DOKUMENTARFILM: In der Schwebe (Georgien-Doku) - WHEN THE EARTH SEEMS TO BE LIGHT - Von Salome Machaidze, Tamuna Karumidze und David Meskhi, Deutschland/Georgien 2016

Skaten ist im postsowjetischen Georgien mehr als ein westlicher Freizeitsport. Der Film zeigt eine Gruppe junger Männer auf ihrer Suche nach Identität und Freiheit.

Dokumentarfilm von Salome Machaidze, Tamuna Karumidze und David Meskhi, Deutschland/Georgien 2016


Weitere Links:
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www.calvertjournal.com
ostpol.de
www.dokfest-muenchen.de
www.3sat.de
i-d.vice.com
kritikerblog.com
vimeo.com
www.filmfestival-goeast.de
filmfinder.dok-leipzig.de
www.tgnili.com

EXHIBITION: Pop-Up Chess Palace - On Architecture, Ideology and Chess, June 22-26, 2017, ZK/U Berlin

Curated by Nini Palavandishvili and Lena Prents

Participating artists: Atu Gelovani, Lasha Kabanashvili, Aleksander Komarov, Lado Lomitashvili, Magdalena Pięta, Nino Sekhniashvili, Tatia Skhirtladze and Naili Vakhania
Chess program: Uli Huemer

"Chess palace" may sound unusual in the Western European context. However, it was a common idea in the Soviet Union, where chess was widely played in its pioneer palaces, cultural houses and workers' clubs. In a few years after the October Revolution, the young Soviet Union managed to turn a "useless game of the bourgeoisie" into a sensible pastime of the working masses. After the Second World War Soviet domination in chess became an important ideological argument for the superiority of the system. In the 1970s the special palaces were created for chess - not in the centre though, but in the peripheral Soviet republics of Georgia, Armenia and Belarus. These buildings are distinguished by their striking architecture, sophisticated design and intelligent placement into the urban environment.

The exhibition Pop-Up Chess Palace focuses on Tbilisi Chess Palace and Alpine Club - architecturally the most demanding and ambitious one among these palaces. The curators of the exhibition question how to generally deal with the unique features of the modernist socialist architecture and how the ideal content of these buildings can be lived today.

The exhibition is funded by the Ministry of Culture and Monument Protection of Georgia in the frame of German-Georgian Friendship Year 2017 program.

Photos by David Meskhi


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ART: Artist of the week 206: Thea Djordjadze. By Skye Sherwin (guardian.co.uk)

(guardian.co.uk- By Skye Sherwin) This Georgia-born artist works quickly and intuitively, creating poetic, allusive arrangements that hint at ever-shifting stories.

A greenhouse emptied of plant life provides the perfect setting for Thea Djordjadze's As sagas sa. Photograph: David Meskhi ©/courtesy Sprüth Magers Berlin London

It's rare that art as apparently spartan as Thea Djordjadze's can be so tantalising. The thin wooden or metal frames and glass vitrines that frequently star in her sculptural assemblages suggest a minimalist sensibility and evoke the pristine, poker-faced displays of museums. Yet these elements of her art rub shoulders with more worn-in, personal fare, including rugs, reconfigured furniture and rough, hand-moulded lumps of uncooked clay. Things look fragile and faded, like relics from a lost civilisation.

Djordjadze's materials are worked fast and arranged intuitively, with an eye for colour, texture and lines drawn through space that hints at her early training as a painter. Growing up in former communist Georgia has also left its mark on the Berlin-based artist's sensibility. Her work often features the country's local carpets, while its pared-back appearance and flimsy materials echo the clean, definite forms of eastern-bloc architecture, belying a shaky political regime. In place of modernist purity, she creates poetic, allusive arrangements of objects, hinting at stories that never sit still.

As sagas sa, her contribution to the current Documenta (13), uses the perfect setting for her sculptural micro-universe: a cavernous greenhouse emptied of plant life, with a gravelly dry-dirt floor and stained panes. It's like a cross between some millennia-old museum's vitrine and a wasted version of the vegetation-filled glass domes travelling through space, in the 1970s sci-fi classic Silent Running.

Wandering through the installation she's created in response to the site, you're in a self-contained world. Tableaux of furniture, glass cases and paint-smeared blocks of foam suggest the enclosed realms of both domestic life and theatrical display. A faded, cheap, gauzy fabric hangs across one end of the arid greenhouse like a stage curtain, or a waterfall.

All these objects soon start to shapeshift in your head. A sharp rectangle and square become a neatly geometric bed and pillow. Yet for all its minimalist precision, the piece is made of squidgy, vulnerable foam and smeared with gooey white pigment. It's unnervingly physical, begrimed, sexual. The plastic chair sitting at its foot might be a nurse at a sickbed, or the aggressive master to this passive, prone form.

With dust underfoot and in your lungs, it's like being in an ancient burial chamber, and yet those urgent white plaster smears are very much in the present tense. There's the electric sensation that all is held in suspense, while perpetually shifting between one state and another.

Why we like her: For Deaf and Dumb Universe, which echoed the chic glass and steel architecture of Berlin's Neue Nationalgalerie, with blocky foam chairs tottering on black spidery legs, lumpy bits of clay perched on clean white shelving, and a metal frame shaped like a wendy house.

Two Heads: Beyond her solo projects, Djordjadze has long collaborated with her friend and former teacher, feminist art icon Rosemarie Trockel

Where can I see her? At Documenta (13) in Kassel, Germany, until 16 September, and Sprueth Magers, London, until 29 September.

KULTURKALENDER: Kulturkalender - Empfehlungen der Botschaft von Georgien in Wien: Juli-August 2011

* bis 10.9.2011
FOTOAUSSTELLUNG: DAVID MESKHI – ETERNAL DISTANCE

Durch die anika handelt Galerie weht ein warmer Sommerwind: Junge Sportler fliegen durch die Luft, Skater drehen sich um die eigene Achse, Seifenblasen steigen in die blaue Unendlichkeit. Der georgische Fotograf David Meskhi hat diese kurzen Momente eingefroren, meist in Schwarz-Weiß, immer im richtigen Moment. Der Künstler ist anwesend.

Ort: anika handelt Galerie
Yppenplatz 5/4 1160 Wien
Öffnungszeiten: Di-Fr 14-18, Sa 10-13 und auf Anfrage
/Von 23.8.-3.9.2011 hat die anika handelt Galerie geschlossen/
office@anikahandelt.com
www.anikahandelt.com

* bis 14. Juli:
GEORGISCHEN KÜNSTLERN –AUSSTELLUNG "INDEPENDENCE"

Ausstellung der georgischen Künstler: Lia Gulua, Natia Kalandadze, George Kublashvili, Inna Margvelashvili, Giorgi Okropiridse, Giorgi Piralischvili, Nino Sakandelidze, Badri Skhirtladze, Tatia Skhirtladze, Tamuna Sirbiladze, Avtandil Zerzvadze, Luka Zerzvadze.

Ausstellungsdauer: 29. Juni - 14. Juli
Ort: Palais Porcia
Herrengasse 23,
1010 Wien
Montag bis Freitag: 11.00-15.00 Uhr

Auf Wunsch können auch Termine vereinbart werden
unter Tel. +43 (0) 676 454 32 89

* Donnerstag, 7. Juli um 19.30
STIMMEN GEORGIENS BEI RAZUMOWSKY

Razumowsky Gesellschaft für Kunst und Kultur lädt im Rahmen eines Arienabendes in das Hochparterre der Jacquingasse. Sänger aus Georgien – Maria Kublashvili (Sopran), Micheil Kiria (Bariton), Giorgi Goderdzishvili (Bass) und Otar Jorjikia (Tenor) singen Arien und Duette von Bizet, Verdi, Donizetti, Mozart, Puccini, Rossini. Am Klavier Marine Metreveli.

