For several years, the Georgian artist Thea Djordjadze has distinguished herself with her room installations, prompting great international interest. The Kunst Museum Winterthur now presents her first institutional exhibition in Switzerland.
At first glance, Thea Djordjadze’s sculptural pieces are not always readily identifiable as such; she often creates extensive installations that she develops on site in response to the particular space or the context of an institution. Sometimes, her artistic practice intervenes deeply in institutional structures and could be understood as a process of constant contextualization, reconfiguration and rearranging existing and new objects, in a sense like a permanent temporary solution. This provisional nature is a property also exhibited by her sculptures, which are made of «poor» materials foreign to art. Often, her pieces seem to be fragile and transient, created for the moment, with a certain openness to which she does not lend valid form until the exhibition itself – at least for some time. For her 2017 solo show at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich she created oversized vitrines that structured the exhibition space and in which she presented a selection of works on paper from the Graphische Sammlung München. At the same time, she designed comfortable seating areas for the visitors.
