Art Foundation Anagi: A New Museum Space in Tbilisi

Discover a new, distinctive space dedicated to Georgian contemporary art.
 

“Art Foundation Anagi” was established in September 2025, following the international model of corporate art foundations, and brings together leading representatives of Georgian business and creative industries.
 

The foundation building houses several exhibition spaces, showcasing contemporary Georgian visual art from different periods, perspectives, and practices.
 

AFA Curatorial Hall and AFA Gallery
 

“Repression and Free Will”
 

On March 14, a new exhibition will open at the curatorial space of the Art Foundation Anagi.

The exhibition explores the mechanisms through which the Soviet system restricted artists’ free will, as well as the forms of creative resistance that emerged in response to repression.
 

An important part of the exhibition is dedicated to the work of Henrik Hryniewski (1869–1938) – an artist of Polish descent who worked in Georgia and became a victim of Soviet repression.
 

The exhibition will also feature works by different generations of abstract painters who were labeled “formalists” and persecuted by the Soviet system. This display follows the development of Georgian abstraction chronologically – from early modernism to the period leading up to Georgia’s independence (1920s–1990s).
 

The exhibition also presents a contemporary critical reflection on the legacy of Soviet ideology through the works of Georgian artists Levan Chogoshvili, Guram Tsibakhashvili, and Merab Kopaleishvili.
 

The exhibition invites viewers to reflect on how the trauma of Soviet repression continues to shape our collective consciousness and the present day. In this context, creative freedom becomes one of the key tools through which artists expose and challenge this pressure.
 

Curators: Thea Goguadze-Apfel, Konstantine Bolkvadze, Mariam Shergelashvili
 

Official opening: March 14, 20:00
 

The exhibition will be on view through June 10, 2026.
 

The exhibition is supported by the Polish Institute in Tbilisi.