Theater and movie artist, graphic artist, cartoonist. One of those modernists whose work has not been studied at all, although he can be considered one of the reformers of Georgian theatrical painting. His merit is great, as he widely spread the new scenographic language in…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…