the manifest of changes and an inner experience the manifest of changes and an inner experience
ცვლილებების მანიფესტი და შინაგანი არტისტერიუმი 09 გამოცდილება
თბილისის II თანამედროვე ხელოვნების საერთაშორისო გამოფენა
8-15 ოქტომბერი, 2009 წელი ARTISTERIUM 2009 2nd Tbilisi International Contemporary Art Exhibition and Art Events ‘The Manifest of Changes and an Inner Experience’ Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi History Museum ‘Karvasla’
Organizers Exhibition Catalogue Website ------Artisterium Association, Exhibition concept Main concept SYNTHESIS ad Iliko Zautashvili Archil Turmanidze Eto Gabashvili Dumas French Magda Guruli Iliko Zautashvili Centre for Visual Cultural Centre, Researches, Tbilisi Exhibitions events Concept design, layout Ministry of Culture Sophia Kilassonia SYNTHESIS ad Monument Protection and Rusudan Oat/Khatuna Sport of Georgia, Khabuliani Translation Karaman Kutateladze Magda Guruli Georgian Season Niko Tsetskhladze/Archil Servane Laine Turmanidze Peter Nasmyth Aknowledgments British Embassy of the Georgian National Maka Jakhua ------Council in United States, Museum, Tbilisi History Conference Thanks to the following Georgia Georgia Museum, Karvasla Visiting curators Tram Foundation people and organizations Evelyne Jouanno, France, USA Director Shaheen Merali, Germany Project coordinator Goethe Institute, Georgia Iliko Zautashvili Sylwia Narewska, Poland Ana Riaboshenko Werner Wöll Alena Boika, Czech Republic Tamta Gochitashvili Curators Benjamin Godsill, USA Project manager Natia Mikeladze- Magda Guruli George Mikeladze Bakhsoliani Lika Mamatsashvili Logistic technical services Vakhtang Gvetadze Project research/coordinator Dumas French Cultural Board Kote Jincharadze Nutsa Megvinetukhutsesi Centre, Tbilisi David Tskhadadze Luka Zet Joel Bastenaire Marine Chogoshvili Technical assistance Mariam Kveselava Iliko Zautashvili Lika Dadiani Magda Guruli Marta Tabukashvili British Council in Georgia Alexander Adamia Paul Doubleday Coordinator/Supervisor Salome Skhirtladze Maia Kipshidze Irina Saganelidze Tamar Lordkipanidze Embassy of the United Nine Dragon Heads States, Georgia Georgian Season coordinator Cynthia Whittlesey Manana Muskhelishvili Gigi Guledani ------Keti Gogoberidze Public promotion All rights reserved Sopho Khuntsaria No part of this publication may be Polish Embassy in Georgia reproduced in any form by any electronic Lech Konczak or mechanical means without permission in writing from the publishers, except in Georgian National Museum the context of reviews David Lordkipanidze
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თბილისის თანამედროვე ხელოვნების II With its many discussions, meetings and cultural თანამედროვე მხატვარი... მუშაობს და გამოხატავს თავის შინაგან სამყაროს – სხვა საერთაშორისო გამოფენა – არტისტერიუმი 2009 and educational programs, the Artisterium 2009 სიტყვებით რომ ვთქვათ – გამოხატავს ენერგიას, ქმედების უნარსა და სხვა შინაგან – რეგიონული და საერთაშორისო მულტიმედიური represents the tendencies of the regional and ძალებს. ვიზუალური კულტურის ტენდენციებს წარმოაჩენს international multimedia visual culture. ჯექსონ პოლოკი გამოფენების, კურატორთა კონფენეციების, შეხვედრების, დისკუსიების, კულტურული და The Artisterium 2009 -Tbilisi 2nd International საგანმანათლებლო პროგრამების ფონზე. Contemporary Art Exhibition and Art Events, is სამყარო ჩვენ გარშემო ისე სწრაფად ვითარდება, რომ ხშირად ძნელია დააფიქსირო, არტისტერიუმი 2009 ქართული სახელმწიფოს an important priority of Georgia’s cultural policy, ურთიერთობებსა და ყოველდღიურ ცხოვრებაში გამოხატული ხილული ცვლილებები. კულტურის პოლიტიკის ერთ-ერთი which aims at the popularization and support of ხელოვნება, როგორც მენტალურის, ფსიქიკურის და ფიზიკურის გადაკვეთის წერტილი, მნიშვნელოვანი მიმართულებაა, ხელოვნების contemporary art and culture. ცდილობს ყველაზე მოულოდნელი სახით წაიკითხოს თანადროულ სამყაროში მხარდაჭერის და პოპულარიზაციის კუთხით. მიმდინარე პროცესები. მხატვარი ამას შინაგანი გამოცდილების, შინაგანი მუშაობის One of the main objectives of the initiative is to ხარჯზე ახორციელებს იმ ცვალებად პარადიგმაში, რომლისგანაც კაცობრიობის ეს სწორედ ის წამოწყებაა, რომელიც identify the place of Georgian contemporary art on ახალი „სინამდვილე“ იქმნება. საქართველოს და მის დედაქალაქს the world’s art map, to represent Georgia as a place მსოფლიო სახელოვნებო რუკაზე წარმოაჩენს, for democratic, creative and pluralistic space, with საქართველოს ბუნებრივი განვითარება მრავალჯერ შეფერხდა მისი გეოპოლიტიკური როგორც დემოკრატიულ, შემოქმედებით და the accent on the progressive tendencies of future. მდებარეობს გამო, რომელიც ყოველთვის განსაზღვრავდა ქვეყნის კულტურულ, პლურალისტურ სივრცეს, სადაც მომავლის პოლიტიკურ და ისტორიულ თავისებურებებს. თბილისი ყოველთვის იყო პროგრესული ტენდენციები მჟღავნდება. This year, the Artisterium hosts Georgian as well as ფილოსოფოსების, მწერლების, მოგზაურების, მოხეტიალე დერვიშების თავშესაფარი. international art professionals from 23 countries. It ქალაქის ისტორიული უბნები დღემდე ინახავენ მოგონებებს აქაურ მხატვრებზე, წელს არტისტერიუმი ქართველ და 23 ქვეყნიდან will help the international integration of the Georgian პოეტებზე, დეკადენტებსა და მოდერნისტებზე, ე.წ. თბილისურ ბოჰემაზე, კუბო- მოწვეულ ხელოვანებს მასპინძლობს, რაც art scene. ფუტურისტული ავანგარდის მრავალ მხატვარსა თუ პოეტზე. გააღრმავებს ქართული სახელოვნებო სცენის საერთაშორისო ინტეგრაციას. The ministry of Culture, Monument Protection and 2008 წელს, გამოფენისთვის სახელის ძიებისას არტისტერიუმზე შევჩერდით, Sport of Georgia greets the guests, organizers რადგან სახელწოდება გასული საუკუნის 10-ანი წლების, თბილისის მოდერნისტულ, საქართველოს კულტურის, ძეგლთა and partners of the Artisterium 2009 and wishes კულტურულ და სახელოვნებო დინამიკას ეხმაურება. არტისტერიუმი ერქვა ჟურნალ დაცვის და სპორტის სამინისტრო them further success in the contexts of global „არს“-თან, მისივე შენობაში არსებულ კლუბს, სადაც ავანგარდული გამოფენები, მიესალმება არტისტერიუმის სტუმრებს, contemporary art and culture. პოეზიის საღამოები და ლექციები იმართებოდა. სახელწოდებამ საშუალება მოგვცა თანაორგანიზატორებს და უსურვებს მათ ქართული თანამედროვე ხელოვნება თბილისურ მოდერნიზმთან, ანუ საკუთარ შემდგომ წინსვლას მსოფლიო თანამედროვე ფესვებთან დაგვეკავშირებინა. ხელოვნების და კულტურის კონტექსტში. არტისტერიუმზე მუშაობისას ხშირად გვიგვრძვნია თავი არაადექვატურ მდგომარეობაში, რადგან ქვეყნის სახელოვნებო ინფრასტრუქტურა, ყოველ შემთხვევაში ჯერჯერობით, არ განგაწყობს დიდი მასშტაბის სახელოვნებო ღონისძიების ჩასატარებლად ქალაქში, სადაც თანამედროვე საგამოფენო სივრცის დეფიციტია და ძალიან მწირი საშუალებებია შემოქმედებითი პრაქტიკის თუ ნიკოლოზ რურუა სახელოვნებო წარმოების სტიმულირებისთვის. მიუხედავად ამისა, თბილისური არტ- სცენა ძლიერ ცოცხალი და მრავალფეროვანია, რადგან თბილისში აკუმულირებულმა საქართველოს კულტურის, ძეგლთა ევრო-აზიურმა ფილოსოფიამ და მსოფლშეგრძნებამ განაპირობა ისეთი სპეციფიური დაცვის და სპორტის მინისტრი კულტურული ფენომენის ჩამოყალიბება, რომელმაც განსაზღვრა ახალი ქართული ხელოვნების დემოკრატიზმი და ინტეგრაციული ტენდენციები. მიუხედავად პრობლემებისა, თბილისი დღეს ინტენსიურ სახელოვნებო პროცესებშია ჩართული, Nikoloz Rurua, რაც თანამედროვე ხელოვნებაში ექპერიმენტული საშუალებების და ახალი გზების ძიებას ემსახურება. The Minister of Culture, Monument Protection and Sport of Georgia 2009 წლის არტისტერიუმის მიზანი ისეთი პლატფორმის შექმნაა, სადაც შესაძლებელი იქნება „ენერგიის, მოქმედების უნარის და სხვა შინაგანი ძალების“ გამოხატვა, სადაც მხატვრებს, კურატორებს და არტ-კრიტიკოსებს მაყურებელთან ერთად საშუალება მიეცემათ გამოიკვლიონ დღევანდელი მუდმივად ცვალებადი და ახალი გამოწვევებით აღსავსე სამყარო.
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The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world – in other words – expressing the things that will be revealed over energy, the motion, and other inner forces. Breda Beban, artist, UK. Dalia Dudenaite, artist, Lithuania. time. Know that your efforts were Jackson Pollock “had most amazing time in Tbilisi extremely appreciated, and the “i’m not very talkative person, but – it was my kind of a paradise: friendships that grew out of this are i’m very happy that i was there, worth their weight in gold”. As the pace of change speeds up in the world around us, daily life undergoes subtle changes that looking at new work, meeting met so much wonderful people, manifest through visions, relationships and ideas. Art, being the sphere where the mental and physical people, warm hospitality and saw a part of your culture. and it intersect, sheds new light on the ideas of reality and perceived reality, where the most unexpected all this against a spectacularly stayed inside of me. beautiful place. STILL MISS all of and yes, i really hope, to see you decisions and interactions are possible. Artists, whose primary concern is inner experience, are perfectly Sitki Kosemen, artist, Turkey. placed to reflect these new and changing paradigms on what constitutes the current state of human you. and, as it is case with many of again”. us who visited Georgia for the fist ‘reality.’ “I would like to thank you for the time, the whole experience left me marvelous days we have spent longing for MORE.”. Georgia is a country whose natural development has been interrupted many times because of its geo- together in Tbilisi Patricia London Ante Paris, political status. The location that has come to lie on the verge of both East and West, has always defined The show was wonderful, well Artist, Germany. the cultural, political, economic and historical characteristics of the country. organized... Martin Zet, artist, Czech Republic. I would be delighted to come there “the DEEPart mysterium was Moreover, at all times of its complex history, Tbilisi, Georgia’s capital has always been a shelter for again in the first opportunity i n c r e d i b l e !” philosophers, writers, travelers and vagrant dervishes. The historical part of the city has been keeping “as to esthetic situation – i was Thank You so much....” the memory of many decadents and so-called Tbilisian bohemia, consisting of artists and poets from absolutely excited – this old modernist circles to cubo-futuristic avant-garde. building with historical installation Arno Contreras, artist, France. Simone Westerwinter, artist, downstairs, recycled walls, sockets Germany. In our quest for a name fitting the event, we therefore settled on ‘Artisterium’, the name of a Tbilisi club falling out – I love it + sometimes i “Thanks again for all the efforts functioning at the art magazine ARS in the first decade of the 20th century. The club was famous for work with it – once in St Petersburg and time you took to organize “there was no time to say good its intense artistic milieu, avant-garde exhibitions, poetry evenings, lectures and many other activities about 10-15 years ago – i just artisterium and show our works in bye. Now I am back in Germany. responding to the modernistic and cubo-futuristic tendencies of the time. The name of the event thus refilled the holes after the nails in so good conditions”. It is very cold today ( 3°C) and allows us to restore the connection between Georgian contemporary art and its roots. one wall with the old found nails – i i am missing Tbilisi a lot! I just mean every single hole. want to tell you that it was very While working on the Artisterium project, it has been common to find oneself in a less than adequate Artisterium made me feel very real great to be part of artisterium and situation. The art infrastructure of the country is indeed quite limited and consists of very few and not spoiled – in a good place Ledoh, artist, USA. to meet you all…”. contemporary art spaces or means of supporting artistic practice or production. It is therefore hardly + I liked the choice of works + all adapted to the organization of such a big art event. It has, however, never prevented the Georgian new names for me so I think it was “With a bit of hesitancy I arrived contemporary art scene to be lively and colorful. It is obvious to those who look around that in spite of all a very good event”. in Tbilisi, and now I’m left with the historical cataclysms of the 20th century or since, the spirit of artists and poets that lived and worked warmth in my heart; I’m filled with Paul Doubleday, Director of the in Tbilisi is still around. the desire only for the return to British Council in Tbilisi. rekindle that essence one day. I Today, the artists that live and work in Tbilisi are looking for new possibilities and new ways of Lydia Matthews, art-historian, “...We enjoyed it immensely. curator, Parsons New School of tend to shy away from artists in my expressions in art. The art scene of the city reflects the full range of its multicultural environment as it day to day life, the experience was A great experience and some Design, USA. wonderful work.” keeps on accumulating a wide spectrum of Euro-Asian world-outlooks and philosophies, while local and inspiring and gives me hope for imported tendencies interact and become mutually beneficial. Georgia’s specific cultural phenomenon, “I can tell you that it did make a true global art. I’m grateful for this being socially international, politically pluralistic and aesthetically synthetic, shapes the international difference in the lives of all of us community! Much obliged”. tendencies of contemporary art in Georgia. who visited Tbilisi, and I’m sure Cynthia Whittlesey, Chief of that more future exchanges will Education, Culture and Information By raising the issue of “expressing energy, motion, and other inner forces” in open dialogue, ‘Artisterium’ grow out of it. It taught the US Affairs, USA Embassy in Georgia. aims at creating a platform for artists, curators, art critics and audience to exchange new insights on this Sylwia Narewska, curator, Arsenal artists how to really slow down Gallery, Poland. ever-shifting, ever-challenging state of modern existence. and adapt to sets of conditions “...It was great! Looking forward to working with you in future!” they had no control over, which “I would like one more time to Magda Guruli, is invaluable! It is always hard to thank You for everything – this ARTISTERIUM 2009 measure how exposure to other event, invitation and hospitality. It Curator people’s ideas and ways of making was a great pleasure to participate art impact artists of a particular in such an intense event”. place--but these are the very Table of Contents
14 ------Bruce Allan 100 ------Prasto 16 ------Babi Badalov & Jacques Crenn 102 ------Ana Riaboshenko, Anatoly Riaboshenko 17 ------Vazha Bekauri 104 ------Guia Rigvava 18 ------Frances Belser 106 ------Samkura 20 ------Levan Beriashvili 106 ------Sarah Lewtas 21 ------Ali Bramwell 107 ------Ian Joyce 22 ------Gilbert Bretterbauer 108 ------Kevin Mc Gee 24 ------Vakhtang Bugadze 109 ------Nuala Ní Fhlathúin 26 ------Art Group Bouillon 110 ------Beso Shonhardt 28 ------Sophia Cherkezishvili 112 ------Maya Sumbadze 30 ------David Chikhladze and Margo Korableva Performance Theatre 114 ------Sophia Tabatadze 32 ------Ruth Claxton 116 ------The Morning After (aka RU-486) 34 ------Peaceful Light of Gladness Before a Thunderstorm 117 ------Matt Sheridan Smith, Nikolas Gambaroff 35 ------Lucie Ferlikova 118 ------Liz Magic Laser 36 ------Ivars Gravlejs 120 ------Sean Raspet 37 ------Lukas Karbus 122 ------Aaron Young 38 ------Nazli Kaya 123 ------Michael Phelan 39 ------Petra Petileta 124 ------Matthew A. Chambers 40 ------Goga Dadunashvili 125 ------Michele O’Marah 42 ------EBC | Emergency Biennale in Chechnya 126 ------Selected Artworks from The U.S. Embassy Collection 56 ------Hans Heiner Buhr 126 ------Aaron Yassin 58 ------Niko Tsetskhladze 128 ------Joanne Mattera 59 ------Iliko Zautashvili 129 ------Beth Ganz 60 ------Nezaket Ekici 130 ------Russell Crotty 64 ------Alexander Florensky 132 ------Martin Wattenberg 65 ------Olga Florensky 134 ------Susan Logoreci 66 ------Irina Gabiani 136 ------Luka Zet, Natalia Gagnidze 68 ------Eerie & Languid – Explorations About Responsibilities and Values 138 ------Goethe-Institut Georgien, 69 ------Laleh Khorramian 138 ------Hans Scheib 70 ------Carlos Amorales 142 ------TBC Gallery, 71 ------Jean-Gabriel Périot 142 ------saq[art]velo 72 ------Tamuna Karumidze 144 ------Abanotubani, Old Downtown Tbilisi, 74 ------Bessa Kartlelishvili, Koka Vashakidze 144 ------Mamuka Japharidze 76 ------Giorgos Katsagelos 146 ------New Art Gallery/Café, MAF Group 78 ------George Kevle 146 ------Giorgi Khaburzania 79 ------Misak Khostikyan 146 ------Mtvarisa Joyce 80 ------Ushangi Khuma 147 ------Giorgi Makhniashvili 82 ------Nino Lomadze 147 ------Natalia Glonti 84 ------Fakhriya Mammadova Rafael 147 ------Nata Kipiani 85 ------Konstantine Mindadze 148 ------Giorgi Dadiani 88 ------Mariam Nakanimamasakhlisi, Giorgi Mamasakhlisi 149 ------Levan Kapanadze 90 ------Park Byoung-Uk 149 ------Nini Alavidze 93 ------Kam Yeon-Hee 150 ------Auditorium 94 ------Video Art from Poland 151 ------Art Villa Garikula, Festinova 95 ------Kobas Laksa 152 ------Archidrome, 96 ------Jacek Malinowski 152 ------Levan Mindiashvili, Cristian Tonhaiser 98 ------Hubert Czerepok 156 ------Index of the Artists [recent exhibitions, events, awards] 99 ------Azorro Group 165 ------Index of the Curators ARTISTERIUM 2009
2nd Tbilisi International Contemporary Art Exhibition and Art Events
TBILISI
Georgian Goethe TBC Gallery Abanotubani New Art Auditorium Art Villa Caucasian National Institute, Gallery/Café Garukula House Museum, Georgia 7 Marjanishvili Str. Old Tbilisi 3 Purtseladze Str. Downtown Tbilisi History 31 Orbeliani Str. Kaspi Region, 20 Galaktioni Str. Garikula Village 16 Zandukeli Str. Museum, (75 km. from the Karvasla city downtown)
8 Sioni Str. 14 The Ocean Is Not A Swimming Pool distance and proximity, glow worms and stars 15 Bruce Allan 2009, text work, dimensions variable 1997, text work, dimensions variable
The Ocean Is Not A Swimming Pool distance and proximity, glow worms and stars
Dusk. Walking beside a small lake surrounded by limestone in South West France. As the first stars appear, I become aware of glow worms on the ground A sign on the Atlantic coast near Westward Ho! North Devon, England. around me. To my eye these separate phenomena appear much the same size, a slight of scale in my imagination.
