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Nine Lipped Goddess Tamar Beruchashvili, Salome Chigilashvili, Ani Gurashvili, Merve Iseri, Gvantsa Jishkariani, Maia Naveriani, Nato Sirbiladze, Athena Papadopoulos, Amalia Ulman
‘Nine Lipped Goddess’ is a group show of 9 international artists and simultaneously 9 mini solo shows of each one of them, as isn’t it so that self is better discovered in a group?
Like trees can live in tribes and families but also self-sufficiently stand alone so too the artists become part of a group while continue to play by their own rules. Like a witch ‘who worships herself as her own god. Who is the creator of her own life, the healer of herself’ (Maura Dilon) so too each one of the artists forms her own being around herself and through her art practice. And as many or a few of us do so too do they ‘…struggle with all the force of their lives for one thing only: to fulfill themselves according to their own laws, to build up their own form, to represent themselves.’ (Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and Sketches, 1972)
This show is an attempt to share reflections and thoughts about being part of a society while living with your own rules, being a social animal while being self-sufficient, having the ability to live part of a tribe while still standing alone, being a human while being a tree. This exhibition is also a small experiment to find out whether self is truly better discovered in a group. The viewers are invited to observe and take a role of a theatre audience but also be triggered to think, feel and converse. Only with them the act will be complete.
Tamar Beruchashvili was born in Tbilisi in 1985. She lives in Munich with her family. She studied Oriental Studies, Tbilisi State University (B.A.) 2003-2007, Management of Social Innovations, Design Thinking, Munich University of Applied Sciences (B.A.) 2009-2014 and Sociology, Gender Studies, Ludwig Maximilian University (M.A.) 2015-2017.
Since 2018 she has worked as a research assistant (Technical University of Munich) and innovation manager (Caritas Munich). She is the author of several academic papers.
In 2020 she participated in conference Where My Girls At? Contemporary Feminist Art, Ludwig Maximilian University.
Salome Chigilashvili is Georgian visual artist, born in 1996 in Tbilisi, Georgia. She graduated from Visual Arts, Architecture & Design School – VA[A]DS of Free University of Tbilisi.
She is a multimedia artist, mostly works on sculpture, painting, found objects. As a material she often uses threads and plaster.
Since 2016 she has taken part in several projects and exhibitions: Clean Hands, curated by Nino Sakandelidze, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2020; Story As A Woven Carpet, curated by Irina Popiashvili - 68 Projects Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 2019 ; Stitching Stones , collaboration with Situationist - Somerset House, London, United Kingdom, 2019; Tabula Rasa - Kunsthalle Tbilisi, Georgian National Museum, 2019 ; Crosscurrents, curated by Marcus Fairs, Irina Popiashvili – Window Project Gallery, 2019; ‘Oxygen_Tbilisi No Fair’ – Tbilisi, Georgia, 2018; Artisterium - Tbilisi 11th International Contemporary
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Art Exhibition, Tbilisi History Museum , 2018; And- Abandoned German school of Tbilisi, 2018; ‘Interaction’ – Artarea Gallery 2018; Nearby Not Far Away – VA[A]DS, Free University,2017; All And Everything – Artarea Gallery, 2017 ; Skola x VAADS - Exposition And The New Publication,2017 ; ‘Time And Time +’ at an abandoned building of Tbilisi (Tabukashvili st.), 2016; ‘As A Metal Yarn’ – Presidential Palace, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2016. Who Does She Think She Is? - Not A Charity Auction at Rooms hotel, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2018; Georgian Contemporary Art Auction - Not A Charity Auction at Lolita , Tbilisi, Georgia, 2018.
Ani Gurashvili, born in 1990 is a Georgian artist living in Vienna. She graduated Tbilisi State Academy of Arts with a bachelor degree in MediaArt. Currently, she is studying for a Diploma in painting at the University of applied Arts Vienna.
