Georgian Contemporary Art: Origins and Continuities

Image: Karlo Kacharava, The King, 1987, mixed media on paper, 83.7x59.5 cm.

The inaugural exhibition of the Kvareli Foundation for Contemporary Art traces the development of Georgian contemporary art from the 1960s to the present, examining the shifting artistic languages, intellectual positions and modes of expression that have shaped its trajectory over more than six decades. The exhibition approaches this period through a series of transformations: from formal experimentation to conceptual and ideological opposition, from collective artistic movements to radical individual positions, and from the rupture of the Soviet collapse to the increasingly plural field of contemporary practice.