{"id":26752,"date":"2025-09-11T11:21:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T07:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/art.gov.ge\/?post_type=cpt_portfolio&#038;p=26752"},"modified":"2025-09-11T11:52:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T07:52:13","slug":"gamsakhurdia-bardavelidze-nina","status":"publish","type":"cpt_portfolio","link":"https:\/\/art.gov.ge\/en\/portfolio\/gamsakhurdia-bardavelidze-nina\/","title":{"rendered":"Gamsakhurdia-Bardavelidze Nina"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"26752\" class=\"elementor elementor-26752\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3329f4c e-con-boxed e-con\" data-id=\"3329f4c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;content_width&quot;:&quot;boxed&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-13cf44c animation_type_block sc_fly_static elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"13cf44c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.8.0 - 30-10-2022 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#818a91;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#818a91;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>\u00a0<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26755 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/art.gov.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Nina_Gamsakhurdia-275x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/art.gov.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Nina_Gamsakhurdia-275x300.jpg 275w, https:\/\/art.gov.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Nina_Gamsakhurdia-937x1024.jpg 937w, https:\/\/art.gov.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Nina_Gamsakhurdia-768x839.jpg 768w, https:\/\/art.gov.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Nina_Gamsakhurdia-1406x1536.jpg 1406w, https:\/\/art.gov.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Nina_Gamsakhurdia-1874x2048.jpg 1874w, https:\/\/art.gov.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Nina_Gamsakhurdia-370x404.jpg 370w, https:\/\/art.gov.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Nina_Gamsakhurdia-770x841.jpg 770w, https:\/\/art.gov.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Nina_Gamsakhurdia-600x656.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/>Nina Gamsakhurdia-Bardavelidze is a Georgian artist and art historian who has lived and worked in Basel, Switzerland, since 1992.<\/p><p>Educated at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, she deepened her knowledge of medieval monumental painting and Byzantine iconography while also studying restoration techniques. This foundation became central to her later artistic and scholarly work. After graduation, she worked at the Institute of Art History in Tbilisi.<\/p><p>In Switzerland, Gamsakhurdia became an active figure in the field of icon restoration, collaborating with both private collectors and museums. Between 2000 and 2002 she restored a major collection of icons that laid the foundation for the Burgbalden Icon Museum in Lincenburg \u2014 the first and only museum in Switzerland dedicated entirely to icon painting, inaugurated under her curatorship.<\/p><p>Her artistic vision imbues materials with a living force. Like the old masters, she prepares her own pigments from semi-precious stones and paints on panels of lime, elm, or cherry wood, covered with organic gesso.<\/p><p>For her, color is not simply an aesthetic choice but a bearer of symbolic and energetic resonance. This is why her works \u2014 whether relief abstractions or <em>Mandylions<\/em> (a series of portraits inspired by\u00a0 the Image of Edessa) \u2014 establish both visible and invisible connections with the viewer.<\/p><p>Among her outstanding works are:<\/p><ul><li><strong>\u201cBlue Column\u201d (Lapis Solaris)<\/strong> \u2014 a stele created for the Station Church in Zurich, later permanently installed in the Tituskirche in Basel.<\/li><li><strong>\u201cEve, Mother, Earth\u201d<\/strong> \u2014 a work deeply tied to the artist\u2019s personal history and dedicated to the memory of her mother.<\/li><\/ul><p>Alongside her artistic practice, Nino Gamsakhurdia actively shares her expertise, teaching painting and restoration techniques developed through her own practice, delivering lectures, and initiating interdisciplinary curatorial projects.<\/p><p>In 2018 she founded <strong>ICONARIUM.ORG<\/strong>, an association devoted to the preservation and archiving of Christian artifacts in Switzerland.<\/p><p>Her work unites the precision of a scholar with the intuition of an artist, merging technique and symbolism so that color and matter are transformed into living energy reaching the viewer.<\/p><p>Sources:<\/p><ul><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nina-gamsachurdia.ch\">nina-gamsachurdia.ch<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/geoartistsabroad.tsu.ge\/ka\/artists\/g\/gamsakhurdia-nino.html\">tsu.ge<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nplg.gov.ge\/emigrants\/ka\/00001097\/\">\u10d4\u10e0\u10dd\u10d5\u10dc\u10e3\u10da\u10d8 \u10d1\u10d8\u10d1\u10da\u10d8\u10dd\u10d7\u10d4\u10d9\u10d8\u10e1 \u10d0\u10e0\u10e5\u10d8\u10d5\u10d8<\/a><\/li><li>Ketevan Kintsurashvili. <em>Nina Gamsakhurdia, the Artist<\/em> (Curatorial text for Velum, the solo exhibition of Nina Gamsakhurdia at the Georgian National Gallery in 2025)<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9ec91dd e-con-boxed e-con\" 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