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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From September 21-28, the Gori Historical-Ethnographic Museum, in partnership with the Goethe Institut Georgien and within the framework of Creative Compass, will showcase the project "Mi Zi Inana" by multimedia artist Maka Kiladze, founder of the Circe Experimental platform for Dance and Theater. The project brings a unique approach to exploring Mtkvari-Araksi culture through various media and translates ancient experiences into the language of contemporary art.
Location: Gori Historical-Ethnographic Museum, Kirion II St 12.
September 21 at 16:00
Multimedia installation "Mi Zi Inana" - Exhibition opening.
September 21 17:00 - 17:30
Film Screening: experimental dance film One Drop of Blue
September 22, 13:00 - 14:00
Public lecture by Zviad Sherazadishvili: "Trade and Cultural Relations between the South Caucasus and the Near East During the Mtkvari-Araksi Culture period.
September 22, 14:00 - 16:00
Magic Cube workshop and film screening of the animated short film "One Drop of Blue"

Maka Kiladze - Mi ZI Inana

Gori Historical-Ethnographical Museum

ATINATI’S Cultural Center will host Levan Tsutskiridze’s exhibition.
The exhibition will present Levan Tsutskiridze’s works from the ATINATI collection, alongside pieces from private collections and the Tsutskiridze family collection. Visitors will see the artist’s large-scale canvases, as well as various graphic works.
DATE: 8th September
TIME: 17:00 o’clock
Address: ATINATI’S Cultural Center. P.Ingorokva 19a (main entrance from the backside of Parliament)
Levan Tsutskiridze (1926-2021) is one of Georgia’s most renowned artists, standing next to those who laid the foundation of contemporary Georgian art. His creative range is wide- not limited by an interest in easel art alone, Tsutskiridze also worked productively in monumental painting. In 1966, he created two large panels, named ‘Feast’ and ‘Harvest Celebration.’

Levan Tsutskiridze's exhibition

Atinati

Ubani—Tbilisi Cityscape Research Center, in collaboration with Czech Centre Tbilisi, is hosting a presentation by Czech architect Anna Beata Háblová on the concept of "non-places" within cities. This will be followed by a roundtable discussion with Tbilisi-based urban planner Elena Darjania and architect David Giorgadze.
The first part of the upcoming event in Ubani's public program will be devoted to the presentation by the Prague-based architect, urbanist, and writer Anna Beata Háblová. She will share her perspective about marginal spaces in towns: neglected, transitory, and overlooked places, i.e., "non-places" – not only in the sense of Marc Augé but simply as everything in contrast with an intelligibly defined public space.

Entrance from Kinos Sakhli Creative Hub, the last floor.
Timetable:
18:00 – Presentation by Anna Beata Háblová
18:40 - Roundtable discussion with Elene Darjania and David Giorgadze
19:40 – Q&A session
Free entrance.
The lecture and discussion will be held in English.

Non-Places of the Cities

Cinema House

Léa Porré
Ianitores terrestres
Opening 06.09 7-9PM
06.09- 29.09.2024
Patara Gallery and Lava Art Project are delighted to announce Ianitores terrestres, a solo exhibition by London-based artist Léa Porré in Tbilisi, on view from September 6th to 29th at Patara Gallery. Her debut solo show in Georgia features a new body of work that navigates the space between the sacred and the secular, exploring the passage of time as a transformative ritual.
For this immersive installation, Porré transforms Patara Gallery into a portal to another dimension. The entire room is overtaken with digital prints on the walls and a series of small wooden doors disseminated across the walls, enhancing the transformative nature of the space. On the floor, the landscape is completed with the oxidised sculptures rescued from the city’s debris, creating depth and an otherworldly quality to the room.
Porré's show reimagines the gallery space as ritualistic, symbolising profound change and serving as a rite of passage by employing the figure of the door. Rooted in the concept of cyclical time, her work uses doors as both symbolic and mythological entities that are a synecdoche of time’s passage. Historically, doors have delineated public and private spaces and marked transitions to divine realms across various cultures and mythologies, such as the Roman God Janus, who marks beginnings, endings, and transitions.

