Tamar Mchedlishvili PhD

Tamar Mchedlishvili is doing an art historian's doctorate degree at Tbilisi State University. Her Dissertation topic is about Georgian avant-garde art of the 80-90s of the twentieth century. The results of the research have been presented at many international conferences and symposiums. Since 2013 year, she has taken part in different artistic events. In 2014 “New collective for art” was established, where eleven women artists including her, work on different social problems. In 2012 she received a scholarship from the Tbilisi Center of Contemporary Art and graduated in the direction of an informal master’s degree in media art and continued working there as a coordinator of contemporary art residency.

As an artist, she also participated in a variety of projects: Festival “Detour-art et sexism”, Paris, France. Kyiv’s Artistic Week, Ukraine. Second International Triennial of Tbilisi, Georgia. Fest I Nova, Fe Via Le G15, A RT V. La Garikula, Georgia. Now she is a founder of Contemporary Art Studio “not Museum”. Not Museum, a Contemporary Art Studio, is a free space that offers children, teens, and students an alternative educational program to learn art history, master fine arts, and applied arts and invites them to engage in scheduled art projects, seminars, and activities.