Danarti

Archive and more

With Contributions by:

Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili

David Brodsky

Angus Leadly-Brown

Andro Eradze

David Kakabadze

Keti Kapanadze

Maia Naveriani

Koka Ramishvili

April 10 – May 5, 2024

E.A. Shared Space is thrilled to host first exhibition of Danarti Zine.

The non-profit series of publications, was originally founded by Elene Abashidze, Ani Chorgolashvili and Natuta Bagrationi in 2011 as part of a project organized by the same group of curators at the CCA Tbilisi. Danarti, which means an additional document first served as an alternative to an exhibition catalogue. Stemming from the traditions of Samizdats – a various self-published zines, magazines and publications of Modernist and early Soviet times, Danarti replicates a form of a newspaper.

Since 2016 Danarti’s editors’ team has been joined by Irine Jorjadze and is being generously supported by Kunsthalle Zurich.

Since its conception, the zine serves as a curatorial platform in the first place. It is a collective curatorial practice, which researches a topic per issue, having three main directions of Art, Architecture and Poetry from Modernist,Soviet and Contemporary times. The series are inter-disciplinary and for an extensive period of time, was the only bilingual publishing on culture and critical thought from Georgia.While the limited number of issues can be found at a various book-shops and libraries of Georgia and Europe, all of the issues are distributed online for free.

The group exhibition ‘Danarti – Archive and more’ introduces the full archive of the series, alongside to a selection of works by Georgian artists published through-out the years.