Basel Social Club 2025

Gallery Artbeat presents Georgian artist Maia Naveriani’s solo presentation at Basel Social Club 2025.

'For almost two decades I have been working predominantly on drawings. The act of drawing for me is a very delicate exercise, requiring deep intuitive trust in process itself, whether it is small scale works where the signs can appear very directly and quickly, or large scale works that demand a complex psychological and technical approach. It is this full intuitive flow and irrational approach to the language of drawing that transcends me into an- other, ultimate and yet unknown space with no past or future, just the intangible present and the countless possibilities to investigate and reflect on it' - Maia Naveriani.

Maia Naveriani was born in Tbilisi, Georgia. She studied under Gia Edzgveradze before going through strict social realism education at the Academy of Fine Arts, Tbilisi. After moving to London she found her own unique voice in drawing, broaching feminist issues with humor, self irony and a pop aesthetic. 

In 1999 she was nominated by Annely Juda Fine Art for the Vordemberge Gildewart Foundation international prize, which she won. She has taken part in numerous solo and group exhibitions in both public and commercial spaces including Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund; Neues Kunstforum, Cologne; CoBra Muse- um, Amsterdam; Museum Wiesbaden; Sirius Art Centre, Cork; where she was awarded a residency, as well Danielle Arnaud, London; Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York and Galerie Voss, Dusseldorf.

She became a member of the group ‘Everything is Alright’, founded by Gia Edzgeveradze, taking part in many performances in public spaces including Neuer Berliner Kunstverein and Museum Kunstpalast, Düs- seldorf. She is represented by Galerie Voss, Dusseldorf and Gallery Artbeat, Tbilisi where she had her first solo show 'House of Forward Thinking' in 2016.