About

On 18.07.1953 he was born in Tbilissi.

Resident in Tbilissi, Krtsanissistraße Nr. 5a

He finished Tbilisi No. 65th middle school in 1970.

1971-1976 he studied in the Tbilisi State Art Academy.

From 1977 he participated in the exhibitions in Tbilisi, Moscow, Riga.

1979 _ he participates in the International Ceramic Symposium (Jurmala, Latvia).

1980 _ Laureate of Valori’s International Exhibition (France).

In 1982 he participates in the International Ceramic Symposium (Jurmala, Latvia).

1983 _ Exhibition at the Center for Contemporary Artists (Moscow).

1984 _ Exhibition in Tbilisi.

1985 _ International Symposium in Bakuriani.

1987 _ Individual exhibition in Balingen (Germany).

1988 _ individual exhibition in Boblingen (Germany).

1989 _ Individual exhibition in Albstadt (Germany).

1990 _ Individual exhibition in Zindelfingen, Ulm (Germany).

1991 _ exhibitions in Rottweil (Germany),

Gallery of the Center of Mona Bismarck (France),

Kan-Sur-Mair Artists, in Castle (France).

1992 _ Exhibition in Gallery of Rozvita Benkert in Zurich (Switzerland),

Exhibition in Zigmaringen (Germany).

1993 _ Exhibition in Brisago (Switzerland),

in Friedrichshafen (Germany).

1994 _ Exhibition “Art Salone del Circolo Savlagau” in Palermo (Sicily, Italy).

1995 _ Exhibition in the exhibition hall of Konstanz University (Germany).

1996 _ Exhibition in Istanbul (Turkey),

Exhibition “Alte-Kanclay Gallery” (Germany).

1997 _ Exhibition in Copenhagen (Denmark),

Exhibition in “Between Mose”, Rockland, (USA),

Exhibition in “Salon Iamamoto” Soho, New York (USA).

1998 _ Exhibition in Haaga “Tesandra Gallery” (Netherlands).

2000 _ Exhibition in Frankfurt (Germany).

2001 _ Exhibition “Galleria d Arte” Rome (Italy).

Monumental Vitrages:

2002 _ Batumi, National Bank, Georgia

2004 _ Kutaissi, National Bank, Georgia

2007 _ Cultural Center of El-Kuwait (Kuwait).

2013 _ Scientific Research Center of Clinical Medicine (F. Todua Klinikum), Tbilisi, Georgia

From 2002 until today, the director of the diploma thesis is the chair of ceramics at the Tbilisi State Art Academy.

Today, he continues his creative activities.

Alexander Kakabadze, born in 1953, is a disciple of Revas Jaschvili and Alde Kakabadze. His years of study fell into the heyday of traditional black pottery. His artistic development is influenced by Alde Kakabadze. After completing his studies he worked in graphics, painting and sculpture, and he accompanied archaeological excavations for eleven years. His workshop on the nineteenth floor of a skyscraper enabled him to survive the crisis situation in the early 1990s until today. Since 1988 he regularly travels to exhibitions in Germany. He packs his car full, stacks the filled gasoline cans on the roof of his Ladas and drives through the Ukraine, Hungary and the Czech Republic – a route that leads partly through a 600 km long deserted steppe. In response to my question about the national identity of ceramics, he says that they allow themselves to be expressed through the material. At present, he is making attempts to obtain an unbreakable ceramic, as are the accents of his work in experiments. He tries combinations of materials of ceramics with glass and metal, among other things from the point of view of the sound and as a painting ground. In 1992, I noticed a number of special vases in the Berlin Gallery of the House of Russian Art: in a clear, slender form internalized glass inlays, which looked like decorative little windows. The glass and the dullness of the sound gave a very peculiar sound. I asked enthusiastically for the artist, which was answered rudely, that was a Georgian ceramicist somewhere out of the mountains, where you can not get there, and also there was just war.