Background
Tea Jorjadze was born in 1971 in Tbilisi, Dushet'is Raioni, Georgia. She has lived in Germany since 1994. Her father is the musician Irakli Djordjadze. She is also distantly related to film director Nana Jorjadze.
Academia of Arts
Gerrit Rietveld Akademie
Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
Academia of Arts
Gerrit Rietveld Akademie
Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
Tea Jorjadze was born in 1971 in Tbilisi, Dushet'is Raioni, Georgia. She has lived in Germany since 1994. Her father is the musician Irakli Djordjadze. She is also distantly related to film director Nana Jorjadze.
Tea Jorjadze studied at the Academy of Arts in Tbilisi from 1988 to 1993. Due to the Georgian Civil War, the school was closed in 1993. So Tea left the country and became a student at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. In 1996, she went back to Tbilisi to catch up on her bachelor of arts. Then she left the Netherlands for the Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where Professor Dieter Krieg and Professor Rosemarie Trockel became her teachers. She graduated as Meisterschüler of Rosemarie Trockel in 2000.
From 1999 on, Jorjadze worked as a member of the artist group Hobbypopmuseum, alongside artists, including Björn Dahlem, Bettina Furler, Christian Jendreiko, Matthias Lahme, Dietmar Lutz, André Niebur, Sophie von Hellerman, and Markus Vater. The group was running a studio in a former postal building in Düsseldorf, which they also used regularly as an exhibition space. The collective released several catalogs as well as records, such as Studio Apartment.
Hobbypopmuseum was invited to shows in San Francisco, by Luc Tuymans, then curator of the NICC in Antwerp, and by the Tate Gallery. In 2003, Djordjadze stopped working with Hobbypopmuseum although the group still exists. With Rosemarie Trockel she worked on several occasions, including the Venice Biennale in 2003, Kunsthalle Saint Gallen in 2006, and the 11th Biennale de Lyon in 2007. In her works and their titles, she refers to popular culture, film, architecture, popular science and hermetism, and literature, as well as Georgian arts and crafts and culture.
Tea Jorjadze works with materials like plaster, wood, ceramic, glass, along with fabrics, sponge, soap, cardboard or papier-mâché – more openly suggestive of a sphere of feminine domesticity. They are assembled in what looks like an almost intuitive process, where unformed, premature pieces collide with rest on precise architectural or domestic structures: hybrid compositions with references to the modernist language. Tea Jorjadze is represented by Galerie Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers London and Berlin, by Galerie Micky Schubert in Berlin, and Kaufmann Repetto in Milan.
