RUSUDAN KHIZANISHVILI
Rusudan Khizanishvili received her two BFAs in painting from J.Nikoladze Art School and from Tbilisi State Academy of Art. In 2004 she also received her MA in Film Studies from Tbilisi State Academy of Art. Within her works she invites viewers into multilayered portals of intertwined figures and animals who act as symbolic door handles between cultures, nations, times and identities.
She balances between Georgian culture, which is so rich in traditions, and the conceptually driven contemporary discourse on representation and its functions. Her colourful configurations of the natural world help us to connect with our most intrinsic spiritual selves.
Questions of self, connections to biology, cultural memory, myths, motherhood, transformation, rebirth and the female body are all subjects of an ongoing investigation for Khizanishvili.
Over the past fifteen years Khizanishvili has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions including Museum of Modern Art Tbilisi, Museum of Literature of Georgia,Tbilisi State Silk Museum, Mark Rothko Foundation at Daugavapils, Latvia, Galerie Am Roten Hofin Vienna, Austria, Arundel Contemporary in Arundel, UK, New Image Art Gallery in Santa Monica, USA, Kunstverein Vila Weselin Iserlohn, Germany, Norty Parisand Nil Gallery in Paris, France, Assembly Room in NewYork, USA, 68 Projects in Berlin, Germany, Window Project in Tbilisi, Georgia, Annarumma Gallery in Napoli, Italy. In 2015 Khizanishvili represented Georgia among five other artists at the 56th Venice Art Biennale.
Her works are presented in the collection of the Georgian National Museum; private collection of Stefan Simchowitz, LA; Breus Foundation, Tbilisi.
In 2022 Khizanishvili will present a solo exhibition with Galerie Kornfeld in Berlin, Germany and a group exhibition with three female artists at Galerie Anita Beckers in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Fair participations include Expo Chicago, Art021 Shanghai, ArtBusan, KIAF, Art Verona and EnterArt Fair.
BIOGRAPHY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 “Beauty and The Beast” - Galerie Kornfield, Berlin, germany
2021 “Of Goddesses and Women” curated by Nina Mdnivani, Window Project, Tbilisi, Georgia
2020 “Rooms&Beings”, 68Projects, Berlin, Germany, curated by Nina Mdivani
2020 “New York Meets Tbilisi: Defining Otherness”, Assembly Room, New York, US
2019 “The Book Of Imaginary Beings”, Museum of Fine Art,Nalchik,Russian Federation
2018 “Conversion Device” Literature Musem,Tbilisi, Georgia
2018 “Conversion Device” Mark Rothko's Art Residency,Daugavapils,Latvia
2018 Rusudan Khizanishvili , Oni Local Museum,Oni, Georgia
2017 “Imaginary World” Breedartstudios ,Amsterdam,Netherlands Rusudan Khizanishvili, 2017 Kunsthaus Summerau,Germany “Fabelwelten” ,Galerie Am RotenHof,Vienna,Austria
2016 Rusudan Khizanishvili, Tours, France
2016 Rusudan Khizanishvili Mauregard Gallery, Perche, Paris
2016 Rusudan Khizanishvili Galerie Am RotenHof, Vienna, Austria
2015 “Crawling Border”, concept creator, group presentation Georgian National Pavilion at the 56th Venice Art Biennale
2015 Rusudan Khizanishvili Mauregard Gallery, Perche, France
2013 “Lost Secrets” ,Gallery Foresight 32,Amman,Jordan
2008 Rusudan Khizanishvili, Kopala Art Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Blick zurück nach vorn at Galerie Kornfield, Berlin, Germany
2022 In Namen der Hose: at Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2021 Duo Show “Endless Worlds” with Brian Harte, Annarumma Gallery, Napoli, Italy 2021 2021 WUNDER WOMXN: The Female Figurative at Beers London, UK
2021 Thiested Museum Of Modern and Contemporary Art, Thiested, Denmark
