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2009 International festival "Fest i Nova" has even strengthened our base capacity to hold such events in the future.
Artisterium - as the name suggests, it is an art fair, and organised in Tbilisi every Autumn. We have posted the link to the program here.
2009, September, Denis Gonobolin Artist in residence in Garikula, creates a big plane-man "Deja vu", which is in creating process, it's a brother of a little plane-man "Deja vu".
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2009, September, Jurate Lansdbergite, musician from Vilnius,
Lithuania, artist in residence in Garikula, presented classic, old and
modern baltic, armenian and ukrainian music. Sais Jurate: "I will look forward next year with
new project to go back to Art Villa Garikula and bringh there more artists from Lithuania".
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2009 Artists Alicja Rogalska (Poland/UK) and Martin Clarke (UK) were in residence at Art Villa Garikula 11-31 August.
Together they worked on a site-specific installation in the garden, The Best Things Happen Just Before the Fall, and recorded sounds, interviews and collected footage for a video which will be premiered in Art Villa Garikula at the Fest i Nova Festival in October 2009.
www.alicjarogalska.co.uk
www.rockscottage.net
www.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/547936
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HEP (Human Emotion Project), at Fest i Nova, Art Villa
Garikula, Georgia
"Human Emotion Project and Irina Gabiani's works exhibition"
What: Exhibit
Host: Karaman Kutateladze, Irina Gabiani
Start Time: Wednesday, September 2 at 7:00pm
End Time: Wednesday, September 2 at 11:00pm
Where: Art Villa Garikula
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2009 August :: L'Expédition Cycloscope is a mobile cine-concert, which came from France by bicycle. Professeur Nixe and Célestine created a revolutionary invention: le CYCLOSCOPE - the projector that is powered entirely by bicycle.
Karaman Kutateladze hosted them, and they installed their scientific-burlesque laboratory in the dark wine cellar of Garikula. They really enjoyed presenting to the people of Garikula, with their clarinet and accordion, Charlot, Harold Lloyd, Emile Cohl and Nosferatu.
Fred Bothorel and Hélène Juttin, association «Société Philanthropique de Cycloscopie», residence in Art Villa Garikula from 1 August to 20 August 2009.
Link: www.cycloscope.org :: Photo credit: Alicija Rogalska.
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2009 July :: Sebastian Boulter and Natxa Pomar, artists in residence in Garikula, developed an artistic-philosophical research on past and present in the Caucasus Area.
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2009 Marius Abramavicius trip to Georgia and Garikula.
2009 Garikula 2009 tango.
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2009 Artists Tina Bepperling and Guga Kotetishvili; journalist Pamela Renner visit and create first thinktank of the 2009.
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2008 Emile Laugier and Jeane Dupuy visit among guests of the suspended festival "Liquid Art". Link with Artisterium supplied most visitors. Movie depicting the work of Emile Laugier and Jeane Dupuy, invited to Georgia by Guela Tsouladze, can be seen following this link.
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2008 Lithuanian culture week.
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2008 Garikla welcomed Azusa Ueno who stayed a few days to work with local clay.
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2008 Riga Visual Arts Academy students/faculty member visit.
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2008 Stuttgart State Academy of Visual Art student/faculty visit.
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2008 Uzupis Art Incubator, Lithuania, revisit Marius, and Skaidra and Giedrius.
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2008 Tango lessons.
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2008 Residence of Ben Goldstone aka George Lazenbleep - musician and sound artist.
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2008 Residence and concert of Scott Taylor, musician from France and US.
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2007 Workshop with a theatre group from Tbilisi.
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2007 Residency of Georgian multimedia and film artists.
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2007 Restoration of the left wing, a Soviet-epoch addition to the citadel, continues on the roof. The 3rd floor studios and terrace are also revamped to make original parts more emphasized.
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2007 Photography exhibition on the occasion of visit of cultural attache of the US embassy in Tbilisi, Rowena Najafi, and library presentation. The first part of books from the library grant welcomed in Garikula.
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2007 Residency of American artist Pamela Cardwell visiting Georgia through a Fulbright program. Pam contributed large amount of out of print and latest art books to Garikula library.
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2007 Four students from Latvia: Agris Buzens, Ieva Kremere, Jana Metere and Klavs Kalnacs stay in Garikula for several days and make photos of Georgian nature and Tbilisi.
