Misha Shengelia was born into the family of scientists. His grandfather – botanist Niko Ketskhoveli, was the rector of Tbilisi State University in 1945-1953. Alumnus of the Geology Department of the Tbilisi State University, he worked for some time at the Institute of Geology of…

Misha Gogrichiani graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1992. His paintings first appeared in Georgian exhibition spaces in the early 1990s, and viewers remember him for his minimalist, naive painting style. The artist moved to the United States in the late 1990s.…

Theater and movie artist, graphic artist, cartoonist. One of those modernists whose work has not been studied at all, although he can be considered one of the reformers of Georgian theatrical painting. His merit is great, as he widely spread the new scenographic language in…

Giorgi Gegetchkori is a painter, teacher and the full Professor at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. He graduated from the Academy in 1983. Giorgi Gegetchkori, a representative of the realistic school of painting, made a name for himself principally as a portraitist. He created…

Kote Sulaberidze is a representative of the 1990s generation of artists. His works first were shown in the late 1990s. Kote Sulaberidze’s diploma work demonstrated attempts to synthesize visual and verbal information. Kote Sulaberidze’s story begins unusually: when enrolling in the academy, he was asked…

Murtaz Shvelidze graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1992. Murtaz Shvelidze’s path toward an independent creative life began at a time of immense political upheaval: in the 1990s, Tbilisi, which was a part of the post Soviet space, witnessed post-Perestroika conflicts and…

Zurab Gikashvili studied at the Tbilisi State Art Academy (1986-1992). He won an art competition in 1991 and was allowed to work in the first Mediterranean atelier in Gibellina, Italy, with the artist Marcus Luperzi. The competition was organized by Aquile Bonito Oliva. Zurab Gikashvili…

Sophia Cherkezishvili works are like overloaded personal diaries where we could surmise from images a present feministic voice. The sensitively emotional transformation converts one medium into another and produces aesthetic forms, messages and a never-ending inspiration. In 1990 Sophia Cherkezishvili graduated from Iakob Nikoladze Art…

Maka Batiashili studied painting and graphic in 1992-1997 at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. Maka Batiashili inspiration is derived from the moments of mundane reality that usually turn into important visual images. The artist grasps moments from the ordinary…

Zurab Sekhniashvili was an architect-restorer. He has restored more than 60 historical monuments, including Svetitskhoveli Cathedral and Davit-Gareja. Avto Varazi had a great influence on his formation as an artist. He started working with abstraction, which was a form of his protest. Nevertheless, Zurab Sekhniashvili’s…

Zaal Bachanashvili represents an 80s generation of painters who graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1980. Bachanashvili developed his unique compositional model in his paintings. In practically every work, the artist paints a white circle, but more commonly a little segment of…

Alexander Shervashidze –scenographer, painter, book illustrator and designer, art critic, and public figure. On his father’s side he was a descendant of the Shervashidze princely house, the grandson of the last ruler of Abkhazia, Prince Giorgi Shervashidze; on his mother’s side – French.In St. Petersburg,…