Tea Botkoveli

Tea Botkoveli was born in Tbilisi, in 1979-83 she studied at the Iakob Nikoladze Tbilisi Art School.1983-1988 Tea Botkoveli studied at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, where her teachers were prominent artists Gibson Khundadze and Zurab Samkharadze.After graduating from the academy, Tea Botkoveli has been a member of the Georgian Artists’ Union since 1989.Since 1993, while still a student, he has participated in various group exhibitions of artists.1997 Tea Botkovel took part in a symposium of European artists in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania.Tea Botkovel’s personal exhibitions:

• 1995 January – First solo exhibition at Aurora Magazine Gallery in St. Petersburg, Russia;
• 1996 May – Personal exhibition in Tbilisi, in the cultural centre “Business Club”;
• 1997 December – Personal exhibition in Tbilisi, in the cultural centre “Business Club”;
• 2000 May – personal exhibition in Tbilisi, in the gallery “Old Gallery”;
• 2000 October – Personal exhibition in the exhibition hall of the “UN House” in Tbilisi.
• 2001 January – Personal exhibition in the exhibition space of TBC Bank in Tbilisi;
• 2001 December – personal exhibition at the Embassy of Georgia in Paris;
• 2002 Personal exhibition in Berlin, Embassy of Georgia;
• 2003 July – Personal exhibition in Tbilisi, in the gallery “Old Gallery”.

Group exhibitions:

• 1983 November – Tbilisi, Merani Publishing House Exhibition Hall;
• 1989 Spring Exhibition of Artists in Tbilisi, at the State Gallery of Pictures;
• 1990 Autumn Exhibition of Artists in Tbilisi, at the National Gallery of Pictures;
• 1997 Spring Exhibition of Artists in Tbilisi, Georgian National Gallery;
• 1997 August – Artists’ Exhibition in Vilnius, Lithuania;
• 1997 December – Group exhibition of artists. In Shilute, Lithuania;
• 2000 Group exhibition of artists in Tbilisi, in the gallery “Old Gallery”
• 2004 Artists’ Exhibition in Paris, “Caucasus House”;
• 2004 November – Auction at the Noga Hilton Hotel in Geneva, Switzerland.

Tea Botkovel’s works are preserved in private collections in Georgia, Austria, Germany, Russia, Greece, France, USA, Turkey, Russia and other countries.