Asia Now 2024
Tamara K.E.
17.10. - 20.10.2024
For Asia Now 2024, Window Project, Tbilisi is set to feature a solo exposition by Tamara K.E. The exhibition is centred on exploring an uncertain, surreal, and, at times, utopian future.
The exhibition showcases Tamara K.E.'s monumental paintings from the series The Day After theFuture (2012), small-scale mixed - media works on paper from the Revisiting Fear series (2015), and large-scale recent graphics from the series Remnants of the Glaring Day (2024). In this body of work,the artist "addresses the dynamics of our cultural memories, establishing seemingly random,free-flowing systems of codes, signifiers, and energy fields, and creating a stage for a final outcry of farewell to history."
Andro Dadiani
28.09.-25.10.2024
Opening: September 28th, 18:00
E.Tatishvili st.9, Tbilisi
Window Project presents an exhibition by multidisciplinary artist Andro Dadiani showcasing artworks from different times. The recent neglect of basic human needs has created a sense of insecurity. On the one hand, the exhibition is a manifesto of personal weakening; on the other, it is a call to great, metaphysical energies addressed to nature.
From the routine of cleaning the city from garbage, which began alone, new ideas were born, and an attempt was made to unite with greater metaphysical forces.
The installation presented at the exhibition is completed by fragment Z. From Paliashvili’s “Daisi,” where the words sound: “God, give me strength and effort, by Your grace I am strong,” this phrase permeates the exhibition like a latent desire.
The installation is supported by the Heinrich Boell Foundation Tbilisi Office - South Caucasus Region.
Change – Part Two
June 19 _September 20, 2024
Window Project presents a group exhibition titled "Change—Part Two," which showcases the work of artists from various generations in various media from 1989 to 2024. This exhibition reflects the significant changes in Georgia's recent history, politics, and culture.
Since gaining independence in 1991, and despite or in response to wars, occupation, and attempts to seize power and public space by governments, Georgian contemporary art metaphorically, with sarcasm or romanticism, challenges and reflects essential themes such as the need to rethink the past and present critically, demythologize history, emphasize individual responsibility in shaping public space, respect human rights and freedoms, and address identity crisis and resilience in a politically unstable environment. Each work featured in the exhibition tells its own story and reflects the collective or individual perspective of different eras. Regardless of various artistic forms and time frames, visual analysis of collective states reflects the same processes: the struggle for political power in Georgia, the search for freedom, and the fight for independence, all perceived as a constant, inevitable process.
Artists: Andro Dadiani, Situationist (Irakli Rusadze), Giorgi Gagoshidze, Erekle Getsadze, Mariam Mzesu Giunashvili, Shotiko Aptsiauri, Vakhtang Kokiashvili, Nika Machaidze, Koka Ramishvili, Gvantsa Jishkariani, Dato Koridze, Sandro Sulaberidze x Guram Tsibakhashvili, Uta Bekaia, Tamara K.E.
Tamara K.E. x Gia Edzgveradze - Sports Illustrated
2-18 May, 2024
Window Project and Gathering are pleased to present “Sports Illustrated” at Frieze No.9 Cork Str, which integrates artworks by Tamara K.E. and Gia Edzgveradze, taking the interpolation of competition and play in the realm of sports as its starting point. Beyond their shared involvement in the emergence of Georgia’s contemporary art scene, K.E. and Edzgveradze are life partners. Sports Illustrated will mark their first two-person exhibition. Fittingly, the dynamics that operate beneath the surfaces of sport and play—power, desire, negotiation, and creativity—areessential to the maintenanceof close relationships. Viewing the work of the two artists and partners side by side prompts us to consider the ways in which competition and play act as microcosms of the entanglements of eros, ambition, and social structures fundamental to our interpersonal relationships
Opening Reception: 2 May 18:00 - 20:00
GURAM SHAVDIA - ME AND SMILEY
April 12 - May 31
Window Project presents Guram Shavdia's solo exhibition "Me and Smiley". The exposition combines mixed media paintings and graphics from different times. The exhibition's title derives from Shavdia's work, a small graphic in which the artist's self- portrait is "overlapped" by one of the symbols of modern mass culture - Smiley, which becomes the opening element of the conceptual base of the exhibition.
Guram Shavdia reconceptualizes historical figures, characters from comics and fairy tales, works of art, sports and war - archetypes established to become pop-culture symbols. The process of cultural perception and introspection conditions this practice. With humour, self-irony, intuition, romanticism, acceptance and openness, he places Napoleon and the grandmother-wolf of "Little Red Riding Hood" in one dimension, levels the prevailing cultural "values," and transforms well-known old signs and symbols into metaphors of new meanings.
