#Georgia #Switzerland, Three Georgian galleries present at Art Basel week, June 15-22, 2025
In the Premiere section of Art Basel LC Queisser (Tbilisi, Cologne) presents Tolia Astakhishvili, Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili and Simon Lässig.
The overarching principle of the presentation is the notion of boundarylessness between bodies, images, authorship, and narratives. Tolia Astakhishvili's architectural construction is merged with a photo-object by Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, as an inner layer is Simon Lassig’s screen-based work marked by transparencies, stillness, and halted movements.
In the Statement section of Art Basel Gallery Artbeat (Tbilisi) presents installtion of Georgian artist Nika Kutateladze. Through a compelling interplay of painting and spatial transformation, Kutateladze turns the booth into a fragmented domestic interior—an evocative, site-specific installation that echoes a typical living room in a depopulated mountain village in western Georgia. The experience begins with a narrow corridor, guiding visitors into an enclosed, home-like environment. Yet, this space is more layered than it first appears. Its walls carry more than they enclose, offering access to unseen dimensions shaped by memory, dream, and displacement.
At Basel Social Club Gallery Artbeat (Tbilisi) presents works of Georgian artist Maia Naveriani. “For almost two decades, I have been working predominantly on drawings. The act of drawing for me is a very delicate exercise, requiring deep intuitive trust in the process itself, whether it is small-scale works where the signs can appear very directly and quickly, or large-scale works that demand a complex psychological and technical approach. It is this full intuitive flow and irrational approach to the language of drawing that transcends me into another, ultimate and yet unknown space with no past or future, just the intangible present and the countless possibilities to investigate and reflect on it” Maia Naveriani.
At Basel Social Club E.A. Shared Space (Tbilisi) presents works of Georgian artists Tekla Aslanishvili and Andro Eradze.
Tekla Aslanishvili (b. 1988) is an artist, filmmaker, and essayist based between Berlin and Tbilisi. In her practice, she observes the shifting relations between governments, people, and their territories through the lens of large-scale infrastructure projects.
Andro Eradze (b.1993, GE) lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. His works meditate on the qualitative nature of images, still as well as moving. Working primarily in Georgia, Eradze experiments with introducing narratives to the outskirts of human habitation, in the literal and figurative sense. The feeling of an uncanny, non-anthropocentric presence in his works invites the viewer to the liminal space among the subjective and the visceral, between cognition, perception, and the alien otherness of non-human experience. Animals, objects, plants, and digital artifacts permeate a sense of presence in a landscape that exists simultaneously parallel and entangled with human experience. Eradze’s practice investigates the potentiality of animism as a method. Photography, installations, experimental cinema practices, and video blend into a project contemplating the fading present, in which the Anthropocene is faltering, and everything operates independently of it. Building upon the legacy of alternative approaches to reality—surrealism and magical realism—his images blur the distinction between the imaginary and the real.