Scale (1) Scale (2) Babi from Baku, Azerbaijan 2009, photograph, 50X35 cm. We are here to help 16 Babi Badalov & Jacques Crenn Babi from Timbuktu, Mali 2009, digital prints, 20X111 cm. Vazha Bekauri 17 2009, photograph 50X35 cm.
A man in a white suit will get lost in a wall, but a man in a black suit will always be surrounded by four walls Quote and Love lettres 18 Frances Belser 2009, digital print, art premium paper, A4 19 Under construction SHIN-CAKE 2006, Blue Oyster Performance, performance/activated installation, 20 Levan Beriashvili 2009, installation, mixed media Ali Bramwell 21 shackles, chairs, lights, rope, pulleys, people, safety barriers
Basic grammar ruled man’s free will throughout history. As a result, man has locked private desires within his own language. The Shin-Cake appears as a kind of a tool, a guide-book to alternative comprehension of our inner profits. At a bottom, the criterions of our social status are purely marketable, like product selection.
The visual form a shin has been contemplated long before, not only by the author, but by each of you. Contemplation is an exceptional human ability, and yet, to me your tightly shaved and well groomed lower legs will make you preferable toward others, like a cake... lamp object 3D net 2007, various materials, light pulbs, electric cable, tape, 2007, various textile stripes. 300X300X300 cm. 22 aluminum wire, exhibition view. 350X270 cm. 23 Gilbert Bretterbauer Photo by: Betty Fleck Photo by: Betty Fleck Pieta (Minotaur) 24 Vakhtang Bugadze 2009, diptych, oil on canvas, 140X210 cm. 25 Weight Lifters 26 Art Group Bouillon 2009, multimedia performance 27
Curated by: Natuka Vashadze, Georgia
Bouillon group’s art project The Weight Lifters parodies a rush of underdeveloped countries towards the Western Unions like EU, NATO…
During one month’s physical trainings 5 artists make attempt to achieve nonrealistic results and become professional weight lifters. This action symbolizes the competition of EU non-member countries to reach stated standards of western civilization in a short period of time.
The project simultaneously is the simulation of the corporate “ethics” of developed society that is shown by the rules of the sports game. Artists underline that the basis of the corporate ethics is the athletic principle of competition.
The project blurs the boundaries between art, sports and politics demonstrating the combined cultural “bullion”, where there is no differentiated space any more. Where Are You Now Where Are You Now 28 Sophia Cherkezishvili 2008, oil on canvas, 50X60 cm. 2008, oil on canvas, 50X60 cm. 29 David Chikhladze and Margo Mandala 30 2009, multimedia performance, 40’00” 31 Korableva Performance Theatre
The Margo Korableva Performance Theatre was entitled Narcisis was presented as a window show founded in Tbilisi in 1994. The theater aesthetics in May 2009 at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts is based on the concept of anti-theater and Gallery “Academy +”. The Narcisis part is based on structuralism. The work material of the company utilitarian “dance” of everyday life presented as a ranges from elements of classical ballet to various ritual of fun or as a tension field emerging between rituals, everyday life signs and structuralized the levels of natural and cultural. dialogues. The shows are never based on written plays but instead are developed according to a The next part – Mandala accelerates the dance and specific plan. The usual working technique of the goes into deeper explorations employing various company is to improvise on different levels during paradigmatic signs from sport and ritual. The repetitions, although these improvisations seldom company uses structural dialogue as the component make it as the final product. The composition is of general theatrical text. The narrative tries to go built on a syntagmatic model, where the artistic beyond the semiotic definition of time and is framed exploration emphasizes the ever-changing syntax in two dimensional, picturesque sensibilities. between forms and meanings. Performing artists: Levan Maisuradze, Nutsi Mandala is the latest show at the Margo Korableva Gabisiani, Vaso Macharadze, Shalva Kobaladze, Performance Theater. The first part of the show Maia Khvedelidze Nest (Crested Parrots) A Milkmaid St. John the Evangelist 32 2008, painted steel, mirror, glass, found ceramic figurine, 33 Ruth Claxton 2008, cut postcard, 14.5X10 cm. Photo credit: Whipps/Langdon 2008, cut postcard, 14.5X10 cm. Photo credit: Whipps/Langdon fimo, 80x120x80 cm. Photo credit: Spike Island Japonerie Indo-China 34 Peaceful Light of Gladness Before a Thunderstorm 2007, acrylic on hardboard, 53X45 cm. 2006, acrylic on hardboard, 80X67 cm. Lucie Ferlikova 35
Curated by: Alena Boika, Czech Republic
TO ALL I EVER LOVED
It’s raining for two months read news, answer all mails and grass. Around is sunny silence already, almost not stopping. write comments to their friends’ and calm. The new era begins. As People by a habit try to move blogs. It seems to them still that submarines from the bottom of fast and not to stay alone. if to plan and schedule things conciseness despair, devastated, Sticky humid air slows down in a perfect way, everything alone, loneliness, eliminated, their movements; atmospheric could be caught, despite humiliation, human, human, column in 214 kg begins to press greenhouse effect and global personal life, humanity, I love you, with a sudden force, particularly speeding-up. And suddenly at I love you so much, but you left strong by nights. People fall in a some random moment they me, and all my light went away pensive despair and light, a bit realize that nothing could be surface. hysteric confusion. It seems to caught. World with its societies them, they were betrayed and and global tomatoes rushes Global warming, speeding-up, meanly misused, but if to follow past, even Esperanto is not globalization fly into open space, certain rules – to move fast and interesting to anyone anymore. accompanied by explosion of not to stay alone, – everything And Bulgarian artist based in Jupiter and delight by realization will be fine. Then they suddenly Berlin as automatic machine of this explosion. notice that tomatoes put out of produces ready formulations for window bear red fruits in June. grant applications, banging out Small herbs, sadness, light irony, They reflect on it, look at the sky, multiculturalism, intersection, based on personal observations and surprisingly discover that cross-cultural, European Union, and very, very deep emotional greenhouse effect they were told cultural exchange, collaboration, experiences remain; blue jacket/ in primary school 20 years ago investigation, to build up creative dress, quarrel, foggy winter day. had already happened. society, to make a bridge. The morning of the next day Last nail is hammered in easily comes; the selfish sun rises, Cars barrel in with a crazy manipulated consciousness. and continues to lucet omnibus, speed around and in a global greeting the every sprout of a warming, planes fall down, And then quiet contemplation creative manifestation, despite and trash wind brings and comes. With a crystal sound pupil mass greenhouse effect. sweeps away enormous bulks suddenly turns into itself, and eye of information in Internet open with astonishment alights on a space. Firstly people sprightly squirrel. She is red on the green See what I see Neon Volf 36 Ivars Gravlejs 2009, series of 23 photographs, size variable. 2007-2008, water-color on paper, 49,5X65,2 cm. Lukas Karbus 37 Zlin Soup Nothing is so hot, as it seems 38 Nazli Kaya 2007, animated short, paper cut-out, pixilation, 8’42” 2007, DVD, 4’3” Petra Petileta 39 One Session, Fifteen Versions 40 Goga Dadunashvili 2009, author’s film from the series Zombie TV Present 41 42 EBC | Emergency Biennale in Chechnya Artists | EBC 43
Curated by: Evelyne Jouanno, France
“The ‘state of emergency’ in which we live The Emergency Biennale in Chechnya was conceived is not the exception but the rule.” and developed as a reaction against a particular background of destruction: destruction of a culture, a Walter Benjamin society, a people, an identity.
Wishing to reintroduce Chechnya to an international attention while questioning the phenomenon of proliferation of the international Biennials, the Emergency Biennale opened on 23 February 2005 both in Grozny, Chechnya (different sites in the city) and in Paris, Palais de Tokyo. This project was conceived and realized in less than a month, with no funding support, and with more than sixty international artists, established and emerging, who accepted to provide a work and its duplicate created likely to fit in suitcases shipped to Chechnya and different other cities in the world for mirror exhibitions. After Paris, the touring part of the project moved to Brussels (Matrix Art Project), Bolzano (EURAC/Museion), Milan (Isola Art Center), Riga (Riga City Exhibition Hall), Tallinn (Tallinn Art Hall), Vancouver (Centre A), Puebla in Mexico (laboratory format), Istanbul (10th Istanbul Biennial), San Francisco (World Social Forum, CCA) and Bialystok in Poland (Arsenal Gallery). The next stop is Tbilisi, Georgia, Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi History Museum, Karvasla, in the frame of Artisterium 2009, the 2nd International Contemporary Art Exhibition and Art Events. For each of these steps, new artists are invited, conferences are organized and additional suitcases are ready to be sent to Chechnya.
Grozny, as the final destination of the artworks since 2005, will also be the last step of the touring exhibition, allowing the meeting of the artworks and of their duplicates or “twins”. The whole collection will then become the base of a local museum, even if this one remains virtual and nomad for an undetermined period.
44 EBC | Paris, France Palais de Tokyo, 23 February-04 April, 2005 Matrix Art Project, 02-18 September, 2005 Brussels, Belgium | EBC 45 46 EBC | Bolzano, Italy European Academy EURAC & Museion, 07-28 October, 2005 Isola Art Center, 28-30 November, 2005 Milan, Italy | EBC 47 48 EBC | Riga, Latvia Riga City Exhibition Hall, 23 February-13 March, 2006 Tallinn Art Hall, 26 April-07 May, 2006 Tallinn, Estonia | EBC 49 50 EBC | Vancouver, Canada Centre A, 07 July -19 August, 2006 Plataforma, 23-28 November, 2006 (Laboratory “Regeneracion”) Puebla, Mexico | EBC 51 52 EBC | Istanbul, Turkey 10th Istanbul Biennial, 07 September-04 November, 2007 CCA / World Social Forum, 25 January-9 February, 2008 San Francisco, USA | EBC 53 54 EBC | Bialystok, Poland Gallery Arsenal, 14 March-15 April, 2008 Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi History Museum, Karvasla, 8-15 October, 2009 Tbilisi, Georgia | EBC 55
Left, two, three, Art: Tron’s Manifesto
Hans Heiner Buhr, 2009
Who has the power over the images, that has the power over us men. The digital wave has thrown the old reactionary art into a smoking shambles.
Our flowing consciousness follows the billions of pictures. From the first blink to the last dying gaze. It is the strong, unique and beautiful as terrible images that our existence does worth living: Mother, the first Christmas, a great love, once own children, a line in the desert or the sea’s horizon. The unexpected images enlighten us.
Against the reign of the banal, the stupidity and the greed. Art must return as reconnaissance invading the unknown spaces of Visibility.
Can it?
Real-time digital Tsunami waves have conquered our realities. In milliseconds our weak physical focus fails to set the right attention. Will only instincts choose the important images ? What makes their importance ?
Images that provoke thoughts and images that enforce our decisions. New economies ?
Ongoing, adjusting our reflexes, we test new attention filters for stimulus amplification and noise reduction. Our consciousness is a consciousness in transition.
We urge the continued expansion of our critical sense. Give us a better awareness for all! See, reflect, evaluate, act.
Reality. Claim. Aesthetics. Action. Expectation. Morale. Say. We have a visual right.
We create, manipulate, govern. We shock and enchant the world with new images. Frames of individual decisions becoming waves of societal change.
We are artists without art, stumbling as aging Trons through endless digital spaces. We dare for a new visual future.
Light of aesthetic information: Critical projectiles hurled by the angry fists of imagination and reason. 56 EBC | Hans Heiner Buhr A Tron, 2009, digital collage, 2000x2077 px. The Sturm, 2009, digital collage, 2167x1350 px. The Scream, 2009, digital collage, 2167x1350 px. 57 occupant, 2009, object, matreshka, military fabric Cain, where is Abel thy brother?..., 2009, Installation, 12 knives with words, 58 EBC | Niko Tsetskhladze white artificial silk. Installation view, Contemporary Art Center, Zamok Uyezdovski, Warsaw, Poland Iliko Zautashvili | EBC 59 Madonna 60 Nezaket Ekici 2008, performance installation 61
Artist’s statement Presented at: Performance und Ausstellung, “Temsilde Huzursuzluk” (Discomfort at the Performance), Siemens Sanat Istanbul, 4.3.-25.4.2008 Memories of Objects, DNA Gallery Berlin, 27.6.-7.9.2008 The idea, the thought, the draft are the bases for the execution of my artwork. Ideas come from everyday life situations, social and cultural Camera by: Nihad Nino Pusija atmospheres. Then the idea expresses itself in the performances and installation art. As well as this, I use the body as a means of expression.
The artistic idea is expressed using the body alone, as part of the The artist stands on a pedestal, looking over the heads of the audience. As a Madonna she looks into the air, installation and within the context of an audience. closer to heaven than to the world. The candles symbolize the wishes of the people, carried into heaven by the sight of Madonna reaching out for fulfilment. Up to here, this is the understanding of the cult about Madonna. The subjects I deal with are time, movement, space, material, body, action/ There are 37 candles above the artist, standing for the age of the artist. The candles hang upside down and are interaction. I try to create works of art that leave for the viewer, free space therefore not addressing the sky, but earth. Life has not only the bright sight for us, but also sad moments. In a for associations and new possibilities. I take a special situation from quiet meditative attitude, the artist, enflames one candle above her after the other, till all candles burn. It is not everyday life and without illustrating this one for one; I place it into a new only meditative, but also a painful experience, caused by the hot wax, dropping down onto the artist. The hot context. wax grounds the Madonna and makes her a real person, when she realizes pain. Madonna is demystified and the viewer comes back to himself, when he mentions, he knows the feeling of hot wax on the skin. I aim to create art where all of the elements are connected together to form a whole work of art (Gesamtkunstwerk). Lifting a Secret 62 2007, performance installation 63
Presented at: „HANDLUNG und RELIKT“, Galerie L. Fasciati, Chur Schweiz, 3.11.-1.12.2007; Memories of Objects DNA Gallery Berlin 27.6-9.7.2008
Equipment: Vasiline; coffee (liquid 50L); coffemaschine; white sofa; white small table; ladder; metallic big bucket; blue dress; white carpet; cup
Duration: 8 hours
Camera by: Luciano and Marlen Fasciati.
The artist lifts a secret, a personal story out of her life. Her Performance combines coffee and Vaseline as legible text on a wall surface, hence, creating a wall painting as self-contained artwork. She writes with Vaseline onto the wall, and through dumping the coffee with a cup onto it for ours and hours, the writings become visible and readable step by step. In her story she relates to the ceremony of cooking coffee in order to show out, that she is ready for marriage.
As a young man comes visiting her and her parents with his parents, she has to serve the coffee in a traditional way. Only if she is cooking good coffee and served, she is a good house wife and good for marriage.
She writes down her emotional critics, and her angryness about this ritual.
