Levan Mindiashvili

“Here is Always Somewhere Else” commissioned by Bric for The 3rd Edition of The BRIC Biennial.

February 6 – April 7, 2019 | BRIC House, Brooklyn. NY

images of the installation coming soon.

More about the biennial HERE

In Search of The Miraculous, a solo presentation at NADA Miami 2018, December 6-9 | ERTI Gallery, Tbilisi.

Installation shots:

Selected Works:

The focus of Levan Mindiashvili’s practice is a shifting condition of historically accepted social forms and value systems, in which he revisits canonical truths regarding identity, history, and the language. His solo presentation at NADA, takes the point of departure the oeuvre of LA-based Dutch conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader, and mainly his last piece titled “In Search of The Miraculous” (1975) in which Ader attempted to sail across the Atlantic on his way to the upcoming show in Groningen. The discovery of his boat 10 months later and disappearance of his body, inevitably fueled already existing longing for erasure of the border between art and life, endured by the fact that Ader’s conceptually rigorous oeuvre was deeply invested in its seeming antithesis: Romanticism, and for him, the authenticity of the work of art lay not in representing philosophical concepts, but in embodying them. In works presented here, Mindiashvili explores conditions, in which despite the ever-growing complexity of our everyday reality, our perception of the world is reduced to the single digital image: ephemeral and temporal, moderated and conditioned either by us – ourselves or by technology and algorithms. If pigmented hydrocal tiles attempt to grasp ultimate physicality of the digital image, his hand painted mirror “Studies” become the point of encounter of the work and it’s surrounding – not depicting it, nor dissolving in it, but the synthesis of these two.

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Press: The Art Newspaper | Cool Hunting

Non_Place

two-man show featuring works by Levan Mindiashvili and Grant Wells, SFA Projects, NY | September 5 – 30, 2018

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Color Of The Sky

group show “Somewhere down the line…” NARS Foundation, Brooklyn | August 30 – September 21, 2018

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Unintended Archeology

group show “The Border No.1,” The Border Project Space, Brooklyn | March 2 – 26, 2018

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Color Of The Sky

group show HOT STUFF, ODETTA, Brooklyn | January 19 – February 18, 2018

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“Here” solo show

Georgian National Museum | Svaneti History Museum, Mestia | August 1 – September 10, 2017

“…inbetween” solo show

State Silk Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia | June 27 – July 16, 2017

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Before They Disappear

VOLTA NY 2017 | The Lodge Gallery | March 1st – 5th, 2017

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8. Levan Mindiashvili_Tapestry (Old TIme Stories)

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Future Memory

Fest i Nova 2016 “Future Memory” 8th International Art Festival at Art Villa Garikula, Georgia | September 17 – December 30, 2016

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Night Intervention: Uta Bekaia + Levan Mindiashvili

State Silk Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia | August 31st – October 1st, 2016

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Unintended Archeology: Levan Mindiashvili + Uta Bekaia

The Lodge Gallery, New York

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Sculptures (2015/2016)

Levan Mindiashvili UNTITLED 01 (Unintended Acrchaelogy of Unplace)

Levan Mindiashvili UNTITLED 02 (Unintended Acrchaelogy of Unplace)

Levan Mindiashvili_Untitled 03 (Unintended Archeology)

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4. Levan Mindiashvili_Untitled_No.1(SUITES.2)

5. Levan Mindiashvili_Untitled_No.2(SUITES.2)

7. Levan Mindiashvili_Untitled_No.4(SUITES.2)

8. Levan Mindiashvili_Untitled_No.5(SUITES.2)

9. Levan Mindiashvili_Untitled_No.6(SUITES.2)

Unintended Archeology

two-man show KIOSK, ODETTA, Brooklyn, 2015

Suites for Unintended Archeology solo show

The Vazquez Building, Brooklyn, 2015

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Ghost, 2014

Commission Grant by FABLES Public Art Projects, National Endowments for Arts, New York

Levan Mindiashvili GHOST, 2014 | Mural, enamel and spray paint, 36′ x 19,6′ (11 x 6 cm.)
Commissioned by Fourth Arts Block in partnership with Ideal Glass. This project is part of FABLES, a series of public works exploring Lower East Side History.

Levan Mindiashvili, whose project investigates gentrification and its effects on architecture and sense of place, describes, “With the mural ‘Ghost’ I want to contribute to a raising awareness in the importance of historical heritage and outline the overwhelming expansion of gentrification and generalization in the contemporary world.” The work is based on original photograph of 1936 “East Houston Street – N.E. Corner – Second Avenue” by Percy Loomis Sperr © Milstein Division, The New York Public Library.

Special Thanks to Patricio Gonzalez Vivo for his contribution with technical support. More info

Borderlines solo show

The Lodge Gallery, New York, 2013/2014

Urban Identities solo show

Kunstraub99, Cologne, 2013

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Urban Intimacies (2010/2013)

: Urban Identity (Buenos Aires02), 2013, mixed media and rice paper on canvas, 80×100 cm.

: Urban Identities

: Urban Identities (New York+Buenos Aires)), 2013. mixed media and rice paper on canvas, 50×60 cm. Georgia, Private Collection

: Urban Identities (Love Me), 2013. mixed media and rice paper on canvas, 30×40 cm.

: URBAN IDENTITY 20, 2013

: Urban Identity #19, 2013. mixed media and rice paper mounted on canvas, 30×30 cm.

: Urban Identity #17, 2013. mixed media and rice paper mounted on canvas, 30×30 cm.

: New York_03, 2012. mixed media and rice paper on canvas, 8×8 inches (20×20 cm), Private Collection, Georgia

: Urban Identity #18, 2013. mixed media and rice paper mounted on canvas, 30×30 cm.

: Urban Identities (Tbilisi 04), 2013. mixed media and rice paper on canvas, 30×40 cm. private collection.

: Urban Identity (Buenos Aires), 2013, mixed media and rice paper on canvas, 50×60 cm.

: Urban Identities (Tbilisi 02), 2012. mixed media and rice paper on canvas, 50×60 cm. private collection.

: Urban Identities (Tbilisi 01), 2012. mixed media and rice paper on canvas, 50×60 cm. private collection.

: Imprints_06, 2011 mixed media and rice paper on canvas, 80×120 cm. Private Collection, Argentina

: Imprints_02, 2010 mixed media on canvas, 50×50 cm. Private Collection, USA

: Imprints_01, 2010 mixed media on canvas, 50×50 cm. Private Collection, USA

: Imprints (windows), 2010 mixed media on canvas, 50×50 cm. Private Collection, Hong Kong

: Imprints_09, 2011 mixed media and rice paper on canvas, 40×50 cm.

: Imprints_07, 2011 mixed media and rice paper on canvas, 40×50 cm.

: Imprints_08, 2011 mixed media and rice paper on canvas, 40×50 cm.

: Noises_02, 2010 mixed media and paper on canvas, 30×40 cm. Private Collection, USA

: Noises_05, 2010 mixed media and paper on canvas, 30×20 cm.

: Noises_01, 2010 mixed media and paper on canvas, 30×20 cm.

: Noises_13, 2010 mixed media and paper on canvas, 30×70 cm. Private Collection, Japan

: From 8 am to 8 pm_02, 2011 mixed media on canvas, 80×80 cm.

Studies for Shared Intimacies (2014)

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Levan Mindiashvili_Studies for shared Intimacies_06_ 2014

Levan Mindiashvili_Studies for shared Intimacies_07_ 2014

Whispers (2011/2013)

: Words You’ve Being Whispering While I was Sleeping, 2012. mixed media on canvas, 36″ x 36″ (91.4 x 91.4 cm)

: Whispers (Batumi), 2013. mixed media on canvas, 60 x 80 cm.

: I would desire you with the whole my soul if I would have one, 2011 mixed media and rice paper on canvas, Diptych, 100×120 cm.

: Whispers (of last night), 2012. mixed media on fabric, 148 x 240 cm (58,2 x 94,4 inches)

: Whispers (winter night dreams), 2012 mixed media, sticht and rice paper on canvas, 150×192 cm.

: Whispers (on white winter nights), 2013. mixed media, stencil and rice paper on canvas, 100×160 cm.

: Whispers 09, 2011 mixed media and rice paper on canvas, Diptych, 100×70 cm.

: Whispers #10, 2012. mixed media and rice paper mounted on canvas, 100×70 cm.

: Whispers 10, 2011 mixed media and rice paper on canvas, Diptych, 90×140 cm.

: Whispers 04, 2011 mixed media and rice paper on canvas, 90×130 cm.

: Whispers 05, 2011 mixed media and rice paper on canvas, 90×130 cm. Private Collection, Buenos Aires

: Whispers 06, 2011 mixed media and rice paper on canvas, 90×130 cm.

: Whispers 16, 2011mixed media and rice paper on canvas, 20×30 cm. private collection