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…

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 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…

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’…

Vakho Bugadze (b.1964) studied at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts from 1982 to 1991. In the 1990s, the conflict between the artist and the outer world intensified to the extreme in Georgian art. The effects of the sociopolitical environment most naturally reverberated through culture.…

Honored Artist of Georgia, sculptor, graphic artist and lecturer. In 1963 she graduated from the Tbilisi Academy of Arts as a sculptor. At different times of her studies she was tutored by Nikoloz Kandelaki, the founder of the modern Georgian school of sculpture and Sergo…