Futurist artist of Polish descent, one of the important figures of the Tbilisi Avant-garde, Zygmunt (Ziga) Waliszewski was born in 1897 in St. Petersburg. In 1908, his family moved to Georgia, Tbilisi, where he spent his childhood and youth. Here he graduated from the Nikolai…
Ilia Zautashvili is a multimedia artist who has participated in numerous local and international exhibitions and art events, ranging from New York to Seoul. He is the founder of several creative groups and institutional initiatives and the author of critical essays. He also serves as…
Luka Lasareishvili, also known as Luca Lazar, is an independent professional artist who has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums since 1982. He works across various media, including painting, installations, objects, and video art. In 1989, Lazar served as an…
Loretta Shengelia – Honored Artist of Georgia (1982), graphic artist, and painter, graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1966, where she mastered the art of drawing and graphic under Lado Grigolia and Sergo Kobuladze. Loretta Shengelia has significantly contributed to the development…
Gela Manjavidze (b.1958) belongs to the generation of Georgian artists of the ‘80s. He graduated from Tbilisi State Art Academy in 1980. “The life of an artist is colorful, like a spectrum of colors spanning from red to purple”, the artist claims. Artists of Gela…
Georgian avant-garde artist, stage designer, one of the founders of the Georgian and Russian Cubo-Futurism, creator of Orchestral Painting, that is the variety in visual art of Ilya Zdanevich’s concept of Everythingness.He was born in 1892 in Kojori, Georgia. Father was of Polish descent, mother,…
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…
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…