greece.
-" 5th Heineken art ", Macedonian museum of contemporary art, (award winner) Thessaloniki, Greece. (Catalogue)
-" The other crown ", Mylos gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece.
1997
-" 15 + 15 Thessaloniki - Düsseldorf ". Curator Jannis Kounellis,Thessaloniki Port,warehouse 4, Greece. (Catalogue)
-"4th Heineken art ", Macedonian museum of contemporary art, Greece.
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? international group show ,Iraklidon 16, Athens Greece 02/2006
-Secret school, site specific solo show in an old bomb shelter, Islinghton, London, 08/05
SELECTED PRESS-ARTICLES
. AN magazine london, Impromptu article, April 2009
.Timeout London,Impromptu,March 2009
. Artslant online feature,New York 2008
. FAD fast art news website-Interview London 2008
. AN magazine ,Cupboard love feature,London 2008
. This is London,-website, exhibition feature,London 2008
. South London press-Mercury- Article on Cupboard Love project ,London 2008
. Paraskinio, weekly national news -Artist Profile, Athens 2008
. Omogeneia ana-mpa ,Interview, Athens 2008
. Saloniki.org Time exhibition feature,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
. Freeze magazine, Run rabbit Run article, September issue,London 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
COLLECTIONS
Mitrentses' Artworks can be found in private collections in Greece,Germany ,England, including Tate Archive,Alexandros Onassis foundation, Nikos Alexiou Collection Greece, Beltios private Collection, Karathodoros private Collection, Theoharakis foundation, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary art Greece, Griechische Kultustiftung collection Berlin, Maria Alteman collection New York.
Time exhibition-Talk at Stephen Lawrence Gallery,London 08
OCCUPY MY TIME is pleased to present: CUPBOARD LOVE 3.
Curated by Sue Cohen
CHRISTINA MITRENTSE AND JONAS RANSON IN A PUBLIC ART COMMISSION At THE GREENWICH FOOT TUNNEL. Cutty Sark - Island Gardens Station, Greenwich London.Opening Hours: Work presented in the lifts : 1 DECEMBER 2008-1 FEBRUARY 2009
Monday to Saturday 7.00am-7.00pm and Sunday 10.00am-5.30pm Works presented at the spiral staircases 24 hours.
Meet the artists on Saturday 6th of December 11.00am–14.00.
The artists present installations within the spiral staircases situated beneath the glazed domes at each side of the Edwardian Greenwich foot tunnel.3D Works are also installed in the hidden cupboards concealed within the lifts. In the tunnel we have no consciousness of the external; time becomes eternal, while the works installed form a link with the world of quasi-science and the investigations of nature, to that of commerce. The artists reflect upon the current artistic and economic reality to create their personal narrations as a means of inventive strategy for exploring the geography of the city. This takes pedestrians off their predictable paths and jolts them into an awareness of the urban landscape, its resonances and symbolism. The artworks extrapolate conflicting modes of environment to co-exist with a transcendent result. They present both sides of the river, both realities, both views. In Mitrentse’s poetical ’in favour of the real’ pictures, the meaningful objects appear to reveal the secret unseen side of things by creating visual allegories, leading the viewer into elliptic, enigmatic narratives. Christina refers to both nature as a cultural construction and to historical identity as policy of communication and propaganda. Ransons’s images explore a dark and fantastical Edwardian world, one which lay in opposition to the pre-conceived notions of gentility and high culture, propriety and social manners. Images coalesce in an allusion to invented cultural interpretations of good and evil which the city projects. It is in this unique space that the artists comment on the modern notions of cultural value and they invite the audience to engage with physical and emotional events re-evaluating the urban ‘regeneration’.
www.occupymytime.co.uk www.christinamitrentse.com www.jonasranson.com
PRESS RELEASE
Gallery Primo Alonso proudly presents: RUN RABBIT RUN
Show from 7th to 30th September 2007 ,Gallery Primo Alonso, 395/397 Hackney Rd. London E2 8PP www.primoalonso.com
Run Rabbit, Run takes the work of eight international London based artists, and throws them together in Gallery Primo Alonso in order to explore our perceptions and expectations and create a dialogue. Painting, drawing, sculpture, video projection and installation will all be part of this show. Essentially these elements create a life size rabbit run that deals with the extrapolation and elevation of the day to day, as well as ideas of the parochial and the political.What started as a challenge to force the viewer to see and use the gallery's space differently, became a challenge to integrate work that is diverse in techniques and subject matter, while trying to establish a coherent dialogue throughout the exhibition as a whole. Artists:
Richard Cramp Christina Mitrentse
Harry Meadows Renata Fernandez
Helene Kazan Sharon Rankin
Flor Kent Max Viccardi
CHRISTINA MITRENTSE CLASSROOM PROJECT ,KAPPATOS GALLERY AT IMPERIAL HOTEL,ATHENS
WORD ROBE MAZAGINE A JOURNAL ABOUT THE FUTURE OF LANGUAGE LONDON 2006
'An Outing' CONTEMPORARY GREEK ART FROM BELTIOS COLLECTION, exhibition catalogue
www.beltsioscollection.gr
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