Sculptor Karlo Grigolia is one of the most important representatives of non-conformist art and the founder of Georgian abstract sculpture. After graduating from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1956, he continued working as lecturer at the academy. Karlo Grigolia’s works are based…

Sculptor, painter, graphic artist, People’s Artist of Georgia. Irakli Ochiauri graduated from the Tbilisi Academy of Art under the guidance of Jacob Nikoladze in 1951. His diploma work was “Vaja Pshavela.” He participated in exhibitions since 1953, and  in the same year, joined the Georgian…

Sculptor, graphic artist, book illustrator, and professor  at the Tbilisi Academy of Arts, Gogi Ochiauri was a representative of the 1950s  pleiades of the Georgian sculptors whose creative activity was mostly dominated by the search for  motives and characters  expressing national identity.    Among his  monumental…

A sculptor, painter, graphic artist and book illustrator, Elguja Amashukeli, like other sculptors of his pleiade, authored the icons with strong national identity in monumental urban sculpture.  His kings as well as the symbolic and allegorical statuary:  Vakhtang Gorgasali, Mother of All Georgians, A Tiger…

Sculptor, graphic artist and painter, Merab Berdzenishvili was one of the creators of the national patriotic style statuary which had originated by the late 1950s in the realm of the Georgian monumental sculpture.   His powerful heroic works, predominantly influenced by the aesthetics of the Italian…

Olga Florenskaya -Painter, graphic artist, ceramicist and sculptor, born in 1960 in Leningrad, in a family of artists. In 1982 she graduated from the ceramics department of the Vera Mukhina Higher Art and Technical School. Together with his spouse Alexander Florensky, she organized a group of…

Sculptor, graphic artist, painter and illustrator, theater and film designer, Tamara Abakelia was the first female sculptor in Georgia, who created a landmark example of a large-scale  statuary.   While studying at the Tbilisi State Academy of Art, young Tamar attracted the attention of Iakob…

Vladimer (Valo) Imerlishvili  graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, specializing in sculpture. Participated in numerous international exhibitions. He is the author of many projects implemented in Georgia and Eastern Europe. He works and lives in Tbilisi. Vladimer (VALO) Imerlishvili is one of the…

Sculptor, painter, cartoonist, illustrator, actor, theater and film director and animator, one of the brightest representatives of  The Tbilisi modernism and later a prominent creator of the Stalinist period heroic propaganda films. After the Sovietization, Mikhail Chiaureli actively got involved into the film industry initiated…

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,…

Jemal Japaridze, the sculptor was born in Tbilisi, in 1932. In 1959 he graduated from the Tbilisi Academy of Arts. His graduate work supervised by the sculptor Nikoloz Kandelaki portrayed primarily Queen Tamar. But the Soviet censorship in Georgia at that time should not allow…

Marine Ivanishvili, a sculptor, graphic artist, painter, publicist, teacher, and Georgian State Prize laureate (1983). In 1976, she graduated from the Sculpture Faculty of the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. During her active years as an artist, she primarily worked in the genres of small…