Mari Kalabegashvili (b. 1999, Tbilisi) is an emerging multimedia visual artist and cultural practitioner based in Georgia. She received her BA degree from the Visual Arts, Architecture, and Design School at the Free University of Tbilisi, and continued to study as a guest student in the class of Prof. Schneider at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in Germany. Having an interdisciplinary background in cultural affairs, Mari’s works take on an organizational role and create a determination to synchronize with the dynamics of the given environment in its context without being distanced from it. With cross-pollination methods of practice and community-oriented projects, Kalabegashvili builds up her works using contradictions as an entry point and poses the question of what happens after “ever after”. Apart from her individual praxis, she is currently involved with the Parallel Class project creating alternative educational initiatives for high school students throughout the country.

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