Afisha is an online listings calendar of exhibitions, gallery openings, lectures, performances, and publishing events taking place in Tbilisi, Georgia and the Caucasus. Afisha promotes a wide variety of cultural activities intended for both professionals and the general public, and the events featured on the platform are primarily submitted by its readership. The idea behind the platform is to support cultural engagement  in the region by making events easily discoverable and accessible. Afisha is independently funded and was founded in Tbilisi, 2022.

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On Saturday, June 7th, at 7pm, we are coming together at Kona Books for the launch of "Folded Bu8ki" by Sandro Sulaberidze.

Bu8ki is a spontaneous mix of text and photos, infused with absurdity and often filled with satire, sarcasm, yet also poetry.

Bu8ki [ბუ8კი (A piglet at its intermediate age). Often mistakenly referred to as: Butki, Buski, Buki, Buzki, Bushti...], is an Instagram page created in 2017. It is a fluid and often flexible space, which, when necessary, cleverly changes its appearance like a chameleon, demonstrating its resistance. To this day, it has created its own ecosystem, then broke through digital boundaries and appeared in the physically tangible form as a folded publication.

The Launch of "Folded Bu8ki" by Sandro Sulaberidze

Posta da Kona

Mutant Radio space, MUA team presents the exhibition ‘Silo|სილო’ – opening at 5 PM

Opening will be held featuring summary presentations of the SILO research. The event will begin with presentations by the participants:
Opening word – Natalia Nebieridze
Historical context of Tbilisi – Salome Tabatadze
History of the Silo – Zuka Khorkheli
International examples – Davit Asanidze
Presentation of projects developed during the workshop – Elene Edisherashvili
Presentation of the diploma project “Silo” – Zuka Khorkheli

Moderator: Gigi Shukakidze

Silo

Mutant Radio

Kurorti 1
"Your silence will not protect you."
Andre Lorde
Kurorti is a shared space in Tbilisi focused on visual art. Since 2022 a group of women artists has developed individual studios and around the studios initiated a platform for cultural interaction. Ongoing creative processes are part of our space and it is constant not only in the studios but also in our shared courtyard, in our balconies and shared rooms. Exchanging knowledge, caring for one another, and developing the local contemporary art scene is an integral part of Kurorti’s everyday life.
In addition to the women artists' studios, Kurorti hosts a shop featuring objects and items made by residents, a children’s book publishing house Zoliani Kata, and a gallery room for Obscura—a contemporary art platform. Alongside exhibitions, workshops, film screenings, and lectures, Kurorti occasionally becomes home to Oboba Bar and also hosts workshop series under the title Healing Practices, dedicated to inner balance, alternative forms of care and radical rest.
Kurorti 1 brings together artists working in this shared space: Nato Bagrationi, Salome Bukia, Salome Dumbadze, Mariam Gabrichidze aka Levi Deni, Mariam Kalandadze, Sopho Kobidze, Mano Muskhelishvili, Ninutsa Shatberashvili, Ana Chaduneli.
Curated by Mariam Loria (Obscura platform).
*On the opening day, alongside the exhibition, there will
be music by: Kdema, Ketrevan, Salo_me_ya, and 3AM,
as well as the Oboba Bar.

Kurorti 1

Center of Contemporary Art-Tbilisi

We are pleased to present Stefanie Heinze’s second solo exhibition in Tbilisi
Stefanie Heinze 
FELLOW 
Opening: May 29th 2025, 6-8:00 pm 
Stefanie Heinze 
Clandestine, 2025 
Acrylic and oil on linen
228.6 × 315 cm

Stefanie Heinze - FELLOW

LC Queisser

Join us for @tamar.ch_fps exhibition ‘Polyethylene, terephthalate’ on Tuesday, Opening: May 27 from 16:00

May 27 - June 10 11:00-21:00

Tamar Chaduneli - Polyethylene, terephthalate

Chaos Concept Store

Don't miss the program of New Georgian Films 𝘿𝙊𝘾𝘼 𝙁𝙞𝙡𝙢 𝘾𝙡𝙪𝙗!
Fiction and documentaries, shorts and features most of them released in 2025 and 2024.

On Mondays at ➐ in Amirani Cinema.

