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…

Ketevan Matabeli  graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1978. She is a distinguished artist, who createsgraphics, collages and assemblages, which are decorated with various materials and has original style. In 1984 she created a series of paintings “Old Tbilisi”. The illustrations for…

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…

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…