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Kartlis Deda (Mother of Georgia)

The statue was erected in 1958 to celebrate city’s 1500th anniversary. She symbolizes the Georgian national character: in her left hand she holds a bowl of wine to greet those who come as friends, and in her right hand is a sword for those who come as enemies.

Mtatsminda

(the name is translated as “Holy Mountain”) – On the top of the mountain there is one of the biggest leisure parks in Georgia and a TV tower. The mountain is also famous for the church of St. David and the pantheon of Georgian writers and public figures.

Narikala Fortress

Ancient fortress overlooking Tbilisi, first constructed by the Persians in the fourth century for defense purposes and was considerably expanded over subsequent historical periods.

112

The 112 Georgia Emergency and Operative Response Center was created in 2012. The building of 112 is very impressive and can be seen from many places of Tbilisi.

Tbilisi City Hall

The Bridge of Peace

pedestrian bridge, linking the Rike Park with Old town. The construction of a new steel and glass bridge in the historical district of Tbilisi was controversial. However, it is one of the main tourist destinations.

Metekhi Temple

first built in the 12th century, standing close to the edge of the rocky bank of the Mtkvari. Metekhi Temple was repeatedly restored, as it suffered many invasions.

Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi

commonly known as Sameba, is the largest Orthodox Christian Church in Georgia. Constructed between 1995 and 2004 by Archil Mindelashvili project.

Abanotubani

(bath quarter in Georgian) - the ancient district of Tbilisi, known for its sulphuric baths. Also famous for the Mosque and Meidani square, which is full of restaurants.

Sulphur Baths

The legend has it, that in 5th century the King Vakhtang Gorgasali discovered the sulphur springs and decided to build a city around it. As years passed sulphur baths became more and more popular and a place for social gatherings.

Boris Paitchadze Dinamo Stadium

the largest stadium in Georgia. The demand for a much bigger stadium was increased with the successful performance of Dinamo Tbilisi in the mid 1970s. In 1995, the stadium was renamed to Boris Paichadze National Stadium, after the former Georgian football player.

Georgian Art Palace

Museum of Cultural History where cinema, theatre, choreography and other unique exhibits are kept. It was established in 1928.

Zoo

Founded in 1927, it is located in the Vere River valley in central Tbilisi. It is populated by about 300 species from different parts of the world.

Tbilisi Concert Hall

“Country’s Great concert hall of Philharmony” is the biggest concert hall in Tbilisi and can accommodate up to 2300 spectators. Built in 1971, its design is considered to be advanced for that time, because usually, glass covering was not common back then.

Parliament Building

The building was constructed in 1938-1953 for Georgia’s Soviet government. It has seen many demonstrations over the years, including April 9th, 1989 when an anti-Soviet demonstration was dispersed by the Soviet Army. A small monument in front of it, commemorates the dead of 1989.

Georgian National Museum

Fabio Sgroi Group Exhibition - Tales of Anthropocene Martin Bogren / Nina Korhonen

Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi History Museum (Karvasla), founded in 1910 and exhibits more than 50 thousand unique exhibits. There are several exhibition spaces for the temporary exhibitions too.

TRI-NA-KRIA
Curated by Tina Schelhorn


TRI-NA-KRIA, represents the symbol of Sicily. It’s a personal ongoing project since 1986, along research on the different aspects of my country. The island on this side of the light-house, the continent on the other side. This is a selection of photos from different years. They evoke an atmosphere that you can feel when you cross the Sicilian hinterland. They present a slight contrast with the present time. In a very theatrical manner, the photography describe the characters, gestures and faces of Sicilian people. You can sense it in the pictures of the daily routine, like the ‘passegio’ (the walk), as well as in the scenes of highly significant events, the religious rituals, in which everybody wants to participate. “The movement of the sea water washed part of the coast away. It formed a bridge, shaken by volcanos and turned upside down by the waves. This is how Sicily became an island” (‘Travel to Sicily’ by F.Munter)

Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi History Museum (Karvasla), founded in 1910 and exhibits more than 50 thousand unique exhibits. There are several exhibition spaces for the temporary exhibitions too.