This is a performance installation, where the smell of coffee, the writing installation on the wall on the objects stay as relict. Strategic stocks of the Shengelia Russian Empress Ekaterina the Second Georgian King Erekle the Second 64 Alexander Florensky 2008, oil on canvas, 21 pieces, 20X30 cm. 2009, collage of fabric, 250X150 cm. 2009, collage of fabric, 250X150 cm. Olga Florensky 65
From August 7th to August 27th, 2008 I lived in Tbilisi at the artist Michael Shengelia’s place. There was a war going on. Every day I drew everything that Misha and I ate. That’s the story behind the documentary series Strategic Stocks of the Russian empress Ekaterina the Second was a rather significant character. She was a woman of unusual mind Shengelia. and large build. The solemn portrait of her found at the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg was a source of inspiration for this work. P.S. I am sorry for the spelling mistake in the word bread. Georgian king Irakli II was an extremely picturesque person both in politics and in his manner of dress. The solemn portrait of him found at the Telavi Museum was a source of inspiration for this work. When I look at myself Cherish the child within you 66 Irina Gabiani 2009, acrylic, ink, photocopy on MDF, 93X42 cm. 2006, acrilic, ink, photocopy on MDF, 93X42 cm. 67 I Without End…Meanwhile 68 Eerie & Languid – explorations about responsibilities and values 2008, video projection, digital time-lapse animation, 6’20”. Laleh Khorramian 69 Courtesy of the Artist and The Third Line
Curated by: Shaheen Merali, Germany Artist’s Statement Exhibition Assistant: Leonor Veiga I Without End…Meanwhile
Artists: Khorramian’s work uses cinema to explore painting and drawing in time. She uses the discarded as a creative Laleh Khorramian strategy, to consider the transience of life and its cycles of depletion and plenitude. Matter decays, but always Carlos Amorales recreates itself. Her work often moves between the minute and the massive, and brings out the creative Jean-Gabriel Périot possibilities of this movement.
The setting of I Without End…Meanwhile (4:20 min), shows a domestic dwelling, spacious yet intimate. The Curatorial Concept: inhabitants, carved out of orange peels, is shot in time-lapse animation, capturing an unexpectedly sensual and human drama. Caught somewhere between living and dying, the figures decay rhythmically, until all The idea that you cannot get something for nothing remains an un- moisture is gone from the fruit and their movements subside. The soundtrack creates a texture of tactility reflected chant about transaction which has lately marked an embarrassing and friction. The absurdity of fruit peel as a human metaphor brings two realities together: the physicality of bipolarisation of those standing and those dying. Who belongs within and the material world, and the equal force of the inner world of desire, emotion, love, and intimacy. I Without who belongs without demonstrates a condition of recess where the feeling End…Meanwhile explores the events outside the lovers bedroom where the lovers are androgynous, coarsely of pressure gathers in excess and results in a gradual ruin. comical but intensely engaged, their heads skewed in place with pins.
Eerie and Languid is a curated exhibition of moving images committed I Without End…Meanwhile is the accompaniment to I Without End (2008 6:36 min) The third chapter in a cycle to observing the slow but final deterioration of values in terms of both land of five animations, part of the artist’s ongoing experiment in combining the mediums of drawing, painting and relationships. In employing aspects of animation and editing which and cinema. Khorramian structures each episode around a primal element—earth, air, water, fire, and space. help to render historical consciousness and allow a perception of human I Without End takes fire as its inspiration, both as a energetic force and an emotional and psychological civilisation as a totalising entropy, these works chart the shifting notion of metaphor. our understanding of the pervasive malaise of the new millennium. The artists’ spurious observations, formed from an analysis of actual modes of representation, are further visually rendered using mediatic reinterpretations. Here, the paradigms of any contact including the familiarity of violence, of an involved physicality or the meta-memory of fear, remain the mainstay of vivid cultural experience.
Hideously, “the other” (the unloved, the opportunists and the borders that operate as zones of oppressions) are consumed virtually and inside the filmic, allowing the image as apparitions of unbounded characters, histories and cartographies to roam in the grander frame of a visuality (of dominance and disdain).
Associated references to the holocaust, to the unloved and to languid fragmentation provide these cursive works with their primal and temporal immediacy. Hosted within the limits of linear possibilities, we watch and simultaneously occupy, through engaged identification, all these disturbing relationships; as in the camps where elaborate precautions were taken to deceive the victims until the ultimate days of the Nazi regime, we are construed and constructed in the works’ conclusive gigantic hole of oblivion – where all dimensions of cancellations can remain as complicit arrangements.
The three selected artists have been involved in personal excavations of facts and sites and can be said to have occupied Hal Fosters ‘position of altereity’ with their unique re-drawings from the margins, where their intense, blustery articulations which suggest, through their oblique references, a creeping world of sad places and drooping hearts. A terror incognito, that allows a number of entries to the abandoned fields of vile bodies and knowledge in times of global decompositions. Useless Wonder even if she had been a criminal... 70 Carlos Amorales 2006, animation, double screen projection 2006, video projection, sound, colour & BW, 9’35” min. Jean-Gabriel Périot 71 Untitled 72 Tamuna Karumidze 2008, 6 prints, 70X70 cm. each 73 74 Love by Shoes 75 Bessa Kartlelishvili, Koka Vashakidze 2009, object, shoes, green varnish, steel framework, 170X166X45 cm.
Laurel wreath – an emblem of victory and respect. Shoes – the incident with George Bush turned a shoe into a very politically symbolical object. Kum Kapi 1 Kum Kapi 2 76 Giorgos Katsagelos photographic series, ongoing project, 50X70 cm. photographic series, ongoing project, 50X70 cm. 77
Curated by: Maria Tsantsanoglou, Greece Director of the State Museum of Contemporary Art-Costakis Collection
“Kum Kapi” A project in progress
Photographer Giorgos Katsagelos is shooting Istanbul for the last years. He has been working on different series based on themes that are connected to People and their everyday life. He works mainly in the field of social photography, which means photographing people in their natural condition, catching different aspects of human nature and deal with reality. For this reason, people for GK are very important and they present identities both as unique personalities (that is to stress the personal stories behind the common story) and as units of groups with common characteristics in their everyday life schedule. These separate group identities differ from the established or mainstream national identity of Turkey, they often even are in conflict with the mainstream identities. These contradictions make Istanbul the perfect place to study people’s lives, behaviors, needs and aims in terms of both history and contemporary socio-political developments.
Kum Kapi is one of the historical neighborhoods of Istanbul, situated in the center of the southern part of the Wall. Kum Kapi is also the name of the Gate that leads to this certain area. There are seven Gates around the historical walls of Istanbul that lead to seven corresponding neighborhoods – giving altogether the map of the historical center of Istanbul. GK came to Kum Kapi as part of an initial project which was a remapping of contemporary Istanbul through the way lives are developed around the seven Gates today.
Kum Kapi, as all the neighborhoods around the seven Gates, has an important history of its own. Once it used to be the traditional living area of the Armenians. The Armenian cathedral and other, mostly related with religion buildings remind today that this place was once inhabited by Armenians. The houses used to be nice two- floor buildings built for the needs of a middle class family. These houses were abandoned by their inhabitants. Mostly built by the end of the 19th century, today they are left in slow destruction due to inability of proper restoration programs, both in financial and organizational terms.
The past years the region is packed with economical refugees that move to Istanbul to look for work that would make them earn some money. There are refuges from almost all the ex soviet countries. They create a sort of a strange copy of the Soviet Union because what combines them is the common Russian language. Although they live in communities. One of the biggest communities is the Georgian.
GK found the Georgians visiting in the beginning an old wooden house in one of the most central places of the Kum Kapi region. The two or three floor buildings were built for the needs of one or two families. Now they are packed with people that sleep altogether, sometimes 10 people in one room and all the empty spaces of the old houses, stairs, kitchens, halls, terraces are transformed into living places. Whenever there is space to fit one bed, a new person can come and live. All the people have a kind of solidarity because they are all looking for the same thing: a job (temporary) that would make them earn some money to have them send back home. Of course in these rooms, the owner of the «bed» even without having his or her privacy, they try to intervene in terms of decoration in order to create an aesthetic identity that would make him or her feel more comfortable. L... Series An Angel and its Portrait on Georgian Times 78 George Kevle 2009, object, glass, metal, 25X100 cm. each 2009, installation, size variable Misak Khostikyan 79
Art or rather what is meant as a product in a way pertaining to art, never really reaches urgency, however actual it might be. It never reaches the urgency of news media, although in a sense, that is in proper sense it may be exactly that, what is really new, better to say, what is other indeed.
The piece presented here is a tribute of attention, perhaps a gesture of care and gratitude in response to the invitation received to participate in the exhibition to be held in Tbilisi in October 2009. This is an attempt of keeping in touch with the atmosphere the host dwells in, through impersonal unilateral correspondence through media reports. This is an effort of becoming aware about public events which shape the background context of the exhibition starting from the day of receiving the invitation up to its opening.
Each time after reading the texts in the next issue of the newspaper author covers the texts with paint, rendering them unreadable and leaves only the pictures intact, Glass object series based on a simple experience that love is never pure, totally thus soliciting and allowing new interpretations free from the printed explications. He given, but by some means blended, intersected with our egoism, hesitations, prefers certain color to the white paint, as far as he makes no appeal for objectivity. sufferings, weaknesses Non Eternal Fire Shore 80 Ushangi Khuma 2001, live act, Sheki, Azerbaijan 2006, live act, Sheki, Azerbaijan 81 Untitled Untitled 82 Nino Lomadze 2008-2009, oil on canvas, 100X150 cm. 2008-2009, oil on canvas, 150X100 cm. 83 A history of one red Dress Untitled Skull 84 Fakhriya Mammadova Rafael 2008, photo collage 2009, digital print, polyvinyl, 150X150 cm. Konstantine Mindadze 85 Bloody White 86 2008, installation, object, single channel video projection, acrylic, pigment, household gloss, bullets, 87 20mm shotgun, 357 magnum. Dimension of object: 90X40X7cm, duration 3’50”. House 88 Mariam Nakanimamasakhlisi, Giorgi Mamasakhlisi 2009, photographs, 12X60 cm. 89 Turtle Dress 90 Park Byoung-Uk 2009, Island, International Environment Art Symposium and Workshop Nine Dragon Heads, South Korea 91
My duties include the public art the members in a city because assumption that art has been project linked with the public. an individual interest is more understood based on the emphasized than the interest exhibition. I will attempt to create the of the community in the city. At Public art is as wide and space more vitally by means the same time, every change dynamic as the complexity of of considering the objective, is reflected in a very sensitive urban space and its mobility place, spectators’ trends and manner in the city. in its potential. My Public Art characteristics in order to lead Project prepared in environment the actual public participation Especially, there were will suggest that one should while escaping from the unbearable changes in the cities solve the urban problems with widespread and ill-advised where rapid industrialization was an artistic way based on the object of spectators and forms done in a short period of time. aforementioned wide potential of of the existing public art. public art. One of the characteristics that Furthermore, the contemporary the city has is that people feel If one is willing to share the art is performed actively that the foundation of their lives values and ideal of the given together with the public while is being constantly robbed community through art, one can narrowing down its emotional and there are no humanity and have an access to approach distance and it tends to be a people are alienated from each the problems that the special participation-oriented exhibition other. urban environment has in not of exhibition but of the two- a community-oriented and way communication in order to What can art be in such democratically through public raise the understanding of both an urban environment? No art because the procedures and parties (artist and the public). wonder that it is an important compromise that can adjust assignment for modern art different interests and thoughts By means of using various to create the new role of art among people in a democratic media and free expression that can cope with a new manner are emphasized in methods prevalent in modern urban environment while public art. art, the closed private space overcoming its public image has an opportunity to come into and role. However, as the urban The project, in which the cultural contact with an experimental environment gets complex, the interruption will be performed in and open public space; in the tradition concept of art based the city, is characterized by its meantime, the exhibition will be on exhibition is likely to lose its true meaning of public image a chance for people to recognize public features. that aims to give respect to the creative thought, purification daily lives of the citizens and to of emotion and the role and This is the reason that many connect them with artistic ideal. necessity of art for the public. people pay attention to public art in the urban environment. That is also what people want There are diverse and It is obvious that public art is from art. complicated interests among an unfamiliar phrase on the Meeting Downhill International Environment Art Symposium Nine Dragon Heads, South Korea 92 2009, mixed media installation, 50X50X140 cm. Kam Yeon-Hee 93 I went on a pilgrimage with my mom 94 Video Art from Poland 2007, DVD 22’31” Kobas Laksa 95
Curated by: Sylwia Narewska, Poland
The following presentation of video works, realized by the most outstanding Polish artists, constitutes a part of Kolekcja II (Collection II) of the Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok, which has been acquired since 1990. In more or less direct way, the video films relate to the theme of the exhibition. They tackle the issue of condition of contemporary art, critique of institutions and phenomena occurring in Polish society, very often assuming ironic and bantering character.
A video film byKobas Jacek Malinowski Hubert Czerepok for Azorro is a group of Laksa titled I went on realizes video films many years has been artists (who are also a pilgrimage with my that are located on the involved in critical art. He involved in individual mom (2007) is a video borderline between fact examines the issues of activity) composed of recording of a bus trip and fiction. The ability to stereotypes, constraints Igor Krenz, Oskar to Lichen – one of the make quasi-documentary, and oppressive character Dawicki, Hubert best known sanctuaries the consistency in the of the authority, which Czerepok, Lukasz in Poland – in which the creation of characters, claims the right to decide Skapski and Wojciech artist together with his the permeation of issues the fate of another. Niedzielko. Azorro makes mother, the pilgrimage’s “fake-real”, mislead Czerepok is concerned the video films mainly with organizer at the same viewers and make them with the public places the effective use of irony, with the specific social time the main character feel confused. The artist in a sarcastic way raising functions – an office, of the film, took part. intentionally manipulates the issues of art critique, museum, library. The work displays the artists and the questions of evaluating Through the intervention contemporary art and the marginal and dispersed audience, leaving the into spaces that were behaviors, religious rites, viewers a freedom of conditions of exhibiting created to exercise the institutions. In a film rites of consumption, interpretation. control, the artist reveals Hamlet the group tackles visits to sanctuaries or A video film titledMarker their absurd character, the topic of language and shopping at souvenir realized by Jacek and simultaneously its in(comprehensibility). stores. However, not Malinowski is a fictional undermines their alleged The work is a kind of an everything is what it story of a new character functionality. In a video experiment, where boyish seems – emotionally – British alter- globalist, film Computerstudio 001 and idiotic behavior of indifferent recording, temporarily staying in (2002) Hubert Czerepok the artists constitute deprived of mystical Poland – he attempts displays an ironic image staging “adjusted” to character, in fact, to free himself from the of work carried out in the original soundtrack tackles embarrassing, fiction of the world of a computer studio: of Hamlet. Such attempt usually implicit subjects global capitalism. He is people preoccupied with of adaptation represents – revealing religious a member of an informal executing their tasks using the identity problem superficiality… anarchic group called the newest technology. of those people, who Markers, the self-claimed Nevertheless, at one aspire to “better Europe” “passive terrorists”. While point we realize, that the and the gap which, in traveling throughout the work is done seemingly, spite of many efforts or world they mark their ineffectively and in vain, inclinations, separate them presence by atavistic whereas the machines from the Western world. act, leaving urine- which are constructed marking, as a form of to make it easier, can lead to its negligence rebellion, resistance to or failure to carry out. the realities of capitalism Czerepok tackles the or the opposition to the theme of human freedom stratification or social (or constraint) in the inequality. context of a technological development. Marker 96 Jacek Malinowski 2009, video projection, DVD 97 Computerstudio 001 Hamlet 98 Hubert Czerepok 2002, video projection, DVD 8’04” 2002, video projection, DVD 7’03” Azorro Group 99 ME AND MY SON Debut 100 Prasto 2009, steal, car paint 2004, installation, performance 101 As for man, his days are like grass 102 Ana Riaboshenko, Anatoly Riaboshenko 2009, installation, mixed media, 300X300X300 cm. 103
Despite global changes, hope of a new life is lost as we realize that a mirror reflects reality. One look in the mirror is enough to see our past... our parents’ past, their parents past etc...As for man, our days resemble grass… I am a measure of your intelligence phakingheli (Fucking Hell) 104 Guia Rigvava 2005, a sentence written on a T-shirt 2009, oil on canvas, 100X80 cm. 105
T-shirt project I am a measure of your intelligence (we all are cause of each other) is one of those pieces which live in a tension of the stretched space between the opposites – in this case between being dead serious and an intention to entertain.
Sentence/message – I am a measure of your intelligence is another way of saying that – I am who I am and the way I am is because you are there and because of the way you are, and you are who you are (and the way you are) because I am there and because I am the way I am.
It can be seen manifested in big spheres, such as richness and poverty and the way they are a cause of one another; or it can be seen manifested by the existence of repressed minority groups – every identity is produced by another identity. We all are cause of each other. We all are interconnected. This sentence/message can reveal instantly so many implications, connect us to history, show us an amount of moral responsibility for each other.
Produced as a multiple – edition of T-shirts – this sentence/message drops its weight. For an artist it is not a sole statement – it is meant for everybody. For somebody who wears it, there is no tie to an authorship – it is just a T-shirt not made by him/her. For an institution that has produced it, it’s just a piece by an artist... The study of Easter weeds Silk Road 106 Samkura Sarah Lewtas 2009, 36 drawings, 19,5x21 cm. 2009, installation, 4 silk revolving hangings, 400X150 cm. each Ian Joyce 107
Representing Ireland with the support of Culture Samkura innovates contemporary Art as a language of Ireland, Ian Joyce and Cló present Samkura. cross-cultural communication. The Project is realised through a residential artists exchange programme, a Samkura is a Trans-European art and culture trans-national Forum, trans-cultural workshops, an exchange. international traveling Exhibitions and publication.
