Tolia Astakhishvili
In Heat Wind Wounds Holes
LC Queisser, Tbilisi
17.04.2022 - 03.07.2022
As I Write, I am Lying, I Hope, curated by Kristian Vistrup Madsen
Art Hub Copenhagen, Copenhagen
18.10.2021 - 31.10.2021
The Displacement Effect, curated by Kristy Bell
Capitain Petzel Galerie, Berlin
26.06.2021 - 22.08.2021
Holding environment, curated by Fatima Hellberg
Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
04.07.2021 - 01.08.2021
SPEED 2
Malmö Konsthall, Malmö
16.03.2019 - 26.05.2019
Ache, curated by James Richards
Cabinet, London
08.12.2018 - 12.01.2019
A Slight Ache
Chapter, Cardiff
16.06.2018 - 30.09.2018
Alms for the Birds
Cabinet, London
21.03.2014 - 26.04.2014
CV
Lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia, and Berlin, Germany
Education
2003
Diploma, Master (Prof.F.Hahn), Akademie für Bildende Künste, Mainz
2001
MA, Fine Arts, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London
1995
State Academy of Arts, Tbilisi
Selected Exhibitions
2022
In Heat Wind Wounds Holes, LC Queisser, Tbilisi
2021
As I Write, I am Lying, I Hope, curated by Kristian Vistrup Madsen, Art Hub Copenhagen, Copenhagen
When We Were Monsters, curated by James Richards, Haus Mödrath – Räume für Kunst, Kerpen
Holding environment, curated by Fatima Hellberg, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
The Displacement Effect, curated by Kristy Bell, Capitain Petzel Galerie, Berlin
2019
EARTHBOUND. Tales of Man and Nature, Goethe Institute Bulgaria / Earth and Man National Museum, Sofia
SPEED 2, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö
2018
Ache, curated by James Richards, Cabinet, London
LIBIDINAL MOTION / DIARY OF AN INNOCENT, Delmes & Zander, Cologne
A Slight Ache, Chapter, Cardiff
2014
Alms for the Birds, Cabinet, London
2013
Man of Steel, Film Festival, Glasgow
Screening curated by Ed Atkins, Performa, New York
2009
Born in Georgia - Contemporary Art from Georgia, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen
Art and Identity, Guangzhou Museum of Art, Guangzhou
2008
Suspended, Neues Kunstforum, Köln
Passenger, Glassbox, Paris
Histeria, Der Strich, Berlin
Siteprojectionen, Site Gallery, Düsseldorf
2007
Bilder und Skulpturen aus Privaten Sammlung, Paris Bar, Berlin
Satelitte Works, Galerie l’Oeil de Poisson, Québec
Who, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg
2006
Schwarzwaldinstitut – übernacht, Ballhaus Ost, Berlin
2005
Casual Conversation, Glue, Berlin
The Universal Enemy, Kunstgruppe, Cologne
Group show, Galerie Antik, Berlin
Group show, Schickeria, Berlin
2004
Mots in all eyes, curated by Dick Evans, The Ship Projects, London
Fly Grand-fathers Ash, (with Darren Marshall), TurboPlex, Berlin
Erklärender Expressionismus, 7.Stock, Dresden
Le Samourai, Bankakademie, Frankfurt am Main Ideale forderungen, Center, Berlin
Träum Weiter, Kunstgruppe, Köln
Mainstream X, Berlin
fuck you it is all flowers, Turboplex, Berlin
2003
In Memoriam Bob Ross, Kunsthalle Konstanz, Konstanz
2001
New Contemporaries, Camden Arts Centre, London
2000
Nord/West-Passage II My love is far away, Museen der Stadt Lüdenscheid, Lüdenscheid
Publications
Divine Drudgery, Published with Bonner Kunstverein, Malmö Konsthall and Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, 2021
LUX, DVD, Bloomberg New Contemporaries (BNC), 2014
Tolia Astakhishvili & Dylan Peirce, by Helmut A Müller, Edition Hospitalhof Stuttgart 2006
Which Bitch is a Witch, 2001
Spoon Sex, 2000