Ian Teh, NASA/Curiosity, Ian van Coller, Daniel&Geo Fuchs, David Klammer
Tales of Anthropocene Curated by Tina Schelhorn

The Anthropocene, a term created by Nobel Prize winner Paul Crutzen, defines Earth's most recent geologic time period as being human-influenced, or anthropogenic, based on overwhelming global evidence that atmospheric, geologic, hydrologic, biospheric and other earth system processes are now altered by humans. This loss of stability could be disastrous. If the coronavirus pandemic can teach us anything about the climate crisis it is this: our modern interconnected global economy is much more vulnerable than we thought, and we must urgently become more resilient and better prepared for the unknown. Exploring the Anthropocene phenomenon is a matter not just for science. Participation by the social sciences, humanities and artists is critical not only to analyse the causes of changes - but also to take meaningful actions to mitigate harmful trends.

Ian Teh, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Traces: China’s New Deserts In May 2018, I joined a Chinese research expedition led by prominent environmentalist, Yang Yong, to monitor signs of recent desertification discovered at the source of the Yellow River on the Qinghai Tibetan Plateau. The photo series documents the expedition and effected landscapes in the bordering regions and the headwaters of the Yellow River. www.ianteh.com

NASA/ Curiosity - Mars Panorama
NASA's Curiosity rover has captured its highest-resolution panorama yet of the Martian surface. Composed of more than 1,000 images taken during the 2019 Thanksgiving holiday and carefully assembled over the ensuing months, the composite contains 1.8 billion pixels of Martian landscape. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) https://mars.nasa.gov

Ian van Coller, Bozeman/USA - Antarctica / The Oldest Ice on Earth
I am particularly fascinated with glacier ice as an archive of earth's atmosphere. I recently returned from the Allan Hills of Antarctica where I got to photograph a team of scientists retrieving the oldest ice ever found by humans, approximately 2.7 million years old. The air in that ice can tell us exactly what earth's atmosphere looked like at that point in earths past. The basic answer is that the CO2 levels are now higher than at any point in that 2.7 million year history. Collaborating with members of that team brings art and science together in an effort to make the monumental issue of climate change both tangible and comprehensible on a human scale. https://www.ianvancoller.com

Daniel&Geo Fuchs, Germany – Nature and Destruction
These landscapes create a world in between reality and fiction, to which one has to gain access through an intense viewing of the artists’ photographs. Once entered, the viewer finds itself within a never-ending gameplay of contradictions taking place in a sleek yet post-apocalyptic aesthetic and at the same time confronting with the destruction of nature due to the impact of humankind- Most of the pictures of „Nature & Destruction“ are done with a camera robot system developed byNASA and Google for the Mars mission. www.daniel-geo-fuchs.com

David Klammer, Cologne - Ende Gelaende
‘Ende Gelaende’ is an NGO that creates spectacular civil disobedience actions against brown coal companies that are among the worst polluters of our atmosphere. On June 24, 2019, thousands of activists, dressed in white or red painter ́s suits, blocked coal railway tracks and stormed into the huge open coal mines of Garzweiler near the Neurath Power Plant in Grevenbroich, Germany. https://www.davidklammer.com

Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi History Museum (Karvasla), founded in 1910 and exhibits more than 50 thousand unique exhibits. There are several exhibition spaces for the temporary exhibitions too.

Martin Bogren
Hollow
Curated by Tina Schelhorn


Hollow was photographed in Northern Europe during the winters of 2008-2018.‘The city seems in the grip of an insurmountable winter. Unless it is him who holds it in thrall; he drifts alone, a stranger to himself. Trapped in the absurdity of being in the world when any horizon looks like a dead end. Here everything is cold. Plagued by deaf, white apparitions, he wanders in search of an anchor, perhaps redemption in the blinding light, a little warmth. The warmth of another - human tenderness - which always eludes him and turns its back, bringing more anxiety than comfort. The warmth of another who gives herself or refuses, but remains irrevocably a desert island, like a mirror to his loneliness. His quest could be a failure. As if, each time he glimpses a way out, he tries to capture the hazy visions into which he seems to stumble - and we who look at his images stumble with him, shaken - and then he loses his way again, in the world and in himself, only to reveal more flashes. His photographs are vertiginous, they have the beauty of the vanquished returning to the light, they give voice to the loneliness of one who is lost, who feels wretched, but confronts the fear of emptiness and of not being able to exist. Thus they capture as much light as despair and hint that winter is not ultimately insurmountable.’ Text by Caroline Benichou published in the handbound artist's book.

