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Project Manager Project manager ANA RIABOSHENKO 01/10/1977 Tbilisi, Georgia [email protected] +995599251393 Education: 1992 - 1995 - Art College of Jacob Nikoladze, Tbilisi /Painting/ diploma obtained 1995 - 2002 - State Academy of fine Arts, Tbilisi /Master of Graphic Art/ diploma obtained Working Experience: 2019 till present art director of Tbilisi Art Centre Coordination of the local and international projects, organization strategic planning and development. 2017 - 2019 Director of LEPL Creative Georgia (within the Ministry of Culture and Monument Protection of Georgia). A legal entity of public law within the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of Georgia, with an aim to create an appropriate environment for creative industries development, via relevant programs, projects and grants. Responsibilities - strategic planning and development of the institution, management and coordination of the programs, projects and administration. 2015 – 2017 Director of Cultural Popularization, Regional Programs and Project Management Department (Ministry of Culture and Monument Protection of Georgia) Department a unit responsible for the strategic vision of the cultural policy within the country and abroad, as well as actual programming and implementation. Responsibilities - strategic planning, on the international level development, action planning and implementation. 2014 till present curator of Contemporary Art Space Batumi (Within the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports of Adjara Autonomic Republic). Responsibilities – Strategic planning, event management, coordination. 2007 till present President of TRAM foundation (Non-governmental contemporary art institution). A non- governmental organization supporting the development of contemporary art within the country and internationally. 2009 - 2011 Georgia Regional Coordinator of Arts and Culture Network Program, Open Society Foundations Georgia. Responsibility – coordination of the local cultural sector with the program activities, development of the program according to the sectoral needs. 2008- 2009 Mentor in Georgia of Arts and Culture Network Program, Open Society Foundations, Budapest Head Office. The Open Society Foundation is an international Institution mainly responsible for supporting civil society sectors in developing countries. Among other programmes, Arts and Culture Programme covering the South Caucasian region, Turkey and Central Asia, with a head office in Budapest. Responcibility – mentoring and guiding the potential applicants. Monitoring of the funded projects developments. Projects: 2020 Curator of Interchange and international cross-sectoral exchange platform, Batumi, Georgia. 2019 Coordinator of the exhibition Nasasjon, curated by Rádhildur Ingadóttir and Tumi Magnússon, Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi History Museum Curator of Batumi Photo Days Main Exhibition Mirror Land Commissioner of the Georgian National Pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Art Ana K.E. Rearmirrorview Simulation is Simulation is Simulation is…., curator Margot Norton New Museum NY, Simon Subal Gallery Curator of exhibitions Like Share by Ira Korina, Contemporary Art Space Batumi Coordinator of British Georgian enterprise projects Upstart and RE-Conception Curator of the exhibition ALEPPO by Vakho Bugadze, Contemporary Art Space Batumi 2018 Coordinator of seven exhibitions within the Georgia Guest of Honor at Frankfurt Book Fair/Georgia Made by Characters: MMK Frankfurt – Andro Vekua, PORTIKUS Frankfurt- Tea Jordjadze, BASIS Frankfurt – Boullion Group, German Architecture Museum – Hybrid Tbilisi, Museum Angewandte Kunst – Lara Protects Me. Fotografi forum Frankfurt – Picture languages, Photographic Art from Georgia, Atelie Frankfurt- Georgia Video Archive Curator of the exhibition Two Stories from Georgia by Nino Alavidze and Qristoph Schumacher, Contemporary Art Space Batumi Co-curator of the exhibition Wooden Mosques in Ajara, by Suzanne Harris-Brandt, Contemporary Art Space Batumi Initiator and organizer of Team Labs and Idea labs in partnership with Creative Estonia. Enterprise development program Coordinator of British Georgian enterprise projects Upstart and RE-Conception Coordinator of Artist Exchange Residency Program in partnership with Italian Embassy and IGAV Foundation Turin. 