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2007 Traveling Lithuanian artist, from Uzupis Art Incubator, arrived for a week In Garikula. The participation of Georgian artists in European Capital of Culture festival (in Vilnius in 2009) was discussed along with other issues.
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2007 Two artists and art manager from Latvia, enjoy their own trips program and stay in residence with other artists in Garikula.
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2007 Babylon Caucasus, the caravan of 60 French artists traveling in Georgia, Chechnia and Kabardino-Balkaria, come to Garikula where they give a concert and a show. The tour organised by French association of artists Marcho Doryila.
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2007 Residence of Dutch artists Rolina Nell and Paul Riesen.
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2006 - 2007 Funds received from selling the artworks are used to refurbish facilities and finance land projects, ranging from agriculture to archaeology.
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2006 Residency of American artist Pamela Cardwell visiting Georgia through a Fulbright program.
2006 Art Villa Garikula Publishing Atelier has discontinued website design, as well as printing for Art Villa Garikula.
2006 Artist in Residence: Anton Balanchivadze.
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2006 Sweden's Natverkstan visit in Garikula.
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2006 The Russian magazine "Shtab-Kvartira", Marina Tsurtsumia and Mikhail Stepanov, visit Garikula for a photo-session and discuss cooperation venues for the coming seasons.
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2006 Georgian-French meeting with focus on ethnic culture in Caucasus and France. Artists from Marcho Doryila visit students' base of Akhalkalaki and Garikula citadel.
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2006 The exhibition of contemporary art “Caucasus” in the National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow, welcomed Georgian artists.
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2006 Photo expedition with Samuel Wooten, photographer.
2005 Art Villa Garikula hosted Irish, Georgian and English artists, on a work in progress, called Europe’s Peripheries.
2005 International Culture House invited to Garikula student filmmakers from Latvia and Georgia. Organized by Nino Nozadze, from ICH, the meeting aimed at conveying through the film the image of new cultural dimensions; “Open Gauge” works were presented in Georgia and Latvia.
2005 Highlighting Georgian customs, cuisine and culture, “Gourmaniada” was organized in Art Villa Garikula by Karaman Kutateladze, Goga Kalandadze, Gogi and Kote Totibadze, Nina Gomiashvili and Aleksei Kazakov. The catalogue was published in Moscow in 2005. Gourmaniada presents cuisine, art and customs of a particular country.
2005 Kulturschmiede, Austrian Federal Chancellery, Kultur Kontakt Austria, Georgian Ministry of Culture, Sports and Monuments protection and Art Villa Garikula organized the symposium “Wien – Garikula”. Conceived by Giorgi Okropiridze, Lukas Horwath and Johannes Steidl a two-week meeting of 15 artists from Austria in Georgia was to promote direct contact betweeen artists from Austria and Georgia, as well as make Georgian contemporary art known in Vienna where the catalogue covering the event was presented. As an additional benefit one Georgian participant visited Vienna through Kultur Kontakt, and Austrian participant lived in Tbilisi for almost one year. The artworks have been exhibited in National Art Center, Tbilisi, and remain in the collection of Garikula.
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2005 Dutch Federation of Artists’ Associations, European Council of Artists, UNESCO, Georgian Ministry of Culture, Sport and Monuments Protection, and Art Villa Garikula, organized one-week symposium with artists from Netherlands, Lithuania, Turkey and Georgia. In the framework of annual events by European Council of Artists called “A Portrait of the Artist in 2015”, the artists' encounter addressed theme of friendship inspired by Middle Age Georgian poem “The Knight in the Tigers’ Skin”; as well as Georgian, Dutch and Lithuanian song, music and contemporary art. A catalogue with a DVD was published in Netherlands by ECA, covering this encounter in detail.
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2005 Established “National Art Center”/NAC in Tbilisi.
2004 “Wind from the Caucasus”, Georgia - Russia meeting with participation of a German artist and a journalist from the US. View Catalogue.pdf and poster.
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2004 Restoration of three levels of citadel included water system, plastering, purchase of antiquarian furniture from the village as well as creation of new furniture.
2004 Georgian artists took three weeks residency at Art Villa Garikula.
2004 Architectural project “Garikula – Center for the Arts” was exhibited in Venice on a 9th Architectural Biennale Metamorph. more text
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2003 Creation of first website of Art Villa Garikula. The website was inspired by wall paintings and decoration by students of the Academy of Art in Tbilisi. The website has won honourable mention in the competition held by Natwerkstan.
