Art Dubai 2025

Presented artist: Nina Kintsurashvili

Gallery Artbeat is pleased to present Nina Kintsurashvilis's recent works at Art Dubai 2025 in the Bawwaba section, curated by Mirjam Varandis.

Nina Kintsurashvili’s analytical but, at the same time, intuitive approach towards abstract painting probes the complexities of the medium itself. Her inquiry into the form manifests in diverse imagery and a range of painterly techniques. She works on her canvas separately, each having a particular internal logic and choreography. For Kintsurashvili the diverse approach and inquiry into specific formal questions make an artist a collector of various tools. For her, color, line, materiality of paint, the speed of a brushstroke, humor, the deceptive nature of human memory, and even the concept of time become tools applied to her process of image-making.

Deconstructions, reflection, and mirroring concern Nina Kintsurashvili’s abstract paintings. The artist’s will to grasp a form on the verge of its total disfigurement - while it still holds some representational quality, but its origin can no longer be traced - results in fluid and multilayered forms. These shapes exhibit pronounced corporeal features, creating a sense of depth and semi-perspective within them. The result is achieved not merely through layering but also by the deliberate act of erasure and regeneration. The process of deconstructing matter underscores the limitations of linear perception and offers alternative perspectives distinct from established ideologies. Her subjects of investigation, such as an archaeological artifact, an erased medieval mural, or an art historical reference, transform into novel, synthetic forms. Through the artistic process, these objects experience visual and semantic metamorphosis, shedding their inherent meanings and connections. Thus emancipating themselves from the confines of ideological frameworks.

Nina Kintsurashvili (b. 1992) is a Tbilisi-based multidisciplinary artist working in a wide range of mediums. However, she often turns to the traditional painterly surface as her basal realm of artistic contemplation. Although abstract in its representation, her research-based process allows Kintsurashvili’s paintings to reference key Georgian visual codes resurfacing in the cultural vortex and explore heritage as a political commodity, with its self-imposed or involuntary negligence. As a daughter of renowned Orthodox fresco painter and conserver Lasha Kintsurashvili, Nina’s research interests are influenced by medieval Georgian wall painting and archaeology.

Nina has exhibited her work in Georgia and internationally, including in Svaneti Museum of History and Ethnography (Mestia, Georgia), Gallery Artbeat (Tbilisi,Georgia), Polina Berlin Gallery (New York, USA), LC Queisser (Tbilisi, Georgia), Arco Madrid (Madrid, Spain), PS1 Iowa City, Levitt Gallery UofI (Iowa City, US), Ortega y Gasset Projects (NY, US),Everywoman Biennial (London, UK), Ekru Projects (Kansas City, US).