Artist Statement/ Biography

With painting as her main medium Rusudan Melikishvili examines and explores themes and relations between subjects such as gender, body and femininity. Her works are based on some of humankind’s long lasting existential and psychological questions about birth, life, sexuality and mortality. Rusudan’s convictions are strong, whilst her painting is receptive to new impressions. The momentum is always there, there is no fixed formula for her. Rusudan's brush strokes buzz with energy and a narrative strength, wherein some things can be decoded, though much remains unknown. Body and soul, we are thrown into her artistic universe.

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Rusudan Melikishvili (1982) lives and works in New york and Copenhagen, Denmark. Rusudan graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2010. The artist has exhibited widely internationally in both US and Europe, most recently at The Lviv National Art Gallery and the Hungarian National Museum, among others.