The workshop will focus on the idea of personal stories and telling them through drawings, paintings and textiles. It will explore basic tenets and ideas involved in creating thematic, abstract works. Based on visual and theoretical materials shared by the professor (images, reading list etc.), students will focus on investigation of personal history and inverting them in a new reality with colors, shapes, patterns and textures. They will develop personal projects to discuss formal, technical and conceptual ideas in sketches and in different materials such as silk and wool. Variety of fabrics, laces, metal, etc… will also be experienced. There will be individual and class discussions. Parallel to this, students will be guided individually in the development of their own ideas, offering support in working these out and thus in finding personal artistic expression.

Max. Participants 12

Nino Kvrivishvili is from Georgia and works at Design Faculty, Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, Georgia

Nino Kvrivishvili is a Georgian artist based in Tbilisi, Georgia. She studied Textile Design at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts and has exhibited extensively locally and internationally. Her recent shows include the artist’s solo exhibitions at Museum Wäschefabrik, Bielefeld, Germany; Gallery Melike Bilir, Hamburg, Germany; Binz39, Zurich, Switzerland; State Silk Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia and KCCC, Klaipeda, Lithuania. Nino Kvrivishvili works with textile installations. Her works are focused on processes of change, investigating history by transforming traditional textiles into contemporary art, both formally and conceptually.