NINA AKHOBADZE

Nina Akhobadze (b. 1997, Samtredia, Georgia) is a Georgian artist working primarily in painting and graphic art. She lives and works in Vienna, Austria. Her practice is grounded in abstraction and focuses on process-driven painting, material sensitivity, and the accumulation of gesture as a carrier of psychological and perceptual resonance.

Akhobadze studied Painting and Graphic Arts at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts (2015–2019), where she worked under Oleg Timchenko. She currently continues her artistic education at the University of Art and Design Linz, studying with Anne Speier and Sergei Tcherepnin. Across media and scale, her work explores the ontology of abstraction through sustained attention to surface, rhythm, and temporality, foregrounding intuition, repetition, and embodied decision-making.

Her paintings resist figuration and instead investigate the expressive capacities of layered colour, texture, and mark. Through accumulative processes, Akhobadze constructs surfaces that register memory, hesitation, and affect, positioning abstraction as a site of plurality and lived experience. Her practice engages critically with the history of abstraction while asserting an alternative, embodied perspective within a field historically shaped by masculinised canons.

Akhobadze’s first solo exhibition, It Takes Space, was presented at Galerie Roberta Keil, Vienna, in 2025. Her recent exhibitions include Leave it unfinished, it breathes better (WAF Gallery, 2025), NADA Villa Warsaw (2025), Vienna Contemporary (2024), Kultur Brauch Kunst at Schlossmuseum Linz (2024), and Tbilisi Art Fair (2024). Her work has been shown in both solo and group exhibitions across Vienna and Tbilisi.