Ia Gigoshvili  – Graphic artist, alumna of the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. She studied at the Department of Graphic Arts under Sergo Kobuladze and Loretta Shengelia. She proceeded with her studies at the postgraduate courses of Sergo Kobuladze’s studio under the guidance of Ucha…

Levan Kharanauli graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1986.  Since 1983 the artist has been participating in various group exhibitions. His solo-shows were held at different times in both Georgia and abroad: in the Tianeti Local Museum, Shalva Amiranashvili Museum of Fine…

Nino Morbedadze graduated from the Tbilisi Academy of Arts with a specialty of Graphic Artist and immediately attracted attention of general public with her large, figurative, surrealistic-style compositions marked  with the skill of exceptional draftsman and depicting a  strange and mysterious world.    During the…

Levan Lagidze is a representative of Georgian artists of the ‘80s generation. The introduction of the term “generation of the 80s” in scientific and popular literature is connected with the name of Levan Lagidze. He graduated from Tbilisi State Art Academy in 1981. The Georgian…

Irakli Parjiani was born in Mestia, Svaneti. In 1974 he graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. The artistic aesthetics and style of Irakli Parjiani provide an interesting example of the connection between individuality and tradition in art. The central theme of his oeuvre…

Irakli Toidze was a versatile artist: his creative interests encompassed paintings, graphic art, posters, set design and book illustrations. His drawings made at a very early age used to be published in many periodicals. He studied in the Faculty of Painting at the Tbilisi State…

The artist of the 1980s generation, Yuri Berishvili, received his education at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. His emotional expression and depiction of a metaphysically sensed world make his abstract artworks always distinguish. The artist paints with vivid, “pure” colors. His compositions are created…

Soon after graduating from the Tbilisi Academy of Arts, Mamuka Japharidze engulfed in conceptual projects and since 1987 he has been doing so.  The medium of his works change according to the context and environment and include happenings, collections of objects and images, video projections,…

Jemal Japaridze, the sculptor was born in Tbilisi, in 1932. In 1959 he graduated from the Tbilisi Academy of Arts. His graduate work supervised by the sculptor Nikoloz Kandelaki portrayed primarily Queen Tamar. But the Soviet censorship in Georgia at that time should not allow…

Marine Ivanishvili, a sculptor, graphic artist, painter, publicist, teacher, and Georgian State Prize laureate (1983). In 1976, she graduated from the Sculpture Faculty of the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. During her active years as an artist, she primarily worked in the genres of small…

Mamuka Tsetskhladze studied at the Tbilisi Academy of Arts from 1980 to 1986. In 1984, Mamuka Tsetskhladze formed the group „Archivarius“ along with artists Karlo Kacharava, Gia Loria, and Goga Maghlakelidze. In 1985, on the tenth floor of the Tbilisi Academy of Arts, in the…

Temo Japaridze’s artworks are multi-layered, comprising essays, prose, and poetry in addition to paintings. The artist’s first show was held at the Assembly Hall of Tbilisi State University in 1964, and it was equated with “formalism and bourgeois art” by official bodies. That was considered…