Tina Tskhadadze-Ratiani is a representative of the 1990s generation of Georgian artists. The period of 1990s is also   a time when her artistic activity starts. Images of  of powerful women in the Tina Tskhadadze’s “Georgian Dark” series generally convey a rebellious feminist spirit and have been…

Alexander Bandzeladze was born in Siberia, in Tulun, where his family had been exiled during the repressions of the 1920s. They returned to Tbilisi in 1932. From 1942 to 1947, he studied at the Tbilisi Art School, and in 1947, he enrolled at the Tbilisi…

Avto Varazi was born in Tbilisi on October 25, 1926. During the 1960s and 1970s, he was one of the key figures in Georgian artistic and intellectual circles. His studio and creative stance constituted the environment in which post-war unofficial art and non-conformist movements originated…

Avto Meskhi has been painting since childhood… “I was explaining that it was a mountain and if nothing was painted below, it was needed…” – the artist recalled. Avto Meskhi’s internal protest against the political establishment at that time was very sharp, which led to…

Vatia Davitashvili was born in Telavi. He attended Kyiv Aviation University and befriended Sergo Parajanov, a film director who was living in Kyiv at the time. During this time, he developed an interest in art. He returned to Tbilisi after meeting with representatives of Soviet…

Otar Chkhartishvili (1938–2006) was a leading Georgian non-conformist painter and graphic artist of the second half of the 20th century, whose work served as a weapon in the fight against totalitarianism and atheism. He was the first in Georgian art to introduce an anti-formalist approach,…

Karlo Kacharava – an artist, a poet, and an art critic – graduated from the Faculty of Arts of the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1986. From 1986 to 1994, he was a researcher at the Giorgi Chubinashvili Institute of Georgian Art History. From…

Levan Chogoshvili was born in 1953, Tbilisi. He studied at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts from 1970 to 1976, and from 1973, in fact, becomes an unofficial artist, when students still create groups united by common interests together with art historians, such as the…

Lali Zambakhidze (b. 1941) has been active in the creative field since the 1970s, and she has occupied a significant place in Georgian graphic art. After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in 1965, the young artist embarked on a challenging, but exciting, research-driven…

Sergo Kobuladze (1909-1978) – People’s Artist of Georgia, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR, Laureate of the Shota Rustaveli Prize; graphic artist, painter, theatre designer. At the early stage of his career, Sergo Kobuladze was fascinated by theatre painting and book…

Gogi Chagelishvili was born in 1944 in Tbilisi. After graduation of Tbilisi State Academy of Arts (1971) he actively works in different forms of Art: painting and drawing, creates abstract works, collages, objects, installations…he is also an author of several literature projects. Chagela – he…

Besik Arbolishvili (b.1955) graduated from the faculty of Fine Arts of the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, in 1983-1986 worked in Soviet regional Art Studio (Moscow, SSR). In his variety of genres, we can discover the constant search of the color and form and the…