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Markus Appenzeller's lecture at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (96+ words) The more comfortable our cities become, the more fragile, expensive, unhealthy, and oddly characterless they grow. Comfort, pursued without restraint, turns out to be deeply uncomfortable." " Markus Appenzeller On June 5 at 4: 00 PM, the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts will host…...
The Year's Art Event
1+ week, 1+ day ago (321+ words) I have been to TAF at least once before, but this was definitely a much larger deal. There were individual artists" shows, most of these each on a side of four-walled spaces, on one hall. A much larger hall featured…...
Polyphony, Ruins, and the Post-Soviet Sensorium: Notes from Tbilisi Art Fair 2026
1+ week, 2+ day ago (146+ words) Georgia Today Polyphony, Ruins, and the Post-Soviet Sensorium: Notes from Tbilisi Art Fair 2026 This year's edition of Tbilisi Art Fair 2026 at Expo Georgia unfolded with a peculiar duality. On one level, it retained the recognizable structure of a regional contemporary…...
The Mystical Ray after the End of History: Irakli Parjiani and the Georgian Art of Inner Catastrophe
2+ week, 1+ day ago (527+ words) At the Georgian Museum of Fine Arts, the exhibition Enigmatic Ray arrives as the reopening of an unfinished spiritual archive. Dedicated to Irakli Parjiani, one of the most singular and metaphysically restless figures in late Soviet Georgian art, the exhibition…...
Georgian artist brings Abkhazia conflict to Venice Biennale pavilion of Nauru
3+ week, 1+ day ago (320+ words) Georgian artist Tedo Rekhviashvili has presented a politically charged installation about Abkhazia at the Venice Biennale, placing the work in the pavilion of Nauru " a small Pacific state that recognises Abkhazia's independence, OC Media reports. The piece, titled "A Sea…...
The Keepers of the Holy Grail
3+ week, 1+ day ago (292+ words) A dedicated follower of the realist school of painting, Gegechkori has on numerous occasions exhibited his celebrated portraits of Georgian monarchs, outstanding public figures and prominent actors, many of which are currently on display in the interiors of the Georgian…...
Almod'var with a Georgian accent: A visual experiment in color, ritual and identity
4+ week, 2+ day ago (276+ words) The project brings together a carefully assembled creative team. Among its key collaborators is drag performer Julee, whose expressive presence became central to the series" visual language, as well as production designer and stylist Nino Kurashvili, who contributed to the…...
Georgia to present "Modern Argonauts" project at Venice Biennale
4+ week, 23+ hour ago (87+ words) Georgia Today Georgia to present "Modern Argonauts" project at Venice Biennale The project "Modern Argonauts " Crossroads of Georgia" will be presented at the Georgian National Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale international art exhibition. "The project presents visual works made with…...
The House Where Georgian Opera Learned to Breathe: Inside the Zakaria Paliashvili House-Museum in Kutaisi
4+ week, 1+ day ago (172+ words) Kutaisi remembers through sound. Through the creak of wooden staircases after rain. Through church bells dissolving into the humid air above the Rioni. Through voices drifting from courtyards at dusk. Through the peculiar acoustics of western Georgian cities, where conversation…...
The Mountain Refuses the Hero: Guram Tikanadze and the Vertical Ethics of Survival
4+ week, 1+ day ago (157+ words) Mountains occupy a sacred place in Georgian culture. Poetry transformed them into symbols of freedom. Painting monumentalized them into landscape mythology. Cinema used them as scenery for masculine endurance and national character. Generations of mountaineers carried into the Caucasus the…...