Maia Tsetskhladze (b.1965) graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1990. She works in the fields of painting, graphics, and applied arts. “In painting, I want to convey the mystical-romantic world, which tries to escape from the depths of the soul, tries to…

Davit Gagoshidze, painter and restorer, graduated from the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University-the Faculty of Geography and Geology in 1982 and continued his studies at the Grabar Restoration Center in Moscow in 1984, specializing in copying medieval paintings. From 1985-1990, he studied at the Faculty…

Alexander Berdysheff – draftsman, painter, designer and photographer, graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1988. In 1990 he completed an internship at Glasgow School of the Arts (Macintosh) (Scotland). Alexander Berdysheff created a completely original artistic world with a strange mix of modernism…

Hans Heiner Buhr, the German artist studied painting at the Higher School of Art in Dresden. From 1990 to 1993, he studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy of Arts in Amsterdam. From 1993 to 1996, he continued his creative work in Berlin, taking part in…

Irakli Maisuradze graduated from the Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani Pedagogical Institute in Tbilisi in 1990. Since 1988, he has actively participated in group and solo exhibitions in Georgia, Russia and European countries. Notable is his conceptual action “Local Catharsis” (Tbilisi Gallery of Modern Art, 1993). He began painting…

Dato Kratsashvili was called a “little genius”. He used to write, paint, and sing. He died 17 years old (1963 – 1980). The lines of his poem reveal that he also predicted his untimely death: „It will rain on the day of the funeral, even…

Gela Tsuladze is the descendent of the Georgian immigrant family who after the Georgia’s Sovietization left the homeland for France. From 1977 to 1980, Gela Tsuladze studied at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. He then moved to Paris, where he continued his education at…

A famous Georgian painter Tazo Khutsishvili graduated from Tbilisi State Academy of Art in 1966. Studied in the studio of Parnaoz Lapiashvili. In 1967-1999 worked as a teacher in the same Academy. From 1996 teaches painting at the faculty of Arts in Iv. Javakhishvili State…

Henryk Hryniewski was a Polish-Georgian painter, graphic artist, and illustrator. He was also known as a scholar and an educator of traditional Georgian architecture. He was arrested and put to death during Joseph Stalin’s Great Purge. Few of his original work survive. Hryniewski was born…

Alexander Florensky – painter, graphic artist and ceramicist, Alexander Florensky was born in 1960 in Leningrad, in the family of artists. In 1982 he graduated from the Ceramics Department of the Vera Mukhina Higher Art and Industrial School in Leningrad. He was one of the…

Olga Florenskaya -Painter, graphic artist, ceramicist and sculptor, born in 1960 in Leningrad, in a family of artists. In 1982 she graduated from the ceramics department of the Vera Mukhina Higher Art and Technical School. Together with his spouse Alexander Florensky, she organized a group of…

Mamuka Mikeladze (b. 1959) exhibitions have been held in the USA, Canada, France, Germany, Azerbaijan, Russia, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, and Great Britain. Over three decades, the artist has organized 15 solo exhibitions, participated in more than 30 group exhibitions, and painted ten churches in Georgia and one…