Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

1971 Born in Tbilisi, Georgia

education

2000 Meisterschülerin of Professor Rosemarie Trockel

1998–01 Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Professor Rosemarie Trockel

1995–97 Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Professor Dieter Krieg

1995       MFA, Academia of Arts, Tbilisi

1994–01 Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

1993–94 Gerrit Rietveld Akademie, Amsterdam

1988–93 Academia of Arts, Tbilisi

hobbypopmuseum

1999–03 Member of artist group hobbypopMUSEUM, artist-run space in Düsseldorf,

               exhibitions and projects in different locations, curating, movies, several publications

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2015 Residency at South London Gallery, London, GB

2014 Villa Aurora, Los Angeles, USA

2009 Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße in Bremen

2008 Catalogue Grant from Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung

2008 Grant, Kunststiftung NRW

2007 Studio Voltaire, Artist residency, London

2006 Sommerakademie, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern

2004 Stipendium für Bildende Künstlerinnen mit Kindern, NRW

2004–08 Studio Grant, Imhoff–Stiftung and Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne

2001 Travel Grant, SK-Stiftung Düsseldorf

2001 Peter Mertes Stipendium, Bonn