Tengiz Mirzashvili was born in 1934 in Svanetia region. In 1958 graduated the Academy of Fine Arts in Tbilisi faculty of Theater an Decorative Arts.  He was passionate about Georgian landscapes and the history of his country and created series of landscapes and genre paintings. …

Sculptor, graphic artist and painter, Merab Berdzenishvili was one of the creators of the national patriotic style statuary which had originated by the late 1950s in the realm of the Georgian monumental sculpture.   His powerful heroic works, predominantly influenced by the aesthetics of the Italian…

Levan Margiani (b.1965), a miniaturist and painter, graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1989. His teachers were Otar Japaridze and Shota Kuprashvili. Since 1994, he has held nearly twenty solo exhibitions, including the exhibitions at “Cour des Saint-Peres-16” exhibition space in Paris;…

Kakhaber Tatishvili graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1992. His paintings, figurative or abstract compositions, landscapes, and still lifes are distinguished by their subtle colors, laconic forms, and joyous moods. “I’ve experimented with themes and performance, and I’m attempting to diversify my…

Gela Patiashvili (b.1964) graduated from Tbilisi Polytechnic University in 1986. Painting, which he had been fond of since childhood, eventually became his profession. Technical education – primarily mathematics, according to the artist, enabled him to develop the skill of spatial perception and convinced him of the…

Maia Tsetskhladze (b.1965) graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1990. She works in the fields of painting, graphics, and applied arts. “In painting, I want to convey the mystical-romantic world, which tries to escape from the depths of the soul, tries to…

Davit Gagoshidze, painter and restorer, graduated from the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University-the Faculty of Geography and Geology in 1982 and continued his studies at the Grabar Restoration Center in Moscow in 1984, specializing in copying medieval paintings. From 1985-1990, he studied at the Faculty…

Alexander Berdysheff – draftsman, painter, designer and photographer, graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1988. In 1990 he completed an internship at Glasgow School of the Arts (Macintosh) (Scotland). Alexander Berdysheff created a completely original artistic world with a strange mix of modernism…

Hans Heiner Buhr, the German artist studied painting at the Higher School of Art in Dresden. From 1990 to 1993, he studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy of Arts in Amsterdam. From 1993 to 1996, he continued his creative work in Berlin, taking part in…

Irakli Maisuradze graduated from the Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani Pedagogical Institute in Tbilisi in 1990. Since 1988, he has actively participated in group and solo exhibitions in Georgia, Russia and European countries. Notable is his conceptual action “Local Catharsis” (Tbilisi Gallery of Modern Art, 1993). He began painting…

Dato Kratsashvili was called a “little genius”. He used to write, paint, and sing. He died 17 years old (1963 – 1980). The lines of his poem reveal that he also predicted his untimely death: „It will rain on the day of the funeral, even…

Gela Tsuladze is the descendent of the Georgian immigrant family who after the Georgia’s Sovietization left the homeland for France. From 1977 to 1980, Gela Tsuladze studied at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. He then moved to Paris, where he continued his education at…