⦚ Spaces about other Spaces, 2025
Tolia Astakhishvili
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mk: A few images can be discerned on a wallpaper. They are reproductions of paintings by her grandfather, surrounded by a repeated lily motif on a blue background. In this setting, the paintings appear like quotations, highlighted by illusionistic frames and at the same time flattened, merged with the background—both present and distant. Tolia Astakhishvili grew up in her grandfather’s studio, in a house in Tbilisi, Georgia. The roughly 250 m² house was a network of living and working spaces in which life and art blended seamlessly. The house was created with three artists and the wallpaper with golden lilies decorated one of the workrooms. In the 1930s, he was a well-known artist who, despite the isolation of the Soviet art scene and political restrictions, succeeded in developing an independent artistic voice. Astakhishvili’s revival of his work is therefore not only an act of private remembrance but also a contribution to the art history of modernism.
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Thomas D. Trummer, 2026 (translation machine edited)
Herzl (III), 2016
Yael Bartana
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