Nini Palavandishvili

Nini Palavandishvili (ნინი ფალავანდიშვილი) is a freelance curator, researcher, and writer. The focus of her research lies on Mid-century modernist architecture, monumental and decorative art, their role in a time of creation, and current interpretations. In collaboration with the Georgian National Committee of the Blue Shield, Nini has worked on the Conservation and adaptation plan for the Tbilisi Chess Palace and Alpine Club building (supported by the Getty Foundation in 2018- 2020). She writes for international publications, is an author and editor of several books, and curator of interdisciplinary projects.

Her recent publications include:

Building Socialist Georgia (Ed. N. Palavandishvili and I. Kurtishvili), Goethe Institut Georgia, 2022

Mosaics of Soviet Period in Georgia (Ed. N. Palavandishvili), Tbilisi: Sulakauri Publishing, 2019

Tbilisi-It’s Complicated (Ed. N. Palavandishvili, D. Chigholashvili, M. Splint), Eindhoven: Onomatopee, 2019

Art for Architecture – Georgia. Soviet Modernist Mosaics from 1960 to 1990 (Ed. N. Palavandishvili, L. Prents), Berlin: Dom Publishers, 2018

Tbilisi Chess Palace and Alpine Club, in Between Caucasus and the Black Sea. Architecture in Georgia (Ed. Adolph Stiller), Vienna: Mury Salzmann, 2018

Ministry of Automobile Roads, in SOS BRUTALISM. A Global Survey (Ed. O. Elser, P. Kurz, P. Schmal), Zurich: Park Books, 2017

Articles

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Sergo Chakhoiants belonged to the generation of artists of the 1950s, though it wasn’t until the 2000s that he gained recognition. His son, Alexander Chakhoiants, shared that the artist’s lifelong

Bediani is a small town in Tsalka Municipality, located in the historic province of Trialeti. It was established in 1954 in connection with the construction of the Khrami Hydroelectric Power

Nikoloz Kandelaki is one of the most outstanding representatives of modern Georgian art, and the development of realistic sculpture in Georgia is associated with both he and Iakob Nikoladze. In

In the nineteenth-century, Kutaisi was the second-largest city of Georgia and a center of governance within the Russian Empire. By the end of the century, the construction of administrative and

Paris, autumn 1959. The Galerie Charpentier is getting ready for its traditional exhibition of artists – graduates from the Paris School. But then Raymond Naceta the gallery’s director, decides to

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