The exhibition The Garden Within Me is a metaphorical journey into the inner worlds each person carries within.

The exhibition The Garden Within Me is a metaphorical journey into the inner worlds each person carries within.

The program of Sounds of Abkhazia event includes the premiere screening of a film by French filmmaker Vincent Moon in collaboration with the Ored Recordings label, and the presentation of the zine Uaredboros, prepared by Aslan Zantaria and the SKLAD_ team.

Lecture by historian Ruslan Gozhba on the beliefs and ritual practices of the Abkhaz people.

The Sharing Stories project aims to explore storytelling, drawing and publishing as artistic tools for promoting exchange — both between generations and across borders.

Presentation of a photo book, the result of ten months of collaboration between curator Omar Kharchlaa and photographers Alexandra Avidzba and Sabina Khardzhelia.

The laboratory When I Forget Everything — I Begin to Remember is dedicated to artistic and research methods for working with personal, familial, and discovered archival materials.

Namus (dir. Amo Beknazaryan, 1926) is an adaptation of the eponymous novel by Alexander Shirvanzade.

Marina Bartsits’ lecture on the role of men in Abkhazian society, the difference between historical tradition and our perception of it.

This workshop by photographers Alex Avidzba and Arseny Chakmach is built around observation from a single vantage point

Bela (dir. Vladimir Barsky, 1927) is a film adaptation of a chapter from Lermontov’s A Hero of Our Time.

The research laboratory When I Forget Everything — I Begin to Remember is concluding its three-month educational program with a public presentation of projects.

Abrek Zaur (dir. Boris Mikhin, 1926) is a Soviet silent Red Western that tells the story of highlanders

A lecture on the role of democracy in the Abkhaz tradition, the structure of historical state formations in Abkhazia.

A production for an actress and three projections.

Lecture by writer and public figure Vladimir Zantaria.

FIRE! FIRE! focuses on the lost embodiments of Sukhum architecture and the stories that accompanied them.

Art historian Ruth Rosengarten, in her book Between Memory and Document: The Archival Turn in Contemporary Art, notes a key feature of documents:

Reflection on displacement, loss, and anxiety about the unknown in the form of an exhibition.

The aim of this project is to explore the theme of personal and collective stories hidden deep within us that shape our identity.

In the exhibition Even Boxwood Does Not Remember, the artist focuses on the history of the Colchis boxwood

Collage workshop in the framework of the exhibition Even Boxwood Does Not Remmeber.

The exhibition’s title cites Kornei Chukovsky’s poem The Confusion, in which animals mistakenly exchange their roles and, in the resulting chaos, set the sea ablaze.

Amid the stone walls of the Bagrat's Castle, dancers and choreographers Mrana Vouba and Danyu invite participants into a workshop that unfolds as both practice and ritual.

Multidisciplinary artist Nika Lakrba works across drawing, painting, ceramics, and collage.

A solo exhibition of Amra Chichibaya.

Conversation with Amra Chichibaya and Nodar Tsvizhba.

This You Must Remember was a multimedia project consisting of a video installation by British artist Sam Jury.

Nicole Bartsyts approaches drawing as an escapist practice that allows her to create imaginary worlds.

‘Future Plans’ was an exhibition about the everyday life of Abkhazian artist Sabina Kvarchelia.

In Abkhazia, gender roles in everyday life are shaped by traditional social structures

A participatory poetry reading by Nelli Tarba, one of the most prominent figures in Abkhazian poetry.

Traditional Circassian folk songs based on the tales of the Nart sagas and wedding melodies interpreted by musician Bashir Khatsuk.

A lecture by ethnologist Marina Bartsyts, Associate Professor in the Department of Abkhaz Studies at Abkhazian State University

Cut Piece is a reenactment of the eponymous performance by Yoko Ono, recognised as a classic of feminist art

DJ sets by Astamur Chitanava and Amra Marshania

A film in the tradition of socially critical Russian cinema, with its long meditative shots and portrayals of ‘superfluous people’

Ultima Thule is a phantom island, first mentioned by the ancient Greek geographer Pytheas

ҲараҲПицунда (Abkhaz for ‘Our Pitsunda’) is a community movement motivated by the preservation of Abkhazia’s independence

‘Political Poetic’ was an evening of civic and social poetry

Journalist and documentary filmmaker Graziano Graziani shared his experience researching micronations

Little Man, Time and the Troubadour is a film about artist Sipa Labakhua, who travels across Abkhazia with a puppet theatre

Silas Heizmann’s film explores Abkhazia’s physical spaces, in limbo between past and future

‘In the Shadow of Big Trees’ is a metaphor for existing within larger narratives. It is the experience of living in the shadow of global historical processes, of the subtle absorption of the personal by the public and of being preserved within frozen practices - and the possibility of overcoming them.

