Magda Guruli

Selected activity and bibliography

Editor of the contemporary art magazine LOOP’A (Tbilisi) and a regional art magazine

CORD (South Caucasus).

Curator of the National Art Centre / Georgia.

A founder of the Foundation: The Centre of Global Coordination for Culture and Art – CGCCA, Tbilisi.

A founder of the Foundation: The Centre for Visual Researches. Tbilisi.

Selected art activity from 2003

2003 – 7+7 More Transparent, joint exhibition with the ‘Wings of Time’, Baku

Azerbaijan. Curator/Georgian side.

2003 – Reportage from the South Caucasus, Goethe Institute, photo exhibition within

the International Forum of Visual Arts, Caravansarai, Tbilisi 2003, curator;

2003 – SOS – Art for Freedom, Internet action dedicated to the Rose Revolution.

2004 – More Transparent – Defundamentalization, video-action supported by the

Goethe Institute, Tbilisi, Georgia. Curator

2004 – METAMORPH, Venice 9-th Architectural Biennale. Co-organizer of the project

Garikula – Center for the Arts presented by Georgia;

2004 – Double Bottom, exhibition project, Goethe Institute, Club 22, Tbilisi, Georgia.Curator.

2004 – Point of Intersection, exhibition projects within the Art Caucasus 2004,

Tbilisi, Georgia. Co-curator.

Life-n-Style, Art Caucasus 2004, Tbilisi, Georgia. Co-curator;

2004 – Wind from the Caucasus, International workshop, Art-villa Garikula, Georgia.

Initiator/Curator

2005 – Presentation of the National art Center – NAC. Coordinator/Curator.

2005 – Art for Freedom, exhibition-action, National art Canter, Tbilisi,

Georgia. Coordinator/Curator;

2005 – Participant from Georgia in the round table conference Neighbors in Dialogue

organized by ‘Nuova Icona’ and Wimbledon School of Art, 51^st Venice Biennale.

2005 – Hope Maker, The Time to Gather Stones, 4-part documentary, research and

screenplay, production of ‘News Corporation. Europe’;

2005 – Beyond Stereotypes, Art Caucasus 2005 – International Actual Art Convention. Co-curator

2005 – Consumption of Justice, workshop and symposium, Dyiarbakir, Turkey, participant from Georgia;

2006 – Atmosphere 41 Degree, exhibition project, National Centre for Contemporary Art, 

Moscow. Curator;

2006 – Sevani Biennale, village Artanish, coordinator/curator of the Georgian participation;

2007 – Atmosphere 41 Degree, City, parallel exhibition of the 10^th International Istanbul Biennale,

Siemens Art Gallert, Istanbul. Curator.

2007 – Interpretation of Dreams, ‘Aluminium’ the 3^rd International Biennale of Contemporary

Art, Baku, Azerbaijan. Curator.

2008 – Journey to Tbilisi, Musee des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, France. Curator

2008 – ARTISTERIUM 2008, International Forum of Contemporary Art, Tbilisi, Georgia. Curator

2009 – Born in Georgia, group exhibition, Cobra Museum Amsterdam, coordinator/Georgian side

Selected bibliography

Magda Guruli, Journey to Tbilisi, Catalogue, 2008, Musee des Beaux Arts De Nantes, France

Magda Guruli, Atmosphere 41 Degree, City, catalogue, 2007, Istanbul, Turkey;

Magda Guruli, Cooperation in Contemporary Arts in the Caucasus, 2007,

publication ‘Emerging Cultural

Continent: Actors and Networks’, Istanbul, Turkey,

Magda Guruli, Tbilisi, publication by Hubert Dechant

“The Road to Isfahan” ,2005/2006, Christoph Merian Verlag, Switzerland

Magda Guruli, Georgia's quest for a place on the contemporary art map,

2005, ‘Venice Agendas IV –

Neighbors in Dialogue’, publication for the conference, 51st Venice Biennale, Italy

Magda Guruli, Per Venice, international contemporary art magazine ‘Loop’A’, Issue 1,

2005, Tbilisi, Georgia