• EXTENSION.GE. IF YOU LIVED HERE, YOU WOULD BE HOME

    EXTENSION.GE. IF YOU LIVED HERE, YOU WOULD BE HOME

     

    TATO AKHALKATSISHVILI, UTA BEKAIA, TAMARA KVESITADZE, LUCA LAZAR, LEVAN MINDIASHVILI, DARO SULAKAURI, RUSUDAN KHIZANISHVILI, LEVAN CHELIDZE, NINO CHUBINISHVILI, GIORGI CHKHEIDZE

     

    Triumph Gallery in partnership with Ria Keburia Foundation, ERTI Gallery and Window Project, Tbilisi, presents the 11th edition of the EXTENSION project—If You Lived Here, You Would Be Home. In line with now traditional approach to exploring different national art scenes, ten Georgian contemporary artists, who represent various media and subject matters, are brought together by their interest in heritage and cultural memory.

     

    Georgia has always existed at the crossroads, from the Ottoman Empire to the Soviet regime, from the Rose Revolution to the era of the new oligarchs. Having overcome a deep trauma, Georgia is now a vital link in cultural exchanges. In spite of many years of migration, regime change and economic turmoil, Georgians have managed to preserve their national heritage, avoiding the fate of “the cultural melting pot” that has befallen neighboring lands. This cultural depth and richness can be seen in the work of Georgian contemporary artists, who continue to explore their deep ties with tradition and cultural memory, even if working in cities all over the world. Georgia, with its special cadence of life, seems to have avoided the identity crisis that many other nations face today. With a slower pace to life and a tendency towards meditative contemplation, the atmosphere of this country lets you focus on actual values, reflect upon the changing present and consider alternative ways forward.

     

    Extension.ge: If You Lived Here, You Would Be Home displays an overview of Georgian contemporary art by presenting artists with diverse background. All exhibition artists belong to the generation which is part of the new dynamic scene that looks beyond the geography of their national borders. Without ignoring their cultural identity and possessing particular experience of contemporary reality, these artists make a claim to international presence and benefit from their openness and desire for exchange.

     

    Exploring transitional fluid state of historically accepted social forms and paradigms, the exhibition revisits the notions of place, identity and history. It doesn’t propose answers or solutions, but it does offer opportunities to closely examine artistic practices, storytelling and new perspectives. The profound intergenerational impact of postcolonialism, economic exploitation and ideology requires nuanced insights and experiential responses, which inevitably shapes the reality and brings about new artistic practices. Participants of Extension.ge: If You Lived Here, You Would Be Home are renegotiating the definitions of place and home in order build renewed links between the notions of memory, geography, identity.

  • "IMAGE AND LIKENESS" – Exhibition at Moma Tbilisi

    “IMAGE AND LIKENESS” – Exhibition at Moma Tbilisi

     

     

  • NADA Miami 2018

    NADA Miami 2018

     

     

    ERTI Gallery is pleased to present Levan Mindiashvili’s solo presentation at NADA Miami 2018

     

    The focus of Levan Mindiashvili’s practice is a shifting condition of historically accepted social forms and value systems, in which he revisits canonical truths regarding identity, history, and the language. His solo presentation at NADA, takes the point of departure the oeuvre of LA-based Dutch conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader, and mainly his last piece titled “In Search of The Miraculous” (1975) in which Ader attempted to sail across the Atlantic on his way to the upcoming show in Groningen. The discovery of his boat 10 months later and disappearance of his body, inevitably fueled already existing longing for erasure of the border between art and life, endured by the fact that Ader’s conceptually rigorous oeuvre was deeply invested in its seeming antithesis: Romanticism, and for him, the authenticity of the work of art lay not in representing philosophical concepts, but in embodying them.

     

    In works presented at NADA Miami, Mindiashvili explores conditions, in which despite the ever-growing complexity of our everyday reality, our perception of the world is reduced to the single digital image: ephemeral and temporal, moderated and conditioned either by us — ourselves or by technology and algorithms. If pigmented hydrocal tiles attempt to grasp ultimate physicality of the digital image, his hand painted mirror “Studies” become the point of encounter of the work and it’s surrounding — not depicting it, nor dissolving in it, but the synthesis of these two.

     

    Levan Mindiashvili is a Georgian born visual artist living and working in Brooklyn and Tbilisi.

    He holds his BFA in Sculpture from Tbilisi State Academy of Arts and MFA in Crossed Media from The National University of Arts of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Among his awards is Commission Grant for Public Art Projects from National Endowments for Arts (New York, 2014) and Emerging Artist of 2011, Movistar Arte Jóven (Buenos Aires, Argentina). He was a resident artist at NARS Foundation for Spring/ Summer 2018 season, Brooklyn, NY. His works had been included in recent group exhibitions at The 7th Beijing Biennale, China; Georgian National Gallery, Tbilisi; Super Dutchess, NYC; ODETTA, Brooklyn; Tbilisi History Museum, Georgia; Arsenal, Kiev; Tartu Art Museum, Estonia; Recent solo and duo exhibitions include “Non_ Place” at SFA Projects, NYC; “Here” at Georgian National Museum, Mestia; “In-Between” at State Silk Museum, Tbilisi; “Unintended Archeology” at The Lodge Gallery, NYC; His works are in public collections of Georgian National Museum, State Silk Museum (Tbilisi) and National Art Museum of China (Beijing).

