Bubu Mosiashvili

A series of framed artworks with text and abstract designs hang on a white gallery wall above a cobblestone floor under a wooden ceiling with spotlights.

stories make worlds, worlds make stories 2024, photo: Franziska von den Driesch

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A series of framed artworks with text and abstract designs hang on a white gallery wall above a cobblestone floor under a wooden ceiling with spotlights.

stories make worlds, worlds make stories 2024, photo: Franziska von den Driesch

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A framed paper with handwritten text CENSORED FORGOTTEN HIDDEN MEMORY hangs on a white wall next to a display of multiple white pamphlets arranged in rows. The ground is patterned stone tiles.

stories make worlds, worlds make stories 2024, photo: Franziska von den Driesch

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Two framed artworks on a wall: the left features handwritten German text over typewritten words, the right shows a spool of thread with a needle, labeled Senats-Registratur and Akte on aged paper.

stories make worlds, worlds make stories 2024, photo: Franziska von den Driesch

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A person holds an open magazine with photos and text, while wall-mounted racks display multiple copies of a publication titled Another Story against a white wall.

& ANOTHER STORY 01 2024, offset print on 60g recycled paper, 8 pages, 210 × 297 × 0,09 mm, photo: Bubu Mosiashvili

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Two pages of a printed publication titled “& ANOTHER STORY.” The left page includes text and a minimalist illustration of a street scene. The right page features text and a drawing of keys hanging on a hook.

& ANOTHER STORY 01 2024, offset print on 60g recycled paper, 8 pages, 210 × 297 × 0,09 mm, photo: Bubu Mosiashvili

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Two people in silhouette watch a group of people in colorful jackets standing with arms outstretched in the distance on a cobblestone street between brick apartment buildings.

>>>>> REHEARSING COLLECTIVITY. Walking Performance ____ >>>>> 2024, performance in public space (in collaboration with Liz Rech), photo: Wenzel Stählin

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A hand holds a postcard showing a house with Gruss aus Bremen printed on it, while another postcard of the same house is being inserted into a yellow mailbox.

Steps through stories #1 2024, collective walk along Waller Heerstraße in Bremen, photo: GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst e.V.

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A person holds a postcard featuring street art as three people stand by a crosswalk with cars passing, trees, and buildings in the background on a sunny day.

Steps through stories #2 2024, collective walk along Waller Heerstraße in Bremen, photo: GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst e.V.

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Two framed documents with wooden borders rest on the floor, leaning against a white textured wall. One frame contains an illustration of a building; the other features text and a sketch of a key.

Chaussee, die (Reste) 2024, screen print and permanent marker on archival paper, inkjet print, permanent marker on paper, self-made wooden frames with darkened glass, 55,5 × 76,5 cm each, photo: Lotte Agger

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A large map is displayed on a white wall above a simple wooden table with rocks or small objects arranged on top. Two small framed pictures hang to the left of the map.

Heerstrasse, die 2022, inkjet print on photo paper, wood, found stones, archive material in wooden frame, photo: Joya Bahkyi

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A partially constructed wooden frame structure with electrical outlets, orange and yellow straps securing it, and tools scattered on a light wood floor in a bright, unfinished room.

staging a confrontation 2022, room installation, photo: Gloria May

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A large wooden board displays a series of four photographs showing close-up views of a stone sculpture surrounded by greenery, mounted indoors with construction materials visible nearby.

staging a confrontation 2022, room installation, photo: Gloria May

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A wooden panel with a horizontal strip of photos showing large tree trunks, installed on a wooden frame in a bright room. Text is visible on the photos but is partially obscured.

staging a confrontation 2022, room installation, photo: Gloria May

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Wooden frames with large panels and orange straps are set up inside a room with natural light. Rocks and cables are visible on the floor, and windows show cars and greenery outside.

staging a confrontation 2022, room installation, photo: Gloria May

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staging a confrontation 2022, room installation, photo: Gloria May

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A small stack of paper with sketches and writing sits on a wooden bench by a window, surrounded by scattered rocks and an orange strap draped across the surface.

