Andria Dolidze (b. 1988, Tbilisi) is a Georgian artist based in Düsseldorf, Germany.
For his paintings, Andria Dolidze utilizes banners obtained from institutions and the streets, altering and contaminating them, and sometimes incorporating fragments of existing texts.
Andria Dolidze's works draw upon fragmented texts, images, stickers, writings, architectural details, and ornaments discovered in the street.
The artist plays with opacity and transparency through a careful interplay of central and marginal layers of the city. The work reconfigures elements collected from chaotic landscapes, both material and digital.
Dolidzes approach involves a non-hierarchical decentering of expansive urban calligraphy, embracing its heterogeneity. Through splitting, fragmenting, and transforming these elements, the artist crafts new narratives and visual texts.
Education
| 2007 – 2011 | Visual Arts, Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, Georgia |
| 2017 – 2024 | Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Ellen Gallagher and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster |
Scholarships
| 2021 | Reisestipendium Kunstverein Düsseldorf |
Selected Exhibitions
| 2024 | Dull Hum, Linn Lühn, with Keta Gavasheli, Düsseldorf, Germany (S) Host, curated by Lisa Offermann, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris, France (G) |
| 2023 | One-Drop Reminder, a performance with Keta Gavasheli, in collaboration with musician Zurab Babunashvili, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany (S) Temporal Reverie, collaboration with Keta Gavasheli, Empty Spaces e.V. III, Düsseldorf, Germany (S) |
| 2022 | Empty Spaces III, The dreams are still the same, Düsseldorf, Germany (S) |
| 2021 | Boundless, Soundless Wings, Empty Spaces e.V., Düsseldorf , Germany (S) |
| 2020 | Where is this place?, Empty Spaces e.V. Düsseldorf ,Germany (S) LAST SHOWER AND A BLURRY LAUGH, collaboration with Keta Gavasheli, Mouches Volantes, Cologne, Germany (S) |
| 2019 | That ’s not a gate! That ’s a gate!, performance with Keta Gavasheli, sound by Zurab Babunashvili / Zesknel, Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, Germany (S) Till you get your powers back, collaboration with Keta Gavasheli, 4710 Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia (S) I had to spit out lukewarm, but no one cares about that anymore, collaboration with Keta Gavasheli, Oxygen Tbilisi No Fair, Tbilisi, Georgia (S) |
Keta Gavasheli (b. 1990, Tbilisi) is a Georgian artist based in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Central to Keta Gavasheli´s artistic endeavor is a profound understanding of the transformative nature of bodies and to open up boundaries which do not seem permeable at first.
Gavasheli's installations create portals to an alternate dimension and invite contemplation. The artist is fascinated by the interactions between everyday objects, imbuing them with symbolic meaning and transcending the boundaries of individual entities or images.
Gavasheli´s artistic practice often includes performances in which she interweaves fragments of language, both spoken and written, accompanied by sound.
Education
| 2007 – 2011 | Architecture (BA), Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, Georgia |
| 2017 – 2024 | Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Ellen Gallagher and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster |
Scholarships
| 2024 | Stipendium der Gaul-Stiftung |
| 2022 | Deutschland Stipendium |
| 2021 | Reisestipendium Kunstverein Düsseldorf |
Selected Exhibitions
| 2024 | Dull Hum, Linn Lühn, with Keta Gavasheli, Düsseldorf, Germany (S) Voice Note, LC Queisser, Tbilisi, Georgia (S) Host, curated by Lisa Offermann, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris, France (G) Sanctuary, LC Queisser, Tbilisi, Georgia (G) Nevers, Galerie Khoshbakht, Cologne, Germany (G) The Park as Lover, Lantz’scher Skulpturenpark, Düsseldorf, Germany (G) |
| 2023 | One Tree Forest, 4710 Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia (S) WAX AND FEATHERS, collaboration with Andria Dolidze, G10 Projektraum, Darmstadt, Germany (S) Lampen & Leuchten, Rinde am Rhein, Düsseldorf, Germany (G) Temporal Reverie, collaboration with Andria Dolidze, Empty Spaces e.V. III, Düsseldorf, Germany (S) |
| 2022 | Rusty Tears, Westfälischer Kunstverein/ Radar, Münster, Germany |
| 2021 | Echoing Green, 4710 gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia (S) UNDEFINED SHORES, ARCADIA, Düsseldorf, Germany (S) The Bones of February, WORMHOLE, newspaper of young artists and cultural workers Boundless, Soundless Wings, Empty Spaces e.V. II, Düsseldorf , Germany (G) |
| 2020 | The Bones of February, Empty Spaces e.V., Düsseldorf, Germany (G) LAST SHOWER AND BLURRY LAUGH, collaboration with Andria Dolidze, Mouches Volantes, Cologne, Germany (S) |
Performances
| 2024 | Dear O,. accompanied by Dylan Maquet, Lantz’scher Skulpturenpark, Düsseldorf, Germany |
| 2023 | Don’t lean in, love, just lose your mouth, with Tabea Marschall, Artothek Köln, Germany One-Drop Reminder, with Andria Dolidze in collaboration with musician Zurab Babunashvili, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany (S) |
| 2022 | Left in the Dark, reading performance with kaity Fox, Part of the solo exhibition RUSTY TEARS |
| 2021 | LOVER LAVA, with Kaity Fox, Salon des Amateurs, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany |
| 2019 | That ’s not a gate! That ’s a gate!, with Andria Dolidze, sound by Zurab Babunashvili / Zesknel - Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, Germany |