This year we are pleased to also present work by Tornike Gognadze in the Liste Film Program curated by Paris-based curator and writer Juliette Desorgues.
‘Boom Ball’ is Gognadze's debut short film, based on personal stories turned into a fictional script which engages not only with the fallibility of the human memory, but with the social and political ramifications of collectively misremembered pasts, phenomena often referred to as the “Mandela Effect”. In the film two protagonists are confronted with the fragility of their personal anecdotes and increasingly question the individual as well as collective memory.
Tornike Gognadze (b. 1999, Tbilisi, Georgia) is an artist currently based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. From 2018 to 2020, Gognadze studied at the Visual Arts, Architecture & Design School at The University of Tbilisi. Since 2021, he has been studying at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, where he continues to develop a sculptural language rooted in personal experience and critical reflection often engaging with the emotional, social, and political landscape of the post-Soviet region.
Recent solo exhibitions include: ‘Radar’ at Westfälischer Kunstverein, Munich, DE; ‘Forever Spin’ at Opelvillen Rüsselsheim, DE and ‘The Dream’ at fffriedrich, Frankfurt am Main, DE. His work has also been included in group exhibitions across Georgia, Germany, and the UK, including presentations at the HETEROTOPIA International London Art Festival, and the Tbilisi Biennale. He is a permanent participant in the Sculpture Park at the Ria Keburia Foundation in Kachreti, GE.