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In 2024, the Dimitri Shevardnadze National Gallery hosted the exhibition "Beyond the Homeland." The project was initiated by the Chardin Gallery, which showcased the work of four Georgian émigré artists—Mikheil Bilanishvili, Felix Varlamishvili, Vera Pagava, and Vano Enukidze. Although each artist reached Paris by a different path in the early 20th century, France ultimately became their second homeland. Their lives and creative legacies diverged in many ways, yet the exhibition once again demonstrated how significantly émigré artists contributed to the development of Georgian modernism. Notably, each artist’s work has a unique link to Georgian culture. Several of the displayed pieces were shown to the public for the first time.
The creative period of the artist Guram Gelovani (1928–1986) fell within the so-called “post-Stalinist” era, a time when cultural developments in Georgia were still largely shaped by the ideological politics of the totalitarian state. While socialist realism remained the dominant artistic doctrine, a slight cultural “thaw” began to emerge.
Paris, autumn 1959. The Galerie Charpentier is getting ready for its traditional exhibition of artists - graduates from the Paris School. But then Raymond Naceta the gallery's director, decides to launch an unusual experiment: in order to objectively describe the current art scene in Paris, he contacts five authorized art experts with diverse creative interests and asks them to exhibit seven artists with their most recent three pieces.