We are proud to announce that Art Foundation Anagi has made it its mission to publish a comprehensive study of Georgian art and its market, to be published in Fall 2026. The report will be the result of conversations with the artists, gallerists, collectors, and institutions whose work it sets out to describe.
We have two goals with this report. The first is to bring the history of Georgian art into reach for international audiences. Millenia of continuous visual culture — shaped by Byzantine heritage, Caucasian cultural memory, Persian and Ottoman influences, and European modernism, and refined through local philosophical and poetic traditions — sit behind the work being made and shown in Georgia today. Much of it has been marginalised, undocumented, or absorbed into broader imperial art histories; Soviet cultural policy further obscured the autonomy of Georgian artistic expression. The result is a tradition too often read as a peripheral extension of imperial centres rather than what it is: a distinct cultural phenomenon, with its own historical continuity, conceptual vocabulary, and artistic logic. We believe our history is too rich to remain a specialist concern.
The second is to make transparent the current structure of the Georgian art market, every single aspect of it. Galleries and dealers. Collectors and patrons. The secondary market and auctions. Everything you would want to know before visiting Tbilisi and its vibrant art scene.
The timing is perfect. Georgian art is being seen, written about, and acquired with a steadiness that did not exist a decade ago. Hessink's recent inaugural white-glove auction in Tbilisi — the first international art auction held in the country, curated by our Co-Founder Thea Goguadze-Apfel — is one signal among several that Georgian art is finding its audience in new ways.
We are in active conversation with galleries, collectors, curators, and institutions across the Georgian art community. Specifics about the report will continue to be released through the year in the run-up to the autumn launch.
We have a simple conviction. Georgia is currently under-recognised, and it is our mission to build bridges between Georgian art and the world.