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…

A famous Georgian painter Tazo Khutsishvili graduated from Tbilisi State Academy of Art in 1966. Studied in the studio of Parnaoz Lapiashvili. In 1967-1999 worked as a teacher in the same Academy. From 1996 teaches painting at the faculty of Arts in Iv. Javakhishvili State…

Henryk Hryniewski was a Polish-Georgian painter, graphic artist, and illustrator. He was also known as a scholar and an educator of traditional Georgian architecture. He was arrested and put to death during Joseph Stalin’s Great Purge. Few of his original work survive. Hryniewski was born…

Alexander Florensky – painter, graphic artist and ceramicist, Alexander Florensky was born in 1960 in Leningrad, in the family of artists. In 1982 he graduated from the Ceramics Department of the Vera Mukhina Higher Art and Industrial School in Leningrad. He was one of the…

Olga Florenskaya -Painter, graphic artist, ceramicist and sculptor, born in 1960 in Leningrad, in a family of artists. In 1982 she graduated from the ceramics department of the Vera Mukhina Higher Art and Technical School. Together with his spouse Alexander Florensky, she organized a group of…

Mamuka Mikeladze (b. 1959) exhibitions have been held in the USA, Canada, France, Germany, Azerbaijan, Russia, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, and Great Britain. Over three decades, the artist has organized 15 solo exhibitions, participated in more than 30 group exhibitions, and painted ten churches in Georgia and one…

Levan Chichinadze (b. 1961) – painter, scenographer, lecturer. In 1986 graduated from Tbilisi Fine Arts Academy, Fine Arts faculty with the specialty of a scenographer (teacher Parnaoz Lapiashvili). He has created scenography at the Akhmeteli Theater in Tbilisi (a play based on Tamaz Badzagua’s play “Cast Anchor,…

Giorgi Mirzashvili is an artist from the 1980s and 1990s who graduated from the Tbilisi Art Academy in 1984. “My primary goal when working on a painting is to achieve the unity of composition and colour. I try to make my painting’scolour intense and its image…

Gia Khutsishvili graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Fine Arts in 1989. Gia Khutsishvili has been creating art for 30 years. He is the author and compiler of many exhibition projects and events, as well as books and art albums. Gia Khutsishvili is also…

Malkhaz Datukishvili from 1981 to 1987, studied at the Tbilisi State Academy of Fine Arts’ Faculty of Fine Arts. Malkhaz Datukishvili creates collages and works in mixed media, oil paintings, and graphics. Since the 1990s, he has participated in numerous exhibitions in Georgia and abroad,…

Rusudan Petviashvili had a special talent for painting since her childhood, and despite her youth, she found herself at the centre of intellectual and artistic attention. Just like in 1981, in St.Yorre, a press conference was held to discuss the phenomenon known as Rusudan Petviashvili’s…