KERA Gallery is a contemporary art space founded by Ilana Abigail Slutsky in 2022, based in Tbilisi, Georgia.

The gallery is dedicated to representing emerging and established artists, both local and international, with a strong focus on curatorial experimentation, artistic collaboration, and cross-cultural dialogue. Alongside its exhibition program, KERA also runs an artist residency in the hills surrounding the Georgian capital, offering represented and guest artists the opportunity to engage with the region’s rich artistic, scientific, and cultural traditions. The core mission of KERA is to bring international attention to Georgia’s contemporary art scene and to support the global visibility of Georgian artists and cultural narratives.

Recent Exhibitions & Projects:

— Geography of Memory

A deeply personal solo exhibition by Tedo Rekhviashvili, presented in Tbilisi in 2025, explored the fragmented relationship between memory and place. Through large-scale paintings, printmaking, and site-specific works, the artist reflected on the post-war trauma inherited from his displaced Abkhazian family, layering historic imagery and abstract gestures into a poetic reconstruction of identity.

— MEGA Art Fair 2025: Encoded Emotions – The Future of Form

For its international art fair debut, KERA presented an ambitious group show featuring Tedo Rekhviashvili, Mako Lomadze, and Lina Condes in Milan. The exhibition explored how artists today reshape form to communicate emotion, vulnerability, and resistance through painting, sculpture, and digital aesthetics. This project affirmed KERA’s role in positioning Georgian contemporary art within a global context.

— INSTITUTION by Galib Gassanoff

Presented at TAF 2024, this solo exhibition marked a new chapter in the career of fashion designer and multidisciplinary artist Galib Gassanoff. INSTITUTION merges fashion, heritage, and ethics, reviving endangered Azerbaijani hand-weaving techniques while involving local women artisans. Each piece, made from luxury fabric leftovers, reflected a deeply personal aesthetic and cultural narrative.

— Memory, Power, and Temptations

Tedo Rekhviashvili’s first solo exhibition after returning from New York showcased multimedia works created over a two-year period. The exhibition featured a large-scale installation of obsolete objects, a reinterpretation of Tbilisi’s iconic Iveria Hotel, and meditations on memory, societal pressure, and transformation. The Georgian Museum of Fine Arts acquired the full exhibition for its permanent collection.

— Ink Fusion

Hosted by the Georgian Museum of Fine Arts, this group exhibition explored the evolving language of printmaking in Georgia, highlighting the dialogue between traditional techniques and contemporary practices. Participating artists included Leila Grigolia, Luka Gugushvili, Nino Injia, Tedo Rekhviashvili, Tornike Chapodze, and Irakli Toklikishvili.

— TAF 2022: Tedo Rekhviashvili × Edoardo Dionea Cicconi

This collaborative installation, presented at Tbilisi Art Fair, blended personal narratives and symbolic imagery to explore the contrasts and intersections of Georgian and Italian cultural experience, filtered through surrealistic interpretation.

— Group Show in Venice (2022)

Organized to coincide with the opening of the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, this group show featured Tedo Rekhviashvili, Viktor Mattsson, Alexei Alexander Izmaylov, and Edoardo Dionea Cicconi. The exhibition created a conversation across borders, bridging artists from Georgia, Italy, and Sweden.

KERA continues to support bold, poetic, and critical artistic voices — creating a platform for new forms, new stories, and shared futures.