Vajiko Chachkhiani explores theme of ’waiting’ in Hamburg photography display
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One of Germany’s largest art venues will feature Georgian contemporary artist Vajiko Chachkhiani in a group exhibition opening this week to explore the human experience of waiting.
The Hamburger Kunsthalle art museum in Germany’s northern coastal city Hamburg will host the display WAITING — Between Power and Possibility starting Friday.
Works by Chachkhiani – who was recently selected to represent Georgia at this year’s Venice Art Biennial – will be on display alongside those of photographers, including Hasselblad Award-winning British artist Paul Graham and Abisag Tuellmann Prize winner Andrea Diefenbach.
The 2014 work ‘Life Track’ by Vajiko Chachkhiani. Photo: Hamburger Kunsthalle.
Works by the group of over 20 international artists will be exhibited in the venue’s Gallery of Contemporary Art as well as "various locations inside and outside the museum”, said a preview by organisers.
The exhibition will aim to explore the "complex and universal theme” of waiting, as well as its differing social manifestations.
Waiting is addressed as a curiously anachronistic phenomenon in our fast-paced modern society, which is driven by a compulsive need for instant gratification [...] Waiting can also be a reflection of social standing and status”, said a description of the exhibition’s thematic focus by the Hamburg venue curators.
Visitors of the display will be able to see the artistic exploration of these and other aspects of waiting for four months before the show concludes on June 18.
The Hamburger Kunsthalle was founded in 1850 as an art hall. The venue is still one of the largest museum venues in Germany and hosts large-scale personal and group exhibitions.
Vajiko 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.
He has featured in personal and group exhibitions in Georgia and abroad, including a recent display Across the Caucasus that hosted works by artists from the Caucasian region at the Ioseb Grishashvili Tbilisi History Museum.
Chachkhiani is a recipient of the prestigious Rubens Promotional Award of the Contemporary Art Museum Siegen.