Mamia Malazonia’s works are outstanding for their versatility. He creates paintings and easel graphics, illustrations, and posters. He is also interested in set design for theatre, cinematography, animation, monumental-decorative and applied arts. “The Knight in the Panther’s Skin” illustrated by him deserves particular attention, each…

Giorgi Gegetchkori is a painter, teacher and the full Professor at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. He graduated from the Academy in 1983. Giorgi Gegetchkori, a representative of the realistic school of painting, made a name for himself principally as a portraitist. He created…

Watercolor is Manana Tumanishvili’s favorite work material. She creates landscapes and still lifes, images of animals, and portraits of peoples. Human feelings are expressed with amazing intensity – joy, sadness, fear.  She uses ink as well – dripped and absorbed in the paper. There are…

Kote Sulaberidze is a representative of the 1990s generation of artists. His works first were shown in the late 1990s. Kote Sulaberidze’s diploma work demonstrated attempts to synthesize visual and verbal information. Kote Sulaberidze’s story begins unusually: when enrolling in the academy, he was asked…

Murtaz Shvelidze graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1992. Murtaz Shvelidze’s path toward an independent creative life began at a time of immense political upheaval: in the 1990s, Tbilisi, which was a part of the post Soviet space, witnessed post-Perestroika conflicts and…

Zurab Gikashvili studied at the Tbilisi State Art Academy (1986-1992). He won an art competition in 1991 and was allowed to work in the first Mediterranean atelier in Gibellina, Italy, with the artist Marcus Luperzi. The competition was organized by Aquile Bonito Oliva. Zurab Gikashvili…

Sophia Cherkezishvili works are like overloaded personal diaries where we could surmise from images a present feministic voice. The sensitively emotional transformation converts one medium into another and produces aesthetic forms, messages and a never-ending inspiration. In 1990 Sophia Cherkezishvili graduated from Iakob Nikoladze Art…

Maka Batiashili studied painting and graphic in 1992-1997 at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. Maka Batiashili inspiration is derived from the moments of mundane reality that usually turn into important visual images. The artist grasps moments from the ordinary…

Manuchar Okorstsvaridze studied in Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1991-1997. He is among the interesting artists who appeared at the art scene of Georgia in the begging of 2000s. He actively participates in the local and international solo and group projects. In recent years…

Zurab Sekhniashvili was an architect-restorer. He has restored more than 60 historical monuments, including Svetitskhoveli Cathedral and Davit-Gareja. Avto Varazi had a great influence on his formation as an artist. He started working with abstraction, which was a form of his protest. Nevertheless, Zurab Sekhniashvili’s…

Zaal Bachanashvili represents an 80s generation of painters who graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1980. Bachanashvili developed his unique compositional model in his paintings. In practically every work, the artist paints a white circle, but more commonly a little segment of…

Alexander Shervashidze –scenographer, painter, book illustrator and designer, art critic, and public figure. On his father’s side he was a descendant of the Shervashidze princely house, the grandson of the last ruler of Abkhazia, Prince Giorgi Shervashidze; on his mother’s side – French.In St. Petersburg,…