CORPUS MARINA: Body, Crucifix, Sacrifice

Marina Ivanishvili’s Solo Exhibition  at the Georgian National Gallery.

On June 20 at 6:00 PM, the Georgian National Gallery will open CORPUS MARINA, a conceptually curated exhibition that presents a panoramic view of Marina Ivanishvili’s work. Her sculptures and drawings are presented through three interwoven themes: body, crucifix, and sacrifice.

The Latin word corpus refers to the human body and a collection of works. In Ivanishvili’s practice, the torso—fragmented yet evocative—becomes a dominant motif. This exhibition is thus both a meditation on the exposed body and a symbolic corpus of the artist’s creative output.

Exhibition Structure:

Body – Torsos by Marina

Crucifixion – The torso of Christ and nude figures

Sacrifice – A bestiary and mythological beings staged within sacrificial rites

The exhibition will run until August 3

About the Artist

Marina Ivanishvili (1952–2025) was a sculptor, graphic artist, painter, publicist, and teacher. She received the State Prize of Georgia in 1983.

A graduate of the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts (Department of Sculpture, 1976), Ivanishvili worked primarily in small-scale sculpture and graphic media, developing a modernist visual language. Her recurring subjects included torsos, horses, and bulls.

She served as an artist for the Mtskheta archaeological expedition, was Secretary of the Sculpture Section of the Georgian Artists’ Union, and led the children’s sculpture studio at the House of Artists from 1986 to 1989. In later years, she contributed as a consultant to the digital art platform ART.ge.

Ivanishvili participated in numerous exhibitions in Georgia and abroad. She held solo shows at the Women’s Cultural Center in Hamburg (1991), the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia (1997), and in Paris (2021). Her works are preserved in the collections of the Shalva Amiranashvili Museum of Fine Arts and the Dimitri Shevardnadze National Gallery, as well as in private collections.