Dato-Archil Sulakauri graduated in 1978 from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. His creative path is quite multiform and diverse: in 1986 he published the scientific work “The Relationship between Artist and Material”; in 1987 he worked as a screenwriter for Georgian puppet films; in…

Leila Shelia is a contemporary artist from the 1980s. In 1978, she graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. Her name is associated primarily with abstraction. Her works, on the other hand, include still lifes and nues, as well as paintings and graphic works.…

Temur Tatanashvili was born in the Kaspi region of Georgia. He graduated from Tbilisi Iakob Nikoladze State Art School in 1975. Since 1979, the artist of the 1980s has been an active participant in Spring, Autumn, Soviet Republics, and international exhibitions. Temur Tatanashvili’s paintings convey…

Zaza Berdzenishvili graduated from Iakob Nikoladze Art School in 1975. Berdzenishvili, as one of the representatives of the Georgian artists’ generation of the 1980s, develops his distinctive style in contemporary Georgian painting with his vivid figurative ideograms, which serve as the “text” of his paintings,…

George Gugushvili graduated from the Faculty of Graphic Art of the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1986. From 1985 to 1986, he was the chief set designer at Poti State Theatre. He has produced several plays, including  “Kolkheti  Plain”, “Samanishvili’s Stepmother”, and “White Flags”. He…

Gia Gugushvili received his education from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts and began his artistic career in the 1980s. He held the positions of Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Full Professor at Tbilisi State University, and Vice-Rector of theTbilisi State Academy of…

Temur Iakobashvili (Aharon Yakobson) studied painting first at the studio of Shalva Matuashvili, and later – Jibson Khundadze. In 1991 he graduated from Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. From 1985 Iakobashvili was a founding member of an artist’s group “10th Floor”. Actively participated in group…

Shalva Matuashvili graduated Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1980. Gives lessons in painting since 1987. Since 2007 – Ilia State University, since 2017. Shalva Matuashvili – painter and graphic artist is a distinguished representative of figurative painting, an intellectual. In the process of constant…

Goga Maglakelidze studied at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts (1981-1987). He was a member of the group of artists “Archivarius” since 1984. Goga Maglakelidze, with the artists of the “10th Floor” and “Marjanishvili” informal groups, was involved in the exhibitions of the Georgian avant…

A painter and graphic artist, participant of the the Tbilisi avant-garde life in the 1910-1920s, Alexander Bazhbeuk-Melikian was born in Tbilisi in an Armenian family and spent  all his life there. In 1910 he graduated from the Tbilisi Nikolai Sklifosovsky school of painting and drawing…

Gia Loria studied visual art from 1975 to 1979 at the Iakob Nikoladze Art School and from 1981 to 1987 at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. Loria was a member of the group “Archivarius” beginning in the 1980s, and he worked at the “10th…

Since the 1980s, Gela Zautashvili has actively participated in numerous exhibitions in Georgia and abroad. These include: “Generation of the ‘80s” at the Artist House, Tbilisi (1986). “Retrospective of Modern Georgian Art” at the Central House of Artists, Moscow, USSR (1987). “Georgian Figurative Art” at…