T H E B R E E D E R

Irini Miga

Born 1981, Larissa, Greece
Lives and works in Athens and Zurich

Education

2000 – 2005 School of Fine Arts, Athens
2003 Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London

Residency

2009 Plastiker, Zurich

Solo Exhibitions

2007
Echoe's Prelude, Side 2 Gallery, Tokyo
Wittingly Sparkling Greedy Dimples, The Breeder, Athens

Group Exhibitions

2009
The Beautiful is just the first degree of terrible, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece, curated by Apostolos Kalfopoulos
Paper Fashion, ModeMuseum Provincle, Antwerp, curated by Vasilis Zidianakis
Bloodsport, Remap km2, Athens, curated by Dimitrios Antonitsis
At Home He Is A Tourist, Playroom, Athens

2008
Rrripp!! Paper Fashion, Mudam Luxembourg, Musee d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg, curated by Vasilis Zidianakis
Visual Arts in Greece 3, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, curated by Christina Petrinou (Exh. cat)

2007
True Romance, The Breeder, Athens
I Sigxroni Elliniki Skini, Helexpo Garage, Athens, curated by Nadjia Argyropoulou
RIP - Paper Fashion, Benaki Museum, Athens, curated by Vassilis Zidianakis

2006
Panic Room, Works from The Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation of Contemporary Art, Athens curated by Kathy Grayson and Jeffrey Deitch.
All That Remains is Future, curated by Nadja Argyropoulou.
Architectural Transparencies, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Curated by Christina Petrinou, Athens
Black & White, Hellenic American Union, Curated by Artemis Potamianou, Athens
New Aquisitions, The Athenaeum Intercontinental Collection, Athens Collections The Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens

Irini Miga, Fear of autumn for the red petals of my heart’s marguerite I, 2007, coloured pencils on paper, 32 x 32 cm

Irini Miga, The Lady Shepard, enameled clay, ribbons, jewels, chain 31 x 15.5 x 15.5 cm / 106 x 33 (pedestal)

Irini Miga, Aria del’ amore, 2007, coloured pencils on paper, 162 x 149 cm

Irini Miga, Installation view, The Breeder, Dec. 2007

Irini Miga, Longing for a touch, 2007, enameled clay, chain, feathers, 21 x 55 x 18 cm / 100 x 30 x 69 cm (pedestal)

Irini Miga, Longing for a touch, 2007,( detail ), enameled clay, chain, feathers, 21 x 55 x 18 cm / 100 x 30 x 69 cm

Irini Miga, Longing for a touch, ( deatil), 2007, enameled clay, chain, feathers, 21 x 55 x 18 cm

Irini Miga, Installation view, The Breeder, Dec. 2007

Irini Miga, Fear of autumn for the red petals of my heart’s marguerite I & II, 2007, coloured pencils on paper, 32 x 32 cm & 34 x72 cm

Irini Miga, The aura of sweet innocence, 2007, enameled clay, jewels, 28 x 23 cm / 120 x 37 cm

Irini Miga, Rainy, doleful tears on a foreteller’s fallible doctrine, 2007, coloured pencils on paper, 114 x 84 cm

Irini Miga, Identifying destiny on a rivulet of a dream, 2007, coloured pencils on paper, 42 x 42 cm

Irini Miga, Harbouring the precious weightlessness, 2007, enameled clay, feathers, jewels, 22 x 28.5 x 28 cm / 96x 37 cm (pedestal)

Irini Miga, An illogical, illusionistic, illumination under the melody of the moonlight breeze, 2007, coloured pencils on paper, 106 x 80 cm

Irini Miga, Eve’s burdens, 2007, enameled clay, feathers, jewels, chain, 18 x 30 x 22 cm / 86 x 60 (pedestal)

Irini Miga, Installation view, The Breeder, Dec. 2007

Irini Miga, Installation view, The Breeder, Dec.2007

Irini Miga, Ιnvasion in the site-specific of heavenly strange and helly beautiful,2006, coloured pencils on paper,100x70 cm.

Irini Miga, A tinny martyr’s version of an almost virtuous flap for non-conventional awakening 2007, colored pencils on paper, 30x21 cm.

Irini Miga, The lost piece of inexhaustible energy of an inexplicable hazy memento 2007, colored pencils on paper.

Irini Miga, Human Machines, 2004, pencil on paper, 24.5x34.5cm

Irini Miga, 12.Meaningless paths of idealistic characters in a jigsaw puzzle 2006,

65x82 cm.

Irini Miga, 13.Physically trapped, 2006, 28,5X29,5 cm

Irini Miga, Desserts for indigenous in the garden of knowledge 2006, 28,5x29,5 cm.

Irini Miga, Human Machines, 2004, pencil on paper, 24.5x34.5cm

Irini Miga, Installation view, from What Remains is Future

Irini Miga, Long Neck Madonna, 2005, coloured pencils on paper, 80x100cm

Irini Miga, Queen of Loneliness Hoovers Her Dreams, While the Sun Shines Above Her And Her Eyelashes are Flickering, 2005, coloured pencils on paper, 80x100cm

Irini Miga, Elegiac Coffee for the Long Neck Madonna, 2005, Coloured pencils on paper, 80x100cm

Irini Miga, Human Machines, 2004, pencil on paper, 24.5x34.5cm

Irini Miga, Untitled (Tools series), 2005, coloured pencils on paper, 42x29.8cm

Irini Miga, Family Tree, 2005, coloured pencils on paper, 60x80cm

Irini Miga, Divine, 2005, coloured pencils on paper, 60x80cm

Irini Miga, Human Machines, 2004, pencil on paper, 24.5x34.5cm