After Warsaw, Kyiv, Budapest, Belgrade, Sofia, and last year, in a special edition in support of Ukraine, Odessa,Un Weekend à l’Est sets its sights on Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. Born in 2016, at the initiative of Vera Michalski and Brigitte Bouchard, Un Weekend à l’Est  is a cultural and multidisciplinary event that takes place for six days from the 22nd to the 27th in Saint-Germain-des-Près (Paris 75006). Every year, a city in Central or Eastern Europe is honored through its writers, filmmakers, thinkers, and artists. For its seventh edition, visual arts are particularly highlighted, and seventeen visual artists share nine locations. Thus, there are eight solo shows and one collective exhibition that, curated by commissioner Alain Berland, bring together the best of the Georgian scene. From Vakho Bugadze, who paints large phantasmagorical canvases to blend collective memory and intimate memories (22, rue Visconti) to Natela Grigalashvili, the photographer who works on long-term documentary projects in rural areas and immortalizes the nomads of the mountainous Adjara region (Librairie Galerie Métamorphoses: 17, rue Jacob). Passing through Maia Naveriani and her virtuoso practice of drawing at the crossroads of surrealism and pop art (Espace des Femmes Antoinette Fouque: 35, rue Jacob) or the cream of the new Georgian painting with Nino Kapanadzé, Sopho Kobidze, Elené Shatberashvili (Librairie Galerie Métamorphoses, 17, rue Jacob),  A Weekend in the East is a unique opportunity to learn more about the astonishing creativity of Georgia.

Un Weekend à l’Est
From November 22 to 27, 2023
Le festival des cultures de l’Est

Discover full program here: weekendalest.com

Vakho Bugadze – Art Exhibition 2015 Œuvre : Tbilissi Rooms Hotel, underground parking © George Delon

Natela Grigalashvili, The Final Days of Georgian Nomads