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We hope to see you all in Berlin on Thursday 18:00-20:00 at the opening of our Berlin space and a solo show of @vinaanina 🌟So much looking forward!

We start 2026 with exciting news: our gallery enters a new chapter with a new name and the opening of our second location in Berlin on 15 January 2026.

Bukia Vakhania foregrounds our identities as founders. As the gallery expands to Berlin, we wanted to embed more of ourselves and our Georgian identity in it. The rebrand reflects our vision, leadership, and long-standing collaboration as co-founders. In adopting our family names, we also hope to affirm the gallery’s commitment to a personal approach - one rooted in trust, continuity, and a deep engagement with Georgia’s cultural landscape.

Located on Kurfürstenstraße in Berlin, the new gallery will present a year-round series of exhibitions to complement the gallery’s established activities in Tbilisi. This second space marks a significant milestone in the gallery’s ongoing commitment to championing contemporary Georgian art on the international stage but also maintains the spirit of experimentation, mobility, and collaboration that we established years ago as a nomadic gallery, run out of a shipping container moving around Georgia. This outpost in Berlin brings us a step closer to solidifying Georgian contemporary art’s unique place within the European cultural landscape.

We are thrilled to be inaugurating the Bukia Vakhania Berlin space with a solo exhibition by Nina Kintsurashvili. Kintsurashvili’s work blends memory, history, and abstraction, creating a rich visual language. For us, this exhibition signals continuity, curiosity, and a future rooted in context but open to exchange.

Please join us for the opening reception at 156 Kurfürstenstraße, Berlin on 15 January, from 18:00 to 20:00. taken in Berlin, Germany by @natiabukia

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@natiabukia Natia Bukia

Gallerist, curator, and cultural strategist, Natia Bukia is dedicated to building meaningful connections between Georgian contemporary art and the international creative community. As the co-founder of Project ArtBeat now Bukia Vakhania gallery, she has played a significant role in promoting Georgian contemporary artists through exhibitions, art fairs and global collaborations.

With a background in finance and a 10+ years of experience in the contemporary art scene, Bukia brings together strategic vision and cultural leadership, creating initiatives that support artistic talent and encourage international dialogue. Her work reflects a belief that art has the power to transcend borders, inspire new perspectives, and strengthen cultural exchange.

Through her ongoing projects which includes a new exhibition space in Berlin, Natia Bukia continues to champion Georgian contemporary art, helping position it on the global cultural stage while fostering opportunities for artists. by @natiabukia

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Happy Independence Day to the bravest people of Georgia and happy birthday to my best friend @pisokiguradze ! I love you so much! We will persevere because we are the winners! Day 545! არ გაჩერდება ხალხის მდინარე, ქვეყნის გულიდან გამომდინარე! ბოლომდე! taken in Tbilisi, Georgia by @natiabukia

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1st day at Frieze London and we are always star struck! @bukiavakhania to be showing @tamo__j new paintings together with @studiogypsandconcrete sculptural lights all on @williammorrissocietyuk wallpaper at the Focus section booth F26. Come by, I am here all week! taken in Frieze Art Fair by @natiabukia

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How proud are we that Tamo Jugeli’s work is representing Frieze marketing campaign this year! London is so special for us and this is quite something! Excited for @friezeofficial this week @bukiavakhania showing a solo booth of @tamo__j new works together with @studiogypsandconcrete sculptural lights! See you at booth F26! taken in Frieze Art Fair by @natiabukia

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This is an appreciation post for my little sister who had a birthday yesterday and who was kind enough to gift me her birthday as my wedding day too, so now 4 October is double special! I love you so much! Be very, very happy, baby sis! 👯‍♀️ ♾️ by @natiabukia

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18 years of sharing, caring, loving and fun! ♾️ by @natiabukia

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Thank you @matthewjmclean_ for such a timely article for @friezeofficial about the Georgian contemporary art scene and its representation in London ahead of Frieze week! We are so proud what we’ve achieved together with great people and exceptional artists that we work with this past decade especially as public support was never there for the passionate art professionals and so much so in these politically turbulent times with ongoing protests of nearly two years already! It is an honour to have been part of this difficult but fulfilling journey and our London connection is especially important for @svakhania and I. Looking forward to coming back to Frieze showing Tamo Jugeli’s new works lit by Lado Lomitashvili’s lights and we’ll be back for Condo too!

‘this is national representation of an extraordinary calibre – no mean feat for a country that is smaller in population than Panama’ - these words mean so much and are so important for everyone who truly believed in this from the beginning and worked very hard for the word to see too! And yes we are very excited for the first contemporary Art foundation @kvarelifoundation opening end of October but ‘Georgia’s independent cultural sector remains in a ‘vulnerable financial and institutional position’. A fine motivation to support these galleries and their artists this Frieze Week.’ See you in London! by @natiabukia

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September in 🇬🇪 ❤️ by @natiabukia

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📣 Webinar 2 - Representation of Contemporary Georgian Art outside of Georgia, State Influence, and International Reception, with 🗣Sophia Tabatadze @sophia.tabatadze (Halfsister Berlin @halfsisterberlin) and Natia Bukia @natiabukia (Bukia-Vkhania Gallery Berlin)

➡ Wednesday, September 23, 2026
🕰17:00–18:30 (CET, Tbilisi 19:00-20:30), 📬 registration required: vorstand@aica.de

Over the past decade, Georgia has experienced significant political and social transformations that have increasingly affected the country’s cultural environment. Political polarization, debates around Georgia’s European integration, civic mobilization, changes in cultural policy, and growing tensions between state institutions and parts of civil society have created a complex environment for cultural production and international cultural representation.

These developments have also influenced the position of contemporary art and the ways in which Georgian artists and cultural institutions are represented both within Georgia and internationally.

Contemporary Georgian art has frequently been presented to international audiences through the lens of the country’s political transition, post-Soviet experience, democratic aspirations, European orientation, and regional geopolitical position. While these contexts are important for understanding many artistic practices, they can also create particular expectations about what Georgian art should represent and how it should be interpreted.

At the same time, questions have emerged concerning the relationship between cultural institutions and the state, the role of public funding, institutional autonomy, cultural diplomacy, and the ability of artists and cultural professionals to maintain independent voices.

Recent political developments therefore raise important questions about who represents Georgian contemporary art internationally, which narratives become visible, and how political and institutional interests influence its reception abroad. The webinar will explore these questions through a conversation between Georgian and international artists, curators, researchers, and cultural professionals.

Supported by @aica_int taken in Zoom Online by @natiabukia

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Last one from Berlin. @apakidzedavid studio and some more 🫶🏻 taken in Berlin, Germany by @natiabukia

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Last week in Germany was all about Georgia for me. So happy to have caught on the last day Zauri Matikashvili’s first institutional solo exhibition You May Not Want to Be Here at @kunsthallemuenster curated by @merle_radtke . Such a wonderful show and so happy to have seen Zauri’s new two-channel video work he shot this year in Georgia about patriarchy and the death of our patriarch, Ilia 2nd. Congratulations! taken in Kunsthalle Münster by @natiabukia

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