STUDIO: Keta Gavasheli
Rainer Wild Art Foundation Prize
Keta Gavasheli (b. 1990, Tbilisi, lives in Düsseldorf) is the recipient of this year’s Rainer Wild Art Foundation Award.
Her exhibition Closer examines the space where memory and perception oscillate.
Working with video, photography, and installation, Gavasheli treats the fragment as both a method and a state; a means of testing what can be seen, recalled, or lost.
Her images remain provisional, shifting at the edge of visibility. In Closer, proximity does not imply arrival but a continuous attempt to listen, to observe, to remember before meaning settles.
The works bring together analog and digital gestures, loops of sound and image that repeat and fade. What remains is not resolution but a residual vibration, perception held at its threshold.
Founded in 2009, the Rainer Wild Art Foundation has awarded its annual prize since 2015 to visual artists under 35 living in Germany. Since 2020, it has been presented in Mannheim and includes a prize money of 5,000 euro and a solo exhibition at the Kunsthalle’s STUDIO.
Curator: Dr. Manuela Husemann
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PUBLICATION
STUDIO: KETA GAVASHELI
Published by Kunsthalle Mannheim
Editors: Johan Holten und Dr. Manuela Husemann
With an essay by Dr. Manuela Husemann and an interview with Keta Gavasheli
32 pages, 10 color illustrations, 24 x 17 cm
English / German
Softcover, Design: Alexander Lorenz
Publication Date: December 2025
Price: 5 Euro
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