Ort: Jacquingasse 57
1030 Wien
Um Anmeldung gebeten:
administration@razumovsky.org
Tel. 0699 1971 2496

* von 15. Juli-7. August:
MADINA SEREBRJAKOVA IN CARMEN

Eine der erfolgreichsten Opern der Musikgeschichte, mit deutschen Untertiteln auf der Burgruine Gars am Kamp. Carmen ist Georges Bizets letzte Oper und zugleich der größte Publikumserfolg des französischen Komponisten. Die Titelheldin als verführerische Femme fatale steht in der Tradition von Giuseppe Verdis Violetta und weist voraus auf Schönbergs Lulu. Carmen erzählt von komplett unterschiedlichen Lebensentwürfen und der fatalen Verbindung von Liebe und Freiheit, Pflicht und Leidenschaft.

Das unvergleichliche Ambiente der Babenberger Burgruine lockt bereits seit Beginn der Festspiele im Jahr 1990 eine große Zahl von begeisterten Zusehern ins Herz des Waldviertels, nach Gars am Kamp. Nur 80 km von Wien entfernt lädt Gars zu einem stimmungsvollen Opernabend unter freiem Himmel ein. Das unvergleichliche Ambiente der Babenberger Burgruine macht sie zu einem idealen Spielort für die Opern Air-Festspiele in Gars

Carmen: Antigone Papoulkas / Viktoria Vizin/ Yvonne Manfreda Don José: Efe Kişlali / Marius Vlad Escamillo: Denis Isakovic. Micaëla: Elisabeta Marin Frasquita: Madina Serebryakova Mercédès: Yvonne Manfreda Remendado: Darko Djordjević

Ort: Ferstspiele GARS AM KAMP
Tel. +43 0 1 3193939
http://www.opernair.at/

* 23 Juli- 14 August 2011
MAMUKA NIKOLAISCHWILI IN "GASPARONE"

Die Schlossfestspiele Langenlois starten mit Carl Millöcker`s "Gasparone" in einen neuen Operettensommer. Der Vorplatz des Schlosses Haindorf, der traditionellerweise während der Sommermonate zur Bühne wird, verwandelt sich in diesem Jahr ins Sizilien der 1820er Jahre.

In dem Verwirrspiel um den verschollenen Schmuggler Gasparone, die unschlüssige Gräfin Carlotta und den schwärmenden Graf Erminio dreht sich am Ende doch wieder alles um die Liebe. Das beweist Ita´s und Sindulfo´s Lied „Ich habe noch nie so geliebt“. Die zündenden Melodien des Stückes werden von allen führenden Tenören der Welt gerne interpretiert und erfreuen sich solcher Beliebtheit, dass einzelne Stücke auf Wunsch des Publikums oft nochmals wiederholt werden.

Ort: Schloßfestspiele Langenloit
Rathausstraße 2
A-3550 Langenloit / Kamptal
+43(0)2734/3450
+43(0)2734/3450
www.schlossfestspiele.at

ART: Tbilisi Photo Festival 2011 25-31 May (europeanweek.ge)

Europe House Georgia and Tbilisi Photography House are pleased to organize the second annual Tbilisi Photo Festival which will take place during European Week in Georgia from 25-31 May 2011.

A contributing partner is the Arles Photo Festival (Les Rencontres Photographiques d'Arles) whose program, La Nuit de l'Année, will be presented on May 28 during the open air screenings in Old Tbilisi and includes the productions of leading p...hoto-agencies, newspapers, news agencies and magazines.

In addition, A Night of Photography - Tbilisi Photo Festival night screenings program - will present the works of various Georgian, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Russian, Turkish and Iranian photographers. As well as the LAF PROJECT and OSI Documentary photography program winners…

The Tbilisi Photo Festival is also pleased to host the following four exhibitions during European Week:

- KAVKAZ, by Thomas Dworzak, a member of the Magnum Agency

-CHANGES, a collection of images describing the events of the Egyptian, Tunisian, Georgian, Kyrgyz and Ukrainian revolutions by the leading photo-reporters – Alex Majoli, Yuri Kozyrev, Dominic Nahr, Lionel Charrier, Julien Daniel, Guillaume Binet, Justyna Mielnikiewicz...

- EXPLICATIONS - Modern Georgian Photography, a selection of images from the second part of 20th century until present

-DMITRY ERMAKOV COLLECION Georgian Photography of the end of 19th century - a selection of images of the collection Dmitry Ermakov, one of the pioneers of photography in Georgia.

