Art Collaboration Kyoto

Presented Artist Tamo Jugeli

Gallery Artbeat is pleased to present Georgian artist Tamo Jugeli’s solo presentation at Art Collaboration Kyoto.

In this new series of paintings, the Tamo Jugeli further explores her intuitive drive to reveal the possibilities contained within composition, color, and form when we are released from the burden of explication. Liberated from the strictures of fixed meaning, Jugeli’s work negotiates painting both as an act in and of itself, and as a non-didactive communicative device.

Charting feeling, impulse, and the artist’s instinctual understanding of composition, the paintings in each series are accomplices to one another, each of them indicating the specificity of the moment in which they were made. Gesturing towards perspective but never remaining there long, Jugeli’s paintings oscillate between pure abstraction and moments when seemingly familiar signifiers peak through. Each inference is a reminder of our own psychological need for symbolic order, our reliance on the scaffolds of language even when we are engaged in moments of pure visual pleasure.

Jugeli’s small-scale watercolors offer an apt foil for the physicality of her works on canvas. Gentle and semi-transparent, these paintings on wood panel amplify the Dionysian power of the deeply saturated Earthy hues she conjures in oil, while still retaining an echo of psychological complexity. The artist’s use of heavy frames here seems to imply both protection and self-containment, as though this body of work represents another world of internal moments that are quieter and perhaps more personal.

Tamo Jugeli (b. 1994, Tbilisi) is a self-taught Georgian artist. Jugeli approaches her paintings spontaneously and intuitively, embracing the interplay of color, form, and sensation over representational realism. Her work resists easy interpretation, as she fosters a fluid and evolving dialogue between abstract and figurative elements within each composition, moving freely between large and small-scale canvases.

Jugeli has had solo exhibitions at Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, (2025); Karma, Los Angeles (2025); Tanya Leighton, Berlin (2024), Polina Berlin Gallery, New York (2023, 2022) and Gallery Artbeat, Tbilisi (2022, 2020). Group exhibitions include Galerie Balice Hertling, Paris (2023), Hill Art Foundation, New York (2023), and Svaneti Museum of History and Ethnography, Mestia, Georgia.