Christina Mitrentse

Christina Mitrentse is an artist, educator, and curator. Based in London for 20 years, she presented for the first time in Athens an exhibition, entitled “Minumental” at a.antonopoulou.art gallery (Spring 2022), curated by Christoforos Marinos, which converses with the International Museum Day 2022 theme, “The Power of Museums.” The exhibition presents a selection from a series of small-scale and large-scale works, in the framework of her ongoing international project “Add To My Library,” which began in 2011 and focuses on the relationship between art, text, and books, as part of a wider series of exhibitions that have taken place in galleries and educational centers in the United Kingdom and Europe. Representation of well-known museums and cultural institutions around the world, such as the Onassis Stegi, Tate Modern, National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (ΕΜΣΤ), the Acropolis Museum, WIELS, and MACBA, along with historical monuments, such as Stonehenge, are ‘made up’ of books, which the artist has specifically selected for the rendering of the institutions, so as to function as a metonym for architectural forms, as well as the museum content.Christina Mitrentse has presented her works in 20 solo and more than 200 group exhibitions in galleries, museums, and public spaces, such as Tate Modern, The Royal Academy, ICA London, Liverpool Biennial, 15th Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, 2nd International Bodrum Biennale (Turkey), NDSM-Werf in Amsterdam, MOMus (The Metropolitan Organization of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki), Jewish Museum of Greece, Hackney Museum, Nadine Feront Gallery, dalla Rosa Gallery, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, Central Booking (New York), Center for Book Arts (New York), San Francisco Center for the Book, DR/OP-Hiroshima (Japan), RISE Berlin, Helsinki Contemporary Gallery. Her work has been cited in eminent publications, such as the books “The Word Is Art” by Michael Petry (Thames & Hudson, 2018) and "Unshelfmarked: Reconceiving the artists’ book” by Michael Hampton (2015).Her works are part of private and public collections, such as WWW Foundation, MOCA London, Senate House, UWE Book Arts, LCC, Women’s Art Library (Goldsmiths, University of London), Center for Book Arts (New York), Baghdad National Library, Jewish Museum of Greece, Fine Art Society (London), Greenwich Council, Tate Archive, Penguin Collectors Society, Griechische Kulturstiftung Berlin, M. Antelman (New York), Onassis Foundation, Alpha Bank (GR), MOMus (The Metropolitan Organization of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki), Benaki Museum (Athens), National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation, Athens International Airport “Eleftherios Venizelos.”