● May 26 - Inner Blooming Springs by Tiku Kobiashvili
● June 2 - Temo Re by Anka Gujabidze. Georgian premiere ★
● June 9 - Shorts by Vajiko Chachkhiani including Big and Little Hands. Georgian premiere ★
● June 16 - Holy Electricity by Tato Kotetishvili. Georgian premiere ★
● June 23 - Air Blue Silk by Irine Jordania. Georgian premiere ★
● June 30 - Shorts:
What Does the Mud Whisper by Dea Tcholokava. Georgian premiere ★
El Flor Del Camino by Giorgi Parkosadze. Georgian premiere ★
Inhale by Melana Sokhadze. Georgian premiere ★
Burning Sun by Nutsa Tsikaridze. Tbilisi premiere ★

The program continues in July with Limitation by Elene Asatiani and Soso Dumbadze and National Exams by Giorgi Mrevlishvili ending with shorts made couple decades ago that offer a look back at the recent history of Georgia.

All films are subtitled in English.

Full program (to be updated) ▶ https://www.doca.ge/en/film-club

New Georgian Films 𝘿𝙊𝘾𝘼 𝙁𝙞𝙡𝙢 𝘾𝙡𝙪𝙗

Amirani Cinema

Obscura invites you to Sandro SUlaberidzis exhibition Memories yet to be digested

Sandro Sulaberidze - Memories Yet To Be Digested

Kurorti

Window Project is pleased to invite you to Ninka Skhiareli’s solo exhibition, “The Ray of the Transcendental and Postmodern Baroque”.
Skhiareli’s visionary works are part of a defining moment in contemporary art, merging intuitive expression with philosophical depth. Her paintings traverse psychic landscapes, radiant transcendental light, and the vibrant energy of the postmodern baroque. Through a powerful and evocative visual language, she invites viewers into spaces of profound emotional and spiritual resonance.
The exhibition title is drawn from an essay by Gia Edzgveradze, written specifically for this project.
📍E.Tatishvili st.9, Tbilisi
🗓️ Opening Reception: 23 May, 17:00

Ninka Skhiareli -The Ray of the Transcendental and Postmodern Baroque

Window Project

Nika Kutateladze’s solo show ‘Gia Has Planted Seedlings Which Will Bloom’ is open to the public. You can visit us every day except Monday 11:00-19:00.
Through the mediums of painting and installation, Kutateladze’s work studies the nuances of relations between people who live as neighbours in rural environments. Having himself spent time living in remote mountain regions in Georgia, Kutateladze takes these small communities as a starting point to meditate on how people both rely on one another and struggle to live together. All Kutateladze’s recent works derive from his observations of the few inhabitants of a single, depopulated mountain village.

Nika Kutateladze - Gia Has Planted Seedlings Which Will Bloom

Gallery Artbeat

Patara Baghcha - Collective gardening and an island for South Caucasian solidarity In Bethania

Patara Baghcha Open Call

Various Locations

After five months on strike, we are pleased to invite you to the opening of Mariana Chkonia’s second solo exhibition with us. ‘Sky Vine’ comprises a new body of work, conceived for the occasion. Alongside wool, as her primary focus, Chkonia introduces new materials for her textile pieces, such as silk and organza. 
It is not by chance that the exhibition derives its title from Sky Vine - the flower overlooking the artist’s studio garden. Not by accident Chkonia draws a parallel between gardening as art as practice of care and healing. 
The exhibition is open to the public on Sunday, May 18th 16:00 - 20:00 and runs through Sunday, June 22, 2025.

Mariana Chkonia - Sky Vine

E.A. Shared Space

"I wake up early in the morning and drink coffee" - Niko Tsetskhladze, from the series Coffee Angels.
Gallery we see items presents a solo exhibition by artist Niko Tsetskhladze.
Exhibition opening: May 15, 18:00-21:00
Address: 6 Abo Tbileli St, Tbilisi
Niko Tsetskhladze was a member of informal artist groups in the 1980s, including X Floor and Marjanishvili Workshop. Since then, he has actively participated in various artistic projects and exhibitions. In the early 1990s, just before the outbreak of war, he took part in one of the first performances in Georgia, Stand Against.
Tsetskhladze’s performances often address social and political themes. His well-known Caravanserai Performance explored the topic of the abolition and devaluation of Soviet money. His art frequently transcends the boundaries of space and form - it is a living act of expression, a gesture, and a statement all at once.

Niko Tsetskhladze - from the series Coffee Angels

Store Weseeitems

5th and 6th May 2025

The collapse of the Soviet Union profoundly impacted everyday life in the national republics, and underground performance art provided a space for imagining alternative socio-political movements amid the transition. This project explores lesser-known experimental participatory practices from the 1980s through the 1990s in Georgia, including land art, body art, and video art. As at once a study of experimental art amidst political turmoil and transition of the 1980s and 1990s, the project also attends to the continued relevance of these forms of art in shaping our political present and intervening in authoritarian violence.

Many performances from the 1990s in Georgia remain undocumented, with only a limited number of photographs and oral histories attesting to their existence.

Embodying Transition: Performing 1990's Today

Goethe-Institut Georgien

Cesna 185 
Performace by Natalia Nebieridze and ZaZa Nebieridze

Cesna 185

PATARA invites you to the opening of Merabo Lomadze's first solo exhibition 'A Dream You Never Dreamed'
This Sunday, April 13, from 7pm
Merabo Lomadze’s solo exhibition A Dream You Never Dreamed revolves around the poetic and haunting image of a burnt body that reanimates within space. Through the intense use of melted candle wax on upcycled paper, the works become deeply expressive and organic—evoking the texture, smell, and emotional weight of living, burning flesh. Wax, a material that can be melted and remelted, becomes a symbol of an eternal life cycle—one that never ends, only transforms.
Candle wax, often lit in churches as a symbol of the human body and its hopes, becomes central to the installation. The artist draws on this ritual act: a small flame as a gesture of hope, slowly melting away the physical form to make room for ones dreams. This paradox—of destruction giving rise to creation—forms the emotional and conceptual core of the exhibition. Scraped surfaces, with residues in various colors layered and reused, construct a greater whole. These remnants, gathered and reformed, turn texture into narrative and scent into memory.

Merabo Lomadze - A Dream You Never Dreamed

Patara Gallery

Unbound Trajectories of the Future – Audio-Visual Presentations/Collaborations
🗓️ 03.04.2025
🕘 21:00 – 00:30
📍 Mutant Radio
Admission is free.
Unbound Trajectories of the Future – Audio-Visual Presentations/Collaborations are a continuation of the exhibition project of the same name, which took place from June to September 2024 at the Goethe-Institut Georgien. The exhibition was conceived on the occasion of the Institute’s 30th anniversary. The event originally scheduled for November 29, 2024 at Mutant Radio was cancelled by the organizers due to the situation in the country.
Now, Unbound Trajectories of the Future – Audio-Visual Presentations will take place on April 3 at Mutant Radio in Tbilisi – this time as part of the visit of the Berlin Clubcommission.
Five audio-visual works created by nine artists in the studios of Mutant Radio will be presented. The project explores new creative approaches in a diversity of sonic, visual, and conceptual perspectives.
Participants:
Ana Chaduneli, Sopho Kobidze & Luka Vadachkoria
Ethernet_011 (Mananiko_Kobakhidze) & Giorgi Koberidze
Gabiskiriamalia & Mariam Songhulashvili
render.wav
Aleksi Soselia & Sandro Sulaberidze
Curator: Giorgi Spanderashvili

Unbound Trajectories of the Future

We are excited to host the launch of Solomiya Magazine No.4 — Environmental issue, on March 26th, 7-9 pm.

Solomiya is an artist-run independent magazine exploring and showcasing the Ukrainian cultural and artistic scene.

The first monothematic issue of Solomiya — The Environmental Issue — brings together a collection of artists and researchers reflecting and advocating on behalf of Ukraine’s more-than-human communities and ecologies. In collaboration with the Ukrainian Environmental Humanities Network (UEHN) — an international collective of curators, artists, and scholars — an issue celebrates the richness and complexity of Ukrainian landscapes currently threatened by the war. This issue offers a diverse range of perspectives, amplifying voices that challenge the colonial, imperial, and extractive narratives that have long shaped external perceptions of Ukraine’s environment.

The launch of Solomiya Magazine No.4 — Environmental issue

Kote Sulaberidze
My Caucasus
You can visit the exhibition from March 22, 17:00 to 20:00.
Exhibition duration: March 22 – May 31, 2025
The gallery of TBC Concept’s multifunctional space is pleased to present Kote Sulaberidze’s solo exhibition My Caucasus. The exhibition brings together selected works created by the artist from the 1990s to the present day.
The main axis of the exhibition is the idea of ​​the Motherland, which crosses each of the artist's works with direct or indirect references. In today’s context, where Georgia faces numerous challenges, this exhibition is not just a retrospective; it is a dialogue between the past and the present and reflections on the future. My Caucasus showcases works created alongside the first steps of modern Georgia—serving both as a historical review and a response to contemporary challenges.

