Vajiko CHACHKHIANI

Profile

Born in Tbilisi, Georgia in 1985. Lives and works in Tbilisi and Berlin. Graduated at Universität der Künste in Berlin (under Gregor Schneider) in 2014.
Chachkhiani represented Georgia at the 57th Biennale of Venice in 2017.

Recent major exhibitions:
2025 “Agape,” Whitespace Beijing Gallery, Beijing 
2024 “Big and Little Hands,” Scai the Bathhouse, Tokyo
2022 “Lower than the sky,” Museum of contemporary art, Brandts
2018 “Heavy Metal Honey,” Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn
2017 “Living Dog among Dead Lions,” Venice biennale, Venice

Selected fellowships and awards:
2018 Villa Aurora Fellowship, Los Angeles, USA
2017 Future Generation Art Prize by PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine
2014 7th Rubens Promotional Award, Museum of contemporary art, Siegen, Germany

About works

Chachkhiani operates somewhere between the outside world and the human psyche, bringing the shadowy aspects of our conditio humana (human condition) to awareness through subtle and intriguing visual poetry.
Through sculptures and installations, he seeks to address psychological conditions such as loneliness, violence, and angst, weaving them with topics from religion politics, literature, and poetry. Reoccurring themes in Chachkhiani’ s work are conflict, culture/nature, and the oscillation between the outer reality and the inner life of the individual being. Chachkhiani's work includes films, sculptures, performances, photographs, and large-scale installations.