Artists

Vajiko CHACHKHIANI

Profile

Lives and works in Berlin
1985
Born in Tbilisi, Georgia
2004
Technical University - Mathematics and Informatics, Tbilisi, Georgia
2009
Gerrit Rietveld Academie - Audio Visual Department, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2013
Universität der Künste (UdK), Berlin, Germany - class of Prof. Gregor Schneider

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2019
"Winter which was not there," Gallery Cork, Ireland
"Glass Muscle (Film Trilogy),"  Kunstverein Dresden, Germany
"Art Basel Unlimited," Basel, Switzerland
"Flies bite, Its going to rain," Yarat contempoarary art center, Baku, Azerbaijan
"Vajiko Chachkhiani – Films," Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany

"Glass Ghost,"  Galleria de Foscherari, Bologna, Italy
2018
"Glass Jaw," Scrap Metal Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
"Under The Midday Sun,"  installation, Rinascente Milan piazza Duomo, Milan, Italy
"Cotton Candy," film screening, The Space Cinema Odeon, Milan, Italy
"Moment in and out of time," SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo, Japan

"Many lives pass by while imitating death," Filsers, Mainburg, Germany
"Heavy Metal Honey," Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany
"Winter Which Was Not There," Turku Art Museum, Turku, Finnland
"Life Track, Art Night London," London, UK
2017
"Living Dog Among Dead Lions," Georgian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale, Italy

Regina Gallery, Moscow

"Endless Ends," Galerija Vartai, Vilnius, Lithuania
"Summer which was not there," Daniel Marzona, Berlin, Germany

2016
"The last thing I can hold on to are your kind words," Artim Project Space / Yarat Residency Program, Baku, Azerbaijan

2015
"Many Lives Pass By While Imitating Death," outdoor installation, collaboration of Neue Berliner Räume, Kunsthaus Dahlem and Freie Universität, Berlin

"It neither begins nor ends anywhere," Daniel Marzona, Berlin, Germany

2014
"Both," Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany


2013
"Public Principle," State Museum of Literature, Tbilisi, Georgia



"The Gift," Diploma Show, Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany

2012
"4392 Hours - Temporal Proliferation of Definitive Reasons," BINZ39, Zurich, Switzerland




2011
"To Cut Through," Gallery Gala, Tbilisi, Georgia

2009
"Trap," GRA Glass Pavilion, Amsterdam, Netherlands 


Selected Group Exhibitions

2020
"NIRIN," Biennale of Sydney, Australia
2019
"Down To A Sunless Sea," Arondit offspace, Paris, France
"Hotel Europa: Their Past, Your Present, Our Future," different venues, Tbilisi, Georgia

"Racing The Galaxy," （curated by Jerome Sans）Palace of Peace and Reconciliation & Palace of Independence, Astana (Nur-Sultan), Kazakhstan 

"Journey of Thousand Miles," Collection of Han Nefkens foundation, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito, Ecuador
"We drive far, you in front," Arondit offspace, Paris, France
2018
"Paris independent film festival," Katara Cinema at Le Royal Monceau Raffles, Paris, France
"The Axial Line," PS120, Berlin, Germany
"Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraß," Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany
"Crumbling down, up and up we climb," Yarat Contemporary Art Centre, Baku, Azerbaijan
"A good neighbour," Pinakothek der Moderne, München, Germany in cooperation with Istanbul Biennale
"Germany Is Not An Island – Contemporary Art Collection of the Federal Republic of Germany, Acquisitions 2012-2016," Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany
"Watou Kunstenfestival 2018," Watou, Belgium
"The Short Film Festival Switzerland," Winterthur, Switzerland
2017
"Haunted House," Ekaterina Foundation, Moscow 15th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul
"Steirischer Herbst," Festival of New Arts, Graz

"Mit den Händen zu greifen und doch nicht zu fassen," Kunsthalle Mainz, Germany
"
Parlament der Pflanzen," daadgalerie, Berlin, Germany

"The Future Generation Art Prize," Exhibition of the Shortlisted Artists at the 57th Venice Biennale, Italy
"Profanation: Ghenos, Eros, Thanatos," Galleria De foscherari, Bologna

"Du Verbe à la Communication," Carré d’Art–Musée d’art contemporain, Nîmes, France
"WAITING. Between Power and Possibility," Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany
"The Future Generation Art Prize," Exhibition of the Shortlisted Artists at the PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine
2016
Artist Films at Kino International during Berlin Art Week, Berlin, Germany
"Farewell to an Idea," Plattenpalast, Berlin, Germany
2015
"Stranger Than Paradise," Sies + Höke Galerie, Düsseldorf

"Vom Großen und Ganzen," Sammlung Haus N, Neumünster, Germany

"Where the Place Begins/ Five, Stone is Laid on Stone," Neue Berliner Räume at Kunsthaus Dahlem, Berlin, Germany

"Material," Galerie Johann Koenig, Berlin, Germany
Birds, "Plants and a Chair," Galerie Kadel Willborn, Düsseldorf, Germany
"Trouble in Paradise," Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany
2014
"Mean What You See," Daniel Marzona, Berlin, Germany

"Castle Ghost," Museum of Contemporary Art, Wolfsburg, Germany
"Basic Form," Composing Rooms, Berlin, Germany
"(Ver)Handlungsräume," Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, Germany
2013
"Errors Allowed," Mediterranea, 16 Young Artists Biennal, Ancona, Italy
2012
"Doublings," Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin, Germany
"A Sophisticated Guidebook Through A False Territory," Meet Factory, Prague, Czech Republic

"Neue Klasse," WIENSOWSKI&HARBORD, Berlin, Germany
Open Studios of Resident Artists, BINZ39, Zurich, Switzerland
2011
"Bosch Young Talent Show," Stedelijk Museum, s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
"Leo Baeck Salon N9 (The Fine Art Issue)," Tolmein, Berlin, Germany

"Image," Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig, Germany
Violentine's Day, Geneva, Switzerland
"Minimal Maximal," Al-Riwaq Art Space, Manama, Bahrain

2010
"Springendes Reh," Bonn, Germany

2009
"XYZ Privacy," Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, Netherlands
"Born in Georgia," Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, Netherlands

"Evil in the Church," Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, Netherlands

"Black & White," New Nacht Gallery, Sugar Factory, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2007
"Tbilisi 4. Every Day is Saturday," Tbilisi, Georgia

Public Collections

Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburug, Germany
Han Nefkens Foundation,The Netherlands
Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany
Sammlung zeitgenwartskunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland ( The Federal Collection of Contemporary Art) Bonn, Germany
Taguchi Art Collection, Japan