Bugadze Gallery is dedicated to presenting the work and artistic legacy of Gia Bugadze — one of the leading figures of contemporary Georgian art. The gallery focuses on paintings, drawings, graphic works, archival materials, and special projects that reflect the artist’s dynamic visual language and longstanding contribution to the cultural landscape of Georgia and beyond.

 

Alongside exhibitions and art presentations, the gallery engages in research-based and curatorial activities, aiming to create meaningful connections between contemporary artistic practice, cultural memory, and historical context. Through collaborations with institutions, curators, collectors, and art audiences internationally, Bugadze Gallery seeks to contribute to broader conversations around contemporary art and visual culture.

 

The gallery is based in Tbilisi, Georgia, within a unique late 19th-century building of significant architectural and historical importance. Built by the Zubalashvili brothers, the house has been home to many important cultural and historical figures, including the founder of the Georgian avant-garde Irakli Gamrekeli, British scholars and translators Marjorie Wardrop and Oliver Wardrop, historian and literary scholar Pavle Ingorokva, Minister of Justice of the First Republic of Georgia Shalva Alexi-Meskhishvili, and composer Mikael Tariverdiev. At different periods, the building also housed the British and German consulates.

The space currently occupied by the gallery was once the studio of Gia Bugadze himself, who lived and worked here for many years. The gallery’s name reflects this direct connection to the artist and to the cultural history embedded within the building at Pavle Ingorokva 14.