The Dmitri Shevardnadze National Gallery will host Nina Gamkharidze’s solo exhibition, VELUM.

The Dmitri Shevardnadze National Gallery will host Nina Gamkharidze’s solo exhibition, VELUM. This is the title of one of the artist’s significant works, created in 2024 for the project dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Swiss Saint Lucas Society (www.lukasgesellschaft.ch). As an example of transcultural and interreligious art, it is intended to be displayed in various churches across Switzerland. Today, VELUM is exhibited in its fifth sacred space—the Cartausian Church in Basel. At the National Gallery, the project is presented as a digital projection.

Nina Gamkharidze graduated in 1987 from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts with a specialization in Art History and Theory. She focused on medieval art, but her academic interests extended far beyond this. Her research encompassed ancient pre-Christian cultures, Western and Eastern practices, and cultures whose essence is linked to the transcendent. Among this vast heritage, she was particularly interested in technological processes and the different artistic materials used.

Since 1992, Nina Gamkharidze has lived in Switzerland. In her emigration, she has become incredibly multifaceted in her activities. She delivers lectures, publishes scientific papers and translations, and works as an expert and restorer of medieval icons. In 2018, she founded the cultural association ICONARIUM.ORG, which archives, preserves, and organizes exhibitions of religious artifacts held in Switzerland.

At the same time, Nina Gamkharidze has developed as an artist. Rooted in deep knowledge, her art is unlike anyone else’s. As a postmodernist artist, she breaks the boundaries of visual arts. The artifacts she creates are both paintings and sculptures, or more precisely, abstract, conceptually charged objects.

In recent years, Nina has collaborated with Georgian geologist and “color scientist” Murad Tkemaladze, using mineral pigments sourced from Georgia.

Along with the opening, a book about the artist will be presented. The book, prepared in collaboration with Professor Ketevan Kintsurashvili, was published in Switzerland by Alataverlag.

The exhibition will open at 7 PM on August 7th and will run until September 7th.