BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

1956   born in Tbilisi, USSR

1978   graduated from the Moscow State Institute of Foreign Affairs(Foreign Economic Affairs Department)

1986   graduated from the Moscow Surikov State Art Institute(Painting Department)

1991   Lecturer at Tbilisi Art Academy.

He was engaged as an art director in several film productions of the independent film studious in Tbilisi (films: "Home" – participant of the Munich Film Festival in 1992; "On the edge" – prize winner at the Locarno Film Festival in 1993).

Lives in Germany

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1997   "Stars & Buttocks". Art Media Center "TV Gallery", Moscow
"Pairs". Gallery Palto. Moscow
"Small Transparencies". Aidan Gallery, Moscow

1996   "1,5,9,37,104...". Gallery "21", St.-Petersburg
"Reanimation of Enchantment". Galerie im Karmeliterkloster, Frankfurt-am-Main
"Words as Good as Gold". Marat Guelman Gallery, Moscow

1995   Cut in the Matter. Gallery Mosel & Tschechow, Munich
"Bad Humour (Getting Closer to the Point)" (together with Mark Tribe). Marat Guelman Gallery, Moscow

1994   "I Hate the State-1". Gallery "1.0", Moscow

1993   "You Are Helpless, or All in All It Does Not Seem So Bad". Performance in the Contemporary Art Center. TV Gallery in the CAC, Moscow
Guiya Rigvava. Tryokhprudny Lane Gallery, Moscow

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1997   "Interstanding-2". Rotterman Saltscentre, Tallin, Estonia.
"It`s a better world". Aktuelle kunst aus Moscow. Videographies. Secession, Wien.
Austria. Artforum, Merano, Italy
"Take it off. Put it on. Leave it like that". Maly Manege, Moscow

1996   Art Berlin with Marat Guelman Gallery. Germany
"East Europe: Spatia Nova". 4th St.-Petersburg Biennial. St.-Petersburg. Russia
"Antifascism & AntiAntifascism". Contemporary Art Centre, Moscow
1st International Photobiennial. Contemporary Art Centre, Moscow

1995   "Station – Deutchland". Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
"Onziemes Ateliers du FRAC des Pays de la Loire". Saint-Nazaire, France
"Image of Europe". Nikosia, Cyprus
5 Years of Marat Guelman Gallery. Kuznetsky Most, Moscow
"Interregnum". Kunsthalle Nuremberg, Germany.
"Zeichnungen der Moskauer Szene". Gallery Hohenthal&Littler, Munich,Germany
"Kraftemessen". Kunstlerwerkstatt Lothringerstrasse, Munich, Germany
"Configura-2". Dialog der Kulturen. Erfurt, Germany
"Body Space". Central House of Artists, Moscow
"No Man's Land". Contemporary Art Center "Nikolaj", Copenhagen, Denmark
"Ost-West-Tangente-Ein Dialog". Erholunghaus der Bayer AG, Leverkusen, Germany

1994   "Exchange II/ Dacha". Almere, Flevopolder, The Netherlands
"NewMediaTopia". Central House of Artists, Moscow
"Fallwallfall". Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
"Insolent, Insensitive...". Regina Gallery, Moscow
"Identity". Contemporary Art Center, Moscow
Autumn of Photography. Central House of Artists, Moscow
ISEA'94. 5th International Symposium on Electronic Art. University of Art&Design. Helsinki, Finland
Presentation and exhibition of the materials of the Visual Anthropology Workshop. Contemporary Art Center, Moscow
"Rendervouz der Freunde". Gallery Mosel & Tschechow, Munich, Germany
Hamburg Project. Contemporary Art Center, Moscow

1993   Art Hamburg with the Gallery Hohenthal & Bergen. Germany
"Identity-Selfhood". Museum of Contemporary Art "Ateneum", Helsinki, Finland
Art Cologne with the Gallery Mosel & Tschechow. Germany
Conversion. Marat Guelman Gallery In the Central House of Artist, Moscow
"Europaer". Grazer Kunstverein in Stadtmuseum, Graz, Austria
"Die Mysterien finden in Hauptbahnhof Statt, ...". Mosel & Tschechow Galerie, Munich, Germany
"Dedicated to the VII Congress of People`s Deputies". Marat Guelman Gallery in the Central House of Artists. Moscow
"Kunst-Kammer". Gallery "1.0", Moscow

1992   "World – Feelings". Contemporary Art Center, Moscow
Presence. Art Space Gallery, Bristol, Gr.Britain
"Heat & Conduct". Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield. Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol. Gr.Britain
"New Name". Palace of Youth, Moscow, Russia

COLLECTIONS

Collection of contemporary art of the Tsaritsino Museum, Moscow.
Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.