Teona Asitashvili was a Georgian graphic artist and painting restorer, the founder of the Georgian school of easel painting restoration, and an Honored Artist of Georgia. As a landscape watercolorist, she regularly participated in spring and autumn exhibitions and creative workshops organized under the auspices of the Artists’ Union.

After graduating from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts (Iosif Charlemagne’s studio), Asitashvili continued her professional training at the Restoration Studio of the Dresden Art Gallery (1960–1966), where, under the guidance of Heinrich Schwagrous, she mastered the profession of painting restorer. During her studies and work in Dresden, she participated in the restoration of more than 150 artworks in the gallery’s collection, including paintings by Titian, Dürer, Rubens, Van Dyck, and Correggio.

Upon her return to Tbilisi, at the invitation of Academician Shalva Amiranashvili, she became head of the newly established Laboratory of Painting Restoration and Conservation at the Georgian Museum of Fine Arts (1964–1985).

Under her direction, significant restoration projects were carried out, including Rubens’s The Love Meeting, Cranach’s The Matchmaker, and several works by Niko Pirosmani: The Janitor, The Cook, The Feast with the Clarinet Player Datiko Zemel, The Goat, The Epic of Kakheti, and The Feast in Front of a Two-Storey House.

In 1971, Asitashvili was invited to teach at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, where she founded and chaired the Department of Painting Restoration and Conservation — thereby establishing the Georgian school of easel painting restoration. She trained more than thirty qualified specialists, many of whom later continued their work at the Georgian National Museum.

In 2002, Teona Asitashvili’s solo exhibition was held at the Shalva Amiranashvili Museum of Fine Arts.

Her works are preserved in the Georgian Museum of Fine Arts, the Kutaisi Gallery, and in private collections across Europe, the United States, and Russia.