ROTHSCHILD FINE ART > SIMON ADJIASHVILI

Born: 1949 Tbilisi, Georgia
Lives and works in Tel Aviv

Education: 1973 Graduated from Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, MA

Solo Exhibitions:

2010 "Recent work"
Rothschild Fine Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

2006 "Mixed"
Basis School of Sculpture Gallery, Israel

2004 Gallery M.L. de Boer
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2002 "Untitled"
Basis School of Sculpture Gallery, Israel

2001 Gallery M.L. de Boer and Gallery BORZO
Amsterdam and s’Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands

1999 Gallery Francis Van Hoof,
Belgium

1997 Group 2 Gallery
Brussels, Belgium

1996 Gallery Francis Van Hoof
Antwerp, Belgium

1995 Gallery Azart
De Rijp, The Netherlands

1994 Gallery Karass
Haarlem, The Netherlands

1993 Group 2 Gallery
Brussels, Belgium

1993 Charlotte Daneel Gallery
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1991 "Beyond the Line"
Ariel Fine Art Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel

1988 "Untitled"
Petrovsky Lines Exhibition Hall, Moscow, USSR

1985 Central House of Artists
Tbilisi, Georgia

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2009 "The unbelievable is right here"
Rothschild Fine Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel,

2009 "Grands Formats" Group 2 Gallery,
Brussels, Belgium

2007-2008 "Traces" III Biennale of Drawing
The Artists House, Jerusalem, Israel

2007 "Invitaties II"
Gallery BORZO and Gallery M.L. de Boer, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2006 V International Biennial of Drawing
Pilsen, Czech Republic

2006 Calligraphy and Typography - The International Project on Script Art
Vilnius Academy of Fine Art, Lithuania

2005 "Objects and Compassion"
Gallery 33 Tel Aviv, Israel

2005 Group Exhibition
Basis School of Sculpture Gallery, Israel

2004 "Traces" II Biennale of Drawing
The Artists House, Jerusalem, Israel

2004 "S.Adjiashvili, A.Dierckx"
Group 2 Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

2003 III International Biennale of Contemporary Graphics
Moscow, Russia

2003 Group Exhibition
The Artists House, Jerusalem, Israel

2002 "Food in Art"
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

2002 "S.Adjiashvili, B.Clots, P. Crombe, R. Rohr"
University of Leuven Art Gallery, Leuven, Belgium

2002 "150 Works of Art"
Gallery Francis Van Hoof, Belgium

2001 Group Exhibition
New Manezh, Moscow and The Artists House, St-Petersburg, Russia

2000 Group Exhibition
The Maria and Mikhail Zetlin Museum of Russian Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

2000 "The Big Format"
ICC, Jerusalem, Israel

2000 "Linda Vinck, Simon Adjiashvili, Ron Ekkelenkamp"
Gallery Francis Van Hoof, Belgium

2000 "Total Space" Group Exhibition
Georgian National Picture Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia

1998 Group Exhibition
Group 2 Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

1997 "20 Years - 20 International Artists"
Gallery Francis Van Hoof, Belgium

1997 "Invitaties" Gallery M.L. de Boer and Gallery BORZO
Amsterdam and s’Herogenbosch, The Netherlands

1995 "Contemporary Israeli Art"
Negev Museum, Israel

1994 "Art- Focus"
I International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Jerusalem, Israel

1994 "Selected Graphics from Frans Masereel Centrum"
Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium

1994 Group Exhibition
Group 2 Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

1993 "Understandable Art"
Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, Israel

1992 Group Exhibition
Shafir-Kalmar Gallery, New York, USA

1991 "Calligraphy USA-USSR"
International Typeface, New York, USA

1991 "Israeli Art Month"
Jerusalem, Israel

1991 "Four Artists from Soviet Union"
University of Haifa Art Gallery, Haifa, Israel

1991 Group Exhibition
Binet Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

1990 "Recent Soviet Painting"
Michel Wardell Gallery, Richmond-Victoria, Australia

1990 "Art of Today III" International Exhibition
Budapest, Hungary

1990 "Calligraphy"
Central Artists House, Moscow, USSR

1989 "Print"
Artists House, Tbilisi

1989 "Red and White"
Moscow Palette Association, Moscow

1989 "Total Space. Five Georgian Artists"
MARS Gallery, Moscow

1989 "Soviet Avant-Garde 1920 - 1980"
Moscow Palette Association, Minsk, USSR

1989 "Georgian Avant-Garde 1980"
Ethnographic Museum, Leningrad, USSR

1989 "Modern Soviet Art"
San Diego, USA

1988 "Nine Georgian Artists"
Georgian Cultural Center, Moscow, USSR

1988 "Georgian Poster"
Contemporary Georgian Poster Exhibition, The Artists House, Tbilisi, Georgia