The Georgian Museum of History and TBILISI PHOTO FESTIVAL are pleased to present this collection to a public audience for the first time ever.

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PRESS RELEASE

Following the success of the first Tbilisi Photo Festival which gathered 15,000 people in May
2010, the capital of Georgia is pleased to welcome this second edition. The festival will be held between 25 and 31 May 2011.

During the 'Night of Photography', on May 28 a Caucasian version of the Nuit de l'Année of
the Arles photography festival, ten screens will once again be set up in the streets and squares
of Tbilisi’s old town, showcasing the work of the greatest photographic associations, agencies, magazines and publications (AFP, Liberation, Noor, Reuters, MYOP, VII, etc.) from dusk to dawn.
But since Tbilisi is at the heart of the Caucasus,

at the point where the culture ofTurkey, Iran, Russia and other European countries meet, the city aims to be a space where young photographers from this diverse yet interlinked world will converge. The Festival’s screens will therefore also present – in between the work of the great names of photography – the images of many young photographers from Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia, Turkey, Iran..

The Photo Festival, an event jointly organised by Tbilisi Photography House and by Europe House georgia, will be part of the ‘European Week’ in Tbilisi. Europe house is foundation which aims to promote European values and culture in Georgia.

Four exhibitions will also attempt to illustrate the Caucasus as a meeting-point of different worlds which became intertwined with a Europe whose modernity was revealed to it in the 'click' of a camera shutter

Georgia at the Crossroads of Modernity – The XIXth-Century’s Ermakov Collection

A selection of images from the collection of Dimitri Ermakov (1848-1916) will be shown for the first time. Having only just finished restoring them to their former glory, Tbilisi's History Museum has lent a series of images taken by this pioneer of photography in the Caucasus to the organizers of the Tbilisi Photo Festival: pictures documenting the construction of the South Caucasus railway, portraits of members of the Georgian aristocracy, images of the art of bathing in Tbi l isi 's sulphur baths,
mountainous landscapes, pictures of Tbilisi and Batumi whose subtle charms are heightened by their mixture of the oriental and the European...

Changes

The Arab Spring of 2011, the coloured revolutions of the former Soviet Union... a world in revolt. This group exhibition, organised in partnership with the young and promising Parisian gallery La Petite Poule Noire, brings together the work of photographers who witnessed these dramatic events – from
Belgrade to Bishkek, Tbilisi to Tunis, via Kiev to Cairo. Alex Majoli, Dominic Nahr, Thomas Dworzak (Magnum), Yuri Kozyrev (Noor), Lionel Charrier, Julien Daniel and Guillaume Binet (MYOP), Justyna Mielnikiewicz...

Kavkaz by Thomas Dworzak

The famous Magnum photographer will present us with the first complete exhibition of his work, taken from his book Kavkaz. 'During the spring of 1993, I decided to live in Tbilisi for a few months before returning to university. It was then that I discovered the cultures of the Caucasus. Hospitality, the beauty of languages, the unbelievable speed of change during the post-Soviet period, war and conflict, courage and cruelty'

This German photographer – known for his brave work during the brutal wars in Chechnya – will show us 80 of his black-and-white photographs of the noisy and furious Caucasus which he captured with his lens.

Georgia - New Generation

Some began to take photographs during the Soviet Union, and others began later... but from the early 1990s onwards all of them devoted themselves body and soul to their art. This exhibition will introduce us to the work of the masters of modern photography such as Yuri Mechitov – who produced a series of portraits of film director Sergei Parajanov, Guram Tsibakhashvili and his Explanations – as well as to the images of young photographers such as Beso Uznadze, David Meskhi and Marika Asatiani, whose work is beginning to charm the European photography world. The highlight of this exhibition? A wonderful series of photographs produced by a real self-taught photographer named Shalva Alkhanaidze.

Lectures and discussions will also be held during this European Week in Tbilisi. Politicians and artists alike will share their visions of Europe, of its ties with Georgia and of the dramatic events which are shaping our world in the XXIst century.

