Natia Benashvili, born in 1991 in Tbilisi is a Georgian visual artist, has a Masters and Bachelors degrees in Fine Arts from Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. She recently finished her one-year complementary studies at the Muthesius Kunsthochschule in Kiel, Germany. Natia currently lives and works in Berlin.
Solo exhibitions
2023 – Relic, Home away from home, Larnaca Biennale 2023, Larnaca, ZY
2023 – Do you remember me? Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts, Kiel, DE
2018 – Condition, Gallery VANDA Art, Tbilisi, GE
2015 – Connection, Gallery VANDA Art, Tbilisi, GE
Selected group exhibitions
2023 – 24 – Hommosexual men in Ravensbrück concentration camp, Mahn- und Gedenkstätte Ravensbrück, Fürstenberg, Ehemalige Textilfabrik, DE, Museum ZeiTTor/Cap Arcona Haakengraben, Neustadt in Holstein, DE and Museum Sztutowo, Sztutowo, PO 2021 – On the other side, CCA Tbilisi (Center of Contemporary Art), GE
2020 – Fest-i-Nova Ars Garikula, Festival of Contemporary Art, Garikula, GE
2020 – Love in the Time of Curfew, Tbilisi Online Biennial, Online
2020 – Spatial formations, Gallery MAUDI, Tbilisi Architectural Biennial, Tbilisi, GE
2020 – The SelfQuar Experiment, Creative Armenia, Online, AM
2020 – All this might be a dream, Online Art Platform “Home Alone”, Online, GE
2019 – 9 Chairs, 2 Bells and a Shaolin Bus, Art-Ra Festival of Contemporary Art, Oni Local Lore Museum, Ratscha, GE
2018 – Artisterium as it is, Artisterium 2018, Karvasla Historical Museum, Tbilisi, GE
2018 – Contemporary Art Space Batumi, Life N Style International Print Festival, Batumi, GE
2018 – Ask For It Anywhere, National Gallery Tbilisi, GE
2017 – #10, Artisterium 2017, History Museum, Tbilisi, GE
2017 – Life N Style International Print Festival, Mestia, GE
2017 – Rethink the Future, History Museum, Tbilisi, GE
2017 – Personal Structures, Palazzo Bembo, accompanying exhibition, Venice Biennial 57, Venice, IT
2017 – New Generation, VANDA Art Gallery, Tbilisi, GE
2015 – Trail G15, Fest-I-Nova G15 contemporary art festival, Garikula, GE
2015 – The Room, State Academy of Arts, Tbilisi, GE
Collaborative Projects
2021 – Postcards for Belarus, Kontaktobana, online, GE, BY
Artist residencies
2022 – Artist in Residence Program, Watershed, Berlin, DE
2020 – Fest-i-Nova Ars, festival of contemporary art, Garikula, GE
2019 – Arteli Ratscha, festival for contemporary art, Ratscha, GE
2019 – off/line Art in Reconstruction, Artasfoundation Foundation, Zemo Nikozi, GE
2015 – Fest-i-Nova G15, festival of contemporary art, Garikula, GE
Scholarships and grants
2022 – 23 – DAAD study scholarship in the field of free arts.
2016 – Collaborative Exhibition Grant, Ministry of Culture Georgia, GE.
Artistic publication
2022 & 2023 – Newspaper 365, the annual artist magazine, Tbilisi, GE
Other projects
2021 – Co-founder and member of the independent artists’ association Artwork in Tbilisi, GE
2020 – Co-founder of cultural non-profit organization Kontaktobana in Tbilisi, GE
2019 – Co-organizer of the informal conversation series Conversas in Tbilisi, GE