Alde Kakabadze – artist, ceramics specialist. Honored Artist of the Georgian SSR (1976). People’s Artist of the Georgian SSR (1987). Knight of the Order of Merit. She graduated from the Tbilisi Academy of Arts, and since 1964 he has been teaching there. Alde Kakabadze’s creations…

Sculptor, stage designer and graphic artist, Nino Tsereteli was  a representative of the first generation  of the Tbilisi Academy of Arts, founded in 1922. Together with Tamar Abakelia, she is the first Georgian woman to choose sculpture as her profession. Despite her short life (she…

Tamara Kvesitadze is a artist and sculptor. She is best known for her sculpture “Man and Woman”, later renamed “Ali and Nino”, designed in 2007 and installed on the seafront in Batumi, Georgia since 2010. Glebe House in Glebe Place, Chelsea, London contains 13 artworks…

Vajha Melikishvili’s life was full of con- stant search and novelties of forms, deep originality with understanding of things and events and a great talent of generalization. According to the evaluation of art scholars, he was distinguished by the way of thinking and it was…

Sculptor, Honored Artist of Georgia (2005). He is an alumnus of the Tbilisi State Academy of Art who graduated in 1980. Since his graduation he has been actively participating in local and international exhibitions, including International Symposium (Riga, Latvia, 1986), International Symposium, Composition “Corrida” (Biarritz,…

Sculptor, Honored artist of Georgia, representative of the 50s generation of Georgian sculptors. Guram Kordzhakhiya graduated from the Academy of Arts in 1952 and immediately made a name for himself on a national and all-union scale by his graduation work –  a sculpture by Vladimir…

Sculptor, artist Liza Epitashvili is an alumnus of the Tbilisi Academy of Arts. She graduated from the faculty of sculpture in 1981. She worked at Tbilisi Art Studio of sculptors of USSR Academy of Art (1983-1986). 1988-2005 – Liza Epitashvili Lived and worked in Belgrade…

The eminent graphic artist, founder of modern Georgian graphic art, People’s artist of the Georgian SSR, winner of the Shota Rustaveli Prize, Honored Art Worker of the Georgian SSR and Professor at the Tbilisi Academy of Arts, Lado Grigolia is considered a major master of…

Sculptor and goldsmith, was born in 1941 in Bordjomi, Georgia. He spent his youth in Batumi with. He studied sculpture at the Art school of Tbilisi between 1958 and 1962. He left Georgia in 1962 for Moscow, where he started a career as a sculptor, while dreaming of becoming a goldsmith. In…

The first Georgian professional sculptor and founder of the realistic school of sculpture; People’s Artist of the Georgian SSR and one of the founders of the Tbilisi Academy of Arts  – he became one of   its first professors in 1922 . He received his art…

Sculptor, graphic artist, Gia Japaridze is an alumnus of the Tbilisi Academy of Arts. He graduated from the faculty of sculpture in 1986 and completed his postgraduate study in 1972. Starting form 1970 he participated in lots of different exhibitions on both local and international…

Sculptor and teacher who, together with Yakob Nikoladze, is considered to be the founding father of the modern Georgian school of sculpture. After graduating from Kutaisi Classical Gymnasium, Nikoloz Kandelaki went to St. Petersburg, where he enrolled as a free listener at the St. Petersburg…