Samkura (Gaelic, shamróg, Greek, Trifili, Portuguese, Samkura, which is co-ordinated by Marjorie Doohan, Trevo, Armenian, Siri-siri,) is the name for a small earth will be presented at the Artisterium Forum. Cló will covering plant which has a leaf composed of a stem present works from 4 Gaeltacht artists: Kevin Mc Gee, and three interconnected leaflets. The name in its Sarah Lewtas, Nuala Ní Fhlathúin and Ian Joyce. Georgian language form suggests the image of “three ears connected together.” Ian Joyce Samkura visualises a cultural constellation of Gaelic, Sarah Lewtas Greek and Portuguese represented by the three Kevin Mc Gee leaves or ‘ears’, whose stem is represented by Nuala Ní Fhlathúin Georgia and Armenia. Holland Untitled 108 Kevin Mc Gee 2004, mixed media, plastic, paint & canvas, 270X207 cm. 2009, photograph, digital print, various sizes Nuala Ní Fhlathúin 109 ‘Russia’ The World Politics Today 110 Beso Shonhardt 2009, installation, 50X100 cm., mixed media, photographs, 50X75 cm. 111 Rewind 112 Maya Sumbadze 2009, wall installation, 40 prints, 12X8 cm. each 113 From Flags to Flowers 114 Sophia Tabatadze 2009, installation, exhibition view, Kunstverein Göttingen, Germany 115 Nowhere for Nothing (New York Stoop) 116 The Morning After (aka RU-486) 2009, wood, construction materials, installation view, Matt Sheridan Smith, Nikolas Gambaroff 117 Gavin Brown’s Enterprise Summer
Curated by: Benjamin Godsill, NYC, USA
Most people hate hangovers, perhaps it is some vestige of the puritanical history of my home country but I revel in the cold dread that fills my soul as my eyes struggle to open themorning after. It’s not so much that I like to be punished (I don’t) but I get off, just a bit, on the abyss like fear of what I allowed myself to do the hours before. There is liberation in knowing that I have much to repent for, and a high in the burning anxiety that tells me that I should be getting my act together mixed with the knowledge that it might just be too late. America is in the process of waking up (a bit earlier than planned) with that self same feeling, our collective throat is parched, there is a dull, ambiguous pan behind our eyes, and our stomach is sour.
The “American Century” is over. Our time as the supposed only Superpower is over – if in fact it ever really started. The peace dividend of the post cold war era has paid off a paltry sum of fallen buildings and financial systems. The power of the age is decentralized, equally perverted by a group of men stationed in caves with pre-modern ideologies and a group of men in high-rises with post-modern notions of value. Capital and violence has strewn up in our time, resulting in broken bodies in cities near and far and empty housing developments rotting in exurban deserts. Our post-colonial project of spreading democracy has proven futile, and really a bit silly. The mathematicians’ credit-default swaps and exotically backed securities have been proven to be the high finance versions of a naked emperor aimlessly wandering the streets.
Bleak, I know.
But, we’re a scrappy people, or so we like to think. We won’t go quietly. If our economy is foreclosed, like in the fall of many empires perhaps our culture will flourish. At least for a time. And if anything, the group of young American artists assembled for Artisterium 2009, does indeed display a “Manifest of Changes and an Inner Experience”. The various artistic practices and the works assembled display an acknowledgement of this moment of flux, of changing spheres of power, of the possible fallacies of neo liberalism, while also reveling in the dark, sometimes psychedelic humor with which such times are endowed. We may be in ugly times and the seven projects gathered here don’t shy from this set of facts but don’t get stuck up in them either. “Sure, the sky is falling” they seem to say “but I am going to dance with my friends anyway”. They might not make us feel “it’s all going to be okay” but they do make me feel that we are going to make it be as okay as it can be. And perhaps, at this moment at the end of 2009, that’s the most we can demand and all we deserve. Chase in a production of Bertolt Brecht’s “Man equals Man” Handled 118 Liz Magic Laser 2009 2007, single channel video, 4 minutes 119 The World as Will and Representation The Ones We Work For 120 Sean Raspet 2007, image purchased from Getty Images, vinyl banner, 2008, printed commercial vinyl banners, electrical 121 plexiglas, epoxy and mixed media, dimensions variable conduit pipe, zinc-plated chain, dimensions variable Don’t Leave Home Without It I’m not trying to make history here 122 Aaron Young 2007, single chanel video 2008, dyed bamboo, printed polyester, brass rings, and rope, dimensions variable Michael Phelan 123 Repeat After Me: I AM a Revolutionary 124 Matthew A. Chambers 2007, single channel video, installation view Michele O’Marah 125 Brooklyn bridge, nyc, ny Rose Planetarium, nyc, ny 126 Selected Artworks from The U.S. Embassy Collection 2002, digital print with pigmented inks, 34X34II 2002, digital print with pigmented inks, 34X34II Aaron Yassin 127 Little Joss Red Banyan Triptych 1 Red Banyan Triptych 2 128 II II 129 Joanne Mattera 2004, glicee prints, 12X12II each, 9 total 2004, collage of photogravure on, 37 1/2 X 13 3/4 2004, collage of photogravure on, 37 1/2 X 13 3/4 Beth Ganz Four Seasons in Gallaxy: SPRING Four Seasons in Gallaxy: Summer 130 Russell Crotty 2004, archival pigment inkjet, 20X20II 2004, archival pigment inkjet, 20X20II 131 132 As She Was (Talking Heads) Jupiter Symphony Mvt. 1 (Mozart) 133 Martin Wattenberg II 2004, archival pigment inkjet, 24X32 2002, archival pigment inkjet, 24X32II 134 Suburbia 135 Susan Logoreci 2002, gouache on paper, 36X74II The Infotube for progress 136 Luka Zet, Natalia Gagnidze 2009, multimedia installation, size variable 137
TV, radio, newspapers, internet, advertising, etc… We live in the information era. The information changes everything around including us. People rarely think about or analyze the information they receive daily. It gradually takes effect on an individual and tends to destroy the uniqueness of a human being.
The installation represents the possible ways of information’s transformation into pure sense which may lead to understanding of something very special that I call the Main Truth. Dragon Teeth and others Three Graces 138 Goethe-Institut Georgien Hans Scheib 2009, (solo), Spandau Citadel 2007, the Spandau Citadel roof, wood, paint 139 Aeetes’s Daughter with her Animals Dragon Teeth 140 2007, wood, paint 2005, wood, paint 141 Regional artists’ workshop 142 TBC Gallery saq[art]velo 2009, Imereti, Guria, Samegrelo, Ajara 144 Abanotubani, Old Downtown Tbilisi
Radiohats 2009, live act, interactive performance within the Radio Stream, the collaborative project of the Green Wave Radio (Georgia), Amisnet Agenzia Multimediale Mamuka Japharidze di Informazione Sociale (Italy), Asociacion Cultural Taller De Comunicacion Radio Vallekas (Spain). Abanotubani, Old Downtown Tbilisi. 146 New Art Gallery/Café MAF Group 147
One Touch Giorgi Makhniashvili 2008/2009, 3D graphics
Badirum Giorgi Khaburzania 2008, photograph, 87 X 63 cm.
untitled Curated by: Rusiko Oat & Khatuna Khabuliani, Georgia Giorgi Makhniashvili 2008/2009, photograph, size variable
New Art Gallery/Café, presents the MAF Group – young artists, with fresh views and just shaping various artistic systems. All of the participants are educated at former MAF – Media Art Farm, called as Institute of Optical Imaging at Tbilisi Academy of Fine Art, under the leadership of artist and tutor of photography, Wato Tsereteli. (this institute started the courses of high education program in photography and new media in Georgia). Various information, carrying archetype topics and social motive subjects, remains the principle themes for the members of MAF Group, with their experiments expressed individually, self realized by combinations of trainings’ results with the inner and private experiences.
Liberation Portrait untitled Mtvarisa Joyce 2008/2009, DVD video with sound, loop. Natalia Glonti 2009, photograph, size variable Nata Kipiani 2009, photograph, size variable 148 149
Project ‘Energy’ Levan Kapanadze 2008, photograph, size variable
08.08.08 Giorgi Dadiani 7 photographs, A3 each
Ia Nini Alavidze 2004, photograph, size variable 150 Auditorium Art Villa Garikula 151
International conference: Contemporary Art Development in the Caucasus Region Tbilisi, Georgian State Museum Auditorium
8-9 October, 2009
Organized by: TRAM
www.tram.ge
Project coordinator: Ana Riaboshenko, Georgia
Beyond or Above Civilization
In the fast-moving world of globalisation, the so-called “new cultural vision” is increasingly holds an attraction for the newly emerged democracies.
Two main artistic trends can be distinguished – total Europeanization or Americanisation on the one hand and on the other hand, a blind pursuit of cultural traditionalism which perceives any outside influence as a step towards the destruction of unique traditional characters. Both sides, moreover, display open hostility towards each other, totally devoid of any dialog. Both use the international scene to argue their point. However, the end product is far from meeting their own criteria.
In parallel to these developments, certain foreign “pioneers” are out there roaming around the suburbs of civilization in search of exotic material to sell. Once the “interesting” story is scraped up and sold, they move on to another country, hunting down new sensations, and all the while, creating new cultural fashions. This suits both sides: artists thirsty for recognition, self-realisation and obviously money are more than willing to satisfy the needs of the “civilised world” anyway they can. Meanwhile, the foreign pioneers follow a well trodden path, where enlightenment historically entailed the destruction of the cultures they ostensibly sought to civilise. The remnants of those civilisations are invariably left selling souvenirs to “civilised” tourists. This discussion can of course continue endlessly, but one thing is clear: These countries are no longer what they once were.
How then does one avoid this trap? How do we prevent ourselves from dissipating in the streams of globalisation and yet, try to take on the best it has to offer? 152 BioMetric Other 153 The Caucasian House of Tbilisi Levan Mindiashvili 2009, photographs from the project transMIGRANTES
Archidrome presents: Border – chapter I 8-9 October, 2009
The first Georgia-Argentinean collaborative art project
Curated by: Sophia Kilassonia, Georgia
Artists: Levan Mindiashvili, Cristian Tonhaiser Art Group Girotondo: Cristian Tonhaiser, Marcela de Luca, Alejandra Sculi Buenos Aires, Argentina
transMIGRANTES 2009, multimedia performance, 10’00”, within Breaching the Levan Mindiashvili, Cristian Tonhaiser borders, International forum of Performance, Chilavert Art Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina Warrior (fetish) 2009, multimedia performance, 12”00, within Body, Technical 154 Levan Mindiashvili, Cristian Tonhaiser Indicator and Meaning, Multidisciplinary Forum of Performance, 155 Gallery Arcimboldo, Buenos Aires, Argentina 156 Index of the Artists [recent exhibitions, events, awards] 157
Bruce Allan Back to Memory, Time Kumu Levan Beriashvili Hall, Vienna, Austria; Pale Centre for Contemporary Arts, Lucie Ferlikova with A. Nikitinova, Gallery 35m2, 1st Bienalle of Young Artists, Born in Boston in 1950, England. Contemporary Art Museum, Born in 1986 in Tbilisi, Georgia. Radiance, Kunstraum Nö, Vienna, Moscow, Russia; Feminine Born in 1979 in Kyjov, Czech Prague, Czech Republic; 2006, Vinzavod, Moscow, Russia; Inro Lives and works in Forest of Tallinn. Estonia; On Greekom, Lives and works in Tbilisi, Austria; Krischanitz, Vopava, fantasies, N Gallery, Tbilisi, Republic. Lives and works in New wave in photography, 518 teď 69 teď * teď 180 BONUS Dean, Gloucestershire, UK. Benaki museum of Art, Athens, Georgia. Bretterbauer, Private Museum Georgia. Prague, Czech Republic. (solo), Gallery Lumen, q TRACK, Karlin Studios, Prague, Greece; Great Nostalge, Luigi dr. Gnaad, Vienna, Austria; Budapest, Hungary; Charming Czech Republic; Sexismus? 2009, Two Rivers Symposium Pecci Contemporary Art museum, 2008, Water Men, (solo), Home Lonesome Pine, Gallery Artbits, 2009, Gallery Actuel, (solo), Nonchalance, Nogallery, Prague, Gallery Václava Špály, Prague, 2, Periferry @ Khoj Guwahati, Prato, Italy; Heterotopias, exhibiton, Didi Digomi, Tbilisi, Vienna, Austria. David Chikhladze Paris, France; Girl dream 2009 Czech Republic; Young Czech Czech Republic; 2007, Peep Assam, India. 2008, Two Rivers 1st International Thessaloniki Georgia. 2007, G#1, Georgian Born in 1963 in Tbilisi, Georgia. testosteron, Reduta, Brno, Czech Photographers, LCC Well Gallery, show,with s Pavla Gajdošíková, Symposium 1, Chelsea Art Biennale, Thessaloniki, Greece; National Museum, Tbilisi History Lives and work in Tbilisi, Georgia. Republic; 19 years of Intermedia London, UK. Altán, Klamovka Gallery, Prague, School, London. UK; Periferry 1st Adana International Museum Karvasla. 2007, Vakhtang Bugadze studio, Embassy of Czech Czech Republic; Gross Domestic 1.0 Artists Residency, Guwahati, Contemporary Art Biennale, Students’ painting exhibition, Born in 1964 in Tbilisi, Georgia. Founder and art director of the Republic in Berlin, Germany; Product 2, MARS Gallery, Assam, India. 2007, Grand Bleu Adana, Turkey; Karavansarai-Silk State Academy of Art, Tbilisi, Lives and works in Tbilisi, Margo Korabliova Performance FAIRYTALE, Lucie Ferlikova & Lukas Karbus Moscow, Russia; Community Galerie Artcore, exhibitor, Paris, Road, Karshi Senet art gallery, Georgia. 2006, Occasion, Gallery Georgia. Theatre. Denisa Krausova, Divus Unit Born in 1981 in Česka Lípa, concepts, (solo), Entrance France. 2006, Khoj Kolkata Istanbul, Turkey; Crossroads, Universe, Tbilisi, Georgia; Group 30, London, UK; 2008, YOUNG Czech Republic. Lives and works Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic; International Artists Workshop, National Photography project Bgera da Feri, State 2008, Minotaur, Baia Gallery, MEETING- XI, Hodonin Gallery of in Prague, Czech Republic. Backstage, the Internet project, Kolkata, India. 2005, 46th Tashkent, Uzbekistan. 2006, Conservatory, Tbilisi, Georgia. Body, Baia Gallery, Tbilisi, Ruth Claxton Fine Art, International triennial of Nogallery, Czech Republic; October Art Salon Belgrade, Poetry&drawing, (solo), Galata Georgia; Concentration –Page Born July 1971, Ipswich, UK. young artist; ART PRAGUE FAIR, 2009, Tin Dog, (solo), Parallel 2006, Nothing is so hot, as it Serbia and Montenegro; Art Perform, Istanbul, Turkey. I, ARCI Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia; Lives and works in Birmingham, Gallery Factory, Prague, Czech Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic; seems, (solo), Gallery Okno, Caucasus, Tbilisi, Georgia – UK Ali Bramwell Sheikhs, Artisterium 2008, UK. Republic; 2007, group exhibition, 2008, Neon Volf, (solo), Kabinet N.O.D., Prague, Czech Republic; co-curator with Louise Short; Born in 1969 in Dunedin, New New Art Café, Tbilisi, Georgia. Castle gallery Uhersky Ostroh; Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic; TeleDivision Show (by Eastern Jury member 2nd Film Festival Jacques Crenn Zealand. Lives and works in 2006, Sculptors’ International 2009, Lands End, (solo), Grundy solo exhibition, Gallery Doma, 2007, SHOW, exhibition of prof. Alliance), Moldova, Kishinev, Eberswalde, Germany; News Born in 1961 in Paris, France. Dunedin, New Zealand. Symposium, Athens, Greece. Gallery, Blackpool, Spike Kyjov, Czech Republic; Entrance, Martin Mainer‘s studio, Painting 2, Romania, Bucharest, Hungary; From Nowhere: Visions of Lives and works in Paris. 2005, Vienna/Garikula, Island, Bristol, UK; Trade City (solo), Prague, Czech Republic; Vlastivědné museum and gallery, Indication, 4+4 days in movement, Utopia William Morris Gallery, 2009, Recreational Bureaucracy, international artists workshop, Excocet and Contemporary 2006, solo exhibition, Gallery Avu, Česká Lípa, Czech Republic; Jungmanova 30, Prague, Czech London, UK; 2nd Hweilan 2009, Where is my privacy, Casa Physics Room in New Zealand; Art-Villa Garikula, Georgia. Art Manchester, UK; Known Prague, Czech Republic. 