Tolia Astakhishvili

Tolia Astakhishvili

BornNationalityBased In
2009N/ABerlin, Tbilisi
Biography

Rather than simply dividing or reorganising existing gallery spaces, Tolia Astakhishvili's installations spill across newly defined thresholds of space. The artist's installations combine decay and destruction with a sense of inexorable replication and endless reconfiguration of space. Building elements in her work become signifiers of both what they are and what they undo, of their assembly and disassembly. In this way, Astakhishvili's work appropriates, extends and incorporates given spaces. The audience is also subsumed in Astakhishvili's work, becoming another element framed by the proliferating and unreasonable architecture. ...

Selected Artworks
For Those Who Are Not There
Tolia Astakhishvili
For Those Who Are Not There
23 x 20.5 x 2.5cm
Narrow shelter
Simple judgments and polite answers
Tolia Astakhishvili
Simple judgments and polite answers, 2019
29 x 21cm
There is something soft
Tolia Astakhishvili
There is something soft, 2023
107 x 75.5 x 0.5cm
Gossip niche
Tolia Astakhishvili
Gossip niche, 2023
22 x 15.5cm
space reflected owner I
Tolia Astakhishvili
space reflected owner I, 2023
the storyteller
Tolia Astakhishvili
the storyteller, 2023
253 x 190cm
some shoulders are wings of others
Tolia Astakhishvili
some shoulders are wings of others, 2025
450 x 350 x 180cm
I feel I am not alone
Tolia Astakhishvili
I feel I am not alone, 2024
50 x 42cm
you can’t please everyone
Tolia Astakhishvili
you can’t please everyone, 2025
124 x 66cm
a timeline of physical attributes I
Tolia Astakhishvili
a timeline of physical attributes I, 2025
31 x 22cm
Gallery Representation
Biennals
Performa2013 - New York City
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