Roland Shalamberidze
Roland Shalamberidze (born 11 January 1958) is a contemporary Russian artist of Georgian origin. Biography. Roland Shalamberidze was born in 1958 in Kutaisi (GSSR). From 1988 he has lived and worked in St. Petersburg. He works as an abstractionist, conceptualist, a master of performance, installations, sound art and video art. His creative path began with successful experiments in the field of figurative painting, but ultimately devoted himself to abstract expressionism and conceptualism. From 1996 to 2001 he lived in Germany, then New York, works a lot, is influenced by a variety of artistic ideas. In 2000, the artist  returned to St. Petersburg, he practises mixing of techniques and materials, combining painting, photography, collage, assembling, not stopping at what has been achieved, because he is convinced that "Constancy is death for the artist". Currently he works in the studio of the art center "Pushkinskaya 10", as well as in his studio in Tbilisi.