Gurashvili’s works are translations of ancient and medieval symbols. Various elements are extracted from diverse mythological traditions and put together to form temporary combi- nations. Through these arrangements, that are free from historical context, contemporary interpretations are made.
Merve İşeri (b. 1992, Istanbul) graduated from Politecnico di Milano in Communication Design in 2014 and has since been living between London and İstanbul. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in New York, Milan, Istanbul, Miami, Chicago, Brussels and London. Her first solo exhibition Her Brain is a Travelling White Bullet with Ballon Rouge Collective in Istanbul in 2017. İşeri’s work has been published in The Financial Times, Harper’s Bazaar Turkey, the Huffington Post among others.
Merve Iseri's paintings depict inner landscapes shown through personal and archetypal allegories, which explore different modes of language.Her paintings are made intuitively, with no sketching or planning. Because of this her mark making often inadvertently depicts associations between nature and humanity, as she taps into her own unconscious while making work. Merve's storytelling mostly revolves around the communication between human nature and culture; she hopes to show a shared humanity beyond culture.
Gvantsa Jishkariani is based in Tbilisi, Georgia. After studying at Tbilisi State Academy of Art (BA in Architecture) she gained an Informal MA in Inclusive Mediation at Center of Contemporary Art - Tbilisi. In 2017, she won Tsinandali Award in visual arts.
Jishkariani is an artist whose primary medium is installation. Her work addresses first and foremost the topics of expectations, beliefs and taste. The temporary nature of the paradox that arises when searching for concrete definitions of right and wrong, east and west, old and new is one of her subjects of interest.
Gvantsa’s art is inspired by serendipity and intuition. She starts each work with preconceived composition and idea, but mostly without preliminary sketches. She wonders how ancient superstitions, social media and surrounding trashy images influence on everyday life; how emotions, memories, views and personality is created.
Since 2014 she, with ten other female artists is part of an art group New Collective. In 2017, Jishkariani founded Patara Gallery in an underpass shop in Tbilisi, which is a space for experimental, denied or not- yet-seen art and for game-changing young artists. In 2018 Gvantsa co-founded a The Why Not Gallery in Tbilisi, Georgia.
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Maia Naveriani studied under Gia Edzgeveradze before completing her formal training at the Academy of Fine Arts, Tbilisi. Having moved to London, in 1989, she was nominated by Annely Juda Fine Art for the the Vordemberger Gildewart Foundation international prize in 1999, which she won.
Since then she has taken part in numerous solo and group exhibitions in both public and commercial spaces including Fordham Gallery, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London; Neues Kunstforum, Cologne; Museum Wiesbaden; Museum Bochum; Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund; Netwerk, Aalst; Cirius Art Centre, Cork; Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York and CoBra museum, Amsterdam. She also became a member of the group Everything is Alright founded by Gia Edzgeveradze, taking part in many performances in public spaces including Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Museum Bochum, Bochum and Museum Kunst Palatz, Dusseldorf. Maia Naveriani is represented in Germany by Galerie Voss, Dusseldorf. The artist lives and works in Tbilisi and London.
“Drawing as a medium with its purely conventional nature opens to me an unlimited chance to access freely and rapidly (nearly automatically) all those infinite pictorial images our human unconscious is generating, multiplying, juxtaposing… It is bizarre and ludicrous to watch how under my pencil the odd world of irrational images build their own senses, proving in front of my eyes the Lacanian thesis which tells: the unconscious is structured as a language.
It is a sheer pleasure for me to reflect on this manifestation and to attempt to build out of them an installation of a certain meta-language structure, obtaining a hint of an image of an ocean while watching innumerous springs and rivers coming together into oneness of the wise-senselessness.” - Maia Naveriani
Nato Sirbiladze started painting at the age of 31. Her artworks are made on paper and several hundreds of them are painted in gouache and aquarelle. She was born in Tbilisi, after finishing school she continued to study in the Pedagogic Institute to become a teacher. In different periods she worked at the National Library, at the Institute of Management and as a school teacher. Nato Sirbiladze’s paintings were included in a catalogue of “Pirosmani – Painter’s Muse” together with other famous artists , which was published in 2005. For years she participated in various exhibitions including at foreign countries: 1995- 2004 Gallery Graph Haidelberg; 2000-2007 – National Library of Parliament of Georgia; 2013 – The Literature Museum; 2014-2015 – Group exhibition, Folk Center; 2015 – Project of Maya Gheghenidze “Days with Me”.