Léa Porré - Ianitores terrestres

Patara Gallery

On September 4th at 19:00 we are delighted to invite to the launch of the 4th issue of the magazine - “place” in theatre "Haraki". Actress Anano Makharadze will present the issue and read several of its excerpts.
▪️Contributors:
Christian Moore
Zura Jishkariani
Vera Schindler
Dimitri Eristavi
Ana Mchdelishvili
Nona Markarian
Nata Tatunashvili & Lera Chubara
Giorgi Latsabidze
Barbara DeConinck
Rowan Twine & Rikki Brown
Tatiana Asatiani
Lasha Kilasona
Ariali
Timothy Merkel
Mariam Abashidze
Tamar Shukakidze
Luka Akimidze
Intizor Otaniyozova
Bichiko Cheishvili
Givi Guledani

Launch of the 4th issuee De:nostalgia

Haraki

We are pleased to invite you to Tiko Imnadze's exhibition opening on Wednesday, 4th of September at 20:00.
| The exhibition is on view through 19th of September.
Hermit Space gallery Hours:
13:00 - 19:00 everyday except Mondays

Tiko Imnadze - All Because of Muddy Waters

Hermit Space Gallery

On 3rd of September, we are coming together for a conversation with graphic and book designer Jana Liebe. After the presentation Jana will host a workshop where participants will learn how to build a DIY cold glue bookbinding tool designed by BB*.
During the occasion we have the pleasure to present Walking as Research Practice. Published by Soapbox Journal (1st and 2nd edition) and Roma Publications (3rd edition), Walking as Research Practice demonstrates in an unobtrusive way what design is all about. This anthology on an Amsterdam conference on the topic of ’walking as research practice’ is a very easy-to-handle soft back book on light-grey paper, constructed in a novel and surprising way. The book block has no cover and is glued with a specially developed glue binding, allowing the pages to be refolded entirely as the reader wishes. It can always be held easily in one hand.

Jana Liebe | Conversation and bookbinding workshop

Posta da Kona

Open Call for collective healing practices at Kurorti
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSedLwVpig501eMijumCG-IYNFhA-XxzYV3trdAWOoJm2DATrQ/viewform

Open Call | Healing practices

Kurorti

Svaneti, a region steeped in history and nestled high in the Caucasus Mountains, has enchanted visitors for millennia. Known for its towering mountains, ancient stone towers, and deep cultural traditions, Svaneti has a mystical allure that captivates all who venture into its rugged landscapes. This remote region, known for its resilience against countless invasions, has preserved its unique way of life, becoming a cultural stronghold within Georgia.
Visitors to Svaneti often speak of its mystical energy—a feeling of being transported to another time and place. The region’s dramatic scenery, with its pristine snow-covered peaks and medieval towers, evokes a sense of timelessness and otherworldly beauty. This mystical quality is woven into the fabric of daily life in Svaneti, where ancient rituals and traditions continue to be practiced with reverence and devotion.
A significant aspect of Anna's work focuses on the annual ritual of Lamproba, also known as "Lantern Night." This centuries-old tradition, where the living and the souls of the departed come together in a peaceful celebration, is depicted in her photographs with a delicate and respectful touch, highlighting the serene and sacred nature of the event.
Curator: Myriam Grigalashvili

Anna Kacheishvili - Where is God?

Hualing Plaza

The Center of Contemporary Art - Tbilisi is announcing a competition to identify the scholarship holders of the informal master's program "Creative Mediation": Shifting Environments.”.
The program aims at creating an educational space that will foster the initiation and execution of social and ecological projects in the world of environmental decline and climate change.

"Creative Mediation": Shifting Environments” consists of 17 courses, during which the participants will receive up-to-date and multi-faceted information from creative and ecological fields.
The keystone in the content of the program is the implementation of real, ecological, and socially innovative projects in collaboration with the supervisors.
The master’s program will be concluded by the final exhibition, during which the participants will showcase their fresh social and ecological perspectives to wide audiences.

