NINO KAPANADZE

‘I am interested in painting practice not as a medium of image creation, not in a surface but in a space where I can develop a conversation, activate conflict zones and be in constant revelation of what a painting could be. Avoiding the idea that an image has a fixed end or a fixed viewing point, neither category nor predefined identity, I explore sensation of movement, varying tempo and transparency within the realm of canvas. I want my painting to dominate subject matter but intensity of content and juxtaposition of meanings and/or open-ended questions are integral parts of my practice. Experience of painting carries more truthfulness than empirical truth itself, such experience leading towards beauty, recognition of which is primal, instant and sensorial.’— Nino Kapanadze

Nino Kapanadze graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, Faculty of Architecture. In 2018 she moved to France to continue her studies at the Institut d’études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) and enrolled the next year at the Beaux- Arts de Paris, from which she graduated in June 2023.Her solo exhibition took place at Crèvecœur, Paris (FR) and LC Queisser, Tbilisi (GA).Her work is part of private and public collections, including Fondation Lafayette Anticipations (FR), The Noewe Foundation (LT) and the Sigg Art Foundation (FR).