Gvantsa Agrba (b. 2001)

Gvantsa Agrba is an Abkhazian artist based in Tbilisi, Georgia. She graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 2023.

Working primarily in oil on canvas, Agrba explores the delicate boundaries between sleep, dreaming, and altered states of consciousness. Her paintings inhabit liminal spaces where memory, emotion, and the subconscious shape inner landscapes.

Sleep, for Agrba, is not passive rest but a dynamic state of awareness. Within this suspended realm, minimalist motifs — blades of grass, the hum of distant poles, fragments of text — serve as symbolic guides through scenes of ambiguity and subtle tension.

Her visual language blends vivid color, surreal juxtapositions, and symbolic imagery, inviting viewers into spaces where reality and illusion intertwine. Beneath the calm surfaces lie currents of fear, desire, pain, and hidden energy, quietly shaping the atmosphere of each work.

Agrba’s paintings do not offer fixed narratives. They unfold as open fields of interpretation, inviting the viewer into a quiet dialogue with their own inner landscapes.

Exhibitions

2025
Group Exhibition Still They Paint, Window Project, Tbilisi, Georgia

Group Exhibition What the Body Remembers, Fabrika, Tbilisi, Georgia

2024
Artist Residency, Tolon Museum of Modern Art, Kuntuu, Kyrgyzstan

Residency and Exhibition, Troškūnai, Lithuania

Solo Exhibition A Field of Sweet Nettles, Museum of Literature, Tbilisi, Georgia

2023
Artist’s Exhibition, Eristavi Gallery, Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, Tbilisi, Georgia

ATINATI Award Exhibition, Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, Tbilisi, Georgia

2022
Exhibition FUTURUM III, Adamia Gallery, Dresden, Germany

Palais Sommer International Festival, Dresden, Germany

Artisterium 2022 Exhibition – The Hall is Dead, The Hall is Alive, Tbilisi Ethnographic Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia

Group Exhibition First Stop, Maudi Art Gallery

2021
Student Exhibition, Temporary Exhibition Hall of the Academy Museum, Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, Tbilisi, Georgia

Member of Margo Korableva’s Performance Theatre troupe, performing at festivals including Oda Fest and Oxygen Biennale