Window Project presents an exhibition by Koka Ramishvili and Vakhtang Kokiashvili.

2 November - 5 December,2025

Koka Ramishvili - Last Gallery

First realised in the early 1990s as a site-specific installation, The Last Gallery has since been reconfigured across a range of spatial and cultural contexts. Each iteration responds to the architecture, temporality, and atmosphere of its environment, allowing the work continually to reshape its form and spatial presence.

Composed of khaki-painted canvases suspended on the walls and cut into strips from their subframes, the installation extends into the surrounding space, where the ribbons of fabric intersect, intertwine, and converge at the centre of the gallery. While their colour and texture subtly evoke military textiles, this reference remains secondary; the ascetic use of colour enables an exploration of spatial dynamics, prompting the viewer to engage with the interplay between form, structure, and void. Anchored to their subframes only at the edges, the canvases maintain a fragile equilibrium between motion and stillness. Within this state of structural tension, flat pictorial planes are transformed into a three-dimensional environment, where painting expands into architecture and image dissolves into spatial experience.

In this work, Ramishvili deconstructs the conventions of pictorial representation not as an end in itself, but as a means of revealing the inherent potential within artistic form. Through the fragmentation of spatial hierarchies, he creates intervals between material and void, where emptiness is conceived not as absence but as a generative field of possibility. Within this liminal space, form materialises through the act of its own disappearance, and a new realm of perception comes into being.

Koka Ramishvili was born in 1956 in Tbilisi, Georgia. He studied industrial design, architecture, and cinematography at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. In 1994, he became a co-founder of the Tbilisi Center for Contemporary Art, as well as the Visual Laboratory and the art journal Signal. Since 1990, Ramishvili has been an active participant in solo and group exhibitions across Europe, including in Berlin, Glasgow, Bristol (Arnolfini), and Munich (Häusler Contemporary Gallery). In 1997, he was awarded the Bauhaus and Akademie Schloss Solitude Prize in Stuttgart for his video installation Signal. Since 2000, Ramishvili has been based in Geneva. From this period onward, his works have been presented in numerous European art institutions, including Tate Modern (London), MAMCO (Geneva), the Goethe Institute (Berlin), Musée des Beaux-Arts (Nantes and Nancy), Museum Folkwang (Essen), M KHA Museum of Contemporary Art (Antwerp), and the Cobra Museum (Amsterdam), among others. In 2009, his installation was featured in the Georgian Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale.

Vakhtang Kokiashvili - From the 1960s’ to 80s’

Presented in this exhibition are works by Vakhtang Kokiashvili across a range of mediums: graphic works, enamel, sculpture, assemblage, and more, revealing the artist’s continual experimentation with form, material, and meaning. Spanning the 1960s through the 1980s, these artworks encompass diverse themes, from myth and religion to identity and modernity.

Their formal precision, conceptual sophistication, and exploration of material and symbolic language render them strikingly contemporary, resonating with current debates on the intersections of tradition, artistic autonomy, and cultural transformation. Rooted in the historical and cultural milieu of Soviet and post-Soviet Georgia, Kokiashvili’s works transcend temporal boundaries, inviting reflection on the enduring relevance of modernist inquiry in today’s artistic discourse.

Born in Tbilisi, Vakhtang Kokiashvili graduated from the Tbilisi Art Academy in 1956 and became a key figure in Georgian modernism. His multifaceted practice encompassed painting, monumental and architectural art, stained glass, and design, including iconic interventions in the former Hotel Iveria and the Tbilisi Funicular. Honoured as an Artist of Georgia in 1967,Kokiashvili exhibited internationally and remained committed to innovation throughout his life. Working in his Tbilisi studio until his death in 2010, he forged a visual language that continues to influence generations of artists and sustain a dialogue between Georgian modernism and contemporary art.

Photo Credit: Nino Menteshashvili