staging a confrontation 2022, room installation, photo: Gloria May

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A pile of various-sized rocks is held together by an orange strap on a light wooden floor next to a wooden structure and windowsill. Some rocks are scattered on the windowsill.

staging a confrontation 2022, room installation, photo: Gloria May

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A large brick sculpture resembling an elephant’s face stands against green trees. Yellow text at the bottom reads, “Is there a foreign object lodged in your throat?”.

face-off (unreleased) 2022, Full HD, 1 min, photo: Bubu Mosiashvili

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A weathered stone lion sculpture stands in a park surrounded by greenery, with yellow subtitles at the bottom reading: (the lion has difficulties breathing).

face-off (unreleased) 2022, unpublished video, Full HD, 1 min, video still, photo: Bubu Mosiashvili

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Bubu Mosiashvili, photo: Noelle BuAbbud

Bubu Mosiashvili, photo: Noelle BuAbbud

Biography

  • 1997

    born in Tbilisi, GE

  • since 2021

    Fine Arts at University of the Arts Bremen, with Prof. Natascha Sadr Haghighian

  • 2015–2019

    Media arts at Tbilisi State Academy of Art, GE, Bachelor’s degree

Jury statement

Bubu Mosiashvili's artistic practice is compelling in its complexity and multifaceted nature. Through performative walks, installations, and experimental publications that accompany his walks, he interrogates public space, uncovering its hidden history and the power structures embedded within it. For Mosiashvili, walking as an artistic practice is an inherently reflexive and automatic process that allows the body to take on the role of an attentive observer. By accompanying his walks with research in archives and using the found material for his installations and publications, he approaches public space on multiple levels, appropriating it in various ways.

In works such as »Steps through stories #3« – a performative walk – and »stories make worlds, worlds make stories« – a series of posters in public space, where he overwrites archival documents – he focuses, for example, on the 28 Heerstraßen (army roads) in Bremen, which were renamed in 1914 as a form of »silent propaganda« for the war. These works bring the military origin of today's street names to consciousness while also questioning the act of renaming itself. Naming is a political act, a demonstration of power, and a tool for maintaining societal narratives. In this sense, names are deeply rooted mechanisms that serve to shape social stories, weave history together, and influence collective perception. Alongside the (re)appropriation of public space, the uncovering and remembrance of the narratives inscribed in the urban landscape, and the making visible and experiential of the power structures inherent in them, Mosiashvili's works also reflect on the power of language, which, under current social conditions, must continually be critically examined.

Stefanie Kleefeld, jury member

Exhibitions

  • 2024

    stories make worlds, worlds make stories, GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen

  • 2022

    Staging a confrontation, weissnicht/knöchel, Braunschweig

  • 2021

    a flash of the infinity, Projektraum Ostend, Stuttgart

  • 2019

    Tomorrow that already happened, MAUDI, Tbilisi, GE

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 2025

    27th Federal Competition Federal Prize for Art Students, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn

  • 2024

    Das Fehlende Segment, Haus der Bürgerschaft, Bremen

  • 2023

    Concluding Reflections, MAUDI, Tbilisi, GE

  • 2023

    Doch alle eine Insel?, GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen

  • 2023

    Lacuna - inside a dumpling, Weserburg Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen

  • 2022

    Something to Declare, Nothing to Declare, former Plus Supermarkt, Bremen

  • 2022

    Unfolding Portents, Circa 106, Bremen

  • 2021

    Import/Export, Primakunst, Kiel

  • 2020

    Simple Gestures, MAUDI, Tbilisi, GE

  • 2019

    Tbilisi Flows, MAUDI, Tbilisi, GE

  • 2019

    House Warming, D.A.S., Safe House 1, London, GB

  • 2019

    Collective production of space, MAUDI, Tbilisi, GE

  • 2018

    ​​Artisterium as it is, Artisterium 11, Tbilisi History Museum, Tbilisi, GE

Grants and awards

  • 2025

    Federal Prize for Art Students, Federal Ministry of Education, Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth

Bundespreis für Kunststudierende 2025