Nina Korhonen
Anna – Amerikan mummu
Curated by Tina Schelhorn


The show is a story and a tribute to Nina Korhonen`s beloved grandmother Anna. The photographs have been taken in New York and Lake Worth, Florida between 1993-1999. The photographs are close to everyday life, sensual and warm – with lot of humor. The exhibition is a tribute to an elderly woman who was seeking a different life and found it. The journey to America had been grandmother’s big dream since she was eight years old and promised to follow her aunt to the great “Wonderland”. Anna was 40 years old and it was a bad time in Finland and impossible to find a job. Her husband Kalle had travelled as the chief engineer to all the great ports of the world, now he thought that it was his turn to stay at home. In spring 1959, Anna realized her life’s dream and alone, with couple of hundred dollars and no special skills in the English language, she took the airplane to New York. She lived in Brooklyn and worked as a cook in a wealthy family in upper Manhattan. Anna flew to Tampere, Finland every summer and Kalle flew to her in New York every winter. When Kalle died in 1985, Anna gave Nina his camera. A few years later when she found old color photographs from their trips, she decided to keep portraying Anna in her own way. She visited Anna regularly for two, three weeks at the time and photographed her in her home and favorite places. Anna called Nina her “back-scrubber” and she listened Anna’s stories and learnt to her “American mummu”. Anna got 40 years in America. She died from cancer, 83 years old. For the last six years, she had the beloved sunlight all year round. She travelled between her three homes – spring and autumn in New York, summer in Finland and winter in Florida. It was exactly as she had dreamt it would be. "Memories form an important element in Nina Korhonen’s autobiographically motivated series of photographs. Starting from found color snapshots of her grandfather, she develops her own history taken from the world of the "American way of life" at which in the center is her grandmother who emigrated to the U.S. in 1959. In large format color photographs a dialogue is created between two women from different generations.

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Untitled Gallery

Giorgi Shengelia

Untitled Gallery aims to bring social impact through the art scene of the South Caucasus. Together with the support of socially engaged art the space will be hosting exhibitions, numerous educational or cultural activities.

“I Came Here So far”
Curated by Giorgi Rodionov


„Coincidences often condition changes.
My family's photo archive burned long ago. Only a small number of photos survived. Burned, torn, cropped sided and distorted small photos speed up the searching process. The small nostalgic photos inspired me to work on a new genre that would give me the same feelings as the photos that survived from the fire. I try to create this mood in accidental portraits that I see every day...“, Giorgi Shengelia.

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Zurab Tsereteli Museum of Modern Art

Finbarr O'Reilly Mads Nissen

MOMA - Zurab Tsereteli Museum of Modern Art show totals more than 300 works of art executed by Zurab Tsereteli in various genres and techniques, as well as 250 photographs from his private collection. Museum also hosts temporary exhibitions. Zurab Tsereteli Museum of Modern Art is a 3-storey exhibition space. For the development of modern Georgian art, a separate exhibition hall has been allotted in the museum for exhibition of the pieces of "XXI century modern Georgian fine art", the participants in which will be not only Georgian artists, but also those invited from abroad. The Museum presents the average of 12 exhibition projects per year.

Finbarr O'Reilly
Dakar Fashion
Curated by Teona Gogichaishvili


With golden beaches, glitzy nightclubs, and a vibrant music and fashion scene, Senegal’s capital Dakar is emerging as a top global travel destination. The breezy seaside city is “West Africa’s center of style,” according to the January issue of National Geographic Traveler magazine, which also ranked Dakar number one on its list of “What’s Cool in Urban Hotspots.” The New York Times this week included Dakar on its list of 52 places to visit in 2019, reporting that the city is “bursting with positive energy” and that local “design and fashion creations would fit right in at New York showrooms.” This has long been the case even if it is only now gaining notice. I moved to Dakar in 2005 and spent nearly a decade based there working as a news wire photographer covering stories across Africa. This often meant documenting wars, coups, and disasters, but Senegal always remained a haven of peace and relative tranquillity in an often-tumultuous region. My photographic eye was always drawn to the vibrant colours and designs and, over the years, I photographed fashion around town. The city’s youth blends a deep respect for the traditional, flowing boubous worn for special occasions with cutting-edge styles of its own. Located on the westernmost point of the continent, Senegal is a country with a well-educated middle class and a statuesque, catwalk-ready Instagram generation that embraces African and American fashions to create an elegant and athletic style of bling and beauty. While Johannesburg, Lagos, Nairobi and Casablanca are at the forefront of African fashion, Dakar has become an equally important hub, with much of its energy driven by Adama Ndiaye, the 40-year-old organizer of Dakar Fashion Week, and a number of other international African Fashion Week events. "When I started it was a young girl's dream to build something in my country," Ndiaye says. Launched 17 years ago, Dakar Fashion Week initially had only a handful of aspiring local designers and models gathering in often run-down hotels. Now dozens of designers from around the world present their creations to thumping DJ mixes as drone cameras hover above runway shows broadcast live on national television. One of Ndiaye’s friends, Jenke Ahmed Tailly, an Ivorian and Senegalese stylist, works as Beyoncé's creative director and also advises Kanye West and Kim Kardashian. At the Global Citizen Festival: Mandela 100 charity concert in South Africa last month, Beyoncé wore one of Ndiaye’s creations, a Boyette Bag, based on the nomadic Tuareg style of embossed leather boxes. Africa's fashion scene has grown steadily over the past two decades, with sub-Saharan Africa's apparel and footwear market now worth $31 billion, according to data by Euromonitor. Industry challenges include managing clothing production costs, quality control, distribution logistics and reaching large markets. Such challenges are far from the minds of most Senegalese whose most pressing fashion concerns involve choosing the right outfit and looking their best, wherever they’re headed. Here’s a selection of images reflecting the variety of Dakar styles and fashion events I’ve photographed over the years.

MOMA - Zurab Tsereteli Museum of Modern Art show totals more than 300 works of art executed by Zurab Tsereteli in various genres and techniques, as well as 250 photographs from his private collection. Museum also hosts temporary exhibitions. Zurab Tsereteli Museum of Modern Art is a 3-storey exhibition space. For the development of modern Georgian art, a separate exhibition hall has been allotted in the museum for exhibition of the pieces of "XXI century modern Georgian fine art", the participants in which will be not only Georgian artists, but also those invited from abroad. The Museum presents the average of 12 exhibition projects per year.

AMAZONAS
Curated by Nino-Ana Samkharadze


AMAZONAS is a raw and lyrical journey into the world’s largest rainforest. Mads Nissen’s intense documentary photographs lure you inside the uncanny wilderness, where gold-diggers, warriors, homosexuals in exile and isolated indigenous tribes collide on the threshold between nature and culture, instinct and reason, our origin and our future.

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Artarea Gallery

Fatimazohra Serri / L4artiste Rwinalife Mourad Fedouache

Artarea Gallery hosts modern art and photo exhibitions. In addition, the place is famous for public lectures and cultural events.

SOURTNA
Moroccan photographers of today and tomorrow
Curated by: Carine Dolek & Yassine Alaoui Ismaili, Yorias


« Sourtna, Moroccan photographers of today and tomorrow », is a collective exhibition produced for the opening of the State Museum of Photography, in Rabat, in January 2020, curated by Yoriyas and Carine Dolek, putting together sixteen recognized authors, emerging photographers, as well as promising young eyes, to shed light on their coherence, dynamics and complementarity and to encourage transmission between and within generations. Therefore, this exhibition is a historical opportunity. In recent years, more and more Moroccan photographers are working and expressing themselves, more and more exhibition places are welcoming them and drawing public. There is not yet a School of Moroccan Photography, but cultural actors and creators have the will and the desire to lay its foundation.
These dynamics made an exhibition like this possible. The exhibited authors have a common feeling of commitment. We all are aware that it is our mission to capture the situations, the colours, the places, the people, and the moments of Moroccan society. We are convinced that visual development is part of social and economic development of a country. It means that Morocco is able to express itself in images, that we are capable of producing, defending, sharing, showing and seeing images.
This photography scene showcases a version of Morocco as seen by Moroccan photographers for Moroccan as well as international public and provides rebalanced forces that allow pictures of each other to coexist. Sourtna means « Our pictures » in darija, the Moroccan Arabic dialect. We present here four of them : Mourad Fedouache, Ali El Madani, Rwinalife, Fatimazohra Serri and Ismail Zaidy, L4artiste. This show is especially created for the Kolga Tbilisi Photo Week, with a new editing and a new set up for the four works and, for the first time, a photographic exhibition of Rwinalife, previously shown as a video installation.

Artarea Gallery hosts modern art and photo exhibitions. In addition, the place is famous for public lectures and cultural events.

SOURTNA
Moroccan photographers of today and tomorrow
Curated by: Carine Dolek & Yassine Alaoui Ismaili, Yorias


« Sourtna, Moroccan photographers of today and tomorrow », is a collective exhibition produced for the opening of the State Museum of Photography, in Rabat, in January 2020, curated by Yoriyas and Carine Dolek, putting together sixteen recognized authors, emerging photographers, as well as promising young eyes, to shed light on their coherence, dynamics and complementarity and to encourage transmission between and within generations. Therefore, this exhibition is a historical opportunity. In recent years, more and more Moroccan photographers are working and expressing themselves, more and more exhibition places are welcoming them and drawing public. There is not yet a School of Moroccan Photography, but cultural actors and creators have the will and the desire to lay its foundation.
These dynamics made an exhibition like this possible. The exhibited authors have a common feeling of commitment. We all are aware that it is our mission to capture the situations, the colours, the places, the people, and the moments of Moroccan society. We are convinced that visual development is part of social and economic development of a country. It means that Morocco is able to express itself in images, that we are capable of producing, defending, sharing, showing and seeing images.
This photography scene showcases a version of Morocco as seen by Moroccan photographers for Moroccan as well as international public and provides rebalanced forces that allow pictures of each other to coexist. Sourtna means « Our pictures » in darija, the Moroccan Arabic dialect. We present here four of them : Mourad Fedouache, Ali El Madani, Rwinalife, Fatimazohra Serri and Ismail Zaidy, L4artiste. This show is especially created for the Kolga Tbilisi Photo Week, with a new editing and a new set up for the four works and, for the first time, a photographic exhibition of Rwinalife, previously shown as a video installation.

Artarea Gallery hosts modern art and photo exhibitions. In addition, the place is famous for public lectures and cultural events.

SOURTNA
Moroccan photographers of today and tomorrow
Curated by: Carine Dolek & Yassine Alaoui Ismaili, Yorias


« Sourtna, Moroccan photographers of today and tomorrow », is a collective exhibition produced for the opening of the State Museum of Photography, in Rabat, in January 2020, curated by Yoriyas and Carine Dolek, putting together sixteen recognized authors, emerging photographers, as well as promising young eyes, to shed light on their coherence, dynamics and complementarity and to encourage transmission between and within generations. Therefore, this exhibition is a historical opportunity. In recent years, more and more Moroccan photographers are working and expressing themselves, more and more exhibition places are welcoming them and drawing public. There is not yet a School of Moroccan Photography, but cultural actors and creators have the will and the desire to lay its foundation.
These dynamics made an exhibition like this possible. The exhibited authors have a common feeling of commitment. We all are aware that it is our mission to capture the situations, the colours, the places, the people, and the moments of Moroccan society. We are convinced that visual development is part of social and economic development of a country. It means that Morocco is able to express itself in images, that we are capable of producing, defending, sharing, showing and seeing images.
This photography scene showcases a version of Morocco as seen by Moroccan photographers for Moroccan as well as international public and provides rebalanced forces that allow pictures of each other to coexist. Sourtna means « Our pictures » in darija, the Moroccan Arabic dialect. We present here four of them : Mourad Fedouache, Ali El Madani, Rwinalife, Fatimazohra Serri and Ismail Zaidy, L4artiste. This show is especially created for the Kolga Tbilisi Photo Week, with a new editing and a new set up for the four works and, for the first time, a photographic exhibition of Rwinalife, previously shown as a video installation.

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TBC Art Gallery

Hugo Weber , Denny Mollica

The head office building of TBC Bank (Marjanishvili Street, # 7) is one of the most important architectural monuments in Tbilisi. It was built for the “Caucasus Society of Economic Officers” in the early 20th century. The author of the project is the famous Polish architect Alexander Rogoiski.

From 2005 the building belongs to TBC Bank. TBC Bank has been cooperating with “Kolga Tbilisi Photo Week” for many years.

In addition to constant financial support, the TBC Bank building (Marjanishvili Street, # 7) has hosted numerous exhibitions of the photo week. The following projects were exhibited at TBC Art Gallery:
2016 - “THE CAPTURED MOMENT – Historical Photographs” by Galley Koppelmann, Germany
2017 - PURITY by David Magnusson, Sweden
2018 - SPIRITS by Levan Kherkheulidze, Georgia
2019 - INTENDING GEORGIA by Georg Katstaller, Austria

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Gallery of The Folklore State Centre of Georgia

Luis Weinstein

Gallery of The Folklore State Centre of Georgia - Particular mission of the Centre is further popularization of Georgian traditional culture by helping out Georgian artists, highly professional collectives, merited and young scholars to present their art to wider audience both in Georgia and elsewhere.

Luis Weinstein
“It is what it is”


'It is what it is' is the title enclosing an extensive series of photographs taken in Chile during the 80's, the military years. Daily life, public spaces, non decisive moments, edited many years after in four chapters selected and arranged to tell a story written in layers within and between every image. I shot and processed all the photographs shown, some of them were printed and exhibited, others were published in different ways but mostly they remained in my archive until now. Revisiting and working again on them, making contemporary books that look like vintage publications has given me the chance to understand some aspects of our recent life with a renewed perspective. The important heroes are the everyday fighters, the 'Guerrilleros' are not only people armed with weapons, the mightiest battalion is the crowds in the streets. This journal sellers under the rain tell the story: the diario de los guerrilleros (the diary of the guerrilleros, reads the cover, also meaning the journal of the guerrilleros) are the ones they're holding, and since it's their paper, it's them the real heroes.

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National Archive of Georgia

1920’s Georgian Cinematography

The National Archive – Archive holds written documents, film documents, photos and audio records, totaling more than five million exhibits. The exhibits preserved are dated back to the 9th through 21st century.

1920’s Georgian Cinematography
Georgi Kakabadze, Ketevan Sadagishvili, Sofio Patsiashvili, Valery Levchenko, Sofia Jobava, Nino Kavtaradze worked on the exhibition.
The photo exhibition 1920S GEORGIAN CINEMATOGRAPHY combines about forty films, created on the basis of SAKHKINMRETSVI in 1921-29. Most of the presented photo material is still unknown to a wide audience.

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Amirani Cinema

Hennric Jokeit

Amirani Cinema - the oldest functioning cinema in Tbilisi, which hosts both new films and retrospectives. The space also hosts various cultural events, open lectures and exhibitions.

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Gudiashvili Square

Dmitry Gomberg

Gudiashvili Square - very unique architecture piece, which unites the elements of Georgian, Oriental and Classicist architecture. In the 19th century the building belonged to the imperial military department, In the Soviet period it was used as an editorial office of the newspaper Literary Georgia. Currently, it is under the reconstruction process.

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FOTOGRAFIA

Yuliya Khan, Yan Yugay, Anton Shebetko

Fotografia - Tbilisi’s first limited edition print photography gallery. The gallery’s mission is to raise awareness of the significant contributions made by the Georgian photographic community to the visual arts.

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Imaginary Space

Yuliya Khan, Yan Yugay, Anton Shebetko

We are presenting the last photo exhibition within the frameworks of Kolga Tbilisi Photo Week, symbolically it is located in the imaginary space that doesn’t exist in reality unlike all the other 14 exhibitions we hosted this week. We hope this is the last time we are seeing you in the imaginary space and we hope to meet you in person in the near future!

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