UTA BEKAIA x RUSUDAN KHIZANISHVILI - MOTHER SHIP
January 25 - March 10, 2024
The multidisciplinary exhibition "Mother Ship" by Uta Bekaia and Rusudan Khizanishvili presents a visual language study of the semiotic process of life's origins on Earth. The natural, biological, historical and linguistic semiotic process naturally introduces the discourse of ecofeminism, where a woman is considered a sacred organism of the origin of life, as a mother, inseparably connected with mother nature and with the process of life circulation, at the same time women experience the same challenges in the present as the mother nature. The Earth is considered a planet where life circulation takes place and human civilization develops; in this regard, the exhibition explores the importance of the patterns of time; the research is driven out from the time dimension by simulating the spaceship, which has left the dimension of time and has reached the void. The visual artefacts presented on the simulated ship are messages sent from the present, which tell us about the life of civilizations on Earth, their origins, the role of a mother language and existential challenges.
WINDOW PROJECT at ZONAMACO 2024
EJES
We are pleased to announce our participation in ZONAMACO 2024 EJES curated by Bernardo Mosqueira.
Artists: Levan Mindiashvili, Rusudan Khizanishvili, Tamara K.E.
WINDOW PROJECT at ABU DHABI ART 2023
Special Projects Booth 16
For the Abu Dhabi Art 2023 Window Project presents a group presentation of Georgian artists. The exhibition combines paintings, graphics, tapestries and sculptures of different generations of creators.
Artists: Levan Mindiashvili, Shotiko Aptsiauri, Vakhtang Kokiashvili, Uta Bekaia
Salome Machaidze - YESLORD
November 3, 2023 - January 10, 2024
From November 3 to January 10, Window Project presents YESLORD, an exhibition by Berlin-based artist Salome Machaidze. The artist presented the exhibition's text as a poem composed of combinations of artwork titles. The text is as abstract as the works presented in the exhibition from different times and media. The exhibition, as well as the exhibition title and text, represent a system of unique combinations that define Salome Machaidze and her as an artist.
Mariam Odishelidze - Transitional Spaces
September 22 - Otrober 25, 2023
Window Project presents Mariam Odishelidze's solo exhibition "Transitional Spaces", combining mixed media paintings, textile works and ceramics.
Inspired by her experience of moving from Tbilisi to Düsselforf and back to her homeland, as well as her recent motherhood, Mariam Odishelidze explores the moment of transition from one state of being to another, the transition between cultural contexts, from life to death, from the material being to abstraction, from presence to absence, from profaneness to sacredness.
Mariam Odishelidze (b.1988) leaves and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. In 2009-2015, she studied at the Academy of Arts in Dusseldorf, in the class of Andreas Schulze. During her life in Germany, she participated in group exhibitions, including 2018: EAF - „Transformatio“, bunker101, Cologne; „Mixed“, Museum Kunstpalast, Mettmann; „Die GROSSE NRW”, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsselforf; “Die GROSSE NRW Ausstellung”, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsselforf; 2016: „Genius Loci 4 - The kicking Figure“, curated by Gérard Goodrow, Setareh Gallery. Düsselforf; 2015: „Genius Loci3 - here they come“, curated by Gérard Goodrow, Setareh Gallery. Düsselforf 2013: “Das ist alles Deine Schulze”, Pilara Contemporary Art Collection, Düsselfor; 2012: “Geranien”, class of Andreas Schulze #tower6, Duisburg
OTTO DIX | Social Criticism 1920-1924. War, Etchings 1924
JUNE 16 - SEPTEMBER 3, 2023 An exhibition by ifa - Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen
The direct confrontation with the war at the front lines was so grave for the machine- gunner Otto Dix, so horrific, that this experience in fact marked him for life, and it was a major influence as well on his entire life's work. More than 600 drawings from the years 1914 to 1918 were done at various theatres of war in Belgium, France and Russia, in the course of his military service. These documentations of war, created on the spot and of high artistic value, together with his own memories of the horrors of World War I, also formed the basis of a later grandiose serial work entitled "The War", published in 1924 in Berlin.
The cycle, consisting of fifty separate drawings and often compared to Goya's Desastres de la Guerra, does not only give an authentic and horrifying portrayal of the terrible trench fighting that took place in the great battles of this first world war- it also unmasks the moloch of war for what it truly is. This series of etchings, which ranks particularly highly among the main works of Dix's oeuvre, forms the center of attention of this exhibition.
Aleksey Dubinsky | Zoltar. Master of Fate
April 29 - June 12, 2023
"Zoltar. Master of Fate" becomes a metaphor referring to such eternal issues as the duality of the world, the ephemeral nature of life, and the inevitability of death, and most importantly, it explores a human destiny, a fate of a hero on the journey, which the artist observes from the perspective of the most tender, vulnerable and sensitive - a child. The works combine desired future in the past, opposing the reality in its present, joy and sadness, drama and indifference in everyday life. The coexistence of opposites is also emphasized by color: colorful and black elements create unified compositions and, in large, the exposition. "There is no light without shadow," -says Jung. Indeed, the duality of the world is also reflected in the human, in every person. Going through the labyrinths of a collective shadow, in the duality of the macrocosm and microcosm, for the hero, "the meeting with oneself is, at first, the meeting with one's own shadow... "