Registration details:

Those interested in the scholarship for the free master's program, please send us your portfolio and motivation letter to the following email address:
invisiblecollegetbilisi@gmail.com
The selected participants will be interviewed by the supervisors on September 5–6.

• Open day: August 30-31
• Application deadline: September 5th

Creative Mediation: Shifting Environments | Open Call

Center of Contemporary Art-Tbilisi

We are excited to announce Keta Gavasheli’s upcoming solo exhibition, 'Voice Note', with us.
Please join us for the opening this Friday, August 23, from 5-8 PM.
The exhibition features a sound collaboration conducted with @lusorz

Keta Gavasheli - Voice Note

LC Queisser

Traditional songs of the North and the South Caucasus
temir — live performance
Zemfira Gogui — "deportation" forced displacement in the USSR (lecture)
Zarema Khalilova — Circassian Contemporary Art (lecture)

Room 222: Festival of art and activism of the North Caucasus

Praktika Cafe

Independent exhibition “who needs the concept” unite’s 12 young artists’ fine art (painting) works.
The planing and process of the exhibition is quite spontaneous. Containing no strict guidelines, rules, structure or conditions.
Participants:
Dimitri Aleksidze
Salome Bochorishvili
Giorgi Geladze
Ana Kezeli
Liza Kvantaliani
Tekla Kighuradze
Merabo Lomadze
Ketevan Lomadze
Saba Mzhavanadze
Sopo Simonishvili
Sandro Pachuashvili
Luka Dzagania
Nina Tsotsoria
Exhibition opens on August 3, 19:00-22:00
Artarea Gallery, Dodo Abashidze 10
Exhibition will be open until August 10,
15:00-19:00

who needs the concept

Artarea Gallery

Patara Gallery Presents Vato Bakradze's Solo Exhibition, “Goalpost of Nature”
The exhibition opening is on August 3rd, from 7-9 PM.
The exhibition continues until August 30th.
The exhibition can be viewed from the outside 24/7
Book an appointment to go inside the Gallery.
The exhibition's title is borrowed from Georgian writer Iakob Gogebashvili's 1868 book “Door of Nature”, as it artistically combines and conveys the exhibition's two main themes: nature, a constant motif in Bakradze's work, and the door, which in this context is interpreted as a football goalpost (the word for both goalpost and door is the same in Georgian). The visual attempt to connect these two radically different elements—on the one hand, a human-invented game, and on the other, animals and plants—serves as the exhibition's main focal point.

Vato Bakradze - Goalpost of Nature

Abican - Drifting Wood
31.07.24
21:00

A muezzin calls through the distant, archaic-sounding everyday breath of a city, and the small world of the venue takes on a cosmopolitan dimension, overlaid with electronic patterns, grids, mosaics, with multiverse sounds from a universe that seems unfathomable to us, yet it looks at the same moon. Then the stream begins to sing, it does not breathe, it does not draw in, it only emits.

Processed field recordings and amplified wood - improvised, noisy and raw (there might be wood flying around, watch out xoxo)

Abican - Drifting Wood

Tornike Bendeliani - First Days
exhibition opening July 26, 6-8pm
exhibition runs until September 8, 2024
"First Days," Tornike Bendeliani's second solo show at the Why Not Gallery, explores the universal experience of beginnings, capturing both creation and destruction through evocative watercolours. The viewer encounters contrasting narratives of new life, where elements of history and the illogical whims of the artist's mind combine. Some paintings evoke interiors of Middle Eastern homes, reminiscent of cinematic settings; others portray faces obscured and fading, flowers captured in multiple attempts to stave off extinction, existing as mere imprints in a space where time flows and memories dissolve. Is this a reconstruction of the past or a fantastical vision of the future?

Tornike Bendeliani - First Days

The Why Not Gallery

Nino Chubinishvili / Chubika
What Would it Mean to Leave Tip-Toe Dancing? Maybe I Should Remain a Butterfly in the War?
Opening: July 25, 2024, 18:00 - 20:00
Duration of the show: July 25 – September 15, 2024

In cooperation with David Kakabadze Foundation, TBC Concept presents Nino Chubinishvili’s /Chubika’s show What Would it Mean to Leave Tip-Toe Dancing? Maybe I Should Remain a Butterfly in the War? The exhibition will be hosted in a multifunctional space of the TBC Concept at 7 Marjanishvili Street.

