Sophio Medoidze, Learning to speak to my daughter/English dictionary, HD video with sound
Sophio Medoidze (სოფიო მედოიძე) is an artist, writer and filmmaker.
She was born and brought up in Tbilisi, Georgia and now lives in London.
Her work has been exhibited and screened internationally, including at Tate Modern (*upcoming),
OUTPOST gallery, Ermes Ermes, LUX London, CAC Bretigny, Serpentine Cinema (Peckhamplex),
Kunstmuseum Luzern, Fondation Vincent van Gogh, Arles and others.
She was a recipient of Tyneside cinema’s Projections commission and Feature expanded development
and Sub ti awards for her film Let us flow! (ვიდინოთ!).
Medoidze is part of the Associate faculty for Conditions Studios, Croydon.
Education
2016 MFA in