Conceptual Visual Art, Painting 

Temo Javakhi (Javakhishvili) was born in 1951 in Georgia. During 1971-1974 he was studying acting K/S “Georgian Film” studio. In 1971-1976 he was studying as an artist-technologist at Tbilisi State Academy of Fine Arts. He was a stage designer, actor and producer at Tbilisi State Theatre of Marionettes in 1981-1996. At the same theatre he directed his own performance  „P.S.”. He also directed “Stranger's Gaze” (“In den Auger Eines Fremden”) based on a play by V. M. Bauer.

From 1985 he is a member of the Artists Union in Georgia. From 2015 Temo Javakhi works as an invited proffesior at Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. From 1976 until now, he participated up to 80 exhbitions and international projects.

Temo Javakhi is one of the most distinguished conceptual visual artists in Georgia. He has played an important role in developing alternative discourses of Georgian contemporary art in 1980-90’s. His artworks are created in various mediums (video, site-specific installation, painting objects,action/performance paintings). Temo Javakhi generally criticises dogmatic normes. His individual approach of conceptual analysis (playing with Dadaist forms, using of postmodernist irony and expression) defines his prominent role in Georgian Contemporary Art.

Selected exhibitions:

 

2019 – “Invalid Memorabilia”, G. Leonidze State Museum of Georgian Literature, Tbilisi, Georgia 

2018 - International group exhibition - “State of Play“, Aliyev Contemporary Art Center, Baku, Azerbaijan                

2018 - International group exhibition, “State of Play”, Contemporary Art Gallery, Karvasla, Tbilisi, Georgia

2016 - Solo exhibition  MIRRORRIM, National Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia

2015 - Project “The Knight in the Panther's Skin (Vefkhistkaosani ) -  Artist’s book”, Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia

2015 - International exhibition “ A letter arrives always Destinations”  Paris, France; New York, USA                                    

2014 - International project „Font“, Tbilisi, Georgia; Bochum, Germany

2013 - International exhibition “Georgian Video Art”, Aarhus, Denmark 

2012 - Underground of 1980-90’s, Tbilisi National Gallery, Georgia

2012- International exhibition, gallery „Alte  Schule Adlershof“, Berlin, Germany

2011 - International  project “TRANS“, Contemporary Art Center, Paric, France 

2010 - International  project ” Stop Trying to Understand Me”, Nice, France

2009 - International exhibition „Tbilisi Underground“,Nantes, France

2008 - International exhibition, Frankfurt, Marburg, Germany

2003 - International forum “Caucasus” (Photography, Video, Cinema) Strasbourg,  Mulhouse, France

2002 - International  project ”Art-Agitation”, Yekaterinburg, Russia                                                                             

1999 - Solo project “From East to West”, N - Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia

1998 - Performance “Kart-Veli” (Georgian), Tbilisi, Georgia

1997 - Solo project “TRANS” and video “Silk Man”, Old Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia                                            

1994 - Solo exhibition “P.S.” Tbilisi State Theatre of Marionettes, Georgia

1991 - Solo exhibition ”Lettrism”,Tbilisi History Museum Karvasla, Georgia

1976 -  Exhibition “Young Artists”, National Gallery,Tbilisi, Georgia