Yearly Archives: 2011

An international conference dedicated to the 70^th anniversary of founding the George Chubinashvili Institute of Georgian Art History was held in the conference hall of the Goethe Institute on 27-28, October, 2011. The theme of the conference was: “Memory, Art and History of Art in the Search of Identity”.

The author of the idea of the conference: Nana Kipiani; the author and manager of the project: Mzia Chikhradze; the Organizing council: Mariam Didebulidze, Mariam Gachechiladze, Marianna Okley, Tamar Belashvili, Levan Zedginidze; the editorial council: Dimitri Tumanishvili, Marina Medzmariashvili, Elene Tumanishvili, Marine Kenia.

The conference was held in the frames of Modern and Contemporary Art Department of the G.Chubinashvili Centre with the support of the George Chubinashvili National Research Centre for Georgian Art History and Heritage Preservation, the Ministry of Culture and Monument Protection, the USA Embassy and the Goethe Institute in Georgia.

Thirty-two scientists participated in the conference.

Along with Georgian scientists American and Russian researchers took part in the conference as well: Mary Key Jude – an independent expert in modern and contemporary architecture, the Association of Architectural and Cultural Heritage Conservation, USA; Tallin Gregory – Brand University, USA; Peter Rolberg – the George Washington University, USA; Svetlana Khromchenko – the Moscow Oriental Museum, Russia; Nina Getashvili – Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Russia.

A full version see www.georgianart.ge

International conference “Figure and Ornament: Aesthetics, Art and Architecture in the Caucasus Region, from 400 to 1650″ was held in the Goethe Institute in Tbilisi from September 29 to October 1, 2011. It was organized by the George Chubinashvili National Research Centre, the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut, and the University of Basel, with the support of the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation and the Freiwillige Akademische Gesellschaft, Basel.

The conference was dedicated to the various relationships between figure and ornament in the arts of the Caucasus from the Early Christianity until the mid-seventeenth century, in particular in Georgia, Armenia, Albania/Azerbaijan, Eastern Anatolia and Northern Iran.

Ten scholars from Georgia and twenty scholars from various European countries participated in the conference.

FIRST JAPANESE-GEORGIAN WORKSHOP OF ARCHITECTURAL AND URBAN HISTORIANS

Within the framework of the joint research project, the Tokyo Institute of Technology and the George Chubinashvili National Research Centre organized the first First Japanese-Georgian Workshop of Architectural and Urban Historians. The workshop was held on September 21, 2011 in the Japanese Centre Lecture Room at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Ilia State University.
The workshop was opened by Mariam Didebulidze, the director of the George Chubinashvili National Research Centre, Giorgi Sanikidze, the director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, and Shiro Sasano, the professor of the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Two researchers from the George Chubinashvili National Research Centre, Natia Natsvlishvili and Irina Mania presented their papers at the workshop.
The second workshop will be held in 2013 in Tokyo.

Japanese-Georgian Workshop