Tamuna Sirbiladze
Painting
Biography
12. 2. 1971, Tbilisi – 2. 3. 2016, Vienna
Tamuna was born in Tbilisi, Georgia in 1971. From 1989 to 1994 she studied at Tbilisi state academy of art in Tbilisi, where she gained a degree. After moving to Vienna in 1997, she studied at the academy of fine arts (until 2003), 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.
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 installations, videos, site-specific projects and an enormous amount of paintings, which she exhibited in various exhibitions in Galleries and Museums all over Europe, like 2001 Plakatentwürfe with Gisela Capitain in Cologne (cooperating with Franz West), 2007 in concurrence with ColletPark Gallery in Paris, 2008 Painting and Elements with Jonathan Viner in London, 2010 Laszive Lockungen with Charim Unger in Berlin. 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 group show No Man’s Land of the Rubell family collection in Miami, but also had a lot of critics acclaim for two solo-shows in New York: Take it Easy in Bill Powers’ Half Gallery and „Good Enough“ is Never Good Enough in James Fuentes’ Gallery. Her show at Almine Rech gallery in Brussels opened shortly before her death.
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