Mr. Vakhtang Wato Tsereteli
Director of Vidyashilp University's Center for Art,
Design and Innovation
Founder of the Center of Contemporary Art Tbilisi, Georgia
M.A. (Royal Academy of Fine Art Antwerp) Audio Visual Art/Photography
Wato Tsereteli is an artist, curator and author who has led startup creative institutions and platforms that break ground in the Georgian contemporary art scene. He was an Associate Professor of Media Arts at Tbilisi Art Academy from 2005 to 2014. In 2010 he initiated the Center of Contemporary Art in Tbilisi that has become an international educative and cultural platform with a nine-month informal master program on Creative Mediation. The study program helps students develop social innovation projects by directing artistic thinking from the studio to social reality and has received international recognition through important exhibitions and workshops. Since 2012, Wato is the initiator, co-curator and artistic director of Tbilisi Triennial. He has participated in art exhibitions and written and edited publications. In 2000, he initiated Media Art Farm (MAF), the first Georgian platform for education, research and the development of contemporary art. Georgia’s first four-year accredited bachelor program, the Institute of Photography and New Media, was a part of MAF. Wato successfully graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Antwerp in 1998.
Professional Education
| M.A. (Royal Academy of Fine Art Antwerp) Audio Visual Art/Photography | 1998 |
Teaching Courses
- Workshops for Creative Mediation
- Art as Practice
- Art Meets Craft
Research Interests
- Creativity
- Demystified Spirituality
- Nature and Ecology
Selected Publications
- Re:Museum is a publication compiled by Wato Tsereteli, which contains a series of conversations around 'eventual' museum or museum as 'potentiality'. Interviews were conducted between May 2013 and February 2014
- Tbilisi Archive of Transition, Niggli Edition Switzerland, Co Editor. For this book contributors from different fields were invited to form a collection of unpublished material that together provides a snapshot of a city in an age of global transition. Urban planners, architects, and activists recount what the changes mean to them and to life in this remarkable and fascinating place.
Research Projects Undertaken
- 2016 – 2024 Research and Publication on cultural institutions in regions of Georgia and Caucasus region.
Mr. Vakhtang Wato Tsereteli
Director of Vidyashilp University's Center for Art,
Design and Innovation
Founder of the Center of Contemporary Art Tbilisi, Georgia
M.A. (Royal Academy of Fine Art Antwerp) Audio Visual Art/Photography
Wato Tsereteli is an artist, curator and author who has led startup creative institutions and platforms that break ground in the Georgian contemporary art scene. He was an Associate Professor of Media Arts at Tbilisi Art Academy from 2005 to 2014. In 2010 he initiated the Center of Contemporary Art in Tbilisi that has become an international educative and cultural platform with a nine-month informal master program on Creative Mediation. The study program helps students develop social innovation projects by directing artistic thinking from the studio to social reality and has received international recognition through important exhibitions and workshops. Since 2012, Wato is the initiator, co-curator and artistic director of Tbilisi Triennial. He has participated in art exhibitions and written and edited publications. In 2000, he initiated Media Art Farm (MAF), the first Georgian platform for education, research and the development of contemporary art. Georgia’s first four-year accredited bachelor program, the Institute of Photography and New Media, was a part of MAF. Wato successfully graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Antwerp in 1998.
| M.A. (Royal Academy of Fine Art Antwerp) Audio Visual Art/Photography | 1998 |
- Workshops for Creative Mediation
- Art as Practice
- Art Meets Craft
- Creativity
- Demystified Spirituality
- Nature and Ecology
- Re:Museum is a publication compiled by Wato Tsereteli, which contains a series of conversations around 'eventual' museum or museum as 'potentiality'. Interviews were conducted between May 2013 and February 2014
- Tbilisi Archive of Transition, Niggli Edition Switzerland, Co Editor. For this book contributors from different fields were invited to form a collection of unpublished material that together provides a snapshot of a city in an age of global transition. Urban planners, architects, and activists recount what the changes mean to them and to life in this remarkable and fascinating place.
- 2016 – 2024 Research and Publication on cultural institutions in regions of Georgia and Caucasus region.