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Levan Mindiashvili is a Georgian born (1979) visual artist and independent curator living and working in Brooklyn and Tbilisi. He holds his BFA in Sculpture from Tbilisi State Academy of Arts and MFA in Crossed Media at The National University of Arts of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Among his awards are Commission Grant for Public Art Projects from National Endowments for Arts (New York, 2014) and Emerging Artist of 2011, Movistar Arte Jóven (Buenos Aires, Argentina). His works had been included in recent group exhibitions at The 7th Beijing Biennale, China; Georgian National Gallery, Tbilisi; David & Schweitzer Contemporary, Brooklyn, US; Tbilisi History Museum, Georgia; The Lodge Gallery, New York, US; Arsenal, Kiev, Ukraine; Tartu Art Museum, Estonia; Recent solo exhibitions include “Here” at Georgian National Museum, Mestia; “Inbetween” at State Silk Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia; “Studies For Unintended Archeology”, The Vazquez Building, Brooklyn, US;

 

His works are kept in public collections of Georgian National Museum, Mestia; State Silk Museum, Tbilisi and National Art Museum of China, Beijing.

 

EDUCATION

 

2008-2010 Postgraduate Studies in Crossed Media, IUNA (National University of Art of Buenos Aires) Argentina;

1997-2003 Tbilisi State Academy of Fine Arts;

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2017 “Here”, Georgian National Museum | Mestia Museum, Svaneti, Georgia; “Inbetween”, State Silk Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia;

2015 “Shifting Identities”, The Lodge Gallery, VOLTA NY;

2014 “Suites For Unintended Archeology,” The Vazquez Building, Brooklyn, NY;

 

 

 

2013

“Borderlines”, The Lodge Gallery, New York City, NY;

“Whispers,” ArtArea Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia; “Urban Identities,” Kunstraub99, Cologne, Germany;

 

 

2011 “Intimidades Mobiles,” NES Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina;

2009  “Levan Mindiashvili • Performances,” curated by Sophia Kilassonia, Europe’s House (part of ArtIsterium 09, II International Forum of Contemporary Art) Tbilisi, Georgia;

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)

 

2017

The 7th Beijing International Art Biennale, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China; “Exploring Spaces – Contemporary Art from Georgia”, Katara Art Center, Doha, Qatar; “True Believers”, David & Schweitzer Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY;

“Limits of My City”, Georgian National Museum: “Contemporary Art Gallery,” Tbilisi, Georgia;

 

2016

“Shaping Identities,” Tbilisi History Museum “Contemporary Art Gallery,” Georgia; “Precarious Constructs,” Venus Knitting Art Space, Brooklyn, NY;

“Eco Impulse,” Tbilisi Literature Museum, Georgia; “Future Memory,” Art Villa Garikula, Georgia (catalogue);

“Night Intervention” Uta Bekaia + Levan Mindiashvili, State Silk Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia;

“Shaping Identities,” Arsenal Museum in collaboration with Georgian National Museum “Contemporary Art Gallery,” Kiev, Ukraine (catalogue);

“Green,” The National Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia;

“Unintended Archeology, Levan Mindiashvili + Uta Bekaia,” The Lodge Gallery, New York City; “Aesthetics of Repair in Contemporary Georgia,” Tartu Art Museum, Estonia (catalogue);

“All The Future’s Parties,” Hathaway David Contemporary, Atlanta, Georgia; “(extra)Ordinary,” organized by FIT, The Hollows, Brooklyn, NY;

“A Room of One’s Own: An Exhibition”, The Clemente, New York City, NY;

 

2015

“Structures,” The Manny Cantor Center, New York City, NY; “Kiosk,” ODETTA, Brooklyn, NY;

“HERITAGE,” RichMix Arts Center, London, UK;

 

2014

“Crossing The Boundaries.03,” AT388, Rotterdam, The Netherlands;

WAG Mag Benefit Auction, (represented by Fountain Art Fair), Kunsthalle Galapagos, Brooklyn;

2013

“HERITAGE,” Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia;

“For Which It Stands,” The Lodge Gallery, New York City, NY;

“Crossing The Boundaries.02,” AT388, Rotterdam, The Netherlands;

2012

“MAN/kind,” 32 Jones Gallery, Jersey City, NJ;

“Transpolation,” FAT Fashion Art Week Toronto (with Uta Bekaia and Cristian Tonhaiser), Canada; Summer Show, Fundacion Mundo Nuevo, Buenos Aires, Argentina;

Summer Show, Laguanacazul Art Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina;

2011

Movistar Arte Joven 2011, Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Seres Encontrados, “Objeto a” art gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Summer Show, Fundacion Mundo Nuevo, Buenos Aires, Argentina;

2010

Art Isterium 10, III International Forum of Contemporary Art, Tbilisi, Georgia; “Projects,” Isidro Miranda Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina;

Artist Books, UADE (Argentina Business University) Buenos Aires, Argentina;