2021 “Something Has Changed” curated by Victoria Misiano, Cube Moscow, Russia
2020 “Low Lows to High Highs” curated by Domenico De Chirico, Window Project ,Tbilisi, Georgia
2020 Group exhibition curated by Julien Deiss, Dusseldorf, Germany “In Search Of The 2020 Miraculous”, MoMA Tbilisi, Georgia “Ab - Und Zusagen” 68 Projects, Berlin, Germany
2019 Re-Production Show, Contemporary Art Space (CAS) Batumi, Batumi, Georgia
2019 Bait Al Zubair Museum , Muscat, Oman
2019 “Divergent Motion”, Deplphian Gallery, London, UK
2019 In Situ/In Vivo, Tbilisi State Silk Museum, TbilisI, Georgia
2019 Jahre Galerie Am RotenHof,Vienna,Austria Copper Leg Art Residency,Estonia
2019 “Image and Likeness,” MOMA Tbilisi
2018 Drei Künstlerinnenausdem Land des goldenen Flieses, Galerie Halle, Linz, Austria
2018 Rusudan Khizanishvili and KC Ortiz, New Image Art Gallery, SantaMonica, USA
2018 “King Is Female: 3+1” Villa Wessel, Iserlohn,Germany Group show, Wilma W.Daniels, Wilmington, NC.USA
2017 “Summer” Allouche Gallery,New York, USA
2017 Group show,19 Karen Contemporary Space, Gold Coast,Australia Group show, Arundel Contemporary,Arundel, UK
2016 Sianoja International Art Symposium ,Noja,,Spain Paperworks,Upstream Gallery, New York, USA
2016 Group show, Gallery Mezanine,NorthCarolina,USA Residency show, CABGallery, Amman, Jordan
2015 Artist’s Book: Knight in Panther’s Skin, Georgian National Museum of History, Tbilisi,Georgia
2014 Group show, Windham Residency Show,Qatar,Doha
2014 Art Symposium, Eger, Hungary Art Symposium Konya, Turkey
2014 Art Festival Zhas-star, Almaty, Kazakhstan
2014 Group show, Irok Gallery , Horst- Paningen, Netherlands
2013 'Circle Of Life – Black And White’ Gallery Foresight 32,Amman,Jordan International Art Symposium, Eger, Hungary
2012 International Art Symposium, Charity Foundation DIAS- Dubai Luxor Art Symposium, Luxor , Egypt
2011 “Hello, Caucasus” Karvasla Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
ART FAIRS
2022 Untitled Miami, Galerie Kornfield, Miami Beach, USA
2022 KIAF Seoul, Korea, Galerie Kornfield
2022 Expo Chicago, Chicago, USA, Galerie Kornfield
2022 TAF, Tbilisi Art Fair, Window Project, Tbilisi, Georgia Enter Art Fair, Kornfield Gallery, 2022 Copenhagen, Denmark Art Busan, Galerie Kornfield, Busan, Korea
2021 ART021 Shanghai, Galerie Kornfield, Shanghai, China
2021 KIAF Seoul, Korea, with Galerie Kornfield
2021 Untitled Miami, Miami Beach, USA, Galerie Kornfield
2020 Cosmoscow, Window Project, Moscow, Russia
2021 TAF, Tbilisi Art Fair, ERTI Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
RESIDENCIES
2021 Istanbul artist residency, curator Beral Madra
2022 Soria art residency, Almarza, Castillia Leon, Spain
2018 No Baundaries, Bald Head Island Art Colony, North Carolina, USA
2016 Sianoja Art Simposium, Noja, Spain
2015 No Boundaries, Bald Head Island Art Colony, North Carolina, USA
2013 Mark Rothko Residency, Daugavpils, Latvia
PUBLICATIONS
2022 Rusudan Khizanishvili book/catalogue, text by Christoph Tannert, Suzan Kizilirmak, etc. published by Ludvigrage
2018 “King Is Female: Three Artists from Georgia,” written by Nina Mdivani, forword by Alfred Kornfeld, Wienand Verlag, Berlin, Germany. Book launch at Frankfurt Book Fair
2015 Artist’s Book: “The Knight In Panther’s Skin”, Georgian NationalMuseum of History, Tbilisi,Georgia
PUBLIC WORK
2019 Sphinx mural series, “Khedi” Hotel,Tbilisi,Georgia
COLLECTIONS
Mark Rothko Art Center, Latvia
Collezione Taurisano, Naples, Italy
Breus Foundation, Tbilisi, Georgia
Georgian National Museum of History, Georgia
Oni Local Museum, Georgia
AWARDS
201 Main Prize at Związek Polskich Artystów Plastyków