Biography

Thea Djordjadze
Born in 1971, Tbilisi, Georgia
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
1998–01

Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (with Professor Rosemarie Trockel)

1995–97

Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (with Professor Dieter Krieg)

1995

MFA, Academia of Arts, Tbilisi

1994–01

Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

1993–94

Gerrit Rietveld Akademie, Amsterdam

1988–93

Academia of Arts, Tbilisi

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024

ROSEMARIE TROCKEL / THEA DJORDJADZE, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus,
Munichframing yours making mine, Sprüth Magers, London2023

the ceiling of a courtyard, WIELS, Brussels

2022

Thea Djordjadze, The Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne Métropole,Saint-Étienne

2021

Thea Djordjadze: all building as making, Gropius Bau, Berlin

2020

Thea Djordjadze, Kaufmann Repetto, New York2019

All, Take Ninagawa, Tokyo
Thea Djordjadze: one is so public, and the other, so private., Kunst Museum Winterthur,
Switzerland
if I were an early person, Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles, California

2018

o potio n., Portikus, Frankfurt am Main

2017

Thea Djordjadze Inventur SGSM, Pinakothek der Moderne,
Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, München
Thea Djordjadze/Rosemarie Trockel. Un soir, j'ai assis la beauté sur mes genoux.
And I found her bitter. And I hurt her., Sprüth Magers, Berlin

2016

To be in an upright position on the feet (studio visit), Secession, Vienna
listening the pressure that surrounds you, Sprüth Magers, Berlin
Space Under, MoMa PS1, New York
TeleGen. Kunst und Fernsehen, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz

2015

Ma Sa i a ly e a se - de, South London Gallery, London
Thea Djordjadze, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts

2014

A guide on wrong path, Meyer Kainer Gallery, Vienna

2013

Oxymoron grey, Kaufmann Repetto, Milan
Thea Djordjadze, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado

our full, Mudam, Luxembourg; Kunstverein Lingen, Germany; Malmö Konsthall,Malmö- 2012
november, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
2012

Spoons are different, Sprüth Magers, London
Let me disclose the gifts reserved for age, Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo

2011

Lost Promise in a Room, Common Guild, Glasgow
Thea Djordjadze: His vanity requires no response, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis,
MissouriCasualties, Meyer Kainer, Vienna
A quiet Speech in wide circulation, Kiosk Gallery, Ghent

2010

Boat, Now, Castillo/Corrales, Paris
Die 7 Lärmlampen, Dommuseum Salzburg, Salzburg
Capital Letter, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw

2009

Explain Away, ე.ი., Sprüth Magers, Berlin
Occasional Exercise, Galerie Micky Schubert, Berlin
endless enclosure, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel2008

Thea Djordjadze, Sprüth Magers, Cologne
Thea Djordjadze, Kunstverein Nürnberg, Nuremberg

2007

Thea Djordjadze/Rosemarie Trockel. Un soir, j'ai assis la beauté sur mes genoux.
And I found her, Sprüth Magers, London
Possibility, Nansen, Studio Voltaire, London
History of an encounter, Galerie Micky Schubert, Berlin

Selected Group Exhibitions
2023

Home Is Where You’re Happy, Haus Mödrath - Räume für Kunst, Kerpen
Niko Pirosmani, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel
Mondi Possibili, Sprüth Magers, Seoul
Ecstatic, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Ecstatic: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, Hammer Museum,
Los Angeles15, Take Ninagawa, Tokyo2020

My Body Holds Its Shape, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong
Sprüth Magers, London

2019

Grüße aus Georgien, Kunstpunkt Berlin, Berlin
Plural feels, Angela Mewes, Berlin

2018

Hyper! A Journey into Art and Music, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
I do speak Landscape, Braunsfelder Family Collection, Cologne

2017

Pompei@Madre. Materia Archeologica, MADRE - Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina,Naples
Perpetual Construction: A Dialogue with the House of Jean Prouvé III, Fondation CAB, Brussels
Jumping out off an age we found uninhabitable, Triennale di Milano, Milan
A Birthday Present as a Watch, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris

Mentales Gelb. Sonnenhöchststand, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn;
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, München
2016

Flatland/narratives abstractions #1, MRAC Sérignan, FranceWer nicht denken will, fliegt raus - Handlungsanweisungen nach Beuys, Kurhaus Kleve,
Germany
NO MAN'S LAND: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection,
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.; Rubell Family Collection,
Miami, Florida- 2015
Time and Details Artists Craftmen Carlo Scarpa, Ca’Foscari University of Venice, Venice
How to charm a woman, Qbox, Athens

2015Love or the lack of it, Travesía Cuatro, MadridBricologie. La souris et le perroquet., Villa Arson, Nice
La bellezza straordinaria delle cose ordinare, Studio Museo Castiglioni, Milan
Adventures of the Black Square; Abstract Art and Society 1915-2015,
Whitechapel Gallery, London
56th Venice Biennale: All the World's Futures, Arsenale, VeniceÄrger im Paradies, Bundeskunsthalle, BonnVibrant Matter, Kiosk Gallery, Ghent

2014

Trains, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Muslim Mulliqi Prize Exhibition 2014, National Gallery of Kosovo, Prishtina
The Brancusi Effect - the Archival Impulse, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Quiz, Poirel Gallery, Nancy
The Sky is Blue in Some Other Way, Elba Benitez Gallery, Madrid
Post/Postminimal, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland
The Empty Pedestal, Museo Civico Archeologico, Bologna

