Nika Kutateladze
Nika Kutateladze (b. in 1989, Tbilisi) studied on the faculty of Architecture at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts between 2007 – 2011. In 2013 he graduated from an informal master’s course at the Centre of Contemporary Art, Tbilisi (CCA-T). The majority of the artworks comprise installations and sculptures, reflecting day-to-day consumerism and different environmental issues. His later artistic utterances challenge the transformative process of architectural spaces and urban environment, in general.
Over the past few years, Kutateladze has expanded his artistic practice to include painting. Working in oil on grounded wood—drawing on the tradition of Orthodox iconography—and, more recently, in oil on canvas, his paintings reflect on the everyday relationships of people living side by side in rural communities.