Nino Kapanadze
1990 (Tbilissi)
Living in : Paris
Working in : Paris
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Nino Kapanadze is a contemporary artist from Georgia, born in Tbilisi in 1990. She currently lives and works in Paris and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris; she also holds degrees from the Tbilisi Academy of Fine Arts, as well as from institutions in Finland and Germany. Notably, she exhibited her paintings as part of the École des Beaux-Arts’ CRUSH program, designed to showcase the school’s artists’ work to art professionals, which helped bring her to the forefront of the art scene. There, the artist presented two paintings: one more figurative and the other more abstract, yet complementary, reflecting her syncretic and hybrid artistic approach that blends different aesthetics, techniques, shades, and colors. Since then, her career has expanded to include several solo exhibitions, notably the institutional exhibition Rendezvous at the Fondazione Bonollo Arte Contemporanea in Italy. She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions at renowned venues on the international art scene, including the Perrotin and David Zwirner galleries in Paris, the Andrew Kreps Gallery in New York, and Super Dakota in Brussels. Her paintings, including April Fool (2022), among others, have been acquired by the Lafayette Anticipations Endowment Fund. The artist will present her very first exhibition, titled Abstentions, starting August 15 in Brazil at the Almeida & Dale Gallery in São Paulo.
Her works explore the notions of appearance and disappearance, transparency and memory, while weaving a subtle dialogue between abstraction and figuration. In these works, the artist expresses her poetic and dreamlike imagination, shaped by her literary and artistic influences as well as her years living in Georgia. The world of her paintings draws as much from the legacy of Soviet realist art as it does from the mountainous landscapes and monasteries of her childhood, which laid the foundation for her artistic language.
Living in : Paris
Working in : Paris
Artist's webSite
Artist's gallery
Nino Kapanadze is a contemporary artist from Georgia, born in Tbilisi in 1990. She currently lives and works in Paris and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris; she also holds degrees from the Tbilisi Academy of Fine Arts, as well as from institutions in Finland and Germany. Notably, she exhibited her paintings as part of the École des Beaux-Arts’ CRUSH program, designed to showcase the school’s artists’ work to art professionals, which helped bring her to the forefront of the art scene. There, the artist presented two paintings: one more figurative and the other more abstract, yet complementary, reflecting her syncretic and hybrid artistic approach that blends different aesthetics, techniques, shades, and colors. Since then, her career has expanded to include several solo exhibitions, notably the institutional exhibition Rendezvous at the Fondazione Bonollo Arte Contemporanea in Italy. She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions at renowned venues on the international art scene, including the Perrotin and David Zwirner galleries in Paris, the Andrew Kreps Gallery in New York, and Super Dakota in Brussels. Her paintings, including April Fool (2022), among others, have been acquired by the Lafayette Anticipations Endowment Fund. The artist will present her very first exhibition, titled Abstentions, starting August 15 in Brazil at the Almeida & Dale Gallery in São Paulo.
Her works explore the notions of appearance and disappearance, transparency and memory, while weaving a subtle dialogue between abstraction and figuration. In these works, the artist expresses her poetic and dreamlike imagination, shaped by her literary and artistic influences as well as her years living in Georgia. The world of her paintings draws as much from the legacy of Soviet realist art as it does from the mountainous landscapes and monasteries of her childhood, which laid the foundation for her artistic language.