2013

Mind is outer space, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York12. Fellbacher Triennale: Utopie beginnt im Kleinen, Triennale Fellbach, Germany
55th Venice Biennale, Georgian Pavilion, Arsenale, Venice
M Sélection: La collection du Musée Migros d’art contemporain, Musée Rath, Geneva
six memos for the next, Magazin 4 - Bregenzer Kunstverein, Austria
Words of Love and Life, Galerie Micky Schubert, Berlin
Nouvelles Impressions de Raymond Roussel, Palais de Tokyo, ParisSuperusurpedsupper, Nomas Foundation, Rome
Collection on Display: Heidi Bucher, Thea Djordjadze, Berta Fischer, Loredana Sperini,
Katja Strunz, Migros Museum for Gegenwartskunst, Zürich

2012

Olinka, or Where Movement is Created, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City
Organic, Centre d'art contemporain, Geneva
The castle in the air. Séance of Imagination, ZAMEK Centre of Culture, Poznan
Lieber Aby Warburg, was tun mit Bildern, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, GermanyThe future that Was, Smartprojectspace, Amsterdam
In the Holocene, MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology/List visual arts center,Cambridge, MassachusettsUne exposition de cinq oeuvres, FRAC Fonds régional d'art contemporain, DijondOCUMENTA (13), Karlsaue Park, Kassel, Germany
Zauberspiegel: Die Sammlung nach 1945, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen
Le monde comme volonté et comme papier peint, Le Consortium, Dijon
Face it! Spiritmuseum, Stockholm
Sculptural Matter, Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Dla was/For you, Museum Sztuki, Łódź, PolandPhases, Wallspace & Kelly Taxter, New York
Nowa Rzezba?, Zacheta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, Warsaw
2011

Beholder, Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
Pour un art pauvre, Carré d’Art, Musée d’Art Contemporain, NîmesJahresgaben 2011/2012, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg
Arte Essenziale, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main
Frauenzimmer, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Melanchotopia, Witte de With, Rotterdam
To See the Dimensions. Artists from Georgia, Lunds Konsthal, Lund, Sweden
The Art of Narration Changes with Time, Sprüth Magers, BerlinTime Again, SculptureCenter, New York
The Magic of Clay - Ceramics in Contemporary Art, GT Holtegaard, Holte, Denmark
Essential Art, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, ItalyImago, Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst / Museum for Contemporary Art, Leipzig
Winter in America, Tanja Pol Galerie, Munich

2010

How Soon Now, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida
Aporien der Liebe, BQ Berlin, Berlin
Mental Archeology, Centre d’art contemporain d’Ivry - Le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine;
Kunstverein Nürnberg, Nuremberg
5x5 Castelló 10, Espai d'art contemporani de Castello (EACC), Castelló de la Plana, Spain
Fokus 2: Becoming Visible, Sammlung Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst,Aachen, Germany
The New Décor, Hayward Gallery, London
A thing is a thing in a whole which it's not, Temporary Gallery, Cologne
The Promises of the Past, Centre Pompidou, ParisWoodman, woodman, spare that tree, Galerie Micky Schubert, Berlin
Aspekte des Sammelns, Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg, Austria
Votive, CCA Glasgow, Glasgow
The Perpetual Dialogue, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York2009

Remote Memories, KAI 10 | Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf
Jahresgaben 2008/2009, Kunstverein Nürnberg, Nuremberg

2008

Art TLV 08, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
BB5 - 5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, Neue National Galerie, Berlin
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Centre, London

2007

9th Lyon Biennial: The 00s - The History of a Decade That Has Not Yet Been Named,Contemporary Art Museum, Lyon
2006

Daniel Baumann: Let's stay alive till Monday, Children National Gallery, Tbilisi
Modus: Automne Frottée, Kunsthalle, St. Gallen, Switzerland
The New Vernacular: Contemporary art meets popular culture, Zentrum Paul Klee, BernGregor Schneider: Totalschaden, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn

2005

Play, Düsseldorf Stadtmuseum, Düsseldorf

2004

Für die Konstruktion des Unmöglichen, European Kunsthalle, Cologne

2003

50th Venice Biennale: Dreams and Conflicts - The Viewer's Dictatorship, Arsenale, VeniceAwards, Grants & Residencies
2018

Dr. Marschner-Ausstellungspreis (for the exhibition 'o potio n.’ at Portikus, Frankfurt)

2015

Residency at South London Gallery, London

2014

Villa Aurora, Los Angeles, California

2009

Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße, Bremen

2008

Catalogue Grant from Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung, Berlin

2008

Grant, Kunststiftung NRW, Düsseldorf

2007

Studio Voltaire, Artist residency, London

2006

Sommerakademie, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern

2004

Stipendium für Bildende Künstlerinnen mit Kindern

2004–08 Studio Grant, Imhoff–Stiftung and Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
2001

Travel Grant, SK-Stiftung Düsseldorf

2001Peter Mertes Stipendium, Bonn

Selected Public Collections
Arten Foundation, Dusseldorf
Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado
Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
Boros Collection, Berlin
CNAP Centre national des arts plastiques, ParisEssl Collection, Klosterneuburg
FNAC Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, ParisFRAC Bourgogne, Dijon
FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou
KiCo Collection, Munich/BonnKunst Museum Winterthur, Winterthur
Lenbachhaus, Munich
MAMC+ Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Staint-Etienne
Migros Museum, Zurich
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Rubell Museum, Miami, Florida
The Museum of Modern Art, New York