2006, Team spirit, AVU (Academy Republic; Eternal species, International Artists Workshop, Dell’Arte Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey. Fragile Fortress; Unstable Unknown Gallery Loop, of Fine Art), Prague, Czech Karlin studios, Prague, Czech Hualien County, Taiwan; Leçons 2008, Blue Book Gallery, Paris, Institutional Memory; Instructional Seoul, South Korea; Gothic Republic; PUNKWA, Gallery Stará Republic; Untitled, Gallery Oskara d’Arménien Galerie Artcore, Paris, France. 2007, Heterotopias, Models. 2008, Falling: Waiting; Art Group Bouillon Contemporary Art Society Ivars Gravlejs Hasička, Brno, Czech Republic; Kokoshky, rakouský institut, France; Joint Information and 1st Thessalonica International Herd Corners; 2007, Please Wait; Founded in 2007 in Tbilisi, fundraising exhibition, Sothebys, Born in 1979 in Riga, Latvia. 2005, Mr. Frankenstein, (solo), Prague, Czech Republic. Partnership Development Seminar Contemporary Art Biennale, Sighing Just Out of Earshot; Georgia. Natuka Vatsadze born in London, UK; Back of the Head, Lives and works in Prague, Czech Eskort Gallery, Brno; Deep forest, at Cló Ceardlann na gCnoc, Greece; East- West, Tashkent 2006, Kiss Protocol, Nine Dragon 1978, in Tbilisi. Temo Kartlelishvili Cooper Gallery, Dundee, UK; Republic. silent mist, (solo), watercolours Donegal and Dublin, Ireland. Crossroad, Tashkent. Uzbekistan; Heads in South Korea; Device; born in 1982, in Tbilisi. Vasil Fantopia Mothers Tankstation, on paper, Academy in Zagreb, Goga Dadunashvili 2004-2005, Taiwan Documenta Rue de Lappe Café Cantante St Under Construction, Blue Macharadze born in 1979, in Dublin, Ireland. 2008, Lands End, 2009, 90’s, (solo), National Art Croatia. Born in 1968 in Tbilisi, Georgia. C04 Taipei and Hualien, Taiwan; Valentin, Paris, France. 2006, Oyster Gallery in New Zealand; Tbilisi. Koka Kitiashvili born in (solo), IKON Gallery, Birmingham, Museum, Riga, Latvia; Early Lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia Experimental Intermedia, Exhibition Anna Ventura, Monaco 129 Oaks, Aigantighe Gallery 1985, in Tbilisi. Katia Ketsbaia UK; Interventions, (solo), Barber works, (solo), Gallery Jeleni, residency, Gent, Belgium; 2004, Dance Forum, Monaco. in New Zealand; Walking with born in 1980, in Sukhumi. Lado Institute, Birmingham, UK; Prague, Czech Republic; Shit Nazli Kaya 2009, Very Fiery Script, author’s Pilot London, International Art Swan. 2005, City Document, Khartishvili born in 1985 in Tbilisi. Lands End Oriel Davies, (solo), in art, (solo), in cooperation Born in 1980 in Bursa, Turkey. film.2002 , Soft Hook, author’s Symposium, London, nominator; Sarajevo Winter Festival in Wales; Postcards, (solo) Ingleby with A.Ter-Oganian, Gallery Lives and works in Prague, Czech film, 56’.2001 , Loop, author’s 4th International Biennale Gyumri, Vazha Bekauri Bosnia; Schema, Chiemseeart 2007, Karkhaizm, Mukhiani Radio Gallery, Edinburgh, UK; Miami 36, Olomouc, Czech Republic; Republic. film, 20’. Author of many music Armenia. Born in 1975 in Tbilisi, Georgia. in Germany; Lotus field , Dawn Plant, Tbilisi. 2008, Toy, Tbilisi NADA, with Arquebuse; Zoo Art My newspaper, (solo), Gallery videos, works in painting, Lives and works in Tbilisi, Light Gosford regional Gallery, State Academy of Arts; I love Fair, London with Arquebuse NoD Box, Prague, Czech 2009, Zlin Soup, Best Short photography. th Georgia. Australia. mommy, ARCI exhibition hall, and Eastside Projects; Make Republic; Forevers, (solo), Film, 6 International Green Film Babi Badalov Tbilisi; Change, Mukhiani Radio Believe (part of Concrete and Kino Bio Oko, Prague, Czech Festival in Seoul, South Korea. Born in 1959 in Lerik, Azerbaijan. Plant, Tbilisi; Series of home Glass), Shoreditch, London, UK; Republic; Double Blind, Aula 2008, Zlin Soup, Best Short EBC Artists th Lives and works in Paris, France. Frances Belser Gilbert Bretterbauer exhibitions: Bathing of Koka, The Art of Birmingham 1939- FAVU, Brno; Psychology of Film: 19 Ankara International http://www.emergency-biennale.org Born in 1960 in Zurich, Born in 1957 in Vienna, Austria. Water Men (2008), FlatN3, (2009). 2008, Birmingham Museum the Future, Gallery A.M.180, Film Festival, Turkey; Special 2009, %100 Mobile Exhibition, Switzerland. Lives and works in Lives and works In Vienna. and Art Gallery, UK; No End Prague, Czech Republic; 2008, Jury Prize: Zlin International Film Hans Heiner Buhr Artik, Gallery Istanbul, Zurich, Switzerland. in Sight, Galerie Polaris, Paris, FAMU, (solo), Project space Festival for Children and Youth; Born in 1965 in East Berlin, Turkey; MONUMENT TO 2010, Presenation, Kiesler Sophia Cherkezishvili France; The Golden Record, Canteen, Andrejsala, Riga, 2007, HiZlin-ByeZlin, group Germany. Lives and works in TRANSFORMATION, City 2009, Videos & Text, New Faoundation, Vienna, Austria. Born in 1971 in Tbilisi, Georgia. The Collective, Edinburgh, The Latvia; Paní Kellerová nemá exhibition, Zlin, Czech Republic; Tbilisi, Georgia. Gallery of Prague, Czech Art Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia; 2009, Twilight, Art and Function, Lives and works in Tbilisi, Collection, Lincoln, UK; Art píču, (solo), Okno – NoD.Roxy, Third Prize: Aerokratas Short Republic; Very Simple Actions ne touche pas, music Video, Kunstraum Nö, Vienna, Austria; Georgia. Futures, Bloomberg Space, Prague, Czech Republic; Is the Film Competition, Prague, Czech 2008, Kobuleti waves before Without Any Particular Purpose, director Rowena True, London, Musterzimmer, Belvedere, Vienna, London, UK. 2007, Legerdemains, Medium the Message?, Latvian Republic; 2006, Nazli in Zlin, the war, (solo), New Art Café, Gallery ARTRA, Milan, Italy; 4th UK; 2008, Reglittering, A.C Austria; erweiterte malerei, Gallery 2009, Stop waiting Georgia, (solo), Cabinet Magazine, New Contemporary Photography Competition Selection: !F Istanbul Tbilisi, Georgia; Horse Thief, International Baku Biennale. Kupper_Modern Zurich, Andreas Huber, Vienna, Austria. Georgian National Musuem, York, USA; Extreme Crafts, Exhibition, Andrejsala, Riga, Short Film Festival, Istanbul & Baia Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia. 2008, The Persian Ambassador, Switzerland; 2007, Unplugged 2007, Rietberg Museum, villa Tbilisi Histoty Museum; Open, CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania; Flock, Latvia; Bad Joke, Riga Art Ankara, Turkey; 2004, Stitch, 2004, Wind from the Caucasus, (solo), Freud’s Dreams Museum, concert, La Perla, Zurich, wesendonck (architecture by a. Free Parking Space for Art, Tbilisi, Arquebuse, Geneva, Switzerland; Space, Riga, Latvia; I Moscow Competition Selection: 4th Paso international artists workshop, Saint Petersburg, Russia; Track Switzerland; 2006, Unplugged krischanitz) Zürich, Switzerland; Georgia; To be a women, Baku, Citadel, David Risley, London, International Biennale for Young Student Films Festival, Goethe- Art-Villa Garikula, Garikula Village, and Field, Tactile Bosch Art concert, Fête de la Musique, Michael Hall contemporary, with Azerbaijan. UK; What is Comprehension? Art, Moscow, Russia; INTRO 518 Institute, Ankara, Turkey. Georgia. 2003, Clod Warriors, nd Gallery and Art Space, Cardiff, Zurich, Switzerland; 2003, Angry Florian Schmidt, Vienna, Austria; 2008, Lets strengthen justice in Strategic Questions, 52 Venice TEĎ 69 TEĎ* TEĎ 180 BONUS Q Noris Bank, Berlin, Germany. UK; 1st Chanakkale Biennale, Woman, performance, Message Jahresmuseum Kunsthaus Mürz, Georgia, International cultural Biennale, Italy. 2006, A Place of TRACK!”, Karlin Studios, Prague, 2001, Caucasian Baroque, (solo), Turkey; 18th International Istanbul Salon, Zurich, Switzerland; 2002, muerzzuschlag, Austria; social center, Tbilisi, Georgia; I am Rainbows, (solo), Arquebuse, Czech Republic; In/visible, Petra Petileta Old Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia. Art Forum, Istanbul, Turkey; spezifische Besonderheiten, sculpture / social design, Michael European citizen, international Geneva, Switzerland; Ruth Festival of Visual Art, Olomouc, Born in 1978 in Prague, Czech Step of Time, National Gallery, multimedia-Performance, Blauer Hall contemporary, Vienna, Artists Workshop, Die, France. Claxton, (solo), The Collective, Czech Republic; Michel de Republic. Lives and works in Dresden, Germany. 2007, Raw Saal, Zurich, Switzerland; Austria; Open Art, Munich, 2007, Digital Story, Tbilisi State Edinburgh, UK; Personne ne Certeau, Oui, Grenoble, France; Prague, Czech Republic. Niko Tsetskhladze which Cooked Perestroika, 2000, Austrian Psycho Nights, Germany. 2006 Networking, Academy of Art, Georgia. 2006, veut mourir, Arquebuse, Geneva, Die Wurst, Gallery of Elena Born in 1959 in Tbilisi, Georgia. Contemporary Art museum multimedia performance, Museum Bellerive, Zürich, Atmosphere 41 Degree, National Switzerland. Kolbasina, Berlin, Germany; 2007, 2009, Double Blind, Gallery Aula, Lives and works in Tbilisi, KIASMA, Helsinki, Finland; Volksbühne, Berlin, Germany. Switzerland; o.t. gitter. Kosak Šunkový nářez in cooperation Brno, Czech Republic; 2008, Georgia. 158 159
2009, Born in Georgia, 2nd Bishkek International Tromso, Norway; Russkoe doc, Moscow, Russia; Arte tra i 2007, Dark Mirror, (Solo), Daros 2009, Born in Georgia, France; Early Maturity, DaDasakayn art-ivI, TAAK Gallery, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, Contemporary Art Exhibition, Bednoe, Perm, Contemporary Art piedi, Wannabee Gallery and La Latinamerica, Zurich, Switzelrad; Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, (solo), International Month of Yerevan, Armenia. Netherlands; 2008, Concentration Kyrgyzstan. 2004, Metamorph, Museum, Russia. 2007, Georgian Posteria, Milano, Italy. 2007, Not Performa, New York. 2006, Carlos Netherlands; 2008, Trigger Photography, Athens, Greece; – Page I, 2008, ARCI Gallery, Venice 9th Architectural Biennale, Landscape, Painting and closed, Galerie Beaumontpublic, Amorales, (Solo), MALBA, Buenos Tiger, Tbilisi 8th International Film Wandering in Balkans, Cultural Tbilisi; Modus Operandi –In quest Italy. Drawing Society, Tbilisi History Luxembourg, Luxembourg; Otto Aires, Argentina; Why Fear the Festival. 2007, Underdog, Film Center, Belgrade, Serbia. Ushangi Khuma (Khumarashvili) of a different way, Artisterium Museum Karvasla. Russian donne ed un mistero, Zaion Future?, (Solo), MUCA Campus, Festival, Vienna, Austria; 2003, 2006, Siopi, (solo), International Born in 1949 in Kvemo Kedi 2008, Georgian National Museum, Nezaket Ekici Trophy, Retretti exhibition center, Gallery, Biella, Italy; Video Dia Mexico City. 2005, Why Fear the Exit, la Maison des Arts et de la Month of Photography, Athens, Village, Georgia. Lives and works Tbilisi History Museum, Karvasla. Born in 1970 in Kirsehir, Turkey. Finland; ARCHITECTURE: AD Loghi 2007, Videoinstallazioni: I. Future?, (Solo), Casa de América, culture de Creteil, Paris, France. Greece; Students, (solo), Alatza in Tbilisi, Georgia. 2007, Atmosphere 41 Degree, Lives and works in Berlin and MARGINEM, State Russian Gabiani, Unione Culturale Franco Madrid, Spain. 2003, Amorales vs. 2002, Appendix II, Georgian Imaret, Thessaloniki, Greece; City, within the 10th International Stuttgart, Germany. Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia; Antonicelli, Torino, Italy. Amorales, (Solo), Challenge 2003, National Museum, Tbilisi History Students, Visual Arts in Greece, 2006, Meeting with Pirosmani, Istanbul Biennale, Siemens Sanat Artist’s Diary, Guelman Gallery, Tate Modern, London, UK. La Museum Karvasla; Goslab State Museum of Contemporary Georgia-German project, Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey. 2009, Heykelsi Eylemler, II Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Biennale di Venezia, representing Presents, Berlin, Germany; 2001, Art, Thessaloniki, Greece. 2006- Georgian National Museum, 2006, Digital Story, Gallery of Skulpturale Handlung, BM Russia; THAW Guelman Gallery, Laleh Khorramian The Netherlands. 2001, 2nd General Documents, First Prize, 2007, Religious, (solo), traveling Tbilisi History Museum Karvasla, Academy of Arts. Tbilisi, Georgia. Suma Contemporary Art Center, State Russian Museum, St Born in 1974 in Tehran, Iran. Lives Berlin Biennale. His work is part Switzerland / Georgia. exhibition, Russia; 2007, Peziko, Georgia; Visual Art Festival in 2005, Beyond Stereotypes, Istanbul, Turkey; Istanbul Petersburg, Russia; Painting and and works in Brooklyn, NY. of important collections as Tate 1st Biennale of Thessaloniki, Ganja. Azerbaijan. 1998/2007, Art Caucasus 2005, Tbilisi, between Arrival and Departure, Drawing Society, Landscapes, Modern (London), The Museum State Museum of Contemporary personal exhibitions in various Georgia; Outlaw, international BM SUMA / Contemporary Borey art center, St Petersburg, 2009, Scene 9, Water Panics in of Modern Art (New York), Bessa Kartlelishvili Art, Thessaloniki, Greece; galleries of Tbilisi. artists’ symposium, National Art Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey; Russia; Postcards and Envelopes, the Sea, (solo), Galerie Krinzinger, Daros-Latinoamerica (Zurich), Born in 1980 in Tbilisi, Georgia. Silence, Visual Arts in Greece, Centre, Tbilisi, Georgia. 2004, Ringen, performance, Cream Central Museum of History of Vienna, Austria; Site Santa Fe Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Lives and works in Tbilisi, State Museum of Contemporary Double Bottom, Club 22, Tbilisi Contemporary, Berlin, Germany; Communication, St Petersburg, Bienniale, Santa Fe, USA; RAAD Museum Boijmaans van Beunigen Georgia. Art, Thessaloniki, Greece. His Nino Lomadze Georgia; Gallery Universe, (solo), Rebelle Art and Feminism 1969- Russia. 2006, Russian Trophy, O BARGH, Thaddaeus Ropac (Rotterdam) and Fundación/ works are kept in the permanent Born in 1971 in Tbilisi, Georgia. Tbilisi, Georgia. N-Gallery, (solo), 2009, Museum voor Moderne NCCA, Moscow, Russia; Gallery, Salzburg, Autsria; Colección Jumex (Mexico). 2009, Me the Painter, ARCI collections of Photography Lives and works in Tbilisi. Tbilisi, Georgia; Wind from the Kunst Arnhem, Netherlands; Russian Trophy, State Russian Unveiled, The Saatchi Gallery, Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia; Love by Museum of Thessaloniki, Museum Caucasus, international artists’ Seriously Ironic, Position in Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia; London, UK; Play, Monica de Shoes, Literature Museum, Tbilisi, of Modern Art, Florina, Brooklyn 2009, Micro subject – symposium, Art-Villa Garikula, Turkish Contemporary Art Scene, Geographic Maps, NOMI gallery, Cardenas Gallery, Milan, Italy; Jean-Gabriel Périot Georgia. 2008, Wolf’s Knee Museum of New York, Milwaukee Fragmentation, Micheil Garikula Village, Georgia. 2003, CentrePasquArt, Kunsthaus St. Petersburg, Russia; Collage RAAD O BARGH, Thaddaeus Born in 1974. Lives and works in Dog’s Fortune, Caucasian House, Art Museum, Iris Baum Gallery, Tumanishvili Film Actors Theatre, Transmission, Gallery Priestor for Centre d’Art, Biel, Switzerlad; in Russian Art, State Russian Ropac Gallery, Paris, France; Tours, France. Tbilisi, Georgia. 2007, Lrustraton, Chicago, Photography Center Tbilisi, Georgia. 2005, group Contemporary Arts, Bratislava, Umgestülpt, (solo), Art Museum, Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia; 2008, I Without End, (solo), Salon Caucasian House, Tbilisi, of Athens, Hellenic Photography exhibition, Kopala Gallery, Tbilisi, Slovakia. Heidenheim, Germany; Work in Russische Souvenirs, Bielefeld, 94 Freemans, New York, NY; 2009, animated, centre d’art Georgia; Four Georgian Artists, Center, Athens, Ikonen Museum Georgia. Nervous system-Micro Progress, Personal Map, (solo), Germany; Religious Buildings, Zenith and Nadir, The Third Line, Bastille Grenoble, France; Gallery AOKS, Yerevan, Armenia. Recklinghausen, Germany, Greek objective, (solo), Gallery Universe, Gedok Stuttgart, Germany. Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Dubai, UAE. 2007, Surface to Air, KKO, Altkirch 09; You can’t see 2006, Georgia, here we come, Cultural Center, Stockholm, Tbilisi Georgia. 2004, Neo-Geo, Iliko Zautashvili 2008, Il Velo, CeSAC Centro Russia. (solo), Mills College Art Miuseum, Belfast exposed photography, part II, artists exchange program, Sweden. Art Moscow 2004, Guelman Born in 1952 in Tbilisi, Georgia. Sperimentale per le Arti Oakland, USA; Nocturnes, Northern Ireland; in[ter]discipline, Georgia-Holland; Utrecht, Gallery, Central House of Artist, Lives and works in Tbilisi, Contemporanee, Caraglio, Italy; Boise Art Museum, Boise, USA; La châtaigneraie, Liège 09, Uitfeest, EXPODIUM, Utrecht, Moscow, Russia. 