Temo Japaridze’s artworks are multi-layered, comprising essays, prose, and poetry in addition to paintings. The artist’s first show was held at the Assembly Hall of Tbilisi State University in 1964, and it was equated with “formalism and bourgeois art” by official bodies. That was considered…

After graduating from the Tbilisi Academy of Arts in 1996, Zura Abkhazi (Abkhazishvili) worked as a teacher in the Uplistsikhe village for several years . He is a member of the Georgian – German Community. The brutality of German Neo-Expressionist painting, as well as the…

Tina Tskhadadze-Ratiani is a representative of the 1990s generation of Georgian artists. The period of 1990s is also   a time when her artistic activity starts. Images of  of powerful women in the Tina Tskhadadze’s “Georgian Dark” series generally convey a rebellious feminist spirit and have been…

Alexander Bandzeladze was born in Siberia, in Tulun, where his family had been exiled during the repressions of the 1920s. They returned to Tbilisi in 1932. From 1942 to 1947, he studied at the Tbilisi Art School, and in 1947, he enrolled at the Tbilisi…

Avto Varazi became almost a legend among artists and intellectuals in the 1960s and 1970s. It was his human and creative advantage that fueled the environment in which the unofficial art of post-war nonconformism flourished. Therefore, most of the Georgian artists who created unofficial art…

Avto Meskhi has been painting since childhood… “I was explaining that it was a mountain and if nothing was painted below, it was needed…” – the artist recalled. Avto Meskhi’s internal protest against the political establishment at that time was very sharp, which led to…

Vatia Davitashvili was born in Telavi. He attended Kyiv Aviation University and befriended Sergo Parajanov, a film director who was living in Kyiv at the time. During this time, he developed an interest in art. He returned to Tbilisi after meeting with representatives of Soviet…

Otar Chkhartishvili (1938-2006) established himself as a leading Georgian nonconformist artist. He participated in the so-called „Bulldozer“exhibition in 1974, as well as in the unsanctioned exhibitions arranged in the apartments of Alexander Glazer and Evgeny Rukhin. Otar Chkhartishvili’s close connections with the Moscow Underground Artists’…

Karlo Kacharava – an artist, a poet, and an art critic – graduated from the Faculty of Arts of the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1986. From 1986 to 1994, he was a researcher at the Giorgi Chubinashvili Institute of Georgian Art History. From…

From 1970 to 1976, Levan Choghoshvili studied at the Tbilisi Academy of Arts. He has been an unofficial artist since 1973. This is a period when Academy of Fine Arts students, including art historians, form groups with common interests. Levan Choghoshvili, Dimitri Tumanishvili, and Giorgi…

Sergo Kobuladze (1909-1978) – People’s Artist of Georgia, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR, Laureate of the Shota Rustaveli Prize; graphic artist, painter, theatre designer. At the early stage of his career, Sergo Kobuladze was fascinated by theatre painting and book…

Gogi Chagelishvili was born in 1944 in Tbilisi. After graduation of Tbilisi State Academy of Arts (1971) he actively works in different forms of Art: painting and drawing, creates abstract works, collages, objects, installations…he is also an author of several literature projects. Chagela – he…