Vajiko Chachkhiani

Vajiko Chachkhiani is a Georgian artist whose work mostly involves film, sculpture, photography and visual installations. Currently he lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Tbilisi, Georgia. Chachkhiani's work has been shown at the Venice Biennale.

Early life Vajiko Chachkhiani was born in Tbilisi, Georgia. He studied Mathematics and Informatics at the Georgian Technical University, Tbilisi, before turning to Fine Arts, which he studied at Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany and Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Career At the Venice Biennale in 2017, he showcased a Georgian log cabin, that he received from the mining town of Chiatura.

At the Bonn Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany (also known as the Bundeskunsthalle) in 2018, Chachkhiani showed the disturbing story of a family in the short-film "Heavy Metal Honey". The film starts with a quiet family meeting and turns unreal when the mother starts shooting the family members. In the ending, everyone is sitting unharmed at the table.

Solo exhibitions 2014 – Both, , Siegen, Germany 2017 – Living Dog Among Dead Lions, Georgian Pavillon, 57th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy 2018 – Winter Which Was Not There, Turku Art Museum, Finland 2018 – Heavy Metal Honey, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn 2018 – Flies bite, Its going to rain, Yarat Contemporary Art Space, Baku, Azerbaijan 2019 – Film, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany 2022 - The New Year, Pori Art Museum, Finland

Collections , Clermont-Ferrand, France Han Nefkens Foundation, Barcelona, Spain , Siegen, Germany

Awards 2013 – DAAD-award, Bonn, Germany 2014 – 7th Rubens Promotional Award, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany 2015 – Arbeitsstipendium, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn, Germany 2017 – Future Generation Art Prize 2017, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine 2019 – One of 4 recipients of a Villa Aurora fellowship for visual arts, Los Angeles, USA