2003, Artery, Georgia. Türkisch Delight, Galerie der Stadt Irina Gabiani M.A.S.H, curated by Amy Smith- France; Crime & punishment Netherlands; Unit 19, Bureau George Kevle ethnographic Museum, Tbilisi, Backnang, Germany; Artfair Arco Born in 1971 in Tbilisi, Georgia. Stewart & Omar Lopez-Chahoud, the sequel, Kortil Gallery, Beyond’s, Unit 19, Leidscher Born in 1971 in Telavi, Georgia. Georgia. 2009, Born in Georgia, with DNA Gallery Madrid, Spain; Lives and works in Luxembourg. New York, USA; The Uncertain Rijeka Croatia; 2008, Galerie Rijn, Utrecht, Netherlands; Tbilisi Lives and works in Tbilisi, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, Mahrem, Kunsthalle project space States of America-American mobile, la criée Rennes 08; Presents, EXPODIUM, Utrecht, Georgia. Group projects/ Netherlands; 2008, Journey to Vienna, Austria; Nezaket Ekici, 2009, Human Emotion Project Video Art of the 3rd Millennium L’art de rien, Angers 08; Crime Netherlands. Exhibitions. Fakhriyya Mammadova Rafael Tbilisi, Chapelle de l’Oratoire, (solo) performance and videos, (HEP) at: Sguardi Sonori 2009, – II Moscow Biennial, Moscow, & Punishment 198 London; Off Born in 1974 in Baku in 1974, Musee des Beaux-Arts de Gallery TPW, Toronto, Canada; Villa d’Este Tivoli, Roma; Russia; Hello I’m Crashing, Salon loop, Cafe del sol Barcelona, 2009, Prague Biennale 4; Karlin Baku, Azerbaijan. Lives and Nantes, France; Modus Operandi Memories of Objects, (solo), DNA Brancaleone, Roma; Museu de 94, New York, USA: Cosmologies, Spain. Dome, Hiroshima city Koka Vashakidze Hall, Prague, Czech Republic. works in Baku. – In quest of a different way, Gallery Berlin, Germany. 2007, Ceramica, Caldas da Rainha, James Cohan Gallery, New York, museum of contemporary arts, Born in 1983 in Tbilisi, Georgia. 2007, Georgian Art Exhibition; Artisterium 2008, Georgian Meltem of Istanbul, Elgiz Museum Portugal; La Sala, Valladolid, USA. 2006, Laleh Khorramian, Japan. 2007 Special Mention Lives and works in Tbilisi, Bilkent University, Istanbul, 2009, Transkaukazja festival, National Museum, Tbilisi History of Contemporary Art Istanbul, Spain; Guildford Lane Gallery, (solo), The Third Line, Dubaii, ‘Eut-elle Ete Criminelle…’ at Georgia. Turkey. 2006, Lovely Shanghais Warsaw, Poland; Azerbaijan Museum, Karvasla. 2007-2009, Turkey; Into me out of me, Kunst Melbourne, Australia; 13eme UAE. 2005, Chopperlady, (solo), Almeria International Short Film Music, Shanghai, China; Tbilisi 3 Culture Days in Georgia, Nine Dragon Heads, 12th -14th Werke Berlin, Germany; Fashion Rencontre d’art contemporain – Salon 94, New York, NY, USA; Festival; Best Documentary ‘Eut- 2009, Love by Shoes, Literature – Stay Alive till Monday, National Tbilisi, Georgia; Maiden International environment Art Accidentally, performance, L’art contemporain de Géorgie, 2005 Night of 1000 Drawings, elle Ete Criminelle…’ at FIKE Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia. 2008, Art Centre, Tbilisi, Georgia; Tower International Forum Symposium, South Korea; Museum of Contemporary Arts, Chateau de Saint Auvent, Saint Artists Space, New York, USA; – Evora International Short Film Post Display, ARCI Gallery, Teppanyaki, Art Caucasus 2006, of Contemporary Art, Baku, Atmosphere 41 Degree, City, Taipei, Taiwan; Life Extreme, Auvent, France; Collettiva Rainbow, Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Festival. 2006 Grand Prix ‘Eut- Tbilisi, Georgia; Photosynthesis, Tbilisi, Georgia. 2005, Tbilisi Azerbaijan; M’ARTIAN FIELDS – within the 10th International (solo), U2 Alexanderplatz Berlin, Vincitori Premio Nazionale Città Beirut, Lebanon; Nocturnes, Soil elle Ete Criminelle…’ at Odense (solo), Caucasian House, Tbilisi, 2 – Wednesday Calls Future, COLLABORATION, Exhibition of Istanbul Biennale, Siemens Sanat Germany. di Novara, Museo Civico del Gallery, Seattle, USA; Greater International Film Festival; Grand Georgia; Steal Beating, (solo), Children Art Museum, Tbilisi, young artists, Moscow, Russia. Gallery; Hweilan International Broletto, Salone Arengo, Novara, NY 2005, P.S.1 Museum, Long Prix ‘Eut-elle Ete Criminelle…’ at ARCI Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia; Georgia; Other Caucasus, GTC 2008, Urban Jealousy, the 1st Artists Workshop and Exhibition, Italy, The Vitruvian Woman Video Island, NY. Tampere International Short Film Kakutsa Cholokashvili, post stamp Trade Centre, Art Caucasus 2005, International Roaming Biennial Taiwan. 2006, Transfusion, Alexander Florensky, Project, Formverk Art Space, Festival; Festival Award for Best Georgian Post, Tbilisi, Georgia; Tsingi, Tbilisi State University of Tehran, Iran; Steps of time, Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, Olga Florensky Eskilstuna, Sweden. 2008, Video Short ‘Eut-elle Ete Criminelle…’ United Georgia, post stamp, Library, Georgia. within Azerbaijan Culture Days Switzerland; Atmosphere 41 Born in 1960 in Leningrad (St. Dia Loghi 2008, Velan Centre for Carlos Amorales at Cork International Film Georgian Post, Tbilisi, Georgia. in Germany, Dresden; 2007, Degree, National Center for Petersburg), Russia. Lives and Contemporary Art, Torino, Italy; Born in 1970 in Mexico City, Festival Selected filmography: Realities of Dreams, Aluminium3, Contemporary Arts, Moscow; works in St. Petersburg and Third International Art Prize Arte Mexico. Lives and works in 2007 Nijuman No Borei (200000 Misak Khostikyan f International Contemporary Art Visual Immortality, International Tbilisi. Laguna, Finalist Artists Exhibition, Mexico City and Amsterdam. Fantomes), 2006 Gay?, 2006 Eut- Giorgos Katsagelos Born in 1965 in Yerevan, Armenia. Festival, Baku, Azerbaijan. 2006, Biennale for Contemporary Art, Sculpture – Installation Section, elle Ete Criminelle…, 2005 Undo, Born in 1956 in Greece. Lives and Lives and works in Yerevan, Colors of autumn, exhibition of Shumen, Bulgaria; Nuit Blanche, 2009, Town of N, 0047 Gallery, Fondazione Benetton Studi 2009, 10th Bienal de La Habana, 2005 Dies Irae, 2004 Devil Inside. Works in Thessaloniki, Greece. Armenia. arts Caucasus, NCCA, Moscow, International (outdoor) exhibition Oslo, Norway; Town of N, Gallery Ricerche – Spazi Bomben per la Cuba. 2008-09, Discarded Spide, Russia; East or West, Festival of contemporary art, Paris, for Contemporary Art, Tromso, Cultura, Treviso, Italy; Minividfest, (Solo), Cincinnati Art Center y 2009, Early Maturity, (solo), 1988, Exhibition of Young Est-ouest, Die, France; Deciding France. 2005, Consumption Norway. 2008, Various Skeletons, Edinburgh Art Festival 2008, Orange County Museum, USA. Tamuna Karumidze Technology Museum NOESIS, Architects and Painters, House Instant, photo exhibition, St of Justice, international artists NOMI gallery, St. Petersburg, Total Kunst Gallery, Edinburgh, 2008, Four Animations, Five Born in 1975 in Tbilisi, Georgia. Thessaloniki, Greece. 2008, of Architects, Yerevan, Armenia; Petersburg, Russia. 2005, workshop, Dyiarbakir, Turkey; Russia; Various Skeletons, United Kingdom; Perezagruzka 3, Drawings and a Plague, (Solo), Lives and works in Berlin, Wandering in Balkans, (solo), 1998, NPAK presentation, Transformation, Aluminium2, In the Shadow of Heroes, Gallery for Contemporary Art, New Georgian Art Festival, Teatr. Philadelphia Art Museum, USA. Germany. Fondation Hellénique, Paris, Yerevan, Armenia. 1997, Heton, International Contemporary 160 161
Art Festival, Baku, Azerbaijan; Kunstforum, Tirol, Austria; 2009, Fitness, (solo), Gallery Poland. 2006, Séance, (solo), Sculpture installations, Moscow; Video Art – Volume 1, Moscow Exhibition of Art Of The Gaeltacht, Art Caucasus 2005, GTC Beyond Stereotypes, international Come Ashore, Sunyoudo Island, Arsenal, Bialystok, Poland. 2008, Koraalberg Gallery, Antwerp, 2004, Monument to Sergei MOMA, Russia. 2006, Several The Irish Cultural Centre in Paris, Trade Center, Tbilisi, Georgia; actual art convention, Art South Korea. 2006, Change Collection of art of XX and XXI Belgium; Did we land on the Parajanov, Tbilisi; 2000, Galleria la things about Power, L-Gallery, France; Resources, Genna Maria, Caravanserai, N Gallery, Caucasus 2005, Tbilisi, Concept, Turkish Culture Center, century, ms2, Lodz, Poland; moon? (solo), Arsenal Gallery, Subbia, (solo), Pietrasanta, Italy; Moscow, Russia. 2005, Once Villanovaforru, Sardinia; Tsunami, Tbilisi; Message to the ancient Georgia; Tashkent International Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina; Wyobraznia wielkich miast, Der Bialystok, Poland; Covers, (solo), 1997, Monument to Pirosmani, upon a time, Art4u, State Gallery public Art work in Letterkenny civilizations, N Gallery, Tbilisi, Biennale, Uzbekistan; Man & Change Concept, DMZ & JSA Ort Gallery, Berlin, Germany; National Museum, Krakow, Pirosmani museum, Mirzaani, of Contemporary Art. Moscow, Institute of Technology; Public Georgia. 2003, Women for Women, exhibitions projects in North Korea. 2005, Dawn Light, Game, From the Zachęta Poland; Fuckin’ Hell, (solo), Georgia; 1996, Ville D’ Avray, Russia. 2004, Moscow – Berlin, art work for The Clinton Peace conflict prevention and peace- collaboration with the French Gosford Gallery, NSW University, Collection, Zacheta National Centre for Contemporary Art Pirosmani museum, France, State History Museum, Moscow, Centre in Enniskillen; Intersezioni, building in the South Caucasus, Embassy in Azerbaijan. Australia; Terminus, Haulashore Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland; Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, dedicated to Camille Corot. Russia. 2003, Berlin – Moscow, Domus de Maria, Sardinia. Georgian National Museum, Island (Nelson) & Duniden Harbor, Blankly Perfect Summer, Poland. 2005, Children of Sodom, Martin – Gropius – Bau, Berlin, Tbilisi History Museum Karvasla. New Zealand; Art in the Forest, VertexList, New York, USA; (Together with S. Rushton), Germany. 2002, We are 2002, Animated Toys, Georgian Konstantine Mindadze Sauz de Oulx, Torino, Italy. 2004, Beyond the rule of reality, KunstZicht Gallery, Ghent, Ana Riaboshenko friends, (solo) Gallery Mosel & Kevin Mc Gee National Museum, Tbilisi History Born in 1977 in Tbilisi, Georgia. CRANNE, Paris, France; MMAC, Museum of Art, Lodz, Poland. Belgium. Borin in 1977 in Tbilisi, Georgia. Tschechow, Munich, Germany; Born in 1972 in Gortahork, Museum Karvasla. Through art Lives and works in Amsterdam, Mishima, Japan. 2003, PARK & 2007, Video Now, (solo), films Lives and works in Tbilisi. Dictionary of imaginary places, Donegal, Ireland. Lives and works to peace, Georgian National Netherlands. Old House, Zaostrog, Croatia. by Jacek Malinowski, Centrum together with Vadim Fishkin, in Gortahork, Donegal, Ireland. Museum, Tbilisi History Museum Sztuki Filmowej, Katowice, Azorro Group 2009, Orange Tiger City and Gallery Skuc, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Karvasla. Actual Dreams – 2009-2010, From Heaven to Poland; Mirror Matter, MOCA – Oskar Dawicki (b. 1971), Igor Plastic Dog Story, Georgian 2001, Anteprima Bovisa – Milano 2009, Heartwood, An Cosan Glas, Georgia, multicultural country, Hell” (solo), gallery Bremer, in Kam Yeon-Hee Museum of Contemporary Art, Krenz (b. 1959), Wojciech contemporary Art , Château de Europa 2000 Palazzo della Errigal Arts Festival, Co. Donegal, Georgian National Museum, Tilburg, Netherlands; Moments Born in 1966 in Daejeon, South Cleveland, USA; Mediascream: Niedzielko (b. 1959) and Lukasz Saint Auvent, France; Georgian Triennale, Milan, Italy. 2000, Ireland; Letterkenny arts Festival. Tbilisi History Museum Karvasla. Together, Years Apart, Korea. Lives and works in Simulation-Stimulation – Skapski (b. 1958) formed the expanded paintings, Prague L’autre moitié de l’Europe, Galerie 2008, Athrach na nGardaí, 2001, Without Borders, Club (solo), Gallery Peter Marcelle Cheongju, South Korea. Transvizualia 007, Gdynia, Azorro group in 2001. Biennale 4, Prague, Check nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, Ceardlann na gCroisbhealach, Sardapi, Tbilisi, Georgia. Contemporary, Southampton, Poland. 2006, The Celebration of Republic. 2008, Operandi – France. Falcarragh, Co. Donegal, Ireland; New York, USA; Transcaucasus- 2005-2009, Meeting Downhill, Erwin Koloczek, (solo), Edvard- 2008, Spastykownie, Sektor In quest of a different way, Tearmann, An Crannóg, Derrybeg, All & Now, Ujazdowski Castle, Quartair Gallery, Den Haag, Munch-Haus, Warnemunde, I Gallery, Katowice, Poland; Artisterium 2008, Georgian Co.Donegal, Ireland; BeachHaus, Maya Sumbadze Kordegard Gallery, Warsaw, Netherlands; Magic Garden, Germany; Poza, Real Art L’artista nella rinuncia 2, Mostra National Museum, Tbilisi History Sarah lewtas An Cosan Glas, Magheroarty, Born in1972 in Tbilisi, Georgia. Poland; Werk van Nieuwe Kunst Forum, Kramsach, Tirol, Ways, Hartford, USA. 2005, a cura della Galleria Raster, Museum Karalla; Artisterium, Born in1953 in London, UK. Lives Co.Donegal, Ireland; Modus Lives and works in Tbilisi, Leden, Gallery Arti Et Amicitae, Austria; Encumbered , Piramid HalfAWoman, (solo), Instituto Instituto Polacco di Roma, Italy; Tbilisi, Georgia; Snow, The and works in Dunlewey, Co. Operandi –In quest of a different Georgia. Amsterdam, Netherlands. 2008, Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey; Polacco di Rome, Italy; Prague Fluxus East – Fluxus networks in World One Minutes video Donegal, Ireland. way, Artisterium 208, Georgian de Salon, Gallery Arti Et Amicitae, Sarajevo winter 2007, Turkish Biennale 2, Prague, Czech Central Eastern Europe, Ludwig exhibition, Today Art Museum, National Museum, Tbilisi History 2009, born in Georgia, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 2007, Culture Center, Sarajevo, Bosnia Republic; XI International Media Museum, Budapest, Hungary; Is in the frame of cultural program 2009, An Cosan Glas sculpture, Museum Karalla; Artisterium, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, Square Foot Show, Gallery Art & Herzegovina; Come Ashore, Art Biennale – WRO 05, Wroclaw, an artist allowed to do anything?, around the Olympic Games, trail Errigal Arts Festival; Artist’s Tbilisi; Herrin Enterprise Co., Netherlands; IV Prague Gotham, Chelsea, New York, Nine Dragon Heads in Island, Poland; Corps et Ames – art video The house of arts (Dom umenia), Beijing, China. 2007, Sugar head, Residency Program, Tbilisi, Houston, Texas, USA. 2007, Biennale. 2008, Past, Present USA; 10th Stop, Gallery ARCI, Cheongju, South Korea; Beyond Polonais, Le Parvis, Video K.01, Bratislava, Slovakia; Fluxus Perpetumobile and Snow, video Georgia. 2008, T3-T4, An Gaileari An Fearann Feasa/The Living and Future, Washington D.C. Tbilisi, Georgia. 2005, InfraRed, the board, Cheongju Artist France. East, Fluxus Networks in Central installation, STOP # 10 by TRAM Falcarragh, Co. Donegal, Ireland; Archive, Cló Ceardlann na gCnoc 2007, Atmosphere 41 Degree, (solo), New Art Union Gallery Residency, South Korea; NIPAF, Eastern Europe, Bunkier Sztuki, Foundation, ARCI office, Tbilisi, Tearmann, An Chrannog; T3-T4, – Co. Donegal, Ireland; Anthelion, City, Siemens Sanat Gallery, Tapi, Tbilisi, Georgia. performance Art Festival, Nagano, Krakow, Poland; Asteism, Lazna Georgia; Snow, Art Digital 2006; Ionad Culturtha, Ballyvourney, Goethe Institute exhibition Hall, 10th Istanbul Biennale, Turkey; Japan. Hubert Czerepok Centre for Contemporary Art, Board Situation, Mars Gallery, Co. Cork. Co. Donegal, Ireland. Tbilisi. 2005, Úr An International 2003, Arteria, Georgian National Born in 1973 in Slubice, Poland. Gdansk, Poland; Laughing in a II Moscow Biennale, Moscow, 2007, Dunlewey Far. A8, Albany, Exhibition of Art Of The Gaeltacht, Museum, Tbilisi History Museum; Mariam Nakanimamasakhlisi Lives and works in Poznan, Foreign Language, The Hayward, Russia. Piccadilly, London, UK; Anthelion, The Irish Cultural Centre in Paris, 2002, Goslab Presents, Exit Born in 1982 in Tbilisi, Georgia. Kobas Laksa Poland. Southbank Centre, London, Goethe Institute exhibition Hall, France. Festival, Paris, France; 2000, Lives and works in Tbilisi. Born in 1971 in Białystok, Poland. UK. 2007, Random in Radom, Tbilisi, Georgia; So They Say, The Goslab Presents, Gallery Orient, Giorgi Mamasakhlisi He lives and works in Warsaw, 2008, Hauneb, (solo), Zak | Museum of Contemporary Art, Anatoly Riaboshenko Stone Gallery Dublin; Aldaketa Tbilisi, Georgia. Born in 1984 in Tbilisi, Georgia. Białystok, Poland. Branicki Gallery, Berlin, Germany; Radom, Poland; Still Here, Born in 1948 in Tbilisi, Georgia. Athrú, An Cultúrlann Belfast, Nuala Ní Fhlathuin Lives and works in Tbilisi. 