2003 Autumn Plainaire in Garikula. Organized by the Embassy of the Republic of Poland and Tbilisi Academy of Art.
2003 Meeting with Natverkstan – Swedish network of art organizations.
2003 Mrs. Sandra Rulovs, wife of President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili, organized plainaire for elderly artists. Link.
2003 US Ambassador in Georgia Mr. Richard Miles hosts the exhibition of works of Roger Colombik and Jerolyn Bahm-Colombik, created in Garikula, in the ambassador’s residence in Tbilisi.
2003 Restoration works.
2003 Artist meeting “Garikula – Kalahari”, inspired with the view of never-the –same mountain across the river.
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2003 Design Atelier of Art Villa Garikula starts working with the cultural department of the US embassy printing calendars with photographs by Robert Capa, as well as other material featuring links between Georgia and the US.
2003 Students of Tbilisi State Art Academy stay in Garikula in residence, helping in cleaning and rebuilding of the house.
2003 Architectural project “Garikula – Centre for the Art” is invited to exhibition on Venice Architectural Biennale “Metamorph” in 2004.
2003 Fulbright artist Clifton Meador visits Tbilisi State Academy of Art and Art Villa Garikula, with workshops on the art of book design.
2003 In his Tbilisi studio Karaman Kutateladze hosts lectures on contemporary art read by Fulbright artist Roger Colombik. Students of the Tbilisi State Academy of Art participate in the residency and prepare works for the exhibition in Garikula. US artist and his wife take plenty of photo material that became a source of much interest in US and Georgia.
2003 Art Villa Garikula collaborates with US embassy and Fulbright Scholar Program and holds professional artist meeting in Art Villa Garikula.
2002 International art catalogue Art of Nations publishes photographs taken in Garikula by Evgeny Nesterov and Irina Padva.
2002 Fulbright artist Joseph Kagle establishes art and resource room in Tbilisi State Academy of Art and holds workshops in Art Villa Garikula followed with the exhibition at Garikula.
2002 Master-class in art history was held for the students from Tbilisi State Academy of Art.
2002 Symposium of Georgian professional painters organized by Nana Bagdavadze (USA).
2002 “Summer Plainaire in Garikula” and “Autumn Plainaire in Garikula”.
2002 Workshop by Swiss photographer Irene Maag.
2002 Caucasus Art Manager’s forum.
2002 Summer symposium with participation of 20 students from Tbilisi State Academy of Art.
2002 “Art In Public Places”, project by a Fulbright artist Roger Colombik, and a group of students from the Tbilisi State Academy of Art; Mr. Colombik read lectures and supervised student works in the framework of “Art in Public Places” project.
2002 The embassy of the US and Tbilisi Karvasla museum organize exhibition of students’ works created in Art Villa Garikula.
2002 The visit to Garikula inspires Russian photographers Eugenyi Nesterov and Irina Padva to take a number of photographs used later in the catalogue “Iskusstvo Nacii” (The Art of Nations).
Local photographers also contribute to the database: Anna Nizharadze, Gia Pailodze, Giorgi Mirzashvili, Guga Kotetishvili, Guram Tsibakhashvili and many others. Painters Giorgi Mirzashvili, Oleg Timchenko and Merab Surviladze create new murals in the citadel.
2002 Fulbright artist from the US Joseph Kagle collaborates with Garikula and the Academy of Art, arranging workshops and an exhibition in Garikula. Mr. Kagle showed different techniques of working with colours and elaborated on the subject of spontaneity of artistic choice during the drawing process.
2001 Documenting of church frescoes: Ikvi and Phavnisi .
2001 Painting and photography master class.
2001 The residence of 18 students and 4 faculty members from Tbilisi State Academy of Art.
2001 With the help of the foundation that established Art Villa Garikula a regional house for the disabled children receives presents.
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2001 Restoration of citadel; architectural company studies original plans of the citadel and adjacent land and starts to work on architectural plan of the art centre.
2000 Students from Tbilisi State Academy of Art create a Photo-story depicting the reconstruction and wall paintings creation process.
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2000 Students from Tbilisi State Academy of Art participate in reconstruction and create wall paintings and works of their own.
2000 The residence program opened with sculptors’ symposium in 2000. Most works from the symposium are in the collection of Art Villa Garikula.
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1999 Pictures of citadel.