We are excited to invite you to this year’s Art Warsaw Villa Róż in Poland, taking place May 21–24, 2026 at Villa Róż, Aleja Róż 1, Warsaw. The fair brings together 56 contemporary art galleries in a 19th-century palace, continuing Art Warsaw’s focus on intimate, architecturally distinctive settings and artistic voices from Central and Eastern Europe and beyond. For this edition, we present a three artist room by Erekle Chinchilakashvili, Tibatve, and Gvantsa Jishkariani. Three Georgian artists whose inspiration is often drawn from art history and visual culture.
Drawing from the visual legacy of 17-century Netherlandish painting, particularly the symbolic density and vanitas atmosphere found in the works of Maria van Oosterwijck and Ottmar Elliger - Erekle Chinchilakashvili fragments and reconstructs botanical motifs into a personal, almost cinematic composition. The paintings recall the structure of antique florilegia and botanical illustration books, where flowers were meticulously catalogued and flattened into specimens.
The diptych’s and Triptych's chromatic division becomes central to its emotional/conceptual tension. One part is submerged in amber and sepia warmth, while the other dissolves into deep nocturnal blues and violets, evoking the sensation of altered photographic white balance or digitally color-graded imagery.
Chinchilakashvili translates effects commonly associated with contemporary image editing into an oil paint, allowing color temperature itself to become a narrative device. The work embraces a mediated vision - as though art history, memory, and reproduction have passed through filters, screens, and time. With this interplay of historical citation and chromatic intervention, Chinchilakashvili creates a conversation between Baroque symbolism and contemporary visual culture - a meditation on mortality, reproduction, and the shifting conditions through which images are experienced today.
Self-taught artist Tibatve’s new series, The Geography of Flesh, explores the emotional and symbolic terrains of female experience, tracing the intimate connections between womanhood and the natural world. Working in her signature visual language, one that often evokes the dreamlike atmosphere of Soviet-era Georgian fairytale books, the artist constructs magical, deeply personal narratives infused with recurring symbols and quiet mythology.
Gvantsa Jishkariani is multimedia artist and curator. She is fascinated by Soviet-propagandistic arts and traditional craft techniques. Jishkariani's work investigates imprints left by the past and engages with the images and influences of today and tomorrow. Humour often features in her exploration of deeply personal and socially relevant topics. Born in the same year as Georgia’s independence, she grew up amid chaos and hardship, experiences that have shaped her personal and collective narrative. Her artwork delves into precarious situations and extreme vulnerability while demonstrating remarkable resilience.