Programme: www.europeanweek.ge

Curators
Lionel Charrier and Nestan Nijaradzé
in France
l.charrier@europehousegeorgia.org / + 33 679331460
in Georgia :
nijaradzenestan@hotmail.com / +995 99559592

Coordinator
Irma Inaridzé
inaridze@hotmail.com /+ 995 99 22 32 95

Contact press
in France
Charles van den Boogaerd,
charles@noecom.com / +33 6 31 17 65 69
in Georgia
Irma Inaridzé
inaridze@hotmail.com /+ 995 99 22 32 95

Logo for Tbilisi photo festival: © Zango Design

EXHIBITION: >IMAGO< (dr.-klaus-schaffner-preis) kuratiert von Nino Palavandishvili (gfzk.de)

A number of Georgian artists have left their country to build a career abroad. Many of them will never return to Georgia. Others have remained in their native country, struggling for acceptance and recognition. Very little support is given by the state or private individuals, unlike the situation in Western countries where this is still common practice. The exhibition addresses the question of how local and global contexts are reflected in the works of artists from various generations. The title “IMAGO” alludes to the picture each side has of the other world, of Georgia and Georgians, of ourselves or “the West”. First and foremost, the latter appears to carry the hope of more favourable possibilities. This image is mainly projected by the media. The exhibition examines the influence of mass media and new forms of communication, on images of identity. It also looks at the mediator role of Georgian artists, who often moderate between the differing images - between authenticity and clichés.

Mit freundlicher Unterstützung:
IFA (Instituts für Auslandsbeziehungen)
GeoAIR Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig

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Museum of contemporar by art leipzig
Karl-Tauchnitz-Straße 9-11
D-04107 Leipzig
Telefon: +49 341.140 81-0
E-Mail: office@gfzk.de
Website: http://www.gfzk.de/

AUSSTELLUNG: IMAGO - Curated by Nini Palavandishvili (gfzk.de)

click on the flyer for a larger version!

Nini Palavandishvili ist die erste Preisträgerin des dr.-klaus-schaffnerpreises. Er wendet sich an junge KuratorInnen und ist mit 5.000 Euro dotiert. Der Preis wird alle zwei Jahre vergeben. (Congratulations!!!)

Vom 09-APR -2011 bis 13-JUN-2011, GfZK-2
Eröffnung am 08-APR -2011 um 19:00 h
Kuratiert von Nini Palavandishvili

From 09-APR -2011 to 13-JUN-2011, GfZK-2
Opening on 08-APR -2011 at 7 p.m.
Curated by Nini Palavandishvili

KünstlerInnen / Artists: Group Bouillon, What’s (Vajiko Chachkhiani), Thea Djordjadze, David Meskhi, Salome Machaidze, Koka Ramishvili

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Eine Reihe von georgischen KünstlerInnen haben ihr Land verlassen und Karriere im Ausland gemacht. Viele werden nicht nach Georgien zurückkehren. Andere blieben in ihrem Geburtsland und kämpfen um Anerkennung und Aufmerksamkeit. Staatliche oder auch private Unterstützung, wie sie in westlichen Ländern nach wie vor üblich ist, gibt es kaum. In der Ausstellung wird danach gefragt, wie sich lokale und globale Kontexte in den Arbeiten von KünstlerInnen aus unterschiedlichen Generationen widerspiegeln. Der Titel „IMAGO” spielt auf Bilder an, die man sich vom jeweils Anderen macht, von Georgien und den GeorgierInnen, von sich selbst bzw. vom „Westen“. Dieser dient in erster Linie als Hoffnungsträger für bessere Möglichkeiten. Diese Vorstellungen sind auch wesentlich medialer Natur. Die Ausstellung geht dem Einfluss von Massenmedien und neuen Kommunikationsformen auf Identitätskonzepte nach. Ferner untersucht sie die MediatorInnen-Rolle georgischer KünstlerInnen, die häufig zwischen den unterschiedlichen Projektionen – zwischen Authentizität und Klischees – vermitteln.

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A number of Georgian artists have left their country to build a career abroad. Many of them will never return to Georgia. Others have remained in their native country, struggling for acceptance and recognition. Very little support is given by the state or private individuals, unlike the situation in Western countries where this is still common practice. The exhibition addresses the question of how local and global contexts are reflected in the works of artists from various generations. The title “IMAGO” alludes to the picture each side has of the other world, of Georgia and Georgians, of ourselves or “the West”. First and foremost, the latter appears to carry the hope of more favourable possibilities. This image is mainly projected by the media. The exhibition examines the influence of mass media and new forms of communication, on images of identity. It also looks at the mediator role of Georgian artists, who often moderate between the differing images - between authenticity and clichés.

