Gvantsa Jishkariani

Gvantsa Jishkariani

Gvantsa Jishkariani (born 1991) studied at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts and the Center of Contemporary Art Tbilisi. She is an exceptional figure on the Georgian contemporary art scene, known as an artist but also as the creator of the off galleries Patara and The Why Not Gallery. She was the curator of the Tbilisi Photo Festival and founder of Gar-Gar, Georgia’s first magazine on contemporary art and fashion. She currently lives and works between Tbilisi and Madrid. Her works are included in numerous major international collections, such as the Alain Servais Collection, Collezione Taurisano, the Royal Family of UAE Collection and the Marval Collection. In Warsaw her works were shown for the first time at last year’s NADA Villa Warsaw.