1987 "Art of Today" International Exhibition
Budapest, Hungary

1986 "Retrospective of Georgian Art"
Central House of Artists, Moscow, USSR

1985 Group Exhibition
The Artists House, Tbilisi

1984 "4-th Exhibition of Poster"
Central House of Artists, Moscow

1982 "10-th Biennale of Graphic Design"
The Moravian Museum, Brno, Czechoslovakia

Selected Bibliography:

2009
"The unbelievable is right here" Rothschild Fine Art Gallery
Catalogue, text by Dror Burstein, Israel

2007
"Traces III" The Third Biennale of Drawing in Israel
Catalogue, text by Dalia Manor, Israel

2006
"V International Biennial of Drawing" Pilsen, Czech Republic

2005
"Passage in Black and Gray" by Dror Burstein in "Ha'aretz" , Israel
"Group 2 Art Gallery" by Anita Nardon (Avril News 2005), Belgium

2004
"in monochroom palet" by Sandra Spijkerman in "Trouw" (October)The Netherlands
"Kleur in de stilte" by Jelka Krogez , The Netherlands

2002
"Milk on Canvas" by Kziya Alon in "Maariv" (July), Israel

1999
"Simon Adjiashvili" catalogue of exhibition edited by Gallery Francis Van Hoof, text by Marc Bourgeois, Belgium

1997
"Invitaties", text by Ed Wingen, Gallery M.L. de Boer and Gallery Borzo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Catalogue of exhibition "Gallery Francis Van Hoof - 20 Years", text by Marc Bourgeois, Belgium
"Horizontal - Vertical" By Roger Pierre Turine in "La Libre Culture" (December), Brussels, Belgium

1996
"Simon Adjiashvili", catalogue edited by Gallery Francis Van Hoof, text by Marc Bourgeois, Belgium

1994
"Israelische Georgie terug bij Karass" by Aart Van Der Kuul in "Kunst Beeld" (March), The Netherlands
"Untitled", by Prof. Gregory Ostrovsky in newspaper "Vesti" (February), Israel

1993
"Simon Adjiashvili" monograph edited by Group 2 Gallery. Text by Jeannine Lenaerts, Dr. Raymond Lacroix (A.I.C.A),
Prof. Gregory Ostrovsky & Ilia Zautashvili , Belgium
Catalogue of exhibition "Understandable Art", text by Evgeny Steiner, Museum of Israeli Art, Tel Aviv , Israel
"Tell me, who I am..." by Anna Isakova in newspaper "Vesti", Israel
"De Georgie en Israel", in l'Echo, text by Stephan Rey (February), Belgium
"Simon Adjiashvili", by Jeannine Lenaerts in "Vlaams Club", Belgium
"Overpeinzingen van Simon Adjiashvili" in "Kunstbeeld" (March), The Netherlands

1991
Catalogue of exhibition "Abstraction", by Sanford Shaman, University of Haifa, Israel
"4 artists from the Soviet Union", by Angela Levine, "Jerusalem Post" (June), Israel

1990
"Concerning the Spiritual in Contemporary Soviet Art", by Susan Read, in Art Monthly (May), London, UK
Catalogue of exhibition "Resent Soviet Painting", text by Michael Wardell, Australia

1985
World Applied Graphics at 10-th Biennale in Brno", text by Irzhi Hlushichka, in Odeon, Prague

Fellowships/Residencies:

2000 Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, Residence Fellowship, Israel Ministry of Culture
1997 KALA Art Institute, Berkeley, CA USA
1993 Franc Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium

Public Collections:

Negev Museum, Israel
Haifa University Museum of Art, Israel
Phoenix Collection, Israel
KALA Art Institute, CA, USA
Frans Masereel Center, Belgium
Africa-Israel Foundation, Israel
Budapest Gallery, Hungary
"Moscow Palette" Association, Moscow, Russia
"M'ARC" Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

Simon Adjiashvili's works can be found in private collections in Australia, Austria, Belgium,

Canada, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Japan, The Netherlands, Russia, Switzerland, UK and USA.