1894 - 1921

Painting, Graphics, Stage Design 

Shalva Kikodze was born in 1894 in village Bakhvi, Georgia. In 1924 he graduated from Georgian Gymnasium. Kikodze continued studying at the Faculty of Law at Moscow University , same time  he studied painting at Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1914-1917. In  1916 Shalva Kikodze participated in the Nabakhtevi expedition and he made copies of frescoes there. Together with painters D. Kakabadz and L. Gudiashvili he moved to Paris for studying in 1919.  Artist died during his stay in Germany in 1921 and he is interred in Freiburg.

Shalva Kikodze is a Georgian modernist artist and despite his short-time living, he has an important role in developing Georgian Art.  Kikodze allegorical symbolism and expression manifests artist's outstanding world view. Except paintings he produced graphics, especially important are his caricature series.

Artworks by Shalva Kikodze are stored in different private collections, but most of them are displayed at Georgian National Museum.

Selected exhibitions:

2015 -Shalva Kikodze  120 - National Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia

1928 - Solo exhibition of Shalva Kikodze, Tbilisi, Georgia

1921 - Independent artists annual exhibition, “Independent Salon”, Paris, France

1921 - Independent artists annual exhibition, gallery “La Licorne”, Paris, France

1919 - Georgian artists exhibition, “Temple of Glory”, Tbilisi, Georgia