Nino Chubinishvili / Chubika (born 1969) lives and works in Tbilisi. After graduating in the 1990s from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, track of stage and costume design, she has been awarded several prizes for costume design. From 2005 to 2006, she continued her studies in Paris at the Institute Français de la Mode and cooperated with fashion houses like Kenzo and Pierre Cardin. Chubika is an essential figure in both the fashion world and contemporary art. In the 1990s, she was a member of the informal multimedia art group Goslab.

Nino Chubinishvili / Chubika- What would it mean to leave tip toe dancing?

TBC Concept

From July 24 to August 5, Kutaisi will host a public art festival.
The idea of creating the Kutaisi Public Art Festival is linked to the development of the Kutaisi Culture Development Strategy (CDS), prepared in 2022-2023 by Kutaisi City Municipality within the framework of the EU-funded project EU4Culture project. The festival aims to promote the development of public art and foster open creative processes in the city, establishing the foundation for the future development of the creative and cultural industries in the region. 
 The inaugural edition of the Kutaisi Public Art Festival encompasses various creative fields, including contemporary visual art, audio-visual and contemporary choreography performances, and literary events, all accompanied by an intensive educational program. The events scheduled in the program of the festival will be presented in various public spaces throughout the city over 11 days.

25.07 // 19:00 -20:00
Performance of contemporary choreography in Public Spaces.
Choreographers Natia Chikvaidze, Adam Coan
Green market
Park of love, Bank of Rion River
 01.08 // 19:00 – 20:00
Dialogue on poetry. Reading of poems
Reading: Shota Iatashvili and Giorgi Khasaya
Kutaisi Ilia Chavchavadze Public Library N1 branch.
N. Dumbadze st. 2
 03.08 // 18:00 - 19:00
„თუ“- opening the installation
From the series of text-based works "Homework"
Mariam Natroshvili and Detu Jincharadze
Kutaisi Botanical Garden
Leselidze st. 2
03.08 // 20:00 – 21:00
Audio-visual performance
Visual side: Alexi Soselia;
Musicians: Rati Baramidze and Scott McCulloch
Kutaisi Botanical Garden
Leselidze st. 2
 04.08 // 21:00 - 22:00
uRGBan - opening of the audio-visual installation
Authors: Anri Kiknavelidze, Irakli Bigvava, Davit Kublashvili
Facade of the D. Kakabadze Art Gallery.
Sh. Rustaveli ave. 8

Kutaisi Public Art Festival

Various Locations

Tbilisi Public Art Fund is glad to present the winning proposal for the ‘Promotion of Permanent Projects in Public Spaces, Tbilisi, Varketili 3, Rooftop’ - the ‘In-Between Conditions’ application, ‘Zura Jishkariani, I have seen a City’, architectural design Lado Lomitashvili, curator Vato Urushadze, project partner company ‘Sarajishvili’.
The sailing of ships in reinforced concrete, the theme of the sea, which is illuminated by letters on top of the building at night - on the one hand, creates a surreal moment (the sirens of ships in Varketili) and with its own dislocation seems to free the space locked inside, offering it to escape the programmed functionality. Moreover, it distributes old meanings in other previously unseen layers, arousing imagination, curiosity and sea breeze.
The sentence is formulated in the form of a question and is aimed not so much at giving an answer (it is difficult to answer such a question), but at stirring up new and foreign or perhaps old and forgotten feelings.

