TAMUNA MELIKISHVILI

LIST OF EXHIBITIONS

(b. 1965)

EDUCATION

1984–1989 Faculty of Art History, Tbilisi State Academy of Arts

1983-1986 Faculty of Painting, Tbilisi State University

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1993   ‘Return to Tipasa’- Gallery Orient, Tbilisi, Georgia

1998   ‘Scoop’- Gallery Chardin, Tbilisi, Georgia

2008   ‘Today’- Gallery Kopala, Tbilisi, Georgia

2011   ‘Genghis Khan in a Pizzeria’- Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, Tbilisi, Georgia

2014   ‘Escape’- Gamrekeli Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia

2014   Solo Exhibition- Art Café Sfumato, Tbilisi, Georgia

2015   ‘The Sound of Rails’- joint project of Opera Design & Gala Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia

2015   ‘Headwind’- Vernissage Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia

2016   ‘One Quarter of the Day’- Tbilisi History Museum Karvasla, Tbilisi, Georgia

2016   ‘Fragments’- Vernissage Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia

2017   ‘Between Blue and Violet’- Georgian Furniture Underground, Tbilisi, Georgia

2017   ‘Dagny’s Tbilisi Holidays’ Vernissage Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia

2023   ‘Taming’ Vernissage Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia

2024   ‘Adam and Humans’ Vernissage Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 2006   ’Gender and Politics’- Tbilisi Marriott Hotel, Tbilisi, Georgia

2008   ’12 Zodiac Signs’- stained-glass sketches for private interior, Tbilisi, Georgia

2008   ‘Installation based on The Knight in the Panther’s Skin’- Art-Gen Festival, Tbilisi, Georgia

2009   ‘Open Up’- Ethnographic Museum , Tbilisi, Georgia

2009   ‘Regional tour- You Cannot Change the Heartbeat of My Country’ (conceptual art, CAC) , Georgia

2011   ‘Tserovani: Against the Dawn’- FestiNova Garikula, Garikula, Georgia

           ‘Free Fall’- Artisterium , Tbilisi, Georgia

2012   ‘4 + 1’- Vanda Art Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia

2013   ‘Point as Circle; — National Public Library, Tbilisi, Georgia

2014   ‘Group exhibition for the opening of Gallery Giraffe’- Giraffe Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia

2014   ‘Illustrations to The Knight in the Panther’s Skin’ Simon Janashia National Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia

2015   ‘Group exhibition’- Gallery Sfumato, Tbilisi, Georgia

2015   ‘Exhibition of Georgian Artists’- Haifa & Tel Aviv, Israel

2016   ‘Group exhibition’- Pirosmani Museum, Mirzaani, Georgia

2017   ‘Drawing Club’- Film Studio Pavilion, Tbilisi, Georgia

2017   ‘Trouvez la Femme’- Tbilisi History Museum Karvasla, Tbilisi, Georgia

2017   ‘Group exhibition’- Vernissage Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia

2019 ‘Art Tent’- First Official Exhibition, Tbilisi, Georgia

2021   ‘The Smell of Abkhazia: Four Artists Exhibition’ Gallery 9, Tbilisi, Georgia

2023   ‘Fiesta’ -Gallery 9, Tbilisi, Georgia

2025   ‘Beyond the Surface’ - Vernissage Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia

ART FAIRS AND AUCTIONS

2017   Beijing International Biennale

2018   Yerevan Art Fair

2019   Tbilisi Art Fair (TAF)- Vernissage Gallery.

2022   Tbilisi Art Fair (TAF)- Vernissage Gallery.

2023   Georgian and Armenian Contemporary Art- BONHAM’S AUCTION HOUSE. Lot. 22 ‘TWINS’.

 

FILM & DESIGN

1990-1991   ‘Celebration’

                      ‘New Year’- (dir. Keti Gujabidze), VGIK diploma projects- Set Designer.

1992   Sarkmeli , Film Journal Designer.

1998   The Foolish Pomegranate Tree (dir. Péter Mészáros)- Costume Designer (Hungary–Georgia co-production) .

1999   ‘From Primitivism to Pop Art’ Co-author, Open Society Georgia; National Picture Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia.

2002   Etude No. 6 (dir. Giorgi Beridze)- Screenwriter & Production Designer.

2006 Sad Voices of a Sunny Country - Director & Production Designer of the Akhaltsikhe segment (documentary)

2008   Green Tango (Niko Gomelauri)-  Production Designer (music video)

2010   What You Remember from Childhood (dir. Pako Svimonishvili)- Production Designer.

2023    Illustration for Selma Lagerlöf’s book ‘Christ Legends’- Sulakauri Publishing.

 

ACHIEVMENTS

1998   First Prize, for the photograph ‘Red Frame’- (Open Society Georgia Photo Competition)

2009–2020   Art History Teacher- Nata Buachidze Studio, Tbilisi, Georgia.