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Irena Popiashvili (ირენა პოპიაშვილი) is a Dean and founder of Visual Arts, Architecture & Design School, VA[A}DS, at the Free University of Tbilisi.

She is a founder of contemporary art space Kunsthalle Tbilisi.

Previously she co-owned the Newman Popiashvili Gallery in New York (2005-2012), served as a director of the State Academy of Arts in Tbilisi in 2012. Ms. Popiashvili has curated exhibitions in the US and Europe (i.e. Georgian Pavilion in the Venice Biennale in 1999 and 2003). She received a BA from Tbilisi State University and University of Lodz, Poland and an MA in art history from University of Georgia in Athens, GA (USA).

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ირენა პოპიაშვილი · დეკემბერი 28, 2020

KARLO KACHARAVA - SENTIMENTAL TRAVELER

Text and visual image are often interchangeable in the works of Karlo Kacharava, Georgian art critic, artist and poet (1964-1994). He inscribed notes on and inserted texts into his paintings.

ირენა პოპიაშვილი · სექტემბერი 21, 2020

NOTES ON GEORGIAN ART SCENE FROM 2021 TILL PRESENT

Over the course of the past 8 years, since my return to Georgia in 2012, contemporary art scene in Tbilisi has transformed dramatically. And that is certainly not a product of state initiatives. I would say, these transformations have been initiated independently, by artists and curators, and what we observe today is a result of a grassroots movement of sorts.