Dato-Archil Sulakauri graduated in 1978 from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. His creative path is quite multiform and diverse: in 1986 he published the scientific work “The Relationship between Artist and Material”; in 1987 he worked as a screenwriter for Georgian puppet films; in…

Leila Shelia is a contemporary artist from the 1980s. In 1978, she graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. Her name is associated primarily with abstraction. Her works, on the other hand, include still lifes and nues, as well as paintings and graphic works.…

Temur Tatanashvili was born in the Kaspi region of Georgia. He graduated from Tbilisi Iakob Nikoladze State Art School in 1975. Since 1979, the artist of the 1980s has been an active participant in Spring, Autumn, Soviet Republics, and international exhibitions. Temur Tatanashvili’s paintings convey…

Zaza Berdzenishvili graduated from Iakob Nikoladze Art School in 1975. Berdzenishvili, as one of the representatives of the Georgian artists’ generation of the 1980s, develops his distinctive style in contemporary Georgian painting with his vivid figurative ideograms, which serve as the “text” of his paintings,…

Vladimer (Valo) Imerlishvili  graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, specializing in sculpture. Participated in numerous international exhibitions. He is the author of many projects implemented in Georgia and Eastern Europe. He works and lives in Tbilisi. Vladimer (VALO) Imerlishvili is one of the…

Tamaz Varvaridze is the artist representing a group of clearly individual Georgian creative minds from the 70s of the 20th century. He is a well-known poster artist and the founder of the Georgian contemporary graphic school. The formal quest for conceptualism, characterized by the aesthetic…

George Gugushvili graduated from the Faculty of Graphic Art of the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1986. From 1985 to 1986, he was the chief set designer at Poti State Theatre. He has produced several plays, including  “Kolkheti  Plain”, “Samanishvili’s Stepmother”, and “White Flags”. He…

Ilia Zdanevich (Zaum pen name Iliazd) was  one of the prominent figures of the Georgian, Russian and French avant-garde movements; poet, writer, and publisher – the theorist of Russian Futurism and Dadaism; founder of the Tbilisi futuristic movement, discoverer of Niko Pirosmanashvili and his art…

Gia Gugushvili received his education from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts and began his artistic career in the 1980s. He held the positions of Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Full Professor at Tbilisi State University, and Vice-Rector of theTbilisi State Academy of…

Temur Iakobashvili (Aharon Yakobson) studied painting first at the studio of Shalva Matuashvili, and later – Jibson Khundadze. In 1991 he graduated from Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. From 1985 Iakobashvili was a founding member of an artist’s group “10th Floor”. Actively participated in group…

Sophia Kintsurashvili – artist, book designer, and illustrator. Over the years, she has collaborated with various publishing houses and is an illustrator of several children’s books. She also made miniatures for the handwritten book “The Knight in the Panther’s Skin,” the embossed cover of which…

Shalva Matuashvili graduated Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1980. Gives lessons in painting since 1987. Since 2007 – Ilia State University, since 2017. Shalva Matuashvili – painter and graphic artist is a distinguished representative of figurative painting, an intellectual. In the process of constant…