Ani Gurashvili

Born 1990 in Tbilisi, Georgia

Lives and works in Vienna, Austria

Ani Gurashvili, is a Georgian painter living in Vienna. She has presented work in Austria, Georgia, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, and Poland. She received a Bachelor’s degree in Media Arts from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 2012 and a Diploma in Painting from the University of Applied Arts, Vienna in 2021. Her solo exhibitions include The Soft Breeze of Mortality, Harkawik (New York, NY), and Cautious Watcher, Patara Gallery (Tbilisi, Georgia). Group exhibitions include Patara Gallery, and Why Not, Tiblisi; Pilot, Vienna; White Crypt, London.

Exhibitions

Double Gaze

Feb 16 - Mar 17, 2024

A broom will leap out of the forest

Dec 5 - Dec 9, 2023

Daydreaming pressed against a fence

July 14 - Sept 11, 2023

Scattered Gems

June 18 - July 20, 2022

The soft breeze of mortality

Sept 9 - Oct 10, 2021

Selected Works

Education

2021
Master of Fine Arts, Painting
University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
2011
Bachelor of Arts, Media Art
Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, Tbilisi, Georgia

Solo

2024
Harkawik, New York, NY
2022
Harkawik, Los Angeles, CA
2021
Harkawik, New York, NY
2019
Hive
Tbilisi Art Fair, Tbilisi, Georgia
2018
Cautious Watcher
Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
Cautious Watcher
Patara Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
2017
Mighty Oaks from little Acorns grow
Justice, Vienna, Austria
2016
Ani Gurashvili and Charlotte Aurich
Justice, Vienna, Austria

Group

2023
NADA Miami, Miami, FL
Harkawik, Los Angeles, CA
Your mind is a mirror
Pangée, Montréal, Canada
2022
Handspells
Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
2021
The Artists’ Oracle
White Crypt, London, United Kingdom
2020
All Your Favourite Bitches and Witches
The Why Not Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
Nine Lipped Goddess
Gallery Artbeat, Tbilisi, Georgia
The Malik
Angewandte Festival, Vienna, Austria
While you were out
Cafe Alt Wien, Vienna, Austria
2019
Silence other-there and one
Star 1, Vienna, Austria
Ciphers of Regression feat Der Hausfreund
Angewandte Festival, Vienna, Austria
Und dann drehts mich
Club Fortuna, Vienna, Austria
Supermarket Art Fair
represented by Patara Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Vorwand II
Kunstverein Eisenstadt, Eisenstadt, Austria
2018
No Show is an Island
Viennessence, Vienna, Austria
Vorwand
Pilot, Vienna, Austria
HARSH ASTRAL: The Radiants 2
Green Tea Gallery at Kunsthalle Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany
HARSH ASTRAL: The Radiants 2
Green Tea Gallery at Francesca Pia, Zürich, Switzerland
Oxygen _ Tbilisi No Fair
Stamba, Tbilisi, Georgia
2017
Honey, I shrunk
Justice, Vienna, Austria
Vademecum
Vienna Contemporary Art Fair, Vienna, Austria
Pilot
Pilot, Vienna, Austria
The Essence
Alte Post, Vienna, Austria
Klassenaustellung, Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Forschung
Vienna, Austria
Contemporary Carpet Coutoure
One work Gallery, Parallel Vienna, Vienna, Austria
2016
Super Wystava
sklad dluga, Kraków, Poland
The Essence 2016
Alte Post, Vienna, Austria
Attend to your Configuration
Justice, Vienna, Austria

Press

Awards

2022
Kunsthalle Wien Prize
Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria

Other Experience

2019
Student assistant, Painting class Henning Bohl
University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
2017
Co-founder of Artist-run project space Pilot
Vienna, Austria