Sopho Mamaladze

Sopho Mamaladze (b. 2001, Tbilisi, Georgia) is a visual artist whose work explores identity, transformation, and the emotional imprints of memory.

In 2019, she began her BFA studies at the Tbilisi State Art Academy in the field of Fine Art, graduating in 2024.

In 2021–2022, Mamaladze was awarded an Erasmus+ scholarship to study in Paris at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris-Cergy (Ensapc) on Fine Art program for half a semester.

Mamaladze is part of a new generation of Georgian artists reimagining tradition through a contemporary lens. Her mixed-media practice is often characterized by symbolic forms, layered textures, and a deep engagement with the inner world. Figures in her work appear in shifting states, neither fixed nor fully defined, offering a visual language that reflects psychological, mythological, and environmental change.

Sopho’s interest in ancestral memory, feminine presence, and speculative transformation informs much of her visual vocabulary. She draws on elements of folklore, nature, and dream logic to create open-ended narratives,spaces where the personal and the collective intersect.

At the core of her work is an ongoing investigation of boundaries: between self and other, body and landscape, past and future. Through intuitive composition and symbolic imagery, she invites viewers into a world that is both intimate and expansive, familiar yet strange.

Mamaladze’s work resonates deeply with the current moment, engaging with the complexities of daily life and the urgent questions of our time. Her visual narratives echo the challenges and transformations of a world in flux-environmental degradation, cultural hybridity, and the search for belonging in an era of rapid change.

She continues to participate actively in exhibitions and projects both in Georgia and internationally, sharing her evolving practice with diverse audiences.

Artist Statement

My works are an attempt to speak the language of mythology and symbolism about the invisible forces that constantly operate in our daily lives. This is something that goes beyond the words yet it’s placed close to us.

Each piece is an expression of an inner process, the states where reality and imagination intertwine. In this process I begin a dialogue with the unconscious, with the archetypes, with the fragments of ancient myths that still live in our bodies and memory today.

Symbols function for me as a kind of enigmas. For example, the female figure often appears as a conduit a medium carrying simultaneously pain and relief, fear and strength. I also frequently use childhood forgotten objects and stories to intensify nostalgia, making the mood familiar to the viewer, touching their hearts, leaving a small part behind forever.

These works do not provide answers, rather they pose questions. And sometimes these questions themselves become a guide to the answers. My art is one large project which also acts as a search for a visual language, for when words are no longer enough. Then only color, form and symbol remain. Occasionally figures merge, woman and fish become one or an animal blend with a human face creating something else - something in between neither human nor solely animal but symbolic.

My creative process is similar to this. Nothing is static. Everything happens faster and more unpredictably than one can imagine.

I often change materials, moving from tiny works to enormous canvases, it’s like a game I try to follow.

In today’s age of globalization when we seem connected to everything, we often get lost in ourselves. These works are an attempt to reconnect with unconscious, our personal archetypes, the space where everything breathes simultaneously.

With my paintings, I often play with boundaries, between self and other, past and present, reality and dream, offering a visual language that is both intimate and expansive. Ultimately, I want my art to act as a mirror, encouraging viewers to recognize the diversity and depth of human feeling , and to find pieces of themselves within the work.

And lastly, I try to create works that are simultaneously a surrender and a prayer.

Selected Exhibitions

• Winner of Faye Wei Wei’s (Judges Award) Choice Award in Jackson’s Art Prize, London, 2026
• Group exhibition “Humanity” at CICA museum in Seoul, South Korea, 2026
• Participation in SWAB Barcelona Art Fair 2025.
• Winner of the People’s Choice Award in the Hampstead Art Society at “Eight Gallery”, London, 2025. Winner of the Michael Harding Paints Best Young Artist Award
• Group exhibition organized by Hampstead Art Society at “Eight Gallery”, London, 2025.
• Group Exhibition “DISCIPLINE[S]”, at Cannes (Aix Provence), France (2025)
• Group Exhibition “Echoes of Yesterday”, LoosenArt Gallery. Rome, Italy (2025)
• Participated in the Exhibition “Slow sun”, The Why Not Gallery. Tbilisi, Georgia (2024)
• Solo Exhibition Schau in meine Welt”, Haus Storck of Martin Rennert and Ekaterina Köhler, Berlin, Germany, 2023
• Solo Exhibition in Tbilisi “Hekate”, ATINATI’S Gallery (Presented by Ria Keburia Foundation. (2023)