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In the contemporary landscape, Levan Songulashvili emerges as an artist who weaves the personal and the collective into a profoundly introspective visual narrative.Born in Tbilisi, Georgia, in 1991 and now based in New York, his multidisciplinary practice spans painting, drawing, installation, video, printmaking, and sound, exploring themes of transformation, identity, and the tension between individuality… 

AMARTA Magazine Summer 2018 IssueLevan Songulashvili in a collaboration withIssey Miyake ss18 Photographed by Yuriko TakagiParticipating dancers of Sukhishvili Georgian National Ballet

Levan Songulashvili is a New York based, Georgian visual artist, whose works are held in public and private collections worldwide and have been exhibited and sold in numerous venues across the US and Europe, including Saatchi Gallery, Sotheby’s and Brooklyn Museum. Having graduated from Tbilisi State Academy of Arts Levan was granted several scholarships to… 

Levan Songulashvili’s artworks of the American rock legend Iggy Pop will be on view in an exhibition opening at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK. The exhibition presents contemporary work in diverse media by various artists including Lucian Freud, Jenny Saville, Chantal Joffe, Antony Gormley, Gillian Wearing. Now, on the cusp of the RA’s 250th… 

The Indigo magazine, edition N4, January 2016 (page 38-47)Art critic, Khatuna Khabuliani’s interview with Levan Songulashvili Levan Songulashvili is a young artist. Levan holds a Bachelor of Arts (BA) from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts and is studying in NYC now. As far as the world of contemporary visual art has been a partially… 

AMARTA Magazine 2017 Summer, White Issue THE JELLYFISH FROM THE STYX SHORE – Levan Songulashvili Text by art critic David Andriadze Photography by Zaqaria Chelidze Levan Songulashvili is a “Black-and-White” thinking contemporary artist who has studied overseas and is a very serious-minded, purposeful and also well-organized unlike lots of other artists of his generation. The goal-oriented… 

The STYX is a multimedia project that combines large-scale oil and acrylic paintings, ink drawings, video-sculpture and installation of Levan Songulashvili who, in recent years, has joined the grand list of artists choosing to reflect meditative consciousness. The name of the project is connected to the mythological river and stands as a symbol of radical change… 

The Styx is a book of mental, emotional, and psychological passage by Levan Songulashvili. It refers to a sense of exigent myth and allegory, alluding to the famous mythological river as a site of psychical transformation. It is the point of transit and entry to the imagined underworld, and stands for the experience of life as that of… 

On March 3, 2018, Levan Songulashvili was invited in Batumi City where he met and gave public lecture to university students, visiting academic and general public at the Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University (BSU).

Levan Songulashvili has become the first Georgian artist whose works have been selected for the permanent collection of the New York’s Brooklyn Museum. Four works created by Songulashvili during a 2016 project for portraying American rock legend Iggy Pop were picked by curators of the venue, one of the oldest and largest art museums in… 

Levan Songulashvili was honoured at the New York’s annual Black & White National Juried Art Exhibition with a People’s Choice award for his work. Songulashvili’s piece The Styx Portrait was picked for the prize with a popular vote. The artwork was recognized following a voting involving invited artists, art critics and members of the organising Brooklyn… 

The American legend and pioneer of rock music was a model and subject of the performative project – “Iggy Pop Life Class”. Levan Songulashvili created four drawings on February 21, 2016, during a one-day life drawing class, where Pop was an unexpected nude model. Iggy Pop – drawing | Iggy Pop – sketch

RUSTAVI 2 (video in Georgian)