Tamar Gedevanishvili (b. 1969)

Tamar Gedevanishvili is a Georgian artist whose practice moves across multiple media and reflects on the fragile relationship between the visible and the invisible, the tangible world and its virtual reflections. Her work functions as a meditation on time, perception, and the shifting nature of lived experience.

Gedevanishvili studied at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, where she first graduated from the Faculty of Architecture and later continued her studies in Graphic Design. This interdisciplinary background informs her artistic language, where spatial thinking, narrative imagery, and emotional intensity intersect.

At the core of her artistic inquiry lies a persistent question: where is the human being situated within time and space? Her work explores the uncertainty of human presence — where we exist, how long we are given to create and to live, and how we intersect with others and with the world around us.

The artist approaches this exploration almost as an observer of places where time compresses, flows, and transforms. Her paintings pulse with movement: breaking waves, falling bodies, gusts of wind, and figures searching for shelter. These events feel both immediate and distant, as if emerging from a world balanced on a threshold — geographical, emotional, or temporal.

The works speak in a visual language that functions as a portal between different realities. Waves remain relentless; a falling figure appears suspended in mid-air; gestures of refuge are attempted but never fully resolved. Through these images, the artist captures transitional states — moments that reality itself can rarely sustain as it moves toward its own dissolution or completion.

In contrast to the intensity of the painted canvases, Gedevanishvili’s works on paper create a quieter, more introspective space. These drawings function as inner monologues, narrating subtle psychological shifts and internal transformations. They form a mental landscape filled with fleeting thoughts, calm uncertainty, and deeply personal intuitions.

Here, time is no longer an external force but rather a sequence of emotional signals — momentary, unpredictable, and deeply felt.

This sensibility is particularly evident in a series of works drawn on paper napkins, created spontaneously by the artist in cafés. These fragile surfaces carry gestures, observations, and impulses that emerge between conversations, pauses, and moments of waiting. The delicacy of the material intensifies their meaning: they become quiet records of time that do not seek permanence but simply exist within the flow of everyday life.

Reality, in Gedevanishvili’s artistic universe, is never fixed. It is constantly rewritten through perception, memory, and imagination. What we perceive as the present may already be disappearing, while what we imagine as the future may already be exerting its pressure upon us.

Through her work, the artist reveals the beauty and vulnerability of these dislocations. Rather than offering definitive answers, she creates a space in which viewers may reflect upon and inhabit the fluid nature of time itself.

Artist’s reflection

“I often wonder — where is the human being? Here, in this reality, or somewhere in the past, perhaps in someone else’s mind, or within one’s own dream?

It is an untouchable state where the boundaries of time dissolve. We seem to invent our own measures to understand where we are. Perhaps I am not really here now, but walking somewhere entirely different.

Everything that surrounds us — the images and objects we think about — may intersect in time and space, creating an invisible visual illusion that we might call our ‘true’ portrait.”

Selected Exhibitions

2025

Solo Exhibition Given Time. Collect Art Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia

Exhibition Project, Hervás. Baños de Montemayor, Spain

Group Exhibition Drawings, Collect Art Gallery

Charity Group Exhibition-Sale organized by Collect Art Gallery and N9 Gallery

Group Exhibition QART1, organized by the Artists’ Guild, Tbilisi State Academy of Arts

Protest Charity Exhibition-Sale Coloring Georgia

2024

Collaborative art project Strong Georgia

Group Exhibition Home, Georgian Women Artists, Basel, Switzerland

N9 Gallery — Lyceum Club Basel & Lyceum Club Tbilisi

Project dedicated to Fereydani Georgians Under the Georgian Sky, Tbilisi, Georgia

Kardanakhi Art Festival, Ampelo Resort

Group Exhibition Renovation, David Kakabadze Fine Arts Gallery, Kutaisi, Georgia

Group Exhibition Holiday / Fiesta, N9 Gallery

2023

Group Exhibition Our Time

Group Exhibition Connections, dedicated to Europe Day

Project Free City — Georgian Artists in Support of the Ukrainian People

2022

Solo Exhibition Incompatible Intersections, Karvasla History Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia