Michael Makharadze

Georgian artist Michael (Mikheil) Makharadze works at the intersection of traditional painting and contemporary conceptual thinking, creating symbolic narratives that explore the human condition, existence, and the fragile process of searching for meaning. Grounded in philosophical inquiry, his practice approaches painting as a form of visual reflection — a space where personal experience confronts universal questions.
At the core of Makharadze’s work is the human being as the highest value and central subject. Through archetypal figures, mythological motifs, and hyperbolized forms, he examines themes of identity, absurdity, belief, memory, and the perception of reality — viewed through the eyes of a finite observer set against the backdrop of cosmic infinity. His visual scenes often convey a sense of suspension in time, as if each episode exists between past and future, reality and metaphor.
Makharadze’s visual language is deeply symbolic. Each painting functions as an independent narrative while simultaneously forming part of a unified imagined world — a parallel reality in which meaning unfolds through association and introspection. Influenced by existential philosophy and speculative thought, his works do not offer direct a...

2013, I graduated from St. Tbel Abuseridze school. From 2013 to 2018, I studied philosophy at Shota Rustaveli State University in Batumi. After my studies, I realized that my only passion is art. In the creative process, I feel all the colors of life, and I transform this into a philosophy of life.

• 2017 - Participant of the joint exhibition "Georgian Cultural Days," Ukraine, Uman.

2018 - Participant of the exhibition "Immortal Emotions" organized by the National Library of the Parliament of Georgia.

2019 - Solo exhibition "Reflection" at the Adjara Art Museum Gallery, Batumi. 2019 - Solo exhibition at the social café "Free Space," Batumi.

■2022 - Participant of the joint exhibition "Sun Rays" at the Adjara Art Museum

Gallery.

■2023 - Solo exhibition "Seeing the Sun" at the Adjara Art Museum Gallery.

■2024 - Participant of the joint exhibition "Art Odyssey."

■2024 - Participant of the joint exhibition "Georgian Art and Culture," organized by "Georgian Art House" and "Musikstudio und Galerie Gabriele Paque." Germany, Bonn.