Nino Kapanadze

In 2007, she was admitted at Tbilisi Academy of Fine Arts, Faculty of Architecture, where she held a scholarship of excellence and graduated with a Master's Degree in 2015. 

Kapanadze moved to Paris in 2018, pursuing Master's studies at Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po). Counting a decade of professional working experience internationally at private, governmental and non-governmental levels, in the sectors of architecture, infrastructure, energy, cultural heritage preservation, transportation and urbanism, Kapanadze decided to end the career and dedicate herself fully to painting, as a poetic and political act. 

In 2020, she got enrolled at Beaux-Arts de Paris where she delivered MFA diploma show in 2023. 
« I am interested in painting practice not only as a medium of image creation, a surface, but also a space where I can develop a conversation, activate conflict zones and be in constant revelation of what a painting could be. Avoiding the idea that an image has a fixed end or a fixed viewing point, neither category nor predefined identity, I explore the light, sensation of movement, varying tempo and transparency within the realm of canvas. Embracing contradictions whilst controlling dissonances. I want my painting to dominate a subject matter but intensity of content and juxtaposition of meanings and/or open-ended questions are integral parts of my practice. Thinking and creating paintings singularly, also in pairs, triples and in larger systems, I examine resistance of the image against relativity and engage in simultaneous languages. Technically vaste medium usage that covers traditional oil painting, as well as pigments based Byzantine Tempera and Italian Affresco practice, allows me to exploit colour and line in untranslatable order. Experience of painting carries more truthfulness than empirical truth itself, such experience leading towards beauty, recognition of which is primal, instant and sensorial. » Nino Kapanadze, essay On Painting, 2022 

Her most recent solo exhibitions include Abstentions (A MIRAGE, BUT PERMANENT), Almeida & Dale, São Paulo, Brazil (2026); Cavalcades, Villa Atrata Palais-Royal, Paris, France; Cascades, Villa Atrata, Chapelle Saint-Croix, Angles-sur-l'Anglin, France; Rendezvous, Fondazione Bonollo Arte Contemporanea, Thiene, Italy (2025). 

In 2024, she realized a monumental fresco (Renaissance Affresco technique) painting “ X “ at a private property in Grasse, France. 

Her work was presented in selected groupshows: Croire la peinture, Michel Rein Paris, France; Measures of Intimacy, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, USA (2026); Studio Conversations, David Zwirner, Paris, France (2025); Meet me by the lake, CLEARING, New York, USA (2024); Cache Cache, Perrotin Paris, France (2023); EXTASE DE L‘ABÎME, Societa delle Api, Le Quai contemporary art space, Monte Carlo, Monaco (2022); Jardin Secret, Le Théâtre des Expositions, Paris, France (2021).

Nino Kapanadze's work is part of major institutions including Fondazione Bonollo Arte Contemporanea, Sigg Art Foundation, The Noewe Foundation, and the Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin / Fondation Lafayette Anticipations.