About Levan Manjavidze

I’m a visual artist born in Tbilisi, Georgia. After graduating in 1999 from Tiflis state Institute of Theatre & Cinematography, I specialized in traditional renaissance painting techniques in Florence/Italy, 2003-06 studied at Utrecht school of arts in The Netherlands. Since 2007 till 2017 I was based in Berlin/Germany, were I cofounded several experimental projects and participated in numerous underground exhibitions of Neukolln art scene. Now I live & work in Tbilisi. I approach my artistic practice as anthropological science and focus on representation of human beings. My work originates from study of human psyche and subconscious symbolism, which I translate into visual language. I develop bodies of works articulating with each other like puzzle without limiting my self to a single medium. Most of my works are oil paintings, photomontages & digital drawing, as well as performance, installation, writing, sound, video, et cetera...  I look for correspondences between my imagination and images of the real world by taking photographs and researching through Internet data. I’m interested in the chaotic opposition between the reality of the world and the way we experience it. In that sense my work is mostly autobiographical and the result of the observations of daily routines and social orders combined with the need to possess objects. I try to explore the essential mechanism of a human being and study it from different angles: From outside such as in communication processes as well as from inside such as in a biological system.