Nikoloz Nadirashvili is a contemporary art researcher and curator from Tbilisi, Georgia. His expertise encompasses religious-themed contemporary art from the lens of socio-historical art studies. Currently, he is engaged in the Project “Iconology of Sacred: Shifting Political Value of Religious-Themed Secular Art in the Late Soviet and Post-Soviet Realms”, where he explores the rationale of artistic practices incorporating religious content in Soviet and post-Soviet contexts.
From 2017 to 2021, Nikoloz managed Contemporary Art Archive – Tbilisi, a publicly accessible multimedia database of Georgian contemporary art from the 1970s to the present, and Oxygen Biennial.
In 2020 he established TRANSCENDENTALIA, an art program of the Peace Cathedral, Tbilisi, and has worked as a Chief Curator there since then. Nikoloz has previously taught arts management to undergraduate and graduate students at the Tbilisi State Academy of Art and Theatre and the Film University of Georgia and given talks locally and internationally, including the Zimmerli Art Museum/Rutgers University (the USA), the University of Strasbourg (France), and the University of Lisbon (Portugal).
In 2014 he was awarded the degree of Master of Art History at the Tbilisi State Academy of Art, followed by the degree of Master of Arts (with the distinction ‘Cum Laude’) in Art, Policy, and Marketing at the University of Groningen (the Netherlands) in 2015.
