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Biography
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1957 |
Born in Tbilisi , Georgia (former USSR )
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1972-1976 |
Nikoladze Art College , Tbilisi (BA)
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1976-1982 |
Georgian State Art Academy , Tbilisi (MA)
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1985-1988 |
Stay in Moscow ; Association of avant-gardist artists
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1988 |
Stay in Paris ; artist-in-residence Gallery Bernard Felly
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1989 |
Stay in Kassel ( Germany ); artist-in-residence Museum Fridericianum
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1990-2003 |
Live and work in Cologne ( Germany )
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since 1997 |
Visiting lecturer at the European Academy of Fine Arts, Trier ( Germany )
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since 2003 |
Lives and works in New York , N.Y. ( USA )
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Selected Exhibitions
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| 2011 | “Fest-i-nova” – Art festival, Georgian Art Centre “Garikula”, Georgia “Georgian Artists working in Europe”, as part of European days events –Tbilisi, Georgia |
| 2010 | “ART MOSCOW”- Moscow |
| 2009 | “Born in Georgia” , Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, NL, (K) |
| 2008 | ‘’Paris Montparnasse Tbilissi’’ Le Musse du Montparnsse, Paris, (France) (K)
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| 2007 | 55 Mercer Gallery - "Moving Stills" New York, NY (USA)
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| 2006 | A Space Gallery - presents "Intrinsic Form" Brooklyn, NY (USA)
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2005 / 2006 |
"Moving Stills" Gallery Schüppenhauer , Cologne ( Germany ) [C]
“ Gematria “ in series of exhibitions under the title “Mysticism in Art”, Grant Gallery – Soho , New York , NY (USA)
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2004 |
“Art from Perestroika till today”, State Art Museum , Tbilisi (Georgia) [C]
“Invitation to a Beheading” (original title in German: “ Einladung zur Hinrichtung ”), Gallery Schüppenhauer , Cologne ( Germany )
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2003 |
“Statements Basel-Köln”, Gallery Kämpf , Basel ( Switzerland ) and Gallery Schüppenhauer , Cologne ( Germany )
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2002 |
“ART Frankfurt ” ( Germany ) [C]
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2001 |
“One-liners”, Gallery Jule Kewenig Frechen-Bachem ( Germany )
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2000 |
“The White Curtain”, Gallery Schüppenhauer , Cologne ( Germany )
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1999 |
“ Fazit ” - Moving Images, Neon-installation, Gallery Schüppenhauer , Cologne ( Germany ) [C]
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1998 |
“Transformation” Installation - UNESCO, Paris (France) [C]
“BRÜCKENGANG” (Bridging) Art-in-public-spaces, Cologne ( Germany )
“Opposite of Eden ” Installation, Art House Kaufbeuren ( Germany ) [C]
“Dialogue” Museum for Regional History and Art , Hamburg ( Germany ) [C]
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1997 |
“Dialogue“ Museum für Regionalgeschichte und Kunst, Hamburg (Germany) [C]
“The Conscience” - “STADT(t)ART, Kunst in 56 homöopatischen Dosen ” countrywide cooperation project on art in public spaces, Hürth ( Germany ) [C]
“M.E.S.S.A.G.E.” Positions of current art –Video-installation Gallery Schüppenhauer , Cologne ( Germany ) [C]
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1996 |
“Dialogue” Leopold Hoisch Museum, Düren (Germany) [C]
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1995 |
Art Cologne 4, Josef- Haubrich -Art-Hall, Cologne ( Germany ) [C]
Ursula- Blickle -Art-Prize for “Installation”, 1st prize, Ursula- Blickle -Foundation, Kraichtal ( Germany ) [C]
“Dialogue” Theodor-Heuss-Akademie, Bildungsstätte der Friedrich Naumann Stiftung, Gummersbach (Germany) [C]
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1994 |
“Last Supper” - Gallery Jule Kewenig , Frechen-Bachem ( Germany ) (In the Showroom of Gallery Johnen & Schöttle , Cologne ) [C]
“Dialogue” Erholungshaus der Bayer AG, Leverkusen (Germany) [C]
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1993 |
“Crusades III” - Installation, Cologne ( Germany ) (in cooperation with Gallery Friedrich, Cologne ) [C]
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1992 |
“The Cradle of Humanity”, Frankfurt am Main ( Germany ) (In cooperation with Price Waterhouse Corporate Finance and the Worldwide Life Foundation) [C]
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1991 |
Two Georgian Painters – Museum St. Wendel ( Germany )
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1990 |
“ Georgia on my Mind” - Four Painters from Tbilisi , DuMont Art Hall, Cologne ( Germany ) in collaboration with Museum Fridericianum-Kassel and Documenta Archive, Kassel [C]
Paintings from Georgia , Mona-Bismarck-Foundation, Paris (France) [C]
International Exhibition in the House of Arts, Cagnes (France): 2nd prize by Art critics jury [C]
Two Georgian Painters – Arts Hall Kiel ( Germany )
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1989 |
Soviet Contemporary Art, Hôtel de Ville Strasbourg ( France ) (with Ilya Kabakov ) [C]
Exhibition on new Soviet Painting, Warschau ( Poland ) [C]
“Perestroika Man” - Three Georgian Painters, Soviet Art House, Moscow ( Russia ) [C]
“ Georgia on my Mind” - Four Painters from Tbilisi , Museum Fridericianum , Kassel ( Germany ) [C]
Autumn Exhibition, Artist house Tbilisi ( Georgia )
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1988 |
“Glasnost” - the new freedom of Russian painters, Art Hall Emden ( Germany ) [C]
New Art from the USSR and Bulgaria , Dallas ( USA ) [C]
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1987 |
“Generation-80”, House of Arts Tbilisi (Georgia) [C]
Exhibition Georgian Abstract Art, Exhibition Hall “ Ermitage ”, Moscow ( Russia ) [C]
First Group Exhibition of abstract art by Georgian artists, State Gallery, Tbilisi ( Georgia )
“Interart-87”, International Art Fair of Socialist countries, Warschau ( Poland ) [C]
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1984-1987 |
Participation in several exhibitions throughout the Soviet Union
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