Irina Kurtishvili, the artist and curator, was born in Tbilisi in the former soviet republic of Georgia; she now lives and works in Cologne and Tbilisi. Irina Kurtishvili is behind numerous exhibitions, publications and artistic initiatives in both Germany and Georgia, which focus on architecture, art and film in Georgia. At the hotel studio, the artist prepares for her lecture “Caucasus – a Reference Archive”, on 18th May at the Kunsthalle Zürich.

 In the hotel’s art collection:

Irina Kurtishvili “Le grand rendez-vous (5)”
Collage, 2007

Irina Kurtishvili “Le grand rendez-vous (6)”
Collage, 2007