Sam Jury’s film explores the concept of slow violence through the stories of Abkhaz residents.

A set by electronic musician SHIRI (Nadir Dzhinal).

A set of alternative electronic music by Mississippi Landscapes (Mark Lukyanov).

The film tells the stories of seven residents of Abkhazia.

Taus Makhacheva is one of the most renowned contemporary artist working with the traditions and history of the North Caucasus

"A lecture by Georgiy Derluguian, professor of sociology and author of the book Bourdieu’s Secret Admirer in the Caucasus "

The ‘Road Safety’ block was designed for urban activists specialising in traffic safety projects

A working group — selected by the organisers — identified the most pressing environmental issues in Abkhazia and developed proposals for their resolution.

The Post-Soviet Period: A Reset block was led by Svyatoslav Murunov, founder of the Centre for Applied Urbanism

The title of the event references another motif from 1968: protesting students dismantling the pavement

The ‘Tactical Urbanism’ block was led by architect-urbanists Vyacheslav Ivanov, Sergey Tsarev and Ilya Tokarev

In 20th- and 21st-century art, the archive has emerged as a central theme and medium. As a theme, it expresses the formation and loss of testimony, nostalgia, the search for personal and national identity, and colonial histories.

Thomas Dworzak shared his experiences and unique connection to the Caucasus

Contemporary art fairs are an effective way of shaping the art market

Astamur Butba created the installation Dome for the Dioscuria Embankment in Sukhum

As part of a meeting with documentary photographer and filmmaker Otto Lakoba

A ‘theory of everything’ is a mathematical concept in Physics that aims to unify all the known fundamental interactions of nature.

‘The Poet and the Microphone’ was an open mic evening where every participant could share their voice

A joint project of two radio stations - SOMA in Abkhazia and LoRa in Switzerland

As part of the project Deletion Marks, Tareq Daoud and Élisabeth Deny explored the history of Abkhaz villages located in Turkish Anatolia

Italian photographer Giorgio Caione conducted a masterclass where anyone could create a photobook

Giorgio Caione and Stefano Majno, photographers with two different approaches to documentation, shared their artistic exploration of the Caucasus

The exhibition Cultural Diversity — The Wealth of Society presents the national and religious communities of Abkhazia.

The story dedicated to the Estonians in Abkhazia concludes Asarkya Studio’s film cycle about the republic’s ethnic communities.

The eighth episode of the project Cultural Diversity — the Wealth of Society by Asarkya Studio is dedicated to the residents of the Gal district.

The seventh episode of the project Cultural Diversity — The Wealth of Society is dedicated to the Armenians of Abkhazia.

Despite the declared principle of ‘friendship of peoples,’ the USSR’s policy bore the character of cultural colonialism

The sixth episode of the Cultural Diversity — The Wealth of Society project by Asarkya Studio focuses on the German community in Abkhazia.

In the 18th century, Abkhazia became a focus of political interest for Russia, which sought to strengthen its southern borders

Memory, Untitled was an interactive installation by Aron Rossman-Kiss dedicated to the State Archive of Abkhazia

The history of Catholicism in Abkhazia spans centuries, beginning in the 13th-14th centuries with the arrival of missionaries

Before the start of The Second World War, the Greek population of Abkhazia reached 35,000, making up approximately 11% of the republic

Today, the Jewish community in Abkhazia numbers between 150 and 200 people

In 2013, several hundred families of Muhajir descendants were evacuated from Syria by the Abkhaz authorities

A joint exhibition by photographers Alan Vobua and Tengiz Tarba

Dmitry Bely presented the theory of postmodernism, covering movements in art and philosophy from the late 20th to early 21st centuries

Artist and architect Georgy Baronin explored the history of architecture through the lens of civilizational development

Marina Boguslavskaya talked about the work of philanthropist and public figure Nikolai Smetskoy

As part of a one-day intervention, the ‘Institute of the Visionaries’ took over the abandoned ‘Guma’ station.

To engage the local community in the process of reimagining the city, raumlabor installed a map on the Sukhum waterfront

In the project ‘Caution, Wet Paint!’, curators Annina Zimmermann and Asida Butba explored painting as a medium

A meeting with photographer Jason Eskenazi was dedicated to his work in the post-Soviet space

A group of young Abkhaz artists, together with Swiss artist Augustin Rebetez, travelled to Tkvarcheli

Marianne Burki shared her experience in organising cultural institutions and developing the art environment in various countries

Marianne Burki discussed the social role of art

Games allow us to bring fantasies to life, create new worlds and metaphorically describe those that already exist.

Abkhaz artist Arkhip Labakhua dedicated this project to the main characters of Arthur Conan Doyle’s books: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson

An exhibition inspired by the cultural exchange programme between Abkhazia and Switzerland: ‘Young Artists of Abkhazia - Young Artists of Basel’