Manuchar Bendeliani

Manuchar Bendeliani (b. 1989, Tbilisi, Georgia) is a Georgian-born visual artist, medical doctor and psychiatrist based in Berlin.

Before turning to visual art, Bendeliani was active in poetry, with works published in Georgian literary magazines. Since 2013, he has developed a multidisciplinary practice spanning painting, drawing, collage, and mixed media, working across oil, acrylic, oil pastel, graphite, and expressive figurative forms.

His work explores the intersection of psychological states and figurative expression, focusing on themes of vulnerability, memory, identity, alienation, and emotional fragmentation. Through layered compositions and intuitive gestures, he constructs psychologically charged images in which the human figure becomes both subject and emotional landscape. His paintings often oscillate between tenderness and tension, balancing raw immediacy with subtle introspection.

Influenced by both clinical observation and subconscious processes, Bendeliani approaches painting as a form of psychological excavation rather than narrative illustration. Spontaneity plays a central role in his practice, allowing forms and symbols to emerge instinctively through gesture, texture, and emotional impulse.

Currently based in Berlin, Bendeliani works alongside his artistic practice in the field of scientific psychiatry at Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin. The coexistence of medicine and art remains central to his work, creating an ongoing dialogue between perception, emotional experience, and the fragility of human consciousness.

Exhibitons

Solo

 • 2025 — “Forgotten Nights,” Licht Gallery, Tbilisi

Group

• 2026 — Freizeit Gallery, Tbilisi

• 2025 — Hampstead Art Society, London

• 2024 — Van Der Plas Gallery, New York

• 2023 — mepaintsme Gallery, New York

• 2022 — The Gallery Seoul, Seoul; Independent Contemporary Art Project, Berlin

• 2017 — Muza Cultural Center, Tbilisi