christina mitrentse: 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