Mit freundlicher Unterstützung:
IFA (Instituts für Auslandsbeziehungen)
GeoAIR

Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig
Museum of contemporar by art leipzig
Karl-Tauchnitz-Straße 9-11
D-04107 Leipzig
Telefon: +49 341.140 81-0
E-Mail: office@gfzk.de www.gfzk.de

EXHIBITION: Georgian Photography | Face to Face (ithunter.org)

The exhibition will allow the Moscow public to face the contemporary Georgian photography and all the things that couldn’t leave Georgian photographers indifferent in various times and spaces… And these things are the life itself. Life, accompanied by pain and joy, meetings and partings, changes, loneliness and silence. And scream, which is inevitable sometimes. Thinking of the words of Joseph Brodsky — look around once again, whilst it does not become a photo…- one can say that the exhibition of Georgian photographers is a possibility to look at what has already become a photo."

These are the words Nestan Nizharadze, curator of Face to Face, uses to describe the first Georgian photography exhibition in Moscow. The display compiles works from six different artists with very different styles and visions, from social portrait to intimate nostalgia, including graphic conceptualization. It can be seen till 24th March in Pobeda Ga


PICS: (1) David Meskhi (2) Beso Uznadze via Pobeda Gallery


POBEDA Gallery is proud to present a new project — “Face to Face” — the first exhibition of Georgian photography ever to take place in Moscow. It includes works of 6 authors: Guia Chkhatarashvili, Beso Uznadze, David Meskhi, Guram Tsibakhashvili, Irina Abzhandadze and Yuri Mechitov.

Curator of the project Nestan Nizharadze was born and raised in Tbilisi. Educated as a journalist, Nestan curated numerous projects (such as Michael Kenna’s exhibitions in Tbilisi, georgian photography retrospective in Kiev, contemporary Georgian photography exhibition in France), founded Tbilisi Photography House. She is the editor-in-chief and the publisher of “PHOTO” magazine.

More than 60 works of the photographers of different generations and schools will recreate the many-sided face of the so-called “New Wave” in modern Georgian photography. Judging by the amount and artistic quality of the photographic output, one can say without exaggeration that the last 15 years are among the most significant and interesting periods in the history of georgian photography.

Black and white documentary series “Ushguli” (1990-2000), made by Guia Chkhatarashvili in the highlands of Svaneti, conceptual and nostalgic “Notes” (1997-2001) by Guram Tsibakhashvili, portraits of Sergei Parajanov, a famous movie director, by Yuri Mechitov(1978-1990), documentary and conceptual “Victim” series (2000) by Irina Abzhandadze, and two series “Don’t Wake Me”(2010) and “When Earth Seems to be Light” (2006-2009) by young authors Beso Uznadze and David Meskhi — all these works compose the “Face to Face” project.
“The exhibition will allow the Moscow public to face the contemporary Georgian photography and all the things that couldn’t leave Georgian photographers indifferent in various times and spaces... And these things are the life itself. Life, accompanied by pain and joy, meetings and partings, changes, loneliness and silence. And scream, which is inevitable sometimes. Thinking of the words of Joseph Brodsky — look around once again, whilst it does not become a photo… one can say that the exhibition of Georgian photographers is a possibility to look at what has already become a photo.”

(project curator — Nestan Nizharadze)

AUSSTELLUNG: HIGHER +++ Photography by DAVID MESKHI (Berlin - mickyschubert.de)

Eröffnung am 24.11.2010 um 19.00
DAVID MESKHI
HIGHER
24.11.2010 bis 11.02.2011
http://davidmeskhi.com

Galerie Micky Schubert +++ Bartningallee 2-4 +++ D-10557 Berlin +++

T+49.30.4980 8487 +++ info@mickyschubert.de +++ www.mickyschubert.de

opening hours +++ tue-sat 12-6 pm and by appointment +++

PHOTOGRAPHY: AKT NOW: DAVID MESKHI (art-magazin.de)

Unsere Serie präsentiert jede Woche die besten Aktbilder junger Fotografen. Diesmal: der in Berlin lebende Künstler David Meskhi.

