thea djordjadze: edi hila | thea djordjadze

Edi Hila / Thea Djordjadze is a trans-generational double exhibition of two major artists from Albania and Georgia, both countries with a communist past linked to Soviet Union, and to Eastern Europe and Western Asia history.

In her experimental artistic practice, Thea Djordjadze proceeds by means of an informed intuition. Djordjadze’s sculptures and environments emerge from the artist’s acute engagement with the active and latent energies of a space, using a large range of materials in assemblages of singular poetry. Her works are created in a process that responds to the particular site, sometimes reflexively, sometimes as an immediate reaction to the given conditions. Often, images, forms and ideas from literature, design, painting, architecture – particularly, but not limited to, Modernism – flow into Djordjadze’s work, leaving an imprint like an echo of the artist’s encounter with them.

Thea Djordjadze will create a new body of works for the Hamburger Kunsthalle, offering viewers a spatial, physical and psychological experience. Doing so, the artist will challenge not only the formal and material qualities of the building, but also its situated context.