2007, Strange tourists, (solo), Humour in Post-communist Lives and works in Tbilisi, Ireland. 2005-2006, Tearmann, Born in 1976 in Leitir Mór, Co. 2008, Places in heart, Arsenal Artpol Gallery, Krakow, Poland; performative video, Artspace, Georgia. Clo Cheardlann na gCnoc. Co. Galway, Ireland. Lives and works Sophia Tabatadze 2009, Advertisement campaign Gallery, Bialystok, Poland; Out Burn the rich!, (solo), BWA Sydney, Australia; Fluxus East, Donegal, Ireland. 2005, AIR in Leitir Mór, Co. Galway, Ireland. Born in 1977 in Tbilisi, Georgia. for TBC Bank; 2008-2009, There, The 11th International Gallery, Zielona Gora, Poland; Fluxus Networks in Central 2006-2000, Icon paintings for project, Context Gallery, Derry, Lives and works in Berlin, Advertisement campaign for Architecture Exhibition in Venice, Strange Tourists, (solo), Potocka Eastern Europe, Kunstlerhaus different churches in Georgia and Northern Ireland. 2009, International Residency in Rotterdam, Tbilisi. Rompetrol Georgia; 2008, Hotel Polonia, The afterlife of Gallery, Krakow, Poland; Mark Bethanien, Berlin, D Asteism, abroad. 2005, Project for private Tbilisi, Georgia; Awarded by Cló Advertisement campaigns for buildings – Golden Lion for Lombardi is dead, (solo), Kronika Centre for Contemporary Art, collections, Dresden, Germany. Ceardlann na gCnoc, Ireland; 2009, From Flags to Flowers, Progress Group, Radio UCNOBI, Best National Participation to Gallery, Bytom, Poland; Strike Warsaw, Poland; European 2004, Art Caucasus 2004, Ian Joyce Solo Exhibition at Sliding Rock (solo), Kunstverein Göttingen, Rico Group, M.Tumanishvili Film Poland. 2007, Video, Arsenal Back, ON Gallery and the city Attitude, Asia-Europe Mediations, GTC Centre, Tbilisi, Georgia. Born in 1961 in Dublin, Ireland. Gallery, Spiddal, Ireland; 2008, Germany; Reciprocal Visit, Actors Theatre; 2007, Advert. Gallery, Białystok, Poland; Horror area, Poznan, Poland; Gone School of Humanities and 2004-2000, working for private Lives and works in Donegal, Group Show at RDS, Dublin, Apartment Projects, Istanbul, campaigns for TV Broadcasting workshop for children, Kronika to Croatan, Municipal Culture, Journalism, Poznan, Poland; collections. 2000, Portraits Gallery Ireland. Ireland; Diploma in Media Skills, Turkey; Scènes Centrales, Tri Company MZE, Prime Real Estate Gallery, Bytom, Poland; Cimitero Gdansk, Poland; Fade into Black, Video in Progress, RISD Museum, to Mr. Noiman private collection. National University of Ireland, Postal, Lille, France; Art Athina, Management, The Georgian Comunale – 3d photos, Zamek Studio BWA, Wroclaw, Poland; Providence, USA. 2008, Modus Operandi –In quest Galway, Awarded First-Class with Mirta Demare Gallery, The Public Broadcaster (GPB). – Poznan, Poland. 2006, Lipsk, Conspiracy uncovered, Galeria of a different way, Artisterium Honors. 2007, Craft Council of Netherlands. 2008, All my re- Gallery PARISMOSKAU.de – Sektor, Katowice, Poland. 2007, Guia Rigvava 2008, Georgian National Museum, Ireland Merit Award; Galway- Collections, (solo) Künstlerhaus RAUCHDELIKT project. 2005, city The Empire of Senses, Stary Prasto Born in 1956 in Tbilisi, Georgia. Tbilisi History Museum Karalla; Mayo Institute Of Technology, Bethanien, Berlin, Germany; Park Byoung-Uk project WARSAW Kaliningrad, Browar, Poznan, Poland; Wola Art Lives and works in Pietrasanta, Lives and works in Vienna, Artisterium, Tbilisi; Giumri Ireland. Best of Discovery, (solo), Born in 1954 in Busan, South Russia. 2004, FINE Game from Festival, Festival of Contemporary Italy. Austria. Biennale, Armenia; Public Art Shcontemporary, China; Aguhlas Korea. Recently lives and works USA (video-game performance). Art, Warsaw, Poland; Lustration, Work in An Grianan Theatre Negras, project Centro Cultural, in Chicken Dragon Mountain. Piekary Gallery, Poznan, Poland; 2007, International sculpture 2009, Get connected, in Letterkenny, Co Donegal, Beso Shonhardt São Paulo, Brazil; Open Sky, The Black Hole, Kronika Gallery, project, Monument to George Künstlerhaus Vienna, Austria. Ireland. 2007, Anthelion, Goethe Born in 1972 in Tbilisi, Georgia. Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz, 2007, Meeting Downhill, Quartair Jacek Malinowski Bytom, Poland; Memory of Balanchine, Tbilisi, St. Petersburg, 2008, Changing stands in a Institute exhibition Hall, Tbilisi, Lives and works in Tbilisi, Austria; Voyage a Tbilissi, Fine Gallery, Den Haag, Holland; Born in 1964 in Warsaw, Poland. This Moment from the Distance New York; 2006, Dla Piper, changing world, ArtMediaLab Georgia. 2006, International Georgia. Arts Museum, Nantes, France; Encumbered, Piramid Art Center, Lives and works in Warsaw, of Years Which Will Pass. Old Sculpture installations, Moscow; in Project, Fabrica, Moscow, Artists workshop, Hwei Lan, Exchange Academy, organization Istanbul, Turkey; Magic Garden, Poland. Schindler Factory, Krakow, 2005, ERNST & YOUNG, Russia. 2007, History of Russian Taiwan; 2005, Úr An International 2005, Beyond Stereotypes, and participation State Silk 162 163
Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia; Art Nikolas Gambaroff Repeated Histories, Reinvented Sculpture, Saatchi Gallery, Seriality, Shane Campbell Gallery, Video, Daniel Hug Gallery, Los on Water, (solo), the American Transportation, public space Rottedam, with Mirta Demare Born in 1979 in Berlin, Germany. Resistances, Smack Mellon, London, UK; The End, The Andy Chicago, USA; Tamar Halpern, Angeles, USA; The Backroom, Academy, Tbilisi, Georgia. project, international artists Gallery, The Netherlands; Art Lives and works in New York. DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY, USA; Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Florian Morlat, Michael Phelan, The Kadist Foundation, Paris residency, Hwei Lan, Taiwan; Forum, with Künstlerhaus -I LOVE NEW YORK, 33 Bond USA. 2008, PUNCHLINE, (solo), Eleven Rivington/Greenberg Van and Le Celda Contemporanea, Blue and Wind, sound installation, Bethanien, Berlin Germany. 2007, 2009, The Living and the Dead, Gallery, NY, USA; Body, Casoria Bortolami Gallery, New York. Doren, New York, USA; Warhol Mexico City, Mexico; Repeat Hans Scheib Didi Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia. Buildings and Strangebuildings, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, International Contemporary Art USA; Arc Light, (solo), Gagosian and..., Kantor/Feuer Gallery, Los After Me: I AM A Revolutionary, Born in 1949 in Potsdam, 2004, International artists 10th International Istanbul New York, USA; No Bees, No Museum, Naples, Italy. Gallery, Moscow, Russia; Smoke Angeles, USA. 2006, If today was with Henry Taylor, Rental Gallery, Germany. Lives and works in residency program, iaab, Basel, Biennale, Turkey; Humancon Blueberries, Harris Liebermann, Flows in all Directions, (solo), perfect, there would be no need New York, USA; 2006, From Berlin, Germany. Switzerland; Curfew Tower, Undercon, Georgian pavilion New York, USA; Maximal Naples, Italy; Political/Minimal, for tomorrow, Gallery Edward Baja to Bar Harbor: Transnational residency and site-specific work, at the 52nd Venice Biennale, Minimal, Primopiano, Lugano, Sean Raspet KW Institute for Contemporary Mitterrand, Geneva, Switzerland. Contemporary Art, Institute of 2009, Dragon’s teeth and Cushendal, Northern Ireland. Italy; Progressive Nostalgia, Switzerland. 2008, Solo Show, Born in 1981 in Washington, D.C. Art, Berlin, Germany and The Contemporary Art, Maine College other things, Spandau Citadel, 2003, Revive Time, Kaki tree in collaboration with Nadia Balice Hertling, Paris, France; Lives and works in New York. Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz, Poland, of Portland, USA. 2005, The Berlin, Germany. 2008, Ni planting project founded by Tsulukidze, Luigi Pecci Centre for Evas Arche with Matt Sheridan 2009 United Artist Ltd., Marfa, Matthew A. Chambers Backroom, Los Angeles and New Hao!, (solo)Galerie Brockstedt, Tatsuo Miyajima, Public spaces Contemporary Art, Prato, Italy. Smith, Gavin Browns Enterprise, 2009, Solo show, (upcoming), USA. 2007, Greeting Card, Born in 1982 in Boise, USA. Lives Langton Arts, San Francisco, Berlin, Germany. 2007, ABTart, in Tbilisi and Mtskheta, Georgia. 2006, Alterative Travel Guide New York, USA; Cube Passerby, Daniel Reich Gallery, New York, (solo), Park Avenue Armory, and works in Los Angeles, USA. USA; Summer Show, Mary Möhringen (solo); TU Berlin, 2002, Transition Zero, Gyumri through Georgia, in collaboration GBE at Passerby, New York EVR USA; Convention, North Miami New York, USA; 2006, Art Goldman Gallery, Los Angeles, Mathematical Library (solo); Biennale, Armenia; Double Eye, with Nadia Tsulukidze, Caucasus (e-flux video rental), Maumaus/ Museum of Contemporary Positions, (solo), Art Basel Miami 2009, Rental Gallery, (solo), New USA; Valley Girl, White Columns, Städtische Gallery Sonneberg video installation, ex-bank vault, Biennale, Tbilisi, Georgia; Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Art, Miami, USA; Exhibition, Beach, Florida, USA; 1%, (solo), York, USA; (forthcoming); Blanket New York, USA; Peachead, Art in (solo); Gallery Kasten, Mannheim Foundry, London, UK. Caucasus Game, in collaboration Portugal; Video Program for collaborative project at 211 Harris Lieberman, New York, Contemporary Art, Vancouver; General, New York, USA. (solo); Art Space Bernusstr., with Nadia Tsulukidze, Est-Ouest untitled 2002 (he promised) 2002 Elizabeth St., New York, USA; USA; Invisible Colours, Marian Matthew Chambers l Brendan Frankfurt / M. (solo); Hippos, Festival, Die, France; I was by Rirkrit Tiravanija, Guggenheim The Shape of Things to Come, Goodman, Paris, France; Beneath Fowler l Rashid Johnson l Jason Max-Delbrück-Centrum, Berlin- Giorgi Khaburzania Silent, in collaboration with Nadia Museum, Bilbao, Spain. 2007, (upcoming) The Saatchi Gallery, the Underdog, Gagosian Gallery, Kraus, Rental Gallery, New Luka Zet Buch. (solo); Stories from the Born in 1982 in Tbilisi, Georgia. Tsulukidze, ACCEA, Yerevan, Nowhere for Nothing, with Matt London, UK; If the Dogs are ParisStop Jalouse Margazine, York, USA. 2008, Like Wooing Born in 1986 in Tbilisi, Georgia. water, Berlin, Cologne, Aachen, Lives and works in Tbilisi, Armenia. Sheridan Smith, GBE at Passerby, Barking, Artist’s Space, New Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France; a Lover, (solo), Angstrom, Los Lives and works in Tbilisi, Düsseldorf. 2006, Pirosmanis Georgia. New York. York, USA;“1999”, 10 year Works from the Berezdivin Angeles, USA; Fear of a Black Georgia. Table, Tbilisi, Georgia; Albergo anniversary show at China Art collection, Museo de Arte de Hat, (solo), 2nd Cannons, Los San Lorenzo, Mostre d’arte, Matt Sheridan Smith Objects, Los Angeles, USA; Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico. Aaron Angeles, USA; To Illustrate and 2009, sakARTvelo, (Georgia), Poppi, Italy (solo). 2005, Art Club Mtvarisa Joyce Born 1980 in Red Bank, New Liz Magic Laser To One Whose Love Was Young, (solo), Kunst-Werke, Multiply, MOCA, Pacific Design traveling exhibition project, Art Award of Bautzen Bautzen, Born in 1978 in Tbilisi, Georgia. Jersey, USA. Lives and works in Born in 1981 in New York, USA. Service, collaboration with Amir Berlin, Germany; Whitney Biennial Center, Los Angeles, USA; Kutaisi, Poti, Ozurgeti, Batumi, Bautzen City Museum (solo); Lives and works in Tbilisi, New York City, USA. Lives and works in New York, Mogharabi, Daniel Reich Gallery, 2006, Whitney Museum of Pruess Press, Rental Gallery, New Georgia. 2008, Modus Operandi- Galerie Brockstedt, Berlin (solo); Georgia. USA. New York, USA; A Starting American Art, New York, USA; York, USA; 2007, Cartier On The in Quest of a different Way, Mother forage Gallery, Berlin 2009 Blanks, Templates, Undos, Point: Intrude Art & Life 366, Action, FRAC PACA, Marseille, Way, Blanket, Vancouver, BC, Artisterium 2008, Georgian (solo); Reflections, sculpture and Redos, Lisa Cooley, New York, 2009, The Newest New York, (retrospective exhibition selected France. MAVIS, BROADWAY 1602, New national Museum, Tbilisi History drawing, 9 Berlin galleries at the Giorgi Makhniashvili USA; The Living and the Dead, Prague Biennial 4, Prague from projects over the past year), York, USA; 2 of Six, Angstrom, Museum Karvasla. 2007, Art Center Berlin Friedrichstrasse, Born in 1978 in Tbilisi, Georgia. Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New Biennial Photo 1, Karlin Hall, Zendai MOMA, Shanghai, China. Los Angeles, USA; Artists from Manifatura, Contemporary Art Berlin (Galerie Eva Poll, Berlin); 2. Lives and works in Tbilisi, York, USA; Evading Customs, Prague, Czech Republic; 2008, A Brief History, (solo), Michael Phelan the Los Angeles Collection, and Craft Days in Unkapani, Biennial Beijing, China. Georgia. Brown Gallery, London, UK; chase: a production of Bertolt Art Positions, Art Basel Miami Born in 1968 in Beaumont, USA. Angstrom, Dallas, USA; Nothing the 10th Istanbul Biennale, My Summer Show, Galerie Brecht’s Man Equals Man, Heist Beach, USA; The Ones We Work Lives and works in New York, Moments, MOCA, The Pacific Turkey; Preferred Idea in 2008, MAF Group Exhibition, Lelong, New York, USA; Gallery, NY, USA; Spacebuster, For, (solo), Daniel Reich Gallery, USA. Design Center, Los Angeles, Preferred Technique, workshop, Mamuka Japharidze Tbilisi State Academy of Fine According to Speculative organized by Storefront for Art New York USA; The Generations, USA; Hovering Over the Universe, Armenian Open University, Borin in 1960 in Tbilisi, Georgia. Arts; an initiator/member of Logic, Western Bridge, Seattle, and Architecture, NY, USA; I (solo), Daniel Reich Gallery, 2009, This shit was bound Honor Fraser Gallery, Venice Changes through Exchanges 2, Lives and works in Tbilisi and the MAF group; Nostalgia, USA; Changing Light Bulbs Have You, operatic performance Chelsea Hotel Space, New York, to happen..., (solo), Samson Beach, USA; Warhol and..., Yerevan, Armenia. One Stop, Bristol, UK. photo series; 2007, Intercultural in Thin Air, CCS Bard, Hessel and screening event, Fragmental USA; Intrude: Art & Life 366, Projects, Boston, USA; Abstract Kantor/Feuer, Los Angeles, Art Caucasus 2007; video Dialogue in Georgia, Tbilisi State Museum of Art, Annandale-on- Museum inside Spacebuster by Zendai MOMA, Shanghai, China; America: New Painting From USA; No Jerks, RENTAL, New screening She’s Thinking, He’s 2008, Journey to Tbilisi, Chapelle Academy of Fine Arts; 2007-2008, Hudson, New York, USA; Prose Raumlabor. Whitney Museum Palm Beach Biennial, Gavlak, the U.S., The Saatchi Gallery, York, USA; Big Secret Cache, Thinking; Literature Café, Tbilisi, de l’Oratoire, Musee des Citizenship, photo series. pour des Esseintes, Karma Independent Study Program West Palm Beach, USA; Without London, UK; Portugal Arte Angstrom, Los Angeles, USA; Georgia; Interpretation of Dreams, Beaux-Arts de Nantes, France; International, Zurich, Switzerland; Studio Program Exhibition, Art Walls, Museum 52, New York, ‘09, Lisbon, Portugal; Merlin Paper Bombs, Jack Hanley, Los Absheron Gallery, Aluminium, Artisterium 2008, Georgian FAX, Independent Curators in General, NY, USA; New Deal, USA; Poster Project, Nine Things, Carpenter, Daniel Lefcourt, Angeles, USA. the 3rd International Biennale National Museum, Tbilisi History Natalia Glonti International, The Drawing Center, The Art Production Fund, NY, Frankfurt, Germany; Whitney Michael Phelan, Katia Bassanini, of Contemporary Art, Baku, Museum Karvasla. 2007, Pea Born in 1984 in Tbilisi, Georgia. New York, USA. 2008, Standard USA. 2008, Lost It, (solo) NT Art ISP Studio Practice Exhibition, Tim Davis, Jonah Freeman, Azerbaijan. Musha, Bad Chairs in cooperation Lives and works in Tbilisi, Sizes, Andrew Kreps Gallery, Gallery, Bologna, Italy, including New York, USA. 2007, A Modest Bruno Pienado, Mitterrand Michele O’Marah with Andro Semeiko, public space Georgia. New York, USA; Dark Fair, Swiss works made in collaboration Proposal, (solo), Daniel Reich + Sanz | Contemporary Art, Born in 1967 in Vallejo, USA. project, Green Man-Free House, Institute, New York, USA; Gut with Felicia Garcia-Rivera; Gallery at the Frieze Art Fair, Zurich, Switzerland. 