Here’s a list of 10 women artists on Georgian art scene, that you need to know.
MAIA NAVERIANI
Being attracted to everything unfamiliar and unknown since her childhood and having an instinctive protest against patriarchal system of Georgia, Maia Naveriani escaped the routine of everyday life in Tbilisi and moved to London. Her works explore the queries about female identity and consciousness, and its relevance and impact in a contemporary context of dissolved values and ideologies.
THEA GVETADZE
Thea Gvetadze’s paintings, sculptures and installations pay tribute to scenes, moments and individuals, that carry some sorts of symbolism to her and profoundly shape her as a person. As an extraordinarily sensitive individual, she never fails to seize the beautiful moments on her life path and transforms them in her works.
TAMO JUGHELI
Tamo Jugheli accidentally found her love for art, when she bought the very first pair of markers and pencils at the age of 22. Her work is raw and emotional- none of her paintings is ever planned, but they are fruit of spontaneity.
GVANTSA JISHKARIANI
Gvantsa Jishkariani is an artist, curator, co-founder of Patara and The Why Not galleries, based in Georgia. She also founded the first magazine about Georgian contemporary artists and design scenes with Eliso Kirvalidze. Jishkariani’s works are created in different mediums and techniques, but at the same time they never fail to represent her original signature.
KETUTA ALEKSI-MESKHISHVILI
Ketuta Aleksi-Meskhishvili was born in 1979 in Tbilisi, Georgia. After moving to The United States at the age of 14, she graduated with a degree in Photography from Bard College of New York in 2003. In her works she uses different techniques and methods, which enables her to transform ordinary objects into the extraordinary and unusual.
SOFI MDIVNISHVILI
Sofi Mdivnishvili is a Tbilisi-based freelance photographer, who captures the beauty of female nude bodies in a non-sexual way. Her photos, often taken in nature, express the scars, build-up emotions and personal stories of the bodies she photographs.
NATA SOPROMADZE
After graduating from School of Documentary Photography “Sepia”, Tbilisi-based photographer Nata Sopromadze created first, non-commercial, Georgian online magazine “Beat” about photography and contemporary art, which then continued its existence as online TV station “Artarea”. Her photography is so characteristic, that it is almost impossible to not recognize her name as the aesthetics, philosophy and simplicity create a unique artistic signature
ANNA K.E
Anna Kapanadze-Edzgveradze works in the fields of drawing, sculpture, installation, photography, video and sound, yet, she cannot be classified into traditional categories. Anna K.E represented Georgia on Venice Biennale 2019.
NINO KVRIVISHVILI
Nino Kvrivishvili is a Georgian textile artist, who explores the meanings and hidden stories of found objects and common materials or, in other words, she makes the objects and materials transform into storytellers. After studying textile design at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, she continued her further studies in various residencies located in Europe, Lithuania, Austria, Switzerland and Germany.
ANA CHADUNELI
Born in Rustavi Georgia in 1990, Ana Chaduneli graduated from the Faculty of Architecture, Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 2013. Her dream-like, playful and magical works often create environments without characters, in which we are able to feel as if we are a part of it.