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Ketevan Varshanidze
oil on canvas
180 x 140 cm
70-7/8 × 55-1/8 in
from the series "Places"
oil on canvas
75 × 90 cm
29-1/2 × 35-1/2 in
from the series "Places"
oil on canvas
40 × 50 cm 15-3/4 × 19-3/4 in
Born in 1995 in Batumi, Georgia, Ketevan Varshanidze is a painter whose practice unfolds between the real and the imagined, drawing from memory, place, and quiet observation.
She graduated from the Apollon Kutateladze Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 2017, specializing in painting. While oil painting remains her primary medium, Varshanidze also experiments with alternative materials, allowing her visual language to remain open and responsive.
Her work often centers on spaces that feel partially inhabited or overlooked—places that register through emptiness, silence, and atmosphere. These environments, frequently inspired by her coastal hometown of Batumi, carry a sense of solitude and introspection, and at times include subtle elements of self-portraiture.
Varshanidze’s compositions are marked by concise storytelling and a restrained color palette. Planar structures, angular forms, and carefully placed shadows give rhythm and balance to her scenes, while touches of mysticism and surrealism introduce a quiet tension between familiarity and distance.
Through this interplay of memory and imagination, her paintings evoke landscapes that feel both observed and internalized. Varshanidze continues to work actively, developing a practice shaped by place, mood, and the poetic potential of understated form.
Notable Group Exhibitions
2025 - Edition 1: Shared Distance, Identica, Tbilisi, Georgia
2025 - Reaction, Art Gallery Novo, Tbilisi, Georgia
2024 - Chronicles of Summer, Art Gallery Novo, Tbilisi, Georgia
2024 - Tbilisi Art Fair, Dissolution Gallery
2022 - Unknown Spaces, Dissolution Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia