Lia Shvelidze graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts (1984). Lia Shvelidze is a representative of the so-called “Generation of the ‘80s”. She was a member of the informal group of artists “Marjanishvili Theatre Workshop”. According to Lia Shvelidze those years played a crucial…

Jemal Kukhalashvili graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1978 and began his creative career in the 1980s. His creative work is characterized by a distinct personality. He depicts everyday life in all its complexities and variety. The artist’s perception of the world…

Ushangi Khumarashvili (b.1948) Studied at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts’ Faculty of Fine Arts from 1967 to 1973. Followingthat, he began working at the Telavi Drama Theater. Since the 1970s, he has regularly participated in exhibitions. He had his first solo exhibition in 1994…

Temo Javakhi (b.1951) graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts’ Faculty of Design in 1976, and from Georgian Film’s acting studio in 1974. He worked at the Tbilisi State Puppet Theater until 1995. Temo Javakhi has participated in numerous exhibitions in Georgia and abroad…

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…

Modernist artist (expressionist, futurist, constructivist); set and film production designer, painter, book illustrator – Irakli Gamrekeli, the founding-farther of the Georgian avant-garde scenography, was an unsurpassed connoisseur of set design techniques and the first Georgian artist who, according to the Futurist theatre principle, practiced a…

Gia Edzgveradze (b.1953) 1989-1996 Lives and works in Munich (Germany). In 1996 he moved to Düsseldorf (Germany). Gia Edzgveradze’s working medium is diverse – painting, sculpture, performance, video, photography, text. Gia Edzgveradze’s work comes out of a rigorous engagement with art history, philosophy, politics and…

Dimitri Shevardnadze was a modernist artist who worked as a painter and graphic designer, stage designer, restorer. He founded a program of museum management in Georgia, and was both initiator and participant of the cultural life of Georgia in the 1920s through the 30s.He was…

In the 1980s, Niko Tsetskhladze (b.1959) was a member of the unofficial groups of artists – “10th Floor” and “Marjanishvili’s Workshop”. Since that period, he has been participating in various art projects and exhibitions. In the early 1990s, Niko Tsetskhladze and Oleg Timchenko conducted one…

Koka Ramishvili works in various media: fine art, photography, sculpture, installation, and video art. His works are based on a poetical structural platform and interdisciplinary praxis. This implies not only aesthetic philosophy but also intersecting science-quantum physics, medicine, and social disciplines. Recently, he has developed…

Oleg Timchenko, a member of The 10th Floor, the avant-garde group of the late 1980s and early 1990s,  was among those painters, who  began to comprehend postmodernist art and tried to express it in their own context during the time of “Perestroika,” thoroughly  aiming for…

Ilia Zautashvili is a multimedia artist who has participated in numerous local and international exhibitions and art events, from New York to Seoul. He is the founder of many creative groups and institutional initiatives, as well as the author of critical essays. He is also…