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Леван Чогошвили (Levan Chogoshvili)

Date of birth: May 22, 1953,
Education: 1970-1975 - Tbilisi State Academy of Art, Department of painting
Work: 1979 – Producer of unofficial film about Georgian Ethnic Culture beyond the borders of Soviet Georgia
1990 – The member of Association of the History of Science (Georgian Academy of Science)
1995 - President of the Association for Protection of Ancient Christian Art
1997 – 2007- Professor of the Tbilisi Art Academy, Head of the Arts Interdisciplinary Studio
1998-til today – Representative of only functioning in Georgia Artists Exchange Program (IAAB) “Basel-Tbilisi-Freiburg” of Christoph Merian Foundation (Switzerland)
2000 - Founder of the Contemporary Art Centre
2000 - Cofounder of the Caucasian Institute of Photography and New Media (CCCD)
2001 – 2004 – Professor of the Caucasian Institute of Photography and New Media (maf-media art farm)
2001 – Founder of Arts Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory (AIRL)
2002 - grant of Pollock-Krasner foundation, New-York
from 2007 - Professor of IB Euro-Caucasian University

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Group Exhibitions:

1976 - non-official group exhibition, Tbilisi Cinema House
1977 - non-official group exhibition, Tbilisi Artists House
1987 - group exhibition, Gallery Empedocle Restivo, Palermo
1987 - 1st exhibition of group "10th Floor," Karvasla Museum, Tbilisi
1988 - group charity exhibition for the victims of Armenia earthquake, Artists House, Tbilisi
1988 - group exhibition, CAH, Moscow
1988 - 1st exhibition of Non-Conformist artists of Georgia, Karvasla Museum, Tbilisi
1990 - group exhibition Foundation Mona Bismarck, Paris
1990 - group exhibition on the international Art Festival, Cagnes-sur-Mer (the Prize of the President of France for the best National Selection)
1990 - group exhibition “From Pirosmani up to Avant-garde, Gallery “Brok,” Barcelona
1995 - group exhibition, Modern Art Gallery, Tbilisi
1995 - group exhibition, International Art Festival, Ankara, First prize for the best National Selection
1995 - group exhibition, Art Centre “Senet,” Baku
1996 - Untitled, +/- Gallery, Basel
1996 - two-men exhibition “In-between Past and Present,” International Art Centre, Tbilisi
1996 - group exhibition in the frames of international project “Icon and Perception,” Tbilisi
1996 - 1st Tbilisi International Biennial in Contemporary Art, Blue Gallery
2002 – exhibition of the Centre for Rehabilitation of Tortured Victims, Tbilisi
History Museum
2002 – group exhibition, Tbilisi, Old Gallery; (1st position in the rating of acting Georgian artists born after 1945 – organizers: art collector A. Piradov and Tbilisi Art Institutions)
2002 - 2nd Biennial in Florence,Italy
2004 – Double Bottom, in the frames of the AIRL’s international project “Tuesday is Gone,” Club 22, Tbilisi
2004 – “Research Without Boundaries”, Curating and Cultural Exchange in the Intercultural Age, Goethe Institute, Tbilisi
2005 – “Saberebi Desert Group”, Air Gallery, London
2005 – Wednesday Calls the Future, curator Daniel Baumann, NAC, Tbilisi; (www.tbilisi2.com)
2006 – Lets’ Stay Alive Till Monday, Daniel Baumann, Elene Akhvlediani Gallery, Tbilisi; curator (www.tbilisi3.com)
2007- Every Day is Saturday, Tbilisi; curator Daniel Baumann, Cumberto/space, Tbilisi; (www.tbilisi4.com)

Solo Exhibitions:

1976 – “From Forbidden Photos” unofficial exhibition, private apartment of princess Sidamon-Eristavi, Tbilisi
1985 – “From the History,” Artists House, Tbilisi
1990 – “Kings”, Tbilisi History Museum (Karvasla)
1991 – one man exhibition, Gallery L`orangerie, St. Paul de Vance
1993 – one man exhibition, CAH, Moscow
1994 – “Paintings-from-photos”, one man exhibition, XS Gallery, Basel
1994 – “Home Archeology”, unofficial video show together with Archile Chogoshvili,
Studio 27, Tbilisi
1996 – “Destroyed Aristocracy,” Gallery Zyw, Edinburgh, Edinburgh
International Festival
1996 – “Destroyed Aristocracy,” Brimpton d ' Aversy Castle, Somerset, England
1998 – “Real Politics”, Christoph Merian Foundation, Basel
2000 – “Accommodation,” Hobby Gallery, Tbilisi, in the frames of the
international project “DifferAnce” in the contemporary art
2003 – “Beyond Bans,” 50th Venice Biennial in Visual Art
2003 – “Hit Eat Gods” (video), Mitte, Basel
2004 – “Where is the King of Poland?”, Gallery Elektor, Warsaw
2005 – “Red Dog”, Art Studios, Freiburg, Germany
2006 – “Noble Wine 2, Merab Abramishvili-Levan Chogoshvili”, Wine Gallery, Tbilisi