2017 Commissioner of the Georgian National Pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Art, Vajiko Chachkhiani, Live dog among the dead Lions, Daniel Marzona gallery. Organizer of the exhibition Stay of Play Georgian art of 80th -90th within the frame of Georgian National Museum Project Contemporary Art Gallery Organizer of the exhibition Constellation, Contemporary Chines art, curator Ami Barak, collection of John Dodelande Georgian National Gallery Co-curator of the exhibition Beyond Happy End, Adro Semeiko, Yu-Chen Wang, Contemporary Art Space Batumi Co-curator of the exhibition Space of Diffusion by Mikhail Gulin, Georgian National Museum Contemporary Art Project and Contemporary Art Space Batumi Curator of exhibition Passport Photo by Shalva Alkhanaidze, Odessa Photo Days Coordinator of German-Georgian Year cultural program, video archive of Georgian artists abroad ME collection Berlin. Exhibition and cultural program Freiburg. Initiator and coordinator of Urban Labs projects in Tbilisi and regions Coordinator of the exhibition Field of Flowers, by Contemporary Art Center Russia, at Georgian National Museum Partner in Georgia for Creative Spark program with British Council Georgia. 2016 Initiator of the project Contemporary Art Gallery at the Georgian National Museum, organizer of several exhibitions: Shaping Identity -Levan Mindiashvili, Tamar Mchedlidze, David Meskhi, Gio Sumbadze, Ana Chaduneli, Nino Zirakashvili, Giorgi Tabatadze. curator Charles Merewether, Georgian National Museum and Arsenal Kiev. Across the Caucasus – Taus Makhacheva, Aslan Gaisumov, Vahram Ashasyan, Ali Hasanov, Vajiko Chachkhiani, curator Charles Merewether, Georgian National Museum HERE THERE matters of location – Tamuna Chabashvili, Lado Darakhvelidze, Sophia Tabataze, Koka Ramishvili, Mamuka Japaridze. Curator Charles Merewether. Georgian National Museum From the Shores of the Balack Sea – Iced Architects, Mariana Vassilieva, Lia Bagrationi, Nazaket Ekici, Sebastian Moldovan, Nikita Kadan, Georgian National Museum 2015 Commissioner of the Georgian National Pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Art Co-curator of the retrospective exhibition group REP 10 years about the method, Georgian National Museum and Contemporary Art Space Batumi. Curator of Georgian Part Extreme Territories an exhibition of Georgian, Ukrainian and French students, Rennes, France. Rennes, Tbilisi and Kiev, Funded by French Institute, Ministry of Culture of France. Coordinator in Georgia of the performance art project Waiting in the Margins, by Lava Dance Production Sweden, in collaboration with Ukraine and Moldova, supported by Swedish Institute and EU grants program. Series of workshops in Tserovany refugee camp for school kids and teachers, as a result few performances were staged in Tserovany and Tbilisi. Coordinator of the exhibition Made in Kaliningrad, Georgian National Museum and Contemporary Art Space Batumi 2014 Coordinator of Symposium After Khlebnikov in collaboration with Dash Art, Contemporary Arts Space, Batumi, Georgia. Funded by Contemporary Art Space Batumi Curator of the exhibition Deep in Soviet Georgia and PASSPORT PHOTOS, Contemporary Art Space, Batumi, Georgia. Funded by Contemporary Art Space, Ministry of Culture and Monument Protection of Georgia and Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports of Ajara A.R. Coordinator Series of trainings in Creative Marketing within the frame of TELAVI FESTIVAL, Telavi, Georgia. Funded by World Vision Coordinator of Wine Park a project of conventional center within the frame of regional Development program Coordinator of Telavi Festival New Nadimi. Funded by World Vision, World Bank, Municipality Development Funds of Georgia and Telavi Mayor office 2013 Coordinator of Wine Park a project of conventional center within the frame of Regional Development Program, Funded by Governmental Reserve Funds and British Council Coordinator of Symposium New Spaces Architecture, Telavi Georgia within the frame of Wine Park project, Funded by Governmental Reserve Funds and British Council Coordinator of Telavi Festival New Nadimi, funded by World Bank, Municipality Development Funds of Georgia and Ministry of Culture and Monument Protection of Georgia 2012 Curator of the exhibition Deep in Soviet Georgia and PASSPORT PHOTOS, Sinopale, and Chanakale Biennials, Turkey. Funded by Contemporary Art Space, Ministry of Culture and Monument Protection of Georgia and Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports of Ajara A.R. Participant - CIMAM annual conference Istanbul, Beirut 2011 Coordinator - Training for Young Curators Tbilisi, Batumi by Beral Madra (curator, Istanbul and OSGF) Funded by Open Society Foundations and Open Society Georgia Foundation Coordinator in Georgia - CORNERS – International expedition, Turkey, Georgia Azerbaijan by INTERCULT, Sweden, supported by EU cultural program Curator - Just So Stories international exhibition Europe House Georgia, Ukraine, Belorussia, Czech Republic, Romania. Supported by European Cultural Foundation within the frame of Re-art project Speaker- Re-art international art conference in Kiev, Ukraine, Supported by European Cultural Foundation 2010-2009 Curator – International conference BEYOND OR ABOVE CIVILIZATION, Contemporary Art Development in the Caucasus Region, Tbilisi
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