Vajiko Chachkhiani

Vajiko Chachkhiani is a Georgian artist whose work mostly involves film, sculpture, photography and visual installations. Currently he lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Tbilisi, Georgia. Chachkhiani's work has been shown at the Venice Biennale.[1]

Early life

Vajiko Chachkhiani was born in Tbilisi, Georgia.[2] He studied Mathematics and Informatics at the Georgian Technical University, Tbilisi, before turning to Fine Arts, which he studied at Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany and Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Career

At the Venice Biennale in 2017, he showcased a Georgian log cabin, that he received from the mining town of Chiatura.[1] The cabin was filled with typical furniture and ordinary objects. Eventually, the rain started getting inside the work, causing moss to grow and creating an inversion between inside and outside. The title "A Living Dog in the Midst of Dead Lions" probably relates to the exhibition's location in Venice, whose symbol is the lion.[3][4][5](subscription required)

At the Bonn Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany (also known as the Bundeskunsthalle) in 2018, Chachkhiani showed the disturbing story of a family in the short-film "Heavy Metal Honey". The film starts with a quiet family meeting and turns unreal when the mother starts shooting the family members. In the ending, everyone is sitting unharmed at the table.[6]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions
  • 2018 – Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany
  • 2018 – Crumbling down, up and up we climb, Yarat Contemporary Art Space, Baku, Azerbaijan
  • 2018 – A good neighbour, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany, in cooperation with Istanbul Biennale
  • 2018 – Germany Is Not An Island – Contemporary Art Collection of the Federal Republic of Germany, Acquisitions 2012–2016, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany
  • 2020 – A Silent Conversation, Daniel Marzona art gallery, Berlin, Germany

Collections

Awards
  • 2012 – BINZ39 Artist Residency, Zürich, Switzerland
  • 2013 – DAAD-award, Bonn, Germany
  • 2014 – 7th Rubens Promotional Award, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany
  • 2015 – Arbeitsstipendium, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn, Germany
  • 2016 – Yarat Contemporary Art Space, Residency Program, Baku, Azerbaijan
  • 2016 – ISCP, Residency Program, New York, USA
  • 2017 – Future Generation Art Prize 2017, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine
  • 2019 – One of 4 recipients of a Villa Aurora fellowship for visual arts, Los Angeles, USA[11]

References
  1. "Vajiko Chachkhiani Will Bring a Piece of Georgia to Venice". Artnet. 27 February 2017. Retrieved 2020-10-30.
  2. "Vajiko Chachkhiani: They Kept Shadows Quiet". C Magazine. 15 June 2019. Retrieved 2020-10-30.
  3. "Georgischer Pavillon". www.kunstforum.de (in German). Retrieved 2018-07-05.
  4. Silke Hohmann. "Venedig-Biennale Faust und Freiheit". www.monopol-magazin.de (in German). Retrieved 2018-07-04.
  5. K Zupan-Rupp. "A Living Dog in the Midst of Dead Lions". www.mgk-siegen.de (in German). Retrieved 2018-07-04.
  6. Thomas Kleemann. "Wenn Mutter zur Killerin wird – Werke von Vajiko Chachkhiani in der Bonner Bundeskunsthalle". www.general-anzeiger-bonn.de (in German). Retrieved 2018-07-04.
  7. "Once Upon A Time: The Storyteller Vajiko Chachkhiani". Frieze. Retrieved 2020-10-30.
  8. "Vajiko Chachkiani. Winter which was not there". Frac Auvergne (in French). Retrieved 2020-12-14.
  9. "Vajiko Chachkhiani: Heavy Metal Honey". Han Nefkens Foundation. Retrieved 2020-12-14.
  10. "Collection - Vajiko Chachkhiani: Hunters". Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen. Retrieved 2020-12-14.
  11. "Villa Aurora announces 2019 Fellows - VATMH (en)". www.vatmh.org. Retrieved 2020-12-12.
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