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An invitation to experience a series of natural sonic events at Lüneburg’s Kalkberg during the night. Visitors are encouraged to listen to the croaking frogs in their natural habitat by the pond. This immersive experience is available only in May and June, offering a unique opportunity to connect with nature. Central to the project is the search for understanding across different forms of intelligence, using natural phenomena to inspire a deeper connection with the environment and other species.

Nocturnal Serenade celebrates the beauty and biodiversity of the world at the nexus of nature and art. Frogs are showcased as biological wonders with a rich tapestry of vital traditions and rituals. Eager to share heritage, these creatures offer insights into the communicative practices that define amphibian communities. Croakers are set to heal the disconnect with nature and foster a deeper appreciation for the environment. Engaging with their world deepens understanding of how life thrives across diverse ecosystems. For within the croaks lies the heartbeat of our shared planet, waiting to be heard and cherished.

Text and field recording: Sergey Yavorskiy, Sasha Kulikov
Photography and video: Sergey Yavorskiy
Graphic, type design and code: Sasha Kulikov
Riso-printing: Drucken3000

Kalkberg
21339 Lüneburg
Germany

Point par point includes reproductions of nine drawings Untitled, Venice (1960) by Georgian born, French artist Vera Pagava’s and a poem by Pierre Lecuire, which he dedicated to Pagava in 1972. It also contains a selection of archival material from the Association Culturelle Vera Pagava—AC/VP and a specially commissioned Georgian rendition of Disquiet, an essay by the Canadian author and poet, Lisa Robertson. Robertson’s compositions frequently explore concepts of philosophy, art, and language, with a distinct focus on architecture and cities. Her poetry and prose alike use architecture – as both space and structure—to navigate between conceptual thoughts and palpable existence.

Born in 1907 in Tiflis (Tbilisi), Georgia, Pagava moved to Paris in 1923. Initially, she began her career as a figurative painter, exploring a variety of mediums primarily consisting of engravings, drawings, textile design, gouache on paper, watercolors and stained glass. Pagava’s works are held in private and public collections including the National Museum of Georgia, the Centre Pompidou—National Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Modern Art of Paris, Museum of Fine Arts of Dijon and Unterlinden Museum of Colmar. The majority of her works and archives are held and managed by the Association Culturelle Vera Pagava—AC/VP.

Editor: Nina Akhvlediani
Text: Nina Akhvlediani, Lisa Robertson, Sarah Sanders-Messmann
Graphic design: Timur Akhmetov, Sasha Kulikov
Publisher: Kona Books
Format: 22.5 × 29 cm
Pages: 76
Language: En / Ge
Cover: Soft
Year: 2023

The major survey of the Georgian-born French artist Vera Pagava (1907–1988) brings together paintings, watercolors, and drawings from a body of work that centers on Cities and Architecture. Born in 1907 in Tiflis (Tbilisi), Georgia, Pagava moved to Paris in 1923. Initially, she began her career as a figurative painter, exploring a variety of mediums primarily consisting of engravings, drawings, textile design, gouache on paper, watercolors and stained glass. The exhibition, titled Silent Cities, looks at works from the 1950s to the 1980s, emphasizing a pivotal period in Pagava’s practice when she began transitioning away from figuration. Yet, even as her pieces became more abstract, she frequently named them with references to actual locations and urban environments.

The exhibition introduces to the public a number of works on loan from Association Culturelle Vera Pagava—AC/VP and other collections, such as the set of paintings, also known as “silent architecture.” Pagava’s distinct abstract painterly style is evident in this body of work, some of which were initially included in exhibitions at Galerie Darial by Thamar Tarassachvili-Taly, a close confidant. Silent Cities also features archival records from Pagava's exhibitions at the same gallery.

Complementing the Architecture theme, the exhibit provides insights into historical documents and photographs detailing Pagava's major site-specific projects. These encompass her expansive fresco for the Vatican Pavilion at the World Expo in Brussels (1958) and an abstract triptych designed for the Telecom building in Dijon (1980). Silent Cities also highlights Pagava's urban representations and features a selection of books with Pagava’s representations of cities and architecture created in collaboration with poet and publisher Pierre Lecuire. Pagava created woodcuts and dry-point illustrations that harmonized with Lecuire’s poetic compositions.

Curator: Nina Akhvlediani
Associated curators: Elisso Tarassachvili, Anna Tarassachvili (AC/VP)
Exhibition coordinator: Mariam Tsikaridze
Exhibition display concept and design: Nina Akhvlediani
Design concept: Timur Akhmetov
Graphic and type design: Timur Akhmetov, Sasha Kulikov

The exhibition is organized in partnership with the Embassy of France in Georgia and the Institut français.

TBC Concept
7 Marjanishvili st.
Tbilisi, Georgia

lc-queisser.com

Identity and website for LC Queisser, art gallery located in Tbilisi, founded in 2018. The gallery has influenced the local art scene, making it more sustainable and dynamic in the Eurasian context. It focuses on contemporary works and presents a balanced program of coherent Georgian and foreign artists, trying to steer attention to the strong visual content of a noncentral location in the art scene. Further, the gallery agenda concentrates on protecting local cultural heritage and fostering important artistic figures.

Text: Lisa Offermann
Graphic design: Timur Akhmetov, Sasha Kulikov
Type design: Roman Gornitsky, Sasha Kulikov
Development: Max Drachev
Year: 2023

stylobate.net/skopje

This guide to Skopje, North Macedonia, meanders between 31 architectural structures devised in the aftermath of the 1963 earthquake. Stylobate, the collective behind this publication, prepared it as an expedition report, largely factual but at times speculative.

Text: Ilya Lobanov, Sergey Yavorskiy
Editor: Julia Tinneny
Graphic design: Sasha Kulikov
Publisher: Stylobate
Format: 19 × 26 cm
Pages: 298
Language: En
Cover: Soft
Year: 2023

All proceeds from the publication’s sales go to Ukrainian volunteer initiative Repair Together.