Kote Sulaberidze My Caucasus

TBC Concept

Join us for the opening night of Third Cinema Days, where we turn our focus to Palestinian cinema—a cinema of resistance, resilience, and lived experience.
We begin with Home Movies Gaza (2013) by Basma Alsharif, an intimate and haunting meditation on the Gaza Strip, revealing it as a microcosm of civilisation’s failure. Through fragmented home video imagery, the film immerses us in the everyday struggles within a landscape inseparable from its political reality.
Following this, we present No Other Land (2025), a deeply urgent documentary by Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal, and Yuval Abraham. Filmed over five years, it follows the destruction of the Palestinian community of Masafer Yatta under Israeli occupation, forging an unexpected alliance between a Palestinian activist and an Israeli journalist.
These films bear witness to the lived experience of occupation, offering narratives that challenge, confront, and demand attention. We invite you to watch, reflect, and stand in solidarity.
All films will have Georgian and English subtitles. 🍉
📍 Kinos Sakhli
📅 March 21, 19:00

Third Cinema Days

Cinema House

Open Call
Night Culture – A Group Exhibition
What does nightlife mean in contemporary art culture? Is it a space of freedom, rebellion, and self-expression? A fleeting moment of euphoria and connection? A stage for performance, identity, and subversion?
We invite artists working in all mediums to explore the themes of nightlife culture—its aesthetics, rituals, histories, and contradictions. From underground scenes to mainstream clubbing, from intimate gatherings to mass movements, nightlife has shaped music, fashion, and art, offering a lens through which we can examine society, identity, and desire.
Artists at all stages of their careers are encouraged to apply. Selected works will be part of a group exhibition that captures the essence of nightlife as a cultural phenomenon and artistic inspiration.

Submission Details:
 • Deadline: 10 May
 • Mediums: Open to all forms (painting, sculpture, video, photography, performance, digital media, etc.)
 • How to apply: sisters.room.space@gmail.com
 • Exhibition dates: 9 June-28 June
 • Location: Sisters Room Space

Open Call Night Culture – A Group Exhibition

sistersroom.space

Chaos concept store presents solo exhibition of Ana Chaduneli
Slow
opening 16th of March
17:00-21:00

Ana Chaduneli - Slow

LC Queisser and Kona Books are thrilled to present Reba Maybury’s first solo exhibition and reading at their space.
Exhibition:
Reba Maybury
‘Ungainly Positions’
Opening: March 15, 2025, 5–8 PM
Reading:
Reba Maybury
‘From Paris With Love’
Mistress Rebecca recounts how eight different submissive men created versions of Toulouse-Lautrec’s The Medical Inspection for her using paint-by-number kits.
Reading: March 15, 2025, 4–5 PM (Kona Books)
LC Queisser would like to thank the Danish Arts Council for making this exhibition possible.
Image:
Reba Maybury
‘Yet to be named 4, 22, UK, recently graduated English graduate teacher/socialist and in chastity. North East England.’, 2025
24 colors, acrylic on printed canvas
40 × 50 cm (15 ¾ × 19 ⅝ inches)

Reba Maybury - Ungainly Positions

Save the date!
Friday, 14th February, 2025
We are thrilled to invite you to a presentation of ‘Wet Material’ - A selection of female voices in 20th century Georgian poetry addressing questions of artistic material. With poetry by: 
Marijan (Mariam Tkemaladze), Esma Oniani, Sapo Mgeladze, Babilina Khositashvili, Domenika Eristavi / Gandegili, 
Compiled and translated by Ana Gzirishvili;
Foreword by Elene Abashidze;
Designed by Tamar Chaduneli.
The digital version of ‘Raw Material’ was created with the support of the Women’s Fund in Georgia
The presentation will be followed by a reading of selected poems by Ana Gzirishvili.
Please feel free to reach us at info@easharedspace.ge for pre-order!
#AnaGzirishvili #TamarChaduneli #EleneAbashidze

Wet Material

Tamar Botchorishvili’s solo show, ‘Beyond the Hills’ is now open for public. Due to the political situation in Georgia, there will be no opening reception but the gallery is open for public during regular hours which can be modified according to the protest schedule to be notified on instagram. Looking forward to seeing you!
‘In my latest figurative works, I explore the complexity of the human body and its intricate nature. I particularly emphasize the nude body as a form of expression and empowerment. The compositions are not narrative but are entirely built on symbols. The portraits create a collective image rather than portraying individual identities. Through this approach, I provoke the viewer to reflect on how they perceive themselves and others - Tamar Botchorishvili.
6 February - 30 March, 2025
Address: Artbeat, 14 Pavle Ingorokva Str., Tbilisi
Image: Tamar Botchorishvili, Untitled, 2024, Collage, Colored Ink, Pastel, Watercolor on Paper, 130x150 cm

Tamar Botchorishvili - Beyond the Hills

SAVE THE DATE 🪩

We’re thrilled to present Ser Serpas’ third solo exhibition with us:

Ser Serpas
'Chandler'

Opening: 23 January 2025