STUDY - Vol. 06 - On Thea Djordjadze

Thea Djordjadze is a contemporary German-Georgian artist based in Berlin. She is known for sculpture and installations, but also works in a variety of other media (drawing, painting, printing, performance, video, music).

Thea Djordjadze studied at the Academy of Arts in Tbilisi from 1988–1993. Due to the Georgian Civil War, Djordjadze left the country and became a student at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and left after a year for the Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. In 2000 she graduated as Meisterschüler of Rosemarie Trockel with whom she has since made collaborative works including for the Venice Biennial (2003), Kunsthalle St. Gallen (2006), 11th Lyon Biennial (2007), Sprüth Magers Berlin (2017), and Deichtorhallen Hamburg (2019), among others.