Gvantsa Jishkariani (b. 1991, Rustavi) is a multimedia artist and curator. She graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the Tbilisi State Academy of the Fine Arts (2013) and later completed her master’s program in Creative Mediation at CCA-Tbilisi (2015).

Jishkariani is fascinated by Soviet-propagandistic arts and traditional craft techniques. Her work investigates imprints left by the past and engages with the images and influences of today and tomorrow. Humour often features in her exploration of deeply personal and socially relevant topics. Born in the same year as Georgia’s independence, she grew up amid chaos and hardship, experiences that have shaped her personal and collective narrative. Her artwork delves into precarious situations and extreme vulnerability while demonstrating remarkable resilience.


Jishkariani has exhibited widely in Georgia and internationally, including in New York, Munich, Brussels, Vienna, Prague, Zurich, and Naples. She received the Prince Claus Foundation Seed Awards in 2021, was included in the Forbes 30 under 30 list in 2020, won the NARS Foundation Studio Grant in New York in 2019, and received the Tsinandali Award in Visual Arts in 2017.

In addition to her artistic practice, Jishkariani has an active curatorial career. She co-founded the Tbilisi-based galleries PATARA Gallery (2017) and The Why Not Gallery (2018), which support young artists. She curated the Tbilisi Photo Festival Night of Photography (2017–2019) and founded Georgia’s first contemporary art and fashion magazine, *Gar-Gar* (2013–2018).


Her works are part of prominent private and public contemporary art collections, including: Alain Servais Collection, Collezione Taurisano, Royal Family of UAE Collection, HRH Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan , Fabio Frasca Collection, Andrea Boghi Collection, Marval Collection, Atinati Collection, TBC Bank Collection, Vasili Tsereteli Collection, and The State Silk Museum in Georgia, among others.

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EDUCATION:
 
2013-2014 M.A. in Creative Mediation, Center of Contemporary Art Tbilisi (CCA-T)
2009-2013 B.A. of Architecture and Design, Tbilisi State Academy of Arts
 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
 
2025
  • Trauma Porn - Raster gallery, Warsaw, Poland 
2023
  • Dress of a Thousand Oceans - CH64 gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
  • I Hate Poetry - The Why Not Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
 
2022
  • I Dream of Fire - The why not gallery
 
2020
  • Together Forever - Solo Show at Open Space, Tbilisi Georgia
  • Permanent Adolescence - Solo show in Ballon Rouge Club, Brussels, Belgium
 
2019
  • Who will record History? solo show at Project Artbeat, Tbilisi, Georgia
 
2018
  • a Tree.ხე at A01 gallery, Naples, Italy
  • REPTILIANS WITH WINGS at Template Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
  • GOODS ARE LEFT ON THE SHELVES-Performance at Nectar Gallery
 
2017
  • SAVANNA SAVAGE at Project ArtBeat, Batumi, Georgia
 
2016
  • Whales are Lonely at State silk museum, Tbilisi, Georgia
  • WITCHCRAFT AND CURIOSITY at A01 gallery, Naples, Italy
  • COUNTERFEIT GOODS at Yarat, Baku, Azerbaijan

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

 
2024

  • Tbilisi Independent - Frieze Cork Street, London, UK

  • Where To? - High Line Nine Galleries, CH64 Gallery, NYC, USA
  • Change - Part Two - Window Project, Tbilisi, Georgia
  • Unbound Trajectories of the Future - Goethe Institure, Tbilisi, Georgia
  • Villa Warsaw - NADA Villa Warsaw, Poland
2023
  • Nothing New in The East - AKT Pforzheim, Germany
  • Ring, Ring, Ring, - Pal Project, Paris, France
  • Forced Neighbourhood- Munich, Germany
  • Temple of Stray Cats - Catbox Contemporary, Ny,USA
  • Stories I Tell Myself- The Why Not Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
2022
  • I've seen the future baby, It's sexy- at Skuc gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • I am Nobody, who are you?, at Rhizome, Kortrijk, Belgium
  • Soft opening, Halle13, Vienna, Austria
  • Sorry, No Flowers Here, The why not gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia

2021

  • ALL YOUR FAVOURITE BITCHES & WITCHES at CAS Batumi, Georgia
  • TWO SHAPES OF LEAF ON TREE at KAIR, Kosice, Slovakia
  • PUNK IS IN THE HEAD at A01 gallery, Naples, Italy
 
AWARDS/RESIDENCIES/GRANTS
 
2023
  • Prince Claus Fund x Tbilisi Multimedia Museum - Exhibition Grant
 
2022
  • Lottozero Textile Labs - Residency grant, Prato, Italy
 
2021
  • Prince Claus Foundation - Seed Awards recipient
 
2020
  • Ministry of Culture Georgia - Exhibition Grant
  • Forbes 30 under 30 - Culture
 
2019
  • Studio grant at Fotograf Gallery, Prague, Czechia
  • Studio grant at NARS foundation, NY, USA
 
2018
  • RESIDENCY GRANT at BINZ39, Zurich, Switzerland
 
2017
  • Tsinandali award in Visual Art
  • Frauenkulturburo NRW e.V., - RESIDENCY GRANT, Dusseldorf, Germany
 
2016
  • Yarat, Contemporary Art Center- RESIDENCY GRANT, Baku, Azerbaijan
  • Batumi Back Yard Stories- RESIDENCY GRANT, Batumi, Georgia