Zura Jishkariani - I Have Seen A City

“Stand”
MATERIAL HUNTERS presents a performance - Stand

Cast:
Natalia Nebieridze (daughter)
Bella Romelashvili (mother)

Start: at 20:00
Location: Dodo Abashidze str. #10 / Artarea Gallery

Stand

weseeitems is hosting Mariam Odishvili's solo exhibition. The exhibition will feature works created throughout different periods and materials. It is important for us to promote contemporary Georgian artists, which is why the selected works for this exhibition will introduce the audience to the artist in a variety of ways. The exhibition features both large-scale canvases and small sketches. Our experience collaborating with Mariam highlighted the importance of producing small sketches and the viewer's desire to purchase them.
Curated by Kati Arsenishvili

Mariam Odishvili's solo exhibition

Store Weseeitems

We are excited to present a screening of “State of Dogs” (1998), a Mongolian movie directed and written by Belgian filmmaker and anthropologist Peter Brosens and Mongolian writer and director Dorjkhandyn Turmunkh. The film was featured at the Venice Film Festival, Toronto Film Festival, and the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. It also won the Grand Prix at the Visions du Réel film festival in 1998.
“State of Dogs” is a unique mix of personal narrative and social commentary. The film is both beautiful and haunting, and it follows the story of Basaar, a stray dog who was killed by a hunter in Ulan Bator. According to Mongolian belief, dogs are reincarnated as humans, but Basaar is hesitant to accept this destiny. The film weaves together Basaar’s story with Mongolian mythology and contemporary poetry, creating a poetic fable-like texture.
Afterward, we will participate in a discussion between photographer, traveler, and independent film curator Alexey Myslitsky and Turmunkh Dorjkhand, the co-director and scriptwriter of “State of Dogs” (1998). Dorjkhand shares his insightful perspective on the films’ history and Mongolia during a time of democratic change.

State of Dogs

Summer Chronicles
Summer busy, diverse, magical, and unforgettable. With precious memories, emotions, dreams. It’s never enough, and—like everything especially good—it always ends too soon. It is very collective by nature and encompasses many things, myriad stories and impressions, those poised to be etched in our minds forever.
An exhibition suffused with the memories and dreams of two artists. Two different styles of expression and painting. 

Like Kakhidze’s and Ketevan Varshanidze’s group exhibition, Summer Chronicles, offers different attitudes, perceptions, experiences, and visions to visitors.

Summer Chronicles

Novo Gallery

On the occasion of a launch of SERI(a) 3: Along the Lines, we are coming together on 11th of July, 6-9 pm, at Posta da Kona.
SERI(a) 3: Along the Lines is a new issue of the publication series by the State Silk Museum in Tbilisi. SERI(a) is an extension of the museum, whose main purpose is to research and preserve the material and immaterial legacies of its predecessor, the Caucasian Sericulture Station. External curators edit and release this publication irregularly.
SERI(a) was conceived by the artist Olaf Nicolai in Tbilisi in 2019 and serves as an international platform for the museum’s various publishing efforts and is itself a kind of archive for diverse documents on sericulture.
The launch will be accompanied with a screening of Olya Korsun’s film Threads of Support (2 min 52 secs, France, 2024) and a reading of Tim Ingold’s essay Lines, Threads and Traces (2020). Afterward, we will participate in a discussion with Furqat Palvan-Zade, editor of SERI(a) 3: Along the Lines.
Concept: Nina Akhvlediani, Furqat Palvan-Zade
Editor: Furqat Palvan-Zade
Text: Rouzbeh Akhbari, Tim Ingold, Olya Korsun, Furqat Palvan-Zade, Salome Phachuashvili, Pieter Paul Pothoven
Graphic design: Timur Akhmetov
Publisher: Kona Books, Tbilisi

SERI(a) 3: Along the Lines

Patara Gallery is thrilled to present "Sugar Cubes," the inaugural solo exhibition by the rising Azerbaijani artist Mari Babaevi. This exhibition is part of a series called "Muted Flames, Invisible Fires" and was made possible by the Women's Fund in Georgia.
Opening: July 6, 6 pm
Exhibition runs until July 28
You can see the exhibition anyway, anytime or book an appointment to enter the gallery.
"Sugar Cubes" features Babaevi's artistic vision in a variety of media, including drawings, sculpture, installation, and textile works. The exhibition's title evokes the paradox of sweetness and structural fragility, evoking the delicate yet resilient quality of the subjects and the deep societal roots Babaevi is exploring.