Tolia Astakhishvili, Stefanie Heinze, Keto Logua, Nancy Lupo, In Heat Wind Wounds Holes, installation view, LC Queisser, Tbilisi, 2022

Tolia Astakhishvili, Stefanie Heinze, Keto Logua, Nancy Lupo

In Heat Wind Wounds Holes

Tolia Astakhashvili works and lives in Berlin, Germany and Tbilisi, Georgia. Since 2004 she has taught at several institutions, as a guest lecturer in Mixed Media - Klasses Friedemann Hanh at Akademie für Bildende Künste Mainz, visiting lecturer in Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, and a docent of Installation Art at UDK. . Tolia works under different pseudonyms, in collaboration and solo practices, among them are Tolia Astakhasvili, Khishvi, Astali / Peirce. Her work has been included in the exhibitons LC Queisser, Tbilisi (2022); Art Hub Copenhagen, Copenhagen (2021); Räume für Kunst, Kerpen (2021); Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn (2021); Capitain Petzel Galerie, Berlin (2021); Goethe Institute Bulgaria / Earth and Man National Museum, Sofia (2019); Malmö Konsthall, Malmö (2019); Cabinet, London (2018).

Tolia Astakhishvili

For Those Who Are Not There

oil on gyps section of the wall

Unique

23 × 20.5 × 2.5 cm

Tolia’s work takes over, expands and incorporates the gallery space into itself. The visitor is also subsumed, becoming yet another element framed by the proliferating, unreasonable architecture.

“Building elements in Tolia’s installation become signifiers of both what they are, and what undoes them, their assembly and their dismantling. She describes the work as "some kind of unfinished building, but at the same time, ruined… It’s just started to be built but it’s already old.”

- Text by Marina Caron