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) was a leading Georgian non-conformist painter and graphic artist of the second half of the 20th century, whose work served as a weapon in the fight against totalitarianism and atheism. He was the first in Georgian art to introduce an anti-formalist approach,…

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…