2008, Jonah Lives and works in Los Angeles, Natalia Gagnizde London, UK; Atmosphere 41 2008, MAF Group Exhibition, of the Quantifier, Lisa Cooley, VideoZone4 , The International London. UK; Ilya Lipkin, Sean Freeman & Michael Phelan, (solo), USA. Born in 1986 in Tbilisi, Georgia. Degree, group exhibition, the 10th Tbilisi State Academy of Fine New York Cube Passerby, Gavin Video Art Biennial, the Center for Raspet, Ned Vena, Cohan and Mitterrand + Sanz | Contemporary Lives and works in Tbilisi, International Istanbul Biennale, Arts; an initiator/member of the Brown’s @ Passerby, New York, Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel; Leslie, New York, USA; Untitled Art, Zurich Switzerland; One 2009, Video Journeys, Sister @ Georgia. Siemens Art Gallery, Istanbul, MAF group; 2007, Intercultural USA; Video Program for untitled Wet, (solo), Chashama Art Space, (Perfect Lovers), BC Project Year, Peter Coffin, Joëlle Flumet, Cottage Home, Los Angeles, Turkey; Interpretation of Dreams, Dialogue in Georgia, Tbilisi State 2002 (he promised) 2002 by NY, USA; Ahh...Decadence! in Room, New York, USA. Daniel Lefcourt, Adam McEwen, USA; Group Show, Sister, Los 2007, People who believe in group exhibition, Aluminium, 3rd Academy of Fine Arts. Rirkrit Tiravanija, Guggenheim collaboration with Ben Fain and Michael Phelan, Mitterrand + Angeles, USA. 2008, Amateurs, Beauty, personal fashion show, Biennial of Contemporary Art, Museum Bilbao Evas Arche Dafna Maimon, the Art Institute Sanz | Contemporary Art, Zurich, CCAC Wattis Institute, San Javakhishvili State Library Tbilisi, Baku, Azerbaijan. und der Feminist (w/ Nikolas of Chicago’s Sullivan Galleries, Aaron Young Switzerland. 2007, Everything is Francisco, USA; 25 Artists x 2 Georgia. 2006, Children of 2006, KHOJ, international artists Nata Kipiani Gambaroff) Gavin Brown’s Chicago, USA; The Peekskill Born in 1972 in San Francisco, getting better every day, Shane Screenings = 1 week, Blum & Apocalypses, (solo), Didi Gallery, workshop, Kolkata, India; Still Born in 1986 in Tbilisi, Georgia. Upstairs, New York, USA. 2007, Project, Hudson Valley Center USA. Lives and works in New Campbell Gallery, Oak Park, USA; Poe, Los Angeles, USA; Repeat Tbilisi, Georgia. 2005, African Life after Life, public space Lives and works in Tbilisi, Pawnshop, E-Flux, New York, for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, York, USA. Help me, help you, Changing After Me: I AM A Revolutionary, party, theatrical fashion show, project, Visual Art Festival, Ganja, Georgia. Video Program for Untitled USA; Dallas Video Festival, Role Gallery, Naples, Italy; The with Henry Taylor, Peres Projects. club 16 Rounds, Tbilisi, Georgia. Azerbaijan; 11 Drum Street, (He Promised) 2002 by Rirkrit Conduit Gallery & the Modern Art 2009, Solo show, Galerie Almine Long Goodbye, Jonah Freeman/ 2007, She Was Born to Be My 2003, Batiks, students days at the presidency program, former base 2008, MAF Group Exhibition, Tiravanija, Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, Rech, Paris-Brussels; Abstract Michael Phelan, John Connelly Unicorn, Smith-Stewart, New Ikebana Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia. of the City of London Symphonic, Tbilisi State Academy of Fine New York, USA. USA. 2007, Infinitu et Contini: America: New Painting and Presents, New York, USA; York, USA; Performance/Film/ 2002, Batiks, Wax Paintings UK. 2005, Taxi for Optimistic Arts; an initiator/member of the 164 Index of the Curators 165
MAF group; 2007, Intercultural Dialogue in Georgia, Tbilisi State Buenos Aires, Argentina; Body, RawVision Of The Men We Know Evelyne Jouanno (2008) In February 2009, he curated Indian American Art’s Independent Study Program Greek Embassy in Moscow. She has taught Dialogue in Georgia, Tbilisi State Academy of Fine Arts; Horizon, Technical Indication and Meaning, And Have Known, LeonidesArts ------Popular culture (and beyond): The Untold where he curated Image War: Contesting history of art at the Lomonosov University, An independent art curator and critic based (the rise of) Schisms, at Alcala 31 in Madrid, Images of Political Violence and contributed Moscow (1997-2001). She has been Academy of Fine Arts. photo series. 2006-2009, Energy, Multidisciplinary Forum of Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina; in Paris and San Francisco. During the accompanied by a publication that traces to an accompanying catalog. teaching Russian Art of the 19th and 20th photo series. 2006, Grand Prize, Performance, Gallery Arcimboldo, Te mataré Ramirez, a special late 1990s, she taught courses at Paris the rise of the political right within popular centuries at the University of Macedonia UN photo competition. Buenos Aires, Argentina; Kunst jury award of the First Salon VIII University (Saint Denis-Vincennes) Indian culture and its neighbouring regions. (Thessaloniki, Greece) since 2002. During Giorgi Dadiani Raub #003, Gallery Kunstraub99, of Erotic Art; 2008 /2009, Arty based on new readings of modern and Merali has edited several publications, Khatuna Khabuliani the period 2002-2006 she worked as Born in 1986 in Tbilisi, Georgia. Cologne Germany; Art in BPA, Thursday, Axel hotel, Buenos contemporary art through the analysis including Far Near Distance, Contemporary ------curator of the Costakis Collection at the of geopolitical contexts in mutation and Positions for Iranian Artists (2004); Spaces r, publicist and researcher. She is an author State Museum of Contemporary Art in Lives and works in Tbilisi, Nini Alavidze Bonn, Germany. 2008, ART Aires, Argentina; 2008, Five cross-cultural issues linked to these and Shadows, Contemporary Art from of various critical and analytical articles Thessaloniki and in 2006 was appointed Georgia. Born in 1978 in Tbilisi, Georgia. BASEL MIAMI – ATELIER Visions, Casa Brandon, Buenos changes. In 2005 she conceived and Southeast Asia and About Beauty (2005): for different editions and now works on director of this Museum. Lives and works in Tbilisi, art gallery, represented by Aires, Argentina; Art Basel Miami founded the Emergency Biennale, an New York-States of Mind and Re-Imagining her PHD research – “Transformation of She has organised many exhibitions of 2009, Structural changes, Georgia. LeonidesArts, New York and 08 Affiliated show, The Atelier. international traveling exhibition organized Asia (Saqi Books 2007). visual signs” (field of philosophy of art) modern and contemporary art mainly something about war and etc., Gallery NES (Buenos Aires), Miami, USA; HETERODOXA, both in the war context of Chechnya and is a lecturer of contemporary art at concentrated on the Russian Avant-garde and through a touring exhibition around Tbilisi Academy of Fine Arts. In 2009 she and she has numerous participations CSW, Transkavkajia Festival, 2008, MAF Group Exhibition, Miami, USA; Festival DIVERSA, Idea, concept and realization. 1st the world. Highlights as a curator also Sylwia Narevska curated the Georgian participation at in scientific conferences in Greece and Zamok Ujazdowsky, Warsaw, Tbilisi State Academy of Fine Gallery NES, Buenos Aires, edition of the multimedia project; include Floating Territories (collaboration ------53rd International Venice Biennale. From abroad. In 2007 she was the artistic Poland. 2008, Empty City, photo Arts; an initiator/member of the Argentina; Heterodoxa, Salon 2007, GIROTONDO, founder- between Evens Foundation and the Arts Works as a curator’s assistant/curator 2001-2005 Khatuna Khabuliani worked director of the 1st Thessaloniki Biennale of project, Anabechdi Magazine; MAF group; 2007, Intercultural Dorado, Teatro Roma, Buenos member of the art group together Biennials of Istanbul, Athens and Venice and translator, assisting in realization of at CCCD_Caucasian Center for Cultural Contemporary Art and one of the curators 08.08.08 Tbilisi, photo project Dialogue in Georgia, Tbilisi State Aires, Argentina; Weltreise der with Marcela de Luca, Alejandra 2007), Back to Zhong Guo (Guangzhou many projects in the Arsenal Gallery and Development as an editor and curator. of the main programme, together with and Nanling, China, collaboration between outside the gallery since 2007. 2008- CCCD (later MAF_Media ART Farm) in Catherine David and Jan-Erik Lundstrom. In Anabechdi Magazine. 2006-2009, Academy of Fine Arts. Sinne, Grand Hotel Petersberg, Sculli, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Vitamin Creative Space, France Year in 2009 Graduated from Postgraduate collaboration with different organizations 2009 she was the artistic director of the 2nd graphic designer, photographer, Bonn, Germany; New Generation, His works are represented by China and 2nd Guangzhou Triennial, 2005), Curatorial Studies in the Institute of Art and studios has organized international and Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art. Anabechdi Magazine. Gallery Chardin, Tbilisi, Georgia. the galleries NES (Buenos Aires, Prosismic – a young generation of French History at the Jagiellonian University in local exhibitions: Appendix 1 and Appendix Levan Mindiashvili 2007, OW_ART 07, International Argentina) and Leonides Arts artists (Espace Paul Ricard, Paris, 2004), Krakow, Poland. 2005-2007 Graduated 2, Neo Geo, Arteria, etc; it also founded Borin in 1979 in Tbilisi, Georgia Art Fair, Buchen, Germany; (New York, USA). Paris pour Escale (Musée d’Art Moderne from American Culture Studies, Institute The Institute of Photography and New Magda Guruli de la Ville de Paris, 2002). From 2000 of American Studies and Polish Diaspora Media and Khatuna Khabuliani worked as a ------Levan Kapanadze (Gaga) Lives and works in Buenos Aires, perdus, GalerieD’Art Paris8, Paris, to 2002, the guest curator at Kunsthalle at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, lecture of contemporary art history and co- A curator of the Centre for Global Born in 1987 in Tbilisi, Georgia. Argentina. France. Projectroom in Bern, Switzerland, where Poland. July 2009 – participated in the organizer of the projects on contemporary Coordination of Culture and Art, CGCCA Lives and works in Tbilisi, she developed the exhibitions program realization of the student curatorial project photography. In 2001 she curated the and the Artisterium Association. She is an Georgia. 2009, Punctum, 4 Gatos Art Sous la Terre, il y a le Ciel (Under the Earth, as a part of the EAST international 09 Georgian part of the exhibition The Baw editor of the contemporary art magazine Center, Haedo, Argentina; Cristian Tonhaiser There Is the Sky) featuring the artists Shen exhibition in Norwich. 7-10 May 2009 of Stability in St. Petersburg. In 2005 she ARTLOOP and regional art magazine Yuan, Marco Brambilla, Nebojsa Seríc- – PERFORMANCE ARSenal Bialystok – was an editor of ARTURI _ newspaper CORD. She has organised the exhibitions 2009, Tbilisi, photo series. 2008- HADE II – Vulnerando las Borin in 1966in Buenos Aires, Sobá, Han Myung-Ok, Adel Abdessemed, festival performance – curator’s assistant. on contemporary art, collaborated as a of contemporary Georgian artists in 2009, Archaos, photo series. fronteras, International forum Argentina. Lives and works in Sislej Xhafa, Ruth Barabash and Collectivo 9-13 February 2009 – Because it’s like free-lance writer with different magazines Moscow, Nantes, Istanbul, Baku, Yerevan 2008, MAF Group Exhibition, of Performance, Breaching the Buenos Aires, Argentina. Cambalache. Evelyne Jouanno writes for that now, it won’t stay that way – new and newspapers: 24 hours, Alternative, and Tbilisi. She organized the Artisterium Tbilisi State Academy of Fine borders – Chilavert Art Center, books, catalogues and magazines including art from Austria – curator’s assistant. Style, etc. In 2008 she worked as an editor 2008 and 2009 in Tbilisi, Georgia. Arts; an initiator/member of the Buenos Aires, Argentina; 1st Salon 2009, Punctum, 4 Gatos Art Flash Art International (she was a French November 2008 Artisterium – participation of IMPRESS_magazine of visual art and correspondent), Third Text, Atlantica, Make, and realization of the curatorial project literature. In 2009 she co-founded The MAF group. 2007, Intercultural of Erotic Art, Te Matare Ramirez, Center, Haedo, Argentina; Archives de la Critique d’Art. from the collection of the Arsenal Gallery. Center of Contemporary Art and union Lika Mamatsashvili 12-17.10.2008 – Place in heart – curator’s “art&society”. She lives and works in Tbilisi, ------assistant. 10-16.05.2008 – Uncover me – Georgia. A curator of the Georgian National Alena Boika (or) theatre sale – curator’s assistant. Museum, Tbilisi History Museum Karvasla ------from 2001 and an art manager from 1986. An editor-in-chief for UMELEC International Rusudan Oat Expert of the Georgian photography of Magazine for contemporary art and culture Benjamin Godsill ------the 19th century. An author of the books (Czech Republic) Profile: Russian-speaking ------An art-historian and a curator. She is a Alexander Roinashvili volume I-II and Boris countries and the former Soviet Union. A Curatorial Associate at the New Museum founder of the New Art Union and a director Romanovski. She has organized numerous Freelance art journalist and curator Member of Contemporary Art in New York where of the Newart Gallery. Lives and works in exhibitions of Georgian contemporary art and one of founders of Eastern Alliance he develops exhibitions and programs. Tbilisi. and the international exhibition projects Cultural Program. Recently he organized Urban China: held in Tbilisi History Museum Karvasla. Informal Cities, a discursive exhibition by She is an initiator and organizer of Jiang Jun / Urban China Magazine which Maria Tsantsanoglou the educational programs: Animation, Shaheen Merali premièred at the museum in February of ------Marionette and Silence Movie. ------this 2009 and will also be presented by the Was born in Thessaloniki, Greece. Her A curator and writer, currently based in Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, and the Ph. D. is on “Russian Futurism, history, London and Berlin, where, from 2003-8, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. criticism and reception”, Lomonosov Sophia Kilassonia he was the Head of Exhibitions, Film and Previously at the museum he contributed to University, Moscow (1993). She has done ------New Media at the Haus der Kulturen der the catalog accompanying Unmonumental: research and has numerous publications An art historian, art journalist, an editor of Welt, curating several exhibitions including The Art Object in the 21st Century, and has on the Russian Avant-garde art. She has newspaper “24 hours”, a PR manager of The Black Atlantic; Dreams and Trauma, organized projects with artists including worked especially on subjects concerning Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, a curator Moving images and the Promised Lands; Jeffrey Inaba, Agathe Snow, Daniel synthesis of the arts, visual poetry/verbal of the several art projects. Magisterial of and Re-Imagining Asia, One Thousand Guzman, Steven Shearer, David Goldblatt art, art and politics, transcultural relations, the History of art. Doctorate. Field of the years of Separation. In 2006, he was invited and Adam Helms. Mr. Godsill has lectured modern and contemporary art scene in the professional research: Soc-realism – roots to be the co-curator of the 6th Gwangju at numerous universities including the countries of Caucasus and Central Asia. and platform; Soc-realistic ideology in Biennale, Korea. Further recent exhibitions School of Visual Arts and Steinhardt School She was a member of the Greek State culture and the influences of this culture include Blindstars, Starsblind, (BodhiBerlin) at New York University where he has also Committee for the reception of the Costakis today. a monograph exhibition on Shilpa Gupta, served as an Adjunct Faculty Member. Collection (1998). She has served as a and the seminal Everywhere is War (and In 2005 he was a Helena Rubeinstein cultural consultant (1994-1997) and press rumours of war) for BodhiMumbai, India. Curatorial Fellow in the Whitney Museum of and cultural attaché (1997-2002) at the
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