Ilona Keil-Beruchashvili

I wish I had
Your true land (on exibition in Zumikon)
from Series „Clouds“
It’s never too late (cartridge 50.BMG)
Meer & Rain
Black water (Fragment)

Ilona Keil-Beruchashvili was born in Tbilisi 1979. She studied at the art collage of J. Nikoladze. In 1999 she moved to Bavaria, Germany, Ilona finished her MA at the Art Academy in Nuremberg, under Professor Diet Sayler and Eva von Platen. She currently works as an assistant to Professor Eva von Platen at the same academy.

Ilonas art work was presented at Kunstverein Hochfranken Selb e.V. Selb, Germany; University of the fine art of Budapest, Hungary; Karavansarai, Tbilisi and more.

A few days ago I asked Ilona to write a few words about her work, here is what she wrote me: What can I say about my works? Not much.
I started with classical painting and drawing. I worked for a long time with landscape, clouds and water, but my last works are a lot more in the realm of conceptual art. At the moment I'm interested in words - their position and power of within art.

Tamar Archvadze

Marina Ivanishvili

Head of horse 1996
Untitled 1986
Untitled 1997
Untitled 1997

Marina Ivanishvili is a sculptor, artist, icon-painter and writer.
As she wrote in her short autobiography she was born in the era of Soviet Realism and she conferred realist.

Eteri Chkadua

Eve's teritory 1990
Hunters 1988
Late guest 2005

Eteri, who was born and raised in soviet Georgian based in New York since 1992, via Chicago, Tokyo, Los Angeles, Montréal and currently living in New York and Kingston, Jamaica, uses her many invented personate to create a construct of contemporary female identity, a container for social and cultural values that are ultimately Georgian, in dialogue with multiple perspectives and displacements that characterize many of today's peripatetic artists. Eteri, however, dresses her radiant, neo-dada babes in the painstaking, labor-intensive techniques of the old masters (she only completes three or four paintings a year) which includes the use of oil paint on a linen support, a brilliant palette and high-definition, mimetic skills worthy of a sixteen century Flemish artist, techniques acquired at the Georgian academy of fine arts. These are autobiographical works, even a travelogue of sort a semiotic of high and low tourism keyed to events in her as they unfold with flashbacks that recall and reinvent the country she has left, like Hollywood movie posters, with Caucasus slant.
From the article "Picturing a Georgian artist as a New Amazon and Woman of the World" by Lilly Wei, curator, essayist and critic / Art in America / ART news / Art Asia Pacific.

Elizabeth Epitashvili

Georgian sculptor Elizabeth Epitashvili has received numerous awards and prizes for her works, including first and second level diploma of Republic Exhibition Competition of Institutes Ministry of High Education. Elizabeth's bronze portraits and torsos are in Tbilisi State Gallery Museums and Private Collections. Her sculptures were presented in several exhibitions and art galleries in Georgia, Republic of Serbia and Yugoslavia.
Elizabeth was working as a teaching at The College of Iakob Nikoladze Sculpture faculty, Tbilisi State Art Academy Fine Arts faculty Sculpture department, Elene Akhvlediani children pictures Gallery, Art Academy of the USSR Creative Studio of Sculpture and Pedagogical Institute of Sulkhan–Saba. Since 2000 she is a Head of Art Studio- Scientific center of students and youth of Georgia.

Kristine Kakabadze

Breakfast
Marie
Untitled
Herb


Kiki Kakabadze is a young artist, who I met this summer in Tbilisi. At 2005 she graduated State Academy of Arts, Tbilisi. Kiki has shown paintings in the gallerys as Shardeni, ARCI, Taphir, International Theater of Frankfurt am Main and more.

Tamar Botchorishvili

Tamar Botchorishvili (1980), Georgian painter, works and lives in Tbilisi. Tamar graduated I.Nikoladze Art School and State Art Academy, Tbilisi. She participated in several exhibitions in Georgia and France.
In her work Tamar deals with topics as gender relationships and roles, integration, otherness and more.