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Gvantsa Jishkariani (b.1991, Rustavi) is a Tbilisi-based multimedia artist and curator. She graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the Tbilisi State Academy of the Fine Arts (2013), then completed an informal master's program at the Centre of Contemporary Art-Tbilisi (2014). Dedicated to experimentation, the artist likes to explore traditional craft – investigate her own associations, research into the tradition and then employ the knowledge to create her art. Her works often deal with her personal emotions and experiences as well as reflect socio-political conditions of present-day world. The artist often employs humour to address these deeply personal and highly relevant topics.

 

Jishkariani is widely exhibited in Georgia as well as abroad including New York, Brussels, Vienna, Prague, Zurich, Dusseldorf, Naples among others. In 2021 she received Prince Claus Foundation Seed Awards. In 2020 she was selected for the Forbes 30 under 30 list, in 2019 she won the NARS Foundation Studio Grant, New York and in 2017 the artist received the Tsinandali Award in Visual Arts. Her artworks are in private collections worldwide including MSGM Collection, Alain Servais Collection, TBC Bank Collection, Collezione Taurisano, Maria Larsson Collection, Vasili Tsereteli Collection, Papashvili Collection, Agovino Collection, The State Silk Museum, Georgia.

Apart from her artistic practice, Jishkariani has an equally vibrant curatorial career. She is a founder of Tbilisi-based galleries Patara Gallery (2017) and The Why Not Gallery (2018), dedicated to supporting young Georgian artists. She was the curator of the Tbilisi Photo Festival Night of Photography  (2017, 2018, 2019). Jishkariani was the founder of the first Georgian online magazine Gargar magazine on art and fashion (2013-18).

CV

 

EDUCATION:

2013-2014 Informal M.A. in Creative Mediation, Center of Contemporary Art Tbilisi (CCA-T)

2009-2013 B.A. of Architecture and Design, Tbilisi State Academy of Arts

AWARDS/RESIDENCIES/GRANTS

2022

Lottozero Textile Labs - Residency grant, Prato, Italy

2021

Prince Claus Foundation - Seed Awards recipient

2020

Exhibition Grant - Ministry of Culture Georgia

Forbes Georgia - 30 under 30 - visual arts

2019

Studio grant at Fotograf Gallery, Prague, Czechia

Studio grant at NARS foundation, NY, USA

2018

RESIDENCY GRANT at BINZ39, Zurich, Switzerland

2017

WINNER of Tsinandali award in Visual Art

RESIDENCY GRANT at Transcultural ArtLab, Juist, Germany

RESIDENCY GRANT at Frauenkulturburo NRW e.V., Dusseldorf, Germany

2016

RESIDENCY GRANT at Yarat, Contemporary Art Space, Baku, Azerbaijan

RESIDENCY GRANT at Batumi Back Yard Stories, Batumi, Georgia

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2023
I Hate Poetry - CH64 gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia (May)
My Aunt’s books on Magic- Munich, Germany ( June)
Tbilisi Art Fair - Tbilisi, Georgia (September)
Medicine for Guilt - The Why Not Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia ( September)
Shanghai Art Fair - Shanghai, China (November)
Me and my Brother Have Same fears - A01 Gallery, Naples, Italy ( December)

 

2022

Professionally hot- A01 gallery, Naples, Italy, (Solo, TBA)

I Dream of Fire - The why not gallery (Solo, May)

Munich, ( Two person show, TBA)

2020

Together Forever - Solo Show at Open Space, Tbilisi Georgia

Permanent Adolescence - Solo show in Ballon Rouge Club, Brussels, Belgium

2019

Who will record History? solo show at Project Artbeat, Tbilisi, Georgia

2018

a Tree.ხე at A01 gallery, Naples, Italy

REPTILIANS WITH WINGS at Template Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

GOODS ARE LEFT ON THE SHELVES-Performance at Nectar Gallery Performance Days, Tbilisi, Georgia

2017

SAVANNA SAVAGE at the Moving Gallery by Project ArtBeat, Batumi, Georgia

2016

Whales are Lonely at State silk museum, Tbilisi, Georgia

WITCHCRAFT AND CURIOSITY at A01 gallery, Naples, Italy

COUNTERFEIT GOODS at Yarat, Baku, Azerbaijan

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2022

I've seen the future baby, It's sexy-  at Skuc gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia

I am Nobody, who are you? , at Rhizome, Kortrijk, Belgium

Soft opening, Halle13, Vienna , Austria, (TBA, March)

Sorry, No Flowers Here, The why not gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia, February- March

2021

ALL YOUR FAVOURITE BITCHES & WITCHES at CAS Batumi, Georgia
TWO SHAPES OF LEAF ON TREE at KAIR, Kosice, Slovakia

PUNK IS IN THE HEAD at A01 gallery, Naples

2019
GROUP SHOW at gallery artbeat, Tbilisi, Georgia

UTILITIES, gallery Warehouse, Tbilisi, Georgia

2018

EENY, MEENY, MINNIE MOE at Project ArtBeat, Tbilisi, Georgia

IN AND OUT OF REALITY at Expo Georgia, Tbilisi Art Fair, Tbilisi, Georgia

2017

OCCURRENCES at Gallery Nectar, Tbilisi, Georgia

TAVIDAN at CCA TBILISI, Tbilisi, Georgia

NACHTFOYER at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany

SUFFOCATION VIA BUTTERFLY EFFECT at State Silk Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia

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