Artist and Epoch - Georgian National Museum Presents Exhibition

 

Shalom Koboshvili (1876-1941) is the first Jewish painter in Georgia. His work is related to the Jewish Historic-Ethnographic Museum, where he worked as a watchman in the last years of his life. Koboshvili started painting at the Jewish Museum at the age of 61, and in the last three years, before his death, he created about 60 works depicting the ritual scenes, dancing, costumes, handicrafts, and entire Jewish life of Akhaltsikhe at the end of the 19th century.

 

The exhibition presents the epoch reflecting the years of the artist's life (1876-1941) with up to 150 exhibits. Apart from Shalom Koboshvili’s artworks, the exhibition features thematic paintings and graphic works by David Gvelesiani; the diverse collection of the Georgian National Museum ⎼ 19th century and early 20th-century Jewish costumes, textiles, religious, ritual, or everyday items; photographs preserved in the photo archives of David Baazov Museum of Jewish History and Georgian-Jewish Relations; Dimitri Ermakov’s photo archives; documentary and archival materials found in the National Archives of Georgia and the National Library.

 

The exhibition is enriched with the multimedia components – animation created in collaboration with the Audio-Visual Museum ‘Holoseum’ and a short documentary “The Guardian of Memories” created for media platform Chai Khana, as part of the project “The legacy of Georgia’s once-vibrant Jewish communities” supported by the Embassy of Israel in Georgia.

The exhibition is supported by the Embassy of Israel in Georgia.

 

The exhibition opens on December 22, 2021, and will continue till January 16, 2022.
Address: Simon Janashia Museum of Georgia, 3, Shota Rustaveli Avenue, Tbilisi, Georgia