Selected Solo/Duo Exhibitions
. 2026 . Into the Open, 2026. Galerie Ceysson & Bénétière. lyon, (FR)
. 2025 We are Seekers, Duo show with Tony Just,
TBC Concept Gallery , curated by LC Queisser. Tbilisi, (GE)
. 2025 David Meskhi, Iris Arles, Arles, (FR)
. 2024 Our Son, My Moon, Musée d’art Moderne et Contemporain, MAMC+ . Saint Étienne, (FR)
. 2023 Allow, Kornfeld Galerie, Berlin, (DE)
. 2022 Color of Weightlessness, Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum (TPMM), Tbilisi, (GE)
. 2021 All Saints, Galerie Kornfeld, Berlin, (DE)
. 2019 Paris Photo, Curiosa Section, Paris, (FR)
. 2019 Hubert Scheibl: Paintings and David Meskhi: Photographs, Galerie Kornfeld, Berlin, (DE)
. 2019 Keep Falling, Bukia Vakhania (formerly Gallery Artbeat), Tbilisi, (GE)
. 2019 Carpet Sunrise, Galerie für moderne Fotografie, Berlin, (DE)
. 2017 David Meshki, Galerie für moderne Fotografie, Berlin,(DE)
. 2015 Satellites at Night, Bukia Vakhania (formerly Gallery Artbeat), Tbilisi, (GE)
. 2011 Eternal Distance, Anika Handelt Galerie, Vienna, (AT)
. 2010 Higher, Galerie Micky Schubert, Berlin, (DE)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026 The Skate of the Art: Skateboarding Across Cultures, Fotografiska Shanghai, (CN)
2025 Men, Galerie Art Absolument, Paris, (FR)
2025 Tiny Vices , The Hole, NYC, (USA)
2023 Tsinamdzgvrishvili 49 / Mazniashvili 10, LC Queisser, Tbilis, (GE)
2022 XX-XXI Centuries Georgian art from private collections, The National Gallery,
Tbilisi , (GE)
2022 A River in Silent Flux, Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum, Tbilisi , (GE)
2021 When Icarus Fell, it was Spring, Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum, (GE)
2020 Biennale de la Photographie de Mulhouse, (BPM) , Kunstverein Freiburg, (DE)
2020 Galerie Anita Beckers and Kornfeld Galerie, AtelierFrankfurt e.V., Frankfurt / Main, (DE)
2019 I Do Speak Landscape, Braunsfelder Family Collection, Cologne, (DE)
2018 Lara protects me, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, (DE)
2019 Hotel Europa: their past, your present our future, Open Space of Experimental Art. Tbilisi, (GE)
2018 In and Out of Reality, TAF, Tbilisi, (GE)
2018 Post-Soviet Visions, Calvert 22 Foundation, London, (UK)
2017 Golden Boundaries / Youth Culture in Contemporary Photography, Robert Capa
Contemporary Photography Center, Budapest, (HU)
2016 Georgian National Museum, Contemporary Art Gallery, Tbilisi, (GE)
2013 Photo Festival of Arles, La Nuit de l’Année, Arles, (FR)
2012 Ich ist ein Anderer, Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg, (DE)
2011 Explications 1.2, Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi, (GE)
2011 IMAGO, Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig (GfZK), Leipzig, (DE)
Selected Collections
Musée d’art Moderne et Contemporain, MAMC+ . Saint Étienne, (FR)
Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum (TPMM), Tbilisi, (GE)
Art Fairs
2025 Paper Positions , Berlin, (DE)
2022 Paris Photo, Paris, (FR)
2023 Untitled Miami, (USA)
2021 Paris Photo, Paris, (FR)
2021 Positions, Berlin, (DE)
2019 Paris Photo, Curiosa Section, (FR)
2019 Contemporary Istanbul, (TR)
2018 Tbilisi Art Fair (TAF), (GE)
2015 Contemporary Istanbul, (TR)
Documentary
WHEN THE EARTH SEEMS TO BE LIGHT. A documentary by Salome Machaidze |
Tamuna Karumidze | David Meskhi, © 2015 Goslab | Georgia | Germany | HD | 16:9 |
color | 76 min. | Georgian with English subtitles
Grants and Awards
2026 Tbilisi Public Art Fund for project: David Meskhi “Allong the Line”, Tbilisi, Georgia
2015 IDFA award for Best First Appearance, International Documentary Film Festival,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2015 Prometheus Award for Best Documentary in the National Competition, Tbilisi
International Film Festival, Tbilisi, Georgia
Selected Publications
2024 Our Son, My Moon, published by Light Motiv & MAMC+, (FR)
2019 David Meshki, Salon Verlag & Editions, Cologne, (DE)
2018 I do speak landscape, curated by Lisa Offermann, Braunsfelder, Cologne, (DE)
2018 Lara protect me. A Georgian Story, Museum Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt am Main, (DE)
Teaching Experience
2021 – 2023
VA[A]DS (visual art, architecture and design school) at Free university of Tbilisi, (GE)
-Second year students of visual arts together with Tony Just
-Fourth (final) year students of fine art with Simon Lässig
-First- and second-year students of fine arts and Design
2022
–CES-creative media school, Tbilisi, (GE)
Workshops, Lectures, Artist Talks
2024 MAMC+ / Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne, (FR)
2023 Projects for Espérance Banlieu and the Tezenas du Montcel , (FR)
Focus on sports and photography.
2023 Workshop with ENSADSE students , (FR)
2022 Artists Talks, Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum (TPMM), Tbilisi, (GE)
2012-2013 Reverse Brain Drain ,Goethe institute,Tbilis, (GE)