Keti Kapanadze
Multimedia
Biography
Keti Kapanadze was born in Tbilisi in December 1962 during Soviet Regime in Georgia. In 1983-90 she studied at Tbilisi State Academy of Fine Arts and at the same time, she started to produce her first conceptual graphical works. In 1990, she started to create her first conceptual photo series. For this reason, she is the first Georgian female artist, who started working in conceptual photography and also was making her first nickel word objects. Her minimalistic works from the 80's are part of the permanent exhibition of the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the USSR at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, at Rutgers University in the United States. She was also one of the editors of the Georgian art magazine “Signal” which she helped launch in 1998 together with Koka Ramishvili and Niko Lomashvili. In 2000, upon the invitation of Helmut Baumann Stiftung, Keti left her country for Germany, in the framework of three year grant program. Since that time she has lived and worked in Germany, currently in Bonn. In 2001, she was invited as Visiting Professor for the Painting Class at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. In 2003 Kehrer Verlag published her first publication. In 2014, Kettler Verlag published her monograph. Keti Kapanadze’s works are varied from the very beginning and similar to many other contemporary artists, she is working as multimedia artist; practicing of different materials, she is creating mediums such as photography, object, installation, painting, action, performance, video.
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