Maka Batiashvili

Artist Statement:

I've worked in painting and graphic for more than 20 years. My inspiration is derived from the moments of mundane reality that usually turn into important visual images. I try to grsp moments from the ordinary situations, which find participants on the verge, where keeping balance is required. Key concept for my paintings is a person surrounded with the emotional environment and things, who constantly balances the situation and never crosses the limits.

I've participated in art fairs and exhibitions throughout the world, such as New York, London, Paris, Istanbul and many more.

Education:

1992-1997 Faculty of Fine Arts , Tbilisi State Academy of Fine Arts , Georgia

Awards & Distinctions:

World Master in Arts and Culture 2015, World Master Community

Exhibitions:

Solo Exhibitions :
2019-20- The Moment of Narcissism , Project Art Beat, Tbilisi, Georgia
2017 - Solo exhibition , Project Art Beat, Tbilisi, Georgia
Exhibition of drawings, moving gallery by Project Art Beat, Tbilisi, Georgia
2015 - Playground , TBC Art Gallery , Tbilisi, Georgia
2013 - Industrial gallery, Ostrava, the Chez Republic 
Chardin Art Gallery , Tbilisi, Georgia
Georgian Cultural days , Den Haag , Nederland 
Yye Yye film festival , Gallery 9, Nancy, France 
2011 - Gallery Academy+ , Tbilisi, Georgia
2008 - Artloveka Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
Solo exhibitions Vilnius, Kaunas , Kelme , Lithuania 
KIT Gallery, Trondheim , Norway
Georgian Embassy in London , England 
2007 - Blumen Gallery , Leipzig, Germany

Group Exhibitions :
2019 - LifeNstile , print festival, Tbilisi, Georgia 
2018 - Artisterium , Tbilisi History Museum Karvasla, Georgia
The field of agitation and harmony, New York , USA 
LifeNstile , print festival, Tbilisi, Georgia 
Project Art Beat new space opening , Tbilisi, Georgia
Beijing International Artbiennale , Beijing , China
2017 - LifeNstile , print festival, Tbilisi, Georgia 
2015- Exhibition of Georgian painters, Tel Aviv, Israel
2014 - Mosan Art Museum, Korea, Boriong
Meeting with Pirosmani, Georgian National gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
American Embassy in Tbilisi , Georgia

2013 - Arundel Contemporary, Arundel, UK
Things Not Seen Before, Georgian National Gallery, Tbilisi 
Platform 3, Munich, Germany
2010 - Tbilisi Sate Academy galley , Georgia 
The Red , Gallery 9, Tbilisi, Georgia 
2009 - Georgian Cultural Days, Archivio Di Stato, Florence, Italy 
2008 -- OFF Europa Festival, Leipzig, Germany
National Museum of Atlanta, USA
2007 - Sunchiled Film Festival, Erevan, Armenia 
Sorrowful Melodies of Sunny Land ,Atlanta Film festival, USA
The Spectrum Gallery, London , UK
2006- Basaj Bey Oghly Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey 
Mama Cash Gallery, Amsterdam, Nederland
East-West Festival, Die, France 
Art fairs : 
2019 -Contemporary Istanbul international Art Fair, Istanbul Turkey
TAF Tbilisi Art Fair, Georgia
2018 -Contemporary Istanbul international Art Fair, Istanbul Turkey
TAF Tbilisi Art Fair, Georgia
2017- Contemporary Istanbul international Art Fair, Istanbul Turkey
Kiev Art Week, Kiev Ukraine 
Art Vilnius 17 , Vilnius , Lithuania 
2016- Contemporary Istanbul international Art Fair, Istanbul Turkey
Kiev Art Week, Kiev Ukraine 
2015- Contemporary Istanbul international Art Fair, Istanbul Turkey
START Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery, London , UK 

Artistic Influences:

I like to think that everything around me has an impact, such as films, photography and daily situations. One of my favorite artist is Pablo Picasso.