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…

Oleg Timchenko, a member of The 10th Floor, the avant-garde group of the late 1980s and early 1990s,  was among those painters, who  began to comprehend postmodernist art and tried to express it in their own context during the time of “Perestroika,” thoroughly  aiming for…

Ilia Zautashvili is a multimedia artist who has participated in numerous local and international exhibitions and art events, ranging from New York to Seoul. He is the founder of several creative groups and institutional initiatives and the author of critical essays. He also serves as…

Rocko Iremashvili – painter and sculptor, alumnus of the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design (2005–2009), and guest lecturer at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts (2010–2012). His works, regardless of format or material—be it painting or video—reveal a magnetic synthesis of social protest,…

Luka Lasareishvili, also known as Luca Lazar, is an independent professional artist who has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums since 1982. He works across various media, including painting, installations, objects, and video art. In 1989, Lazar served as an…

Loretta Shengelia – Honored Artist of Georgia (1982), graphic artist, and painter, graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1966, where she mastered the art of drawing and graphic under  Lado Grigolia and Sergo Kobuladze. Loretta Shengelia has significantly contributed to the development…

Gela Manjavidze (b.1958) belongs to the generation of Georgian artists of the ‘80s. He graduated from Tbilisi State Art Academy in 1980. “The life of an artist is colorful, like a spectrum of colors spanning from red to purple”, the artist claims. Artists of Gela…

Georgian avant-garde artist, stage designer, one of the founders of the Georgian and Russian Cubo-Futurism, creator of Orchestral Painting, that is the variety in visual art of Ilya Zdanevich’s concept of Everythingness.He was born in 1892 in Kojori, Georgia. Father was of Polish descent, mother,…

Levan Kharanauli graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1986.  Since 1983 the artist has been participating in various group exhibitions. His solo-shows were held at different times in both Georgia and abroad: in the Tianeti Local Museum, Shalva Amiranashvili Museum of Fine…