Artist Vajiko Chachkhiani shortlisted for global young creators award

Vajiko Chachkhiani will be among a group of artists showcased in Ukraine’s capital of Kiev starting tomorrow to celebrate their selection for a special global prize.

The Georgian creator will have his work exhibited at the PinchukArtCentre venue in an event marking this year’s edition of the Future Generation Art Prize.

Founded by the Kiev-based Victor Pinchuk Foundation in 2009, the award is promoted as "the first global art prize” for artists aged up to 35.

A 2011-2016 collage by British artist Andy Holden, who has been selected for the shortlist. Photo: Sergey Illin/PinchukArtCentre.

Chachkhiani is shortlisted for the prize among 21 artists and creative groups from across the world. The shortlist was drawn up by the Selection Committee of the prize from over 4400 initial submissions from 138 countries.

The Kiev display will feature new works by the selected creators to illustrate "the most actual artistic positions of a next generation of artists”, said a release by PinchukArtCentre.

Balancing between personal and collective, imaginary and real, familiar and uncanny, the show invites the visitors to set off on a captivating journey through wide range of ideas that absorb the artists today,” said the organisers.

Showcasing works created in varying media, the exhibition will include sculpture, video installations and other artistic mediums.

A 2017 work ‘Time Remembers Another Time’ by South African artist Kemang Wa Lehulere. Photo: Sergey Illin/PinchukArtCentre.

Chachkhiani was born in Tbilisi but is currently based in Berlin. The artist is a graduate of German capital’s University of Arts as well as Gerrit Rietveld Academy of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

The contemporary creator is a recipient of the prestigious Rubens Promotional Award of the Contemporary Art Museum Siegen.

He has featured in personal and group exhibitions in Georgia and abroad. His work is currently on display within the show WAITING — Between Power and Possibility at the Hamburger Kunsthalle art museum in Germany.

Chachkhiani was also featured in a recent exhibition Across the Caucasus that hosted works by artists from the Caucasian region at the Ioseb Grishashvili Tbilisi History Museum.