ABOUT
Tina Atami (Tbilisi, Georgia) is a Paris-based multidisciplinary artist working in painting, performance, and installation. Through layering of transparent materials, she becomes an observer of her own decisions—treating the painting process as a reflection of the life cycle. Her performances reflect her views on societal norms and dogmas, resisting behaviors that serve to limit personal freedom.
She studied at the Shota Rustaveli University of Theatre and Film (2008–2012), though her visual and performance practice is largely self-taught and rooted in lived experience. Her work often begins with found surfaces and is layered with transparent materials such as calque or silk. She creates quiet disruptions — gestures or forms that question cultural conditioning and open space for emotional and political contradiction.
In 2016, she was in residence at Art Villa Garikula, where she developed her first large-scale sculptural and performance works. She later worked as a stylist, scenographer, and costume designer for film and editorial projects, before curating and participating in the 2019 group exhibition Alles ist OK in Tbilisi. Her work has been featured in the Oxygen Biennale and in independent exhibitions throughout Georgia.
Since 2023, she has been an artist-in-residence at POUSH (Paris), where she continues to develop performance-based installations. In the same year, a performance advocating for bodily freedom — staged in a Tbilisi cemetery — led to national media backlash. That experience reinforced her commitment to performance as a tool for resistance, intimacy, and reclaiming public space.
EDUCATION
2021–2022 — Filmmaking, Creative Education Studio, Tbilisi
2008–2012 — Bachelor's Degree, Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Film University, Tbilisi
PERFORMANCES
2025 — Unbearable Need of Escapism, Poush, Aubervilliers, France
2024 — The Classroom, Poush, Aubervilliers, France
2024 — I fear, by Ser Serpas, Bourse de Commerce / Pinault Collection, Paris, France
2024 — Battle Between the Folk and the Chopsticks, Poush, Paris, France
2023 — I fear, by Ser Serpas, Bourse de Commerce / Pinault Collection, Paris, France
2023 — Battle Between the Folk and the Chopsticks, Poush, Paris, France
2021 — "Where Do You Swim?", residency in Kachreti, Georgia
2021 — Carrying the Rock, street performance, Tbilisi, Georgia
2018 — Religious March with the Monkey Icon, main avenue of Tbilisi, Georgia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 — "Me Kere Kouari" — group show at W Pantin, Pantin, France
2025 — "Hyper personal" — group installations in the toilets of Paris, France
2024 — "View from stockage" — Poush Parts, France
2023 — "Insomnia" Art Complex, Poush, Paris, France
2021 — "Enjoy the Transcendence" Rai Ksbaria Foundation, Kachreti, Georgia
2019 — "Alles Ist OK" Maudi Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
2019 — "Oxygen" Propaganda Network, Tbilisi, Georgia
2015 — "Fest I Nava 2015" Art Villa Garikula, Garikula, Georgia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 — "Collaboration with Time", Building entrance, Tbilisi, Georgia
2019 — "Temple" installation at an unfinished, abandoned building, Rustavi, Georgia
CURATED EXHIBITIONS
2025 — "Me Kere Kouari" — group show at W Pantin, Pantin, France
2022 — "Collaboration with Time" Building entrance, Tbilisi, Georgia
2019 — "Alles Ist OK" Maudi Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
RESIDENCIES
2023–present — POUSH, Paris, France
2021 — Kachreti, Georgia
2015 — Art Villa Garikula, Garikula, Georgia