“Wild Grass”, Oil on canvas, 100x140cm, 2024 by Gvantsa Agrba
Gvantsa Agrba (born in 2001) is a queer artist from Sokhumi/Gali, Abkhazia, now based in Tbilisi, Georgia. She graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, faculty of fine arts in 2023. Her artistic practice spans across painting, scenography, costume design, and visual arts, serving as a medium to explore identity, vulnerability, and personal mythology. Her recent exhibition “A Field of Sweet Nettles” (2024) was presented at Museum of Literature, Tbilisi, Georgia. She has done artist residencies in Troškūnai, Lithuania and at Tolon Museum of Modern Art in Kuntuu, Kyrgyzstan and her works have been exhibited in Germany, Lithuania and Georgia. Gvantsa Agrba explains, ‘I explore the unstable thresholds between sleep, dreaming, and altered mental states. My practice investigates the liminal zones where physical reality dissolves, and the mind constructs interior landscapes shaped by emotion, memory, and the subconscious.’
Read more about Gvantsa Agrba’s creative practice and challenges as a queer artist in Georgia: Gvantsa Agrba – Artist Statement.
