Vakho Bugadze

Vakho Bugadze
Georgian Painter and Sculptor
Born in 1964 in Tbilisi, Georgia
Lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia, and Roccasecca, Italy.

Artist Statment:

Lapsus Mentis: “A slip of the mind — a fleeting moment when thought stumbles, and the hidden truth escapes unintentionally.”

Education

1975-1981 Specialized School for Arts, Tbilisi
1982-1985 Department of Applied Arts, Tbilisi State Academy of Fine Arts
1985-1991 Department of Sculpture, Tbilisi State Academy of Fine Arts

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025 Untitled, Home Exhibition, Roccasecca, Italy
2025 Try Once Again Dédicace Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
2025 Caput Mortuum Licht Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
2024 O, I, II Atinati Foundation, Tbilisi, Georgia
2022 Caucasian Orangery Baia Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
2019 Three, Four Tbilisi History Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia
2019 Zero Georgian National Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
2019 Aleppo Contemporary Art Space, Batumi, Georgia
2018 Tuscany Iron Bridge Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
2017 One, Two G. Leonidze Museum of Georgian Literature, Tbilisi, Georgia
2016 Innerferera Gala Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
2015 Suburb Georgian National Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
2015 Sculpture Museum Rooms Hotel-Underground Parking, Tbilisi, Georgia
2012 Baia Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
2011 New Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
2010 La Strada Gala Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
2010 Baia Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
2009 Baia Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
2008 Club Cumberto, Tbilisi, Georgia
2004 One-day personal exhibition in a studio, Tbilisi, Georgia
2002 Karvasla, History Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia
2001 Karvasla, History Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia
1998 Kultur Schmiede Vienna, Austria
1995 Tbilisi, Georgia

Selected Group Exhibitions

2017 Trinity Vienna, Austria
2013 Victoria, Georgian National Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
2013 Vilnius, Lithuania
2009 Karvasla, Germany-Tbilisi
1994 Perangi Business Club, Tbilisi, Georgia
1994 National Gallery of Art, Tbilisi, Georgia

Selected Open Air Group Exhibitions

2001 Open Air Exhibition in a street, Tbilisi, Georgia
2000 Old Silk Factory Tbilisi, Georgia
1999 Open Air Exhibition-Action in a destroyed building in suburbs of Tbilisi, Georgia
1998 Art Symposium Nature Art, Shoreti, Georgia
1995 Spring House Tbilisi, Georgia

Auctions

2025 Christie's Auction, London, England
2023 Bonhams Auction, London, England

Art Fairs

2023 Tbilisi Art Fair, Tbilisi, Georgia
2019 Tbilisi Art Fair, Tbilisi, Georgia
2017 Beijing International Art Biennale, Beijing, China
2016 Kyiv Art Week, Kyiv, Ukraine
2014 Sotheby’s At the Crossroads 2: Contemporary Art from Istanbul to Kabul, London, England
2013 ArtVilnius, Vilnius, Lithuania

Sculpture Symposiums

2010 International Sculpture Symposium, Austria
2006 International Sculpture Symposium, Athens, Greece
2002 Sculpture Symposium, Drama, Greece
2001 Sculpture Symposium, Villa Garikula, Georgia
2000 International Sculpture Symposium, Drama, Greece
2000 International Sculpture Symposium, Maalot-Tarshiha, Israel
1999 International Sculpture Symposium, Kavala, Greece
1998 International Sculpture Symposium, Ramsau am Dachstein, Austria
1998 International Sculpture Symposium Kunst in der Landschaft 4, Austria
1997 Sculpture Symposium, Academy of Fine Arts, Georgia
1997 Tbilisi International Sculpture Symposium, Austria-Georgia

Professional Contributions

2018-2019 Professor, Visual Art, Architecture, and Design School (VAADS), Free University of Tbilisi
2012-2016 Professor, Department of Fine Arts, Tbilisi State Academy of Arts