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Almine Rech

Tamuna Sirbiladze

Tamuna was born in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia, on the 12th of February 1971, daughter of Vakthang Sirbildadze and Nunu Ghurchumelia. She started her life together with her elder sister Keti. Already in nursery-school in Lermontowstreet she loved drawing and painting and impressed her teacher so much that she organized an exhibition for the six year old. In 1989, Tamuna graduated from high school in the Rustaveli-avenue. From 1989 to 1994 she studied at the state-acadamy of art in Tbilisi, where she gained a degree. After moving to Vienna in 1997,  she studied until 2003 at the acadamy of fine arts, where her teacher was Franz Graf. In 2003 she further extended her studies at the Slade school of fine arts in London. In the meantime she had met the artist Franz West, whom she married in 2002, and with whom she collaborated on several art-projects and works until his death 2012. Her last years she lived together with Benedikt Ledebur. Always very active, she was included in a group exhibition as soon as she moved to Vienna.  Over the years she made a huge body of works encompassing installative works, videos, sitespecific projects and an enormous amount of paintings, which she exhibited in various exhibitions in Galleries and Museums all over Europe.  In the last two years she not only participated in the groupshow artists and poets in the Secession in Vienna, curated by the artist Ugo Rondinone, and in the groupshow No man’s land of the Rubell family collection in Miami, but also had a lot of critical acclaim for two solo-shows in New York. Her last show at Almine Rech gallery in Brussels opened shortly before her death.

Selected artworks

  • Tamuna Sirbiladze, Aladins Jug, 2015

    Tamuna Sirbiladze Aladins Jug, 2015

    Oil sticks and antroposophic pastel on canvas
    190 x 140 cm

  • Tamuna Sirbiladze, Loss of Garden, 2014

    Tamuna Sirbiladze Loss of Garden, 2014

    Acrylic on canvas
    185 x 185 cm

  • Tamuna Sirbiladze, Silverlane, 2014

    Tamuna Sirbiladze Silverlane, 2014

    Acrylic on canvas
    150 x 100 cm

  • Tamuna Sirbiladze, Blue flower power, 2014

    Tamuna Sirbiladze Blue flower power, 2014

    Acrylic on canvas
    80 x 80 cm

  • Tamuna Sirbiladze, Fishermans red, 2014

    Tamuna Sirbiladze Fishermans red, 2014

    Acrylic on canvas
    80 x 80 cm

  • Tamuna Sirbiladze, Irises, 2014

    Tamuna Sirbiladze Irises, 2014

    Acrylic on canvas
    80 x 80 cm

  • Tamuna Sirbiladze, Red / Black, 2014

    Tamuna Sirbiladze Red / Black, 2014

    Acrylic on canvas
    80 x 80 cm

  • Tamuna Sirbiladze, Purple, 2014

    Tamuna Sirbiladze Purple, 2014

    Acrylic on canvas
    80 x 80 cm

  • Tamuna Sirbiladze, Orange / Olive, 2014

    Tamuna Sirbiladze Orange / Olive, 2014

    Acrylic on canvas
    120 x 80 cm

  • Tamuna Sirbiladze, Green / Red, 2014

    Tamuna Sirbiladze Green / Red, 2014

    Acrylic on canvas
    120 x 80 cm

  • Tamuna Sirbiladze, Man’s World, 2013

    Tamuna Sirbiladze Man’s World, 2013

    Acrylic on canvas
    200 x 200 cm

  • Tamuna Sirbiladze, Expansion, 2013

    Tamuna Sirbiladze Expansion, 2013

    Acrylic on canvas
    150 x 185 cm

  • Tamuna Sirbiladze, Key Absence, 2013

    Tamuna Sirbiladze Key Absence, 2013

    Acrylic on canvas
    155 x 135 cm

  • Tamuna Sirbiladze, Orchidee, 2015

    Tamuna Sirbiladze Orchidee, 2015

    Oil sticks and antroposophic pastel on canvas
    190 x 140 cm

Gallery exhibitions

Museum exhibitions

Selected press