Tolia Astakhishvili
Born in 1974 in Tbilisi, Tolia Astakhishvili works and lives between Berlin and Tbilisi.
Her art practice includes sculpture, drawing, painting, sound, video and writing. Her architectural environments, which integrate these various media, are designed in conversation with the exhibition site. They evoke spaces in transformation, like a suspended construction site whose origins and completion remain undefined. Everyday objects, drawings, photographs, mural inscriptions and
videos suggest a diffuse human presence. Together, they weave a fictional narrative marked by a psychological dimension, sometimes tinged with surrealism. Her recent solo exhibitions include Result, LC Queisser, Tbilisi; between father and mother, Sculpture Center, New York (2024); The First Finger (chapter II), Haus am Waldsee, Berlin (2023); The First Finger, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn (2023); I Think It's Closed, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld (2023); I am the secret meat, Felix Gaudlitz, Vienna (2022). She has also participated in group exhibitions at the MACRO Museum, Rome; Condo Complex, London (2024); Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich; Emalin, London; Molitor Gallery, Berlin; LC Queisser, Tbilisi (2023); Shahin Zarinbal, Berlin; LC Queisser, Tbilisi (2022); Art Hub Copenhagen, Copenhagen; Räume für Kunst, Kerpen; Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn; Capitain Petzel Gallery, Berlin (2021); Malmö Konsthall, Malmö (2019); Cabinet, London (2018). In 2025, her work will be exhibited at the Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation in Venice, under the direction of Hans Ulrich Obrist, and as part of The Gatherers at MoMA PS1, in New York.
