Parnaoz (Parna) Lapiashvili was one of the most renowned  representatives of the 20th century Georgian scenic and film production design. He designed more than 100 theatre, opera and ballet performances and was a designer of the popular Georgian films Keto and Kote  by Vakhtang Tabliahsvili …

“Patriarch of the Georgian Scenography”, “The Man Who Clad the Dance”,  “The artist, who created his own signature style in set design and costumes” – such are the words the art critics usually use to describe  Simon Virsaladze, commonly known as Soliko, the Georgian painter…

Shalamberidze Roland Roland Shalamberidze was born in 1958 in Kutaisi, Georgia. In 1982, he and Merab Amaglobeli founded the non-conformist creative club of artists and poets White Wings in  Kutaisi. Roland Shalamberidze lives and works in St. Petersburg since 1988. He works as an abstractionist,…

Lia Bagrationi is a contemporary Georgian artist who has been actively working in the Georgian art space since 2000. Member of the IAC (International Academy of Ceramics) based in Geneva, Switzerland. Co-founder of the Georgian Ceramic Art and Craft Foundation, The Clay Office, based in…

Alde Kakabadze – artist, ceramics specialist. Honored Artist of the Georgian SSR (1976). People’s Artist of the Georgian SSR (1987). Knight of the Order of Merit. She graduated from the Tbilisi Academy of Arts, and since 1964 he has been teaching there. Alde Kakabadze’s creations…

Zurab Nizharadze graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1955. From 1964 to 1971, he taught in the Academy’s Drawing Department, and from 1982 to 1987, he served as its rector. He is a distinguished representative of the generation of Georgian artists from…

George (Gogi) Alexi-Meskhishvili was born in 1941 into the family of renowned architect Lado Alexi-Meskhishvili. In 1967 he graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, and since that time has actively participated in exhibitions. Beginning from 1971, Gogi Alexi-Meskhishvili served as stage designer of…

Albert Dilbarian was born in Tbilisi in 1928. He was a painter who studied at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in the Department of Painting from 1946 to 1952. His oeuvre, which includes portraits, still lifes, landscape, and genre paintings, is distinguished by original…

Givi Toidze belongs to that generation of artists, who actively appeared on easel painting area in the sixties of the twentieth century. His creativity perfectly reflects the considerable progress, occurring at that time. Givi Toidze cognized in the workshop of his grandfather, outstanding Georgian artist…

Sculptor, stage designer and graphic artist, Nino Tsereteli was  a representative of the first generation  of the Tbilisi Academy of Arts, founded in 1922. Together with Tamar Abakelia, she is the first Georgian woman to choose sculpture as her profession. Despite her short life (she…

Reno Turkia was born in Sokhumi, in 1926. He graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1966. He was teaching at the Academy 1959. After 1940 he was actively participated in local and international exhibitions. Reno Turkia main medium was painting. His portraits…

Guram Gelovani graduated from Tbilisi Art Academy in 1954. The generation of artist Guram Gelovani, who has been on the creative scene since the 1950s, lived and worked within the Soviet system. The artistic practice of this generation also functioned in an environment regulated by…