Athena Papadopoulos (b.1988 in Toronto, Canada) lives and works in London. Following her BFA at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, she completed her MFA at Goldsmiths, London in 2013.
Papadopoulos makes wildly image-laden, mixed media sculptures and works on canvas. She utilizes techniques including collage, drawing, and sewing, and eschews paint in favor of materials like mustard, Pepto-Bismol, and shoe polish, in combination with family photographs, magazine clippings, her own drawings, and various fabrics. Together, they form cacophonous, richly textured compositions. Through her work, Papadopoulos explores our penchant for revelry and indulgence, as well as the trappings of rebellion—like dyed hair or tattoos—and their appropriation and taming by mainstream commercial culture. “I think there is a sense of spontaneity and intensity embedded in my working process that I
For further information, please, contact us at: [email protected]; +9950322996403 www.galleryartbeat.com hope the viewer can see in the works,” she says. “The works are not meant to be moving upwards towards a point of precision, they are of a world that is downward and sprawling.”
Current and forthcoming solo and group exhibitions include Future City Shining the Eternal Now, Museum of Contemporary Art (Toronto, CA, 2021); The Condition of Being Addressable, ICA (Los Angeles, US, 2021) and Emalin (London, UK, 2021).
Recent solo exhibitions include Cain and Abel Can’t and Able, MOSTYN Museum (Llandudno, UK, 2020); The Apple Nun, Liebaert Projects (Kortrijk, BE, 2019); Holy Toledo, Takotsubo!, curated by CURA, Kunsthalle Lissabon (Lisbon, PT, 2019); A Tittle-Tattle-Tell-A-Tale Heart, Humber Street Gallery (Hull, UK, 2019); The Smurfette, Emalin (London, UK, 2017); Belladonna‘s Muse, curated by Samuel Leuenberger, CURA Basement Roma (Rome, IT, 2017); Wolf Whistles, Shoot the Lobster NY (NYC, US, 2016).Recent group exhibitions include World Receivers, curated by Tiffany Zabludowicz, Zabludowicz Collection (London, UK, 2019); The Marvelous Cacophony, curated by Gunnar B. and Danielle Kvaran, 57th October Salon (Belgrade, RS, 2018); Streams of Warm Impermanence, David Roberts Art Foundation (London, UK, 2016); Wild Style, Peres Projects (Berlin, DE, 2016) and Bloody Life, Herald St. (London, UK, 2016).
Amalia Ulman (b. 1989) is an airport based artist with an office in New York City. Born in Argentina but raised in Spain, she studied Fine Arts at Central Saint Martins in London. Her works, which are primarily voiced in the first person, blur the distinction between the artist and object of study, often creating humorous, gentle deceptions, while exploring class imitation and the relationship between consumerism and identity. In addition to video, sculpture and installation work, her multidisciplinary practice has involved the use of social media, magazine photoshoots, interviews and brand endorsements as tools for the fabrication of fictional narratives. Ulman’s performance Excellences & Perfections was archived by Rhizome at the New Museum (New York) and exhibited at the Tate Modern and Whitechapel Gallery (London). Latest works include "Buyer Walker Rover, Aka. Then There" commissioned by Feng Boyi for the Wuzhen Biennale of Contemporary Art in China, "Sordid Scandal" commissioned by the Tate Modern and “El Planeta”, a comedy about eviction.
25 September - 8 November, 2020
Address: P. Ingorokva street 14, Tbilisi
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