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We are pleased to announce David Apakidze’s participation at Biennale Matter of Art.

The Opening Weekend of the Biennale Matter of Art 2026 starts today in the National Gallery Prague – Trade Fair Palace! Take a look at the detailed program of events, taking place until Sunday, June 14 in the other Biennale locations—City Gallery Pardubice (GAMPA) and Tusculum Prague— and other locations. Admission to the exhibition and the program is free of charge.

Opening Weekend June 11–14, 2026

Curated by @oslavajar @emotional_anarchyy and @witamwelcome

Photography: @stillsosparkling

12. 6.–13. 9. 2026
NGP – Trade Fair Palace

12. 6.–26. 9. 2026
GAMPA – City Gallery Pardubice

The biennale is organized by the nonprofit initiative for contemporary art tranzit.cz in cooperation with the National Gallery Prague, the City Gallery Pardubice (GAMPA), and Petrohradská kolektiv. tranzit.cz is part of the tranzit.org network. The main partner of tranzit.org is ERSTE Foundation.

David Apakidze (b. 1998, Poti) is a visual artist, curator, and art historian. He is the co-founder of the Fungus Project and Fungus Gallery, queer art initiatives based in the Caucasus.

He studied Art History at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, where his focus on medieval Orthodox art continues to inform his practice. Working across sculpture, embroidery, printmaking, and stained glass, Apakidze reinterprets Georgian Orthodox iconography through a queer lens. His research-based practice explores questions of identity, tradition, and queerness within contemporary culture.

Special thanks to @nini_mamaladze for architectural support.

Images: David Apakidze, The Last Basilica, 2026, Handcrafted felt, stained glass, lightboxes, 3000x2000x1500 cm. Commissioned for Biennale Matter of Art by @apakidzedavid

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Super excited to announce that I will be part of @liste_art_fair_basel with @bukiavakhania this year

“soldier” 2026
Photo: @fluorinne taken in Basel, Switzerland by @apakidzedavid

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Tbilisi:

We are delighted to share with you installation views of Remember Me Kindly, David Apakidze’s first solo exhibition in Tbilisi. The gallery will be closed for Easter Holidays 10-13 April.

The exhibition draws inspiration from Sergo Parajanov’s censored screenplay The Martyrdom of Shushanik. The artist follows Parajanov’s vision of this ancient hagiographic text, together with the sketches the director developed alongside his script. By depicting the martyr queen Shushanik, Apakidze returns to the traditions of early Christianity, presenting martyrdom, asceticism, and ecstatic experience as paths toward proximity to the divine, the transcendental. The artist is particularly concerned with the body as a central element within these traditions of devotion.

In Parajanov’s interpretation, Shushanik’s passions, her sufferings, were to be shown with stark clarity and without concealment, perhaps among the reasons the film was never realized, together with the director’s own ethnic and sexual identity. This series of works seeks to reclaim what was forbidden, lost, and erased, and to do so precisely now, when the systems of censorship remain active and continue to determine the very being or non-being of art.

Dates: 3 April - 24 May, 2026

Photography: Angus Leadley Brown

Address: 14 P. Ingorokva Street, Tbilisi

თბილისი:

მოხარულნი ვართ, გაგიზიაროთ ინსტალაციის ხედები დავით აფაქიძის პერსონალური გამოფენიდან ‘შენდობით მომიხსენიეთ’. აღდგომის დღესასწაულთან დაკავშირებით თბილისის საგამოფენო სივრცე დაკეტილი იქნება 10 აპრილიდან 13 აპრილის ჩათვლით.

გამოფენა შთაგონებულია სერგო ფარაჯანოვის დაცენზურებული კინოსცენარით ‘შუშანიკის წამება’. გამოფენის ავტორი მიყვება ამ უძველესი აგიოგრაფიული ტექსტის ფარაჯანოვისეულ ხედვასა და ჩანახატებს, რომლებიც რეჟისორმა თავისივე სცენარს დაურთო. მოწამე ქალის, დედოფალ შუშანიკის გამოსახვით ხელოვანი უბრუნდება ადრეული ქრისტიანობის ტრადიციას და მარტვილობას, ასკეტიზმს, ექსტაზის გამოცდილებებს წარმოაჩენს როგორც ღვთაებრივთან, ტრანსცენდენტურთან მიახლოების გზას. ვტორს აინტერესებს სხული, როგორც არსობრივი კომპონენტი ღვთისმოსაობის ამ უძველეს ტრადიციაში.

გამოფენა გაგრძელდება 24 მაისის ჩათვლით.

მისამართი: 14 პავლე ინგოროყვა, თბილისი by @apakidzedavid

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🖤 taken in Berlin, Germany by @apakidzedavid

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🌹 taken in Berlin, Germany by @apakidzedavid

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Details from ‘The Last Basilica’ commissioned for @biennale.matterof.art on view at @ngprague until September 13
Photos by @stillsosparkling taken in National Gallery in Prague by @apakidzedavid

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David Apakidze, Georgian Artist, Berlin Juli 2026

#queerartist #Artist
#Berlin #portrait #contemporaryart #portraitphotography #jodedering

thanks to @apakidzedavid taken in Berlin- The Place To Be by @apakidzedavid

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Nature, Nature, Im your bride.
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📸 @greuble by @apakidzedavid

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Teorema by Pasolini ♾️ by @apakidzedavid

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