“Vectores Invertidos,” Laguanacazul Art Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina; “Heterodoxa02,” Nes_zona 54 Art Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina;

2009

“Negro Barocco,” Encontre Arte Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina; “Kunst en Religie,” Denderleeuw, Belgium;

“New Generation,” Gallery Arsi, Tbilisi, Georgia;

“Kunst Raub #003,” Galerie Kunstraub99, Cologne, Germany;

2008

“Heterodoxa01,” Salon Dorado, Teatro Roma, Buenos Aires, Argentina;

“Weltreise der Sinne,” IKV Bonn, Germany;

2007

“International art road _ Kunst aus 4 Kontinenten,” Alte Feuerwache, Cologne, Germany; “Perdue,” GalerieD’Art Paris8, Paris, France;

2006

“STRASSEN_verbinden kulturen,” Galerie Atelierhaus Westfallenhuette Dortmund and WissenschaftsPark, Gelsenkirchen, Germany;

“The Lost Ones,” Gallery Universe, Tbilisi, Georgia;

“Georgian Visual Art,” National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia;

2005

“Tbilisi Impronte,” Gallery Borgo Arte, Borgomanero, Italy; “Figurative Art Studio.02,” Gallery Universe, Tbilisi, Georgia; “Kunst Aus Georgien.03,” Gallery CultiG7, Mannheim, Germany;

2004

“Figurative Art Studio.01,” Gallery Universe, Tbilisi, Georgia;

2003

“Kunst Aus Georgien.02,” Gallery CultiG7, Mannheim, Germany.

 

AWARDS

 

2014

FABLES Commission grant for Public Art Projects, National Endowments for Arts, New York City;

2011

Emerging Artist of 2011. Movistar Arte Jóven 2011, Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires, Argentina;

2010

The 3rd Award for the Drawing, Premio Museo Metropolitano, Buenos Aires, Argentina;

 

PRESS (selection)

 

“Unintended Archeology of (Un)Place” by Etty Yaniv, Kolaj Magazine, November, 2017;

 

8 Artists to Watch from Bushwick Open Studios 2017, HYPERALLERGIC, September, 2017;

 

The ever-flowing present of now in Levan Mindiashvili’s HERE at Mestia’s Georgian National Museum,

 

AQNB, September, 2017;

 

Art Dubai’s Global, Cosmopolitan Vision By Guelda Voien, The Observer, March, 2017;

 

8 Galleries and Artists to see at Art Dubai, ArtRadar Journal, March, 2017;

 

Highlights from Armory Week by John Haber, HaberArts, March, 2017;

 

Precarious Constructs – A Dance with the Maelstrom by Jenjoy Roybal, ArtsInBushwick, December, 2016;

 

Aesthetics of Repair in Contemporary Georgia by Liisa Kaljula, ART Margins, August,2016;

 

 

Night Intervention of Uta Bekaia and Levan Mindiashvili by Sophia Kilassonia, Indigo #12, October 2016;

 

Salt, Charcoal and Skin – Night Intervention of Bekaia Mindiashvili by David Bukhrikidze, Liberali #173, September 2016;

 

The Pleasurable Aspects of Breakdown by A. Wheeler, Estonian Art, October, 2016; Georgia: a Much Repaired Society by Francisco Martinez, Baltic Worlds, October 2016; 5 Artists to Watch during Kiev Art Week, Forbes Ukraine, June, 2016;

 

Must see Artists during Kiev Art Week 2016, Vogue Ukraine, June, 2016; Aesthetics of Repair, IDAAF Magazine, May 2016;

 

Aesthetics of Repair in Contemporary Georgia, Exhibition Catalogue, published by Tartu Art Museum, Estonia, 2016

 

Words, Objects and Buildings in Personal Diaries of Levan Mindiashvili by Khatuna Khabuliani in “Essays”, Saba Publishing, Tbilisi, 2016;

 

Best Art Exhibits of 2015: The ‘Dear Readers’ Edition, Brooklyn Magazine, December 2015 Levan Mindiashvili Urban Intimacies by Tata Alkazishvili, IDAAF Magazine, December 2015;

 

Multimedia Reflections on Georgian Heritage and Identity by Katerina Zherebtsova, Huffington Post, February 11, 2015

 

Yvonne Jaquette, Levan Mindiashvili and New York Cityscapes: View From Above by John Haber, for HaberArts, February 2014;

 

The Best from ArmoryWeek by ArtSlant Team, March, 2014;

 

HERITAGE at The National Museum of Georgia by Ellene Kapanadze for Georgian Art Platform, London, UK, November, 2013;

 

Tbilisi to Bushwick: Levan Mindiashvili’s search for Identity by Etti Yaniv for ArtsInBushwick, June, 2013;

 

“Urban Identities” by Dr. Wolfgang-Till Busse, Essay for the catalogue for the solo show at Kunstraub99, Cologne. May, 2013;

 

Dialogues (with Uta Bekaia) by Nino Lomidze, Hot Chocolate, April 2013, pg. 50-55; Noises of Levan Mindiashvili, Telma #1, 2010, pg. 10-12;



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