This platform
for and about artists, writers, curators, and exhibitions.
It is divided into three sections:
Hot Coffees — It all begins with a good conversation over a coffee or a tea. You have just published a book or have an exhibition, you want to share your deeper story. Sometimes you need someone to ask you these questions. This platform is all about this type of longer and thoughtful exchanges. By May 2025, respondents came from the U.S., Georgia, South Africa, the Czech Republic, Japan, China, Germany, Ukraine, Italy, France, Brazil, Portugal, Mexico, and Colombia.
From the East and West of Tbilisi- Aims to provide a cultural map to the region surrounding Georgia, to create a resource and an archive of the cultural currents, so different and yet so powerful.
Espresso Shots - like all good espressos, these short essays provide energizing boosts and concise opinions about current events or exhibitions.
Founder
Nina Chkareuli-Mdivani is a Georgian-born and New York-based independent curator, writer, and researcher. She holds undergraduate degrees in International Relations and Gender Studies from Tbilisi State University and Mount Holyoke College, and a graduate degree in Museum Studies from the City University of New York. Chkareuli-Mdivani's book, King is Female, published in October 2018 in Berlin by Wienand Verlag explores the lives of three Georgian women artists and is the first publication to investigate questions of the feminine identity in the context of the Eastern European historical, social, and cultural transformation of the last twenty years. Since 2017 Chkareuli-Mdivani has regularly contributed reviews, essays, and interviews to Artforum,Berlin Art Link, e-flux, East European Film Bulletin, Flash Art Magazine, Hot Coffee Conversations, Hyperallergic, Indigo Magazine Tbilisi, JANE Magazine Australia, Impulse Magazine, Le Quotidien de l'Art, post.MoMA, NERO Editions Italy, Overstandard, Spaghetti Boost, The Art Newspaper, The Brooklyn Rail, White Hot Magazine, and others.
She has curated over ten exhibitions in New York and Los Angeles (U.S.), Iserlohn and Berlin (Germany), Daugavpils (Latvia), and Tbilisi (Georgia). Her research involves the intersection of art history, museum, and decolonization studies, focusing on totalitarian art and trauma theory; she has extensively written and lectured on the erasure of culture and recontextualization of Soviet art within Eastern European and Western contexts.
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