Tinatin Tsurkava

Tinatin Tsurkava is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Tbilisi, Georgia, working across painting, installation, photography, and mixed media.

With an academic background in Architecture, Urban Planning and Design, her practice is informed by an interest in space, visual structures, and the relationship between people and their environments.

Her work is primarily intuitive and often responds to political and social realities, exploring themes of power, surveillance, identity, control, and collective memory. Through symbolic imagery and everyday objects, she creates visual narratives that reflect on contemporary conditions and human experiences.

Alongside her artistic practice, she is the founder of Rakursi, an independent archive and research initiative documenting abandoned architectural spaces in Tbilisi.

Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions, collaborative projects, and international exhibitions.

2015–2019
Faculty of Architecture, Urban Planning and Design
Georgian Technical University, Tbilisi, Georgia

2022
Creative Mediation – Informal Master Program
Center of Contemporary Art Tbilisi (CCA), Georgia

2020
Art Direction Course
Garnamatac, Georgia

2019
European Architecture Students Assembly (EASA)
Workshop Participant – “The Traveler Fashion Show”, Switzerland

2023
European Architecture Students Assembly (EASA)
Workshop Participant – “EASA Archive”, Sheffield, UK

2026 – Solo Exhibition, “Inhale / Exhale”, Cube in Context, Tbilisi, Georgia

2025 – Art Fair, “Fearless”, Photography and Multimedia Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia

2024 – Group Exhibition, “Unbound Trajectories of the Future”, Goethe-Institut Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia

2023 – Presentation, “B2B Social Cooking Project”, Studio Initiative Days, CCA Tbilisi, Georgia

2023 – Group Exhibition, “River’s Magic Garden”, CCA Tbilisi, Georgia

2023 – Online Group Exhibition, “A Burst of Colors”, Decagon Gallery, Brooklyn, USA

2023 – Photography Exhibition, “Commons”, Block Project Gallery, Sheffield, UK

2023 – Group Exhibition, “The Living Still Life Machine”, CCA Tbilisi, Georgia

2023 – Group Exhibition, “Freedom”, Freedom Restaurant, Tbilisi, Georgia – Curator

2023 – Group Exhibition, “Think”, Shop for Everything, Georgia

2023 – Group Exhibition, “Perspectives of Urban Renewal”, Rakursi, Fabrika, Tbilisi, Georgia

2022 – Group Exhibition, Students’ Final Projects, CCA Tbilisi, Georgia – Rakursi

2019 – Group Exhibition, “Agora”, Furniture Exhibition

2017 – Group Exhibition, Installation, “L Train” Electronic Music Festival