Interview in art. Das Kunstmagazine >>>

"David Meskhi"
31 Jahre alt, akademischer Hochschulabschluss im Fachbereich Fotojournalismus an der "Shota Rustavel Theatre and Film University", Tbilisi, Georgien

http://davidmeskhi.com
david@davidmeskhi.com

AUSSTELLUNG: Geschichten und Gesichter Georgiens in Aufnahmen von vier jungen georgischen Photokünstlern.

Tamar Gurchiani aus Georgien hat eine Fotoausstellung Stilles Leben organsiert - September 2006 in Nürnberg

In der Fotoausstellung Stilles Leben werden die Bilder von vier jungen georgischen Photokünstlern, von Natela Grigalaschwili, Levan Kherkheulidse, Beso Uznadze und David Meskhi vom 1. bis zum 18. September 2006 im Künstlerhaus im K4 in der Königsstraße 39 in Nürnberg gezeigt. Bild: Beso Uznadze



Als Kooperationspartner des Ausstellungsprojekts konnten gewonnen werden:Künstlerhaus im K4
Robert Bosch Stiftung
Tamar Gurchiani möchte als Kulturmanagerin möchte die aktuelle Kulturszene Georgiens in Deutschland präsentieren, sowie Interesse für das Land wecken, das wir lieben, auf das wir stolz sind und dessen Kultur und Gesellschaft durch die Begegnung des Morgen- und Abendlandes eine einzigartige Synthese darstellen. Außerdem möchte ich die europäische Kulturpolitik kennen lernen und Kontakte auf der mittel- und osteuropäischen Ebene zwischen den Kulturschaffenden vermitteln.

Gastinstitution: Filmhaus Nürnberg
E-Mail: tamar.gurchiani@moe-kulturmanager.de
Link: Tamar Gurchiani
   



Pressemitteilung zur Ausstellung "Stilles Leben"
Zum ersten Mal ist die georgische Fotokunst in Nürnberg zu entdecken: Die Fotoausstellung „Stilles Leben“ zeigt vom 1. bis zum 17. September die Gesichter und Geschichten Georgiens in Aufnahmen von vier georgischen Fotokünstlern im Kulturzentrum K4, I. OG, Königstr. 93, Nürnberg. Eröffnung am 1. September um 20 Uhr in Anwesenheit der Künstlerin Natela Grigalaschwili aus Tiflis. Seit dem Zusammenbruch des Sowjetimperiums lenken Schreckensbilder und –nachrichten der verbittert geführten Kriege und anderer Konflikte im Kaukasus die Aufmerksamkeit der Welt auf eine zuvor fast völlig vergessene Region. Der Westen bekommt immer mehr und mehr davon zu sehen. So geht es auch Georgien. Die meisten dieser Bilder stammen von Außenkommenden – europäischen Journalisten, Dokumentarfilmer oder Photographen.
Am 1. September um 20 Uhr eröffnet das Kulturzentrum K4 die Fotoausstellung Stilles Leben, die den Blick von vier georgischen Photokünstlern - Natela Grigalaschwili, Levan Kherkheulidze, Beso Uznadze und Dato Meskhi nach außen bringen möchte. In ihren Bildern dokumentieren die jungen, aber mittlerweile gut bekannten Chronisten ohne falsche Romantik die Lebensweise einfacher Menschen zwischen ihrer Unbekümmertheit und Melancholie. Sie erkunden die Auswirkungen von mehr als 15 Jahren politischer und wirtschaftlicher Umwälzungen auf das Alltagsleben, untersuchen die einfache Lebensfreude der Menschen.
Öffnungszeiten Mi. bis Sa., 13.00 – 19. 00 Uhr/So. 11-19 Uhr
Organisation: Tamar Gurchiani, Kulturmanagerin der Robert Bosch Stiftung
Kooperationspartner: Kulturzentrum im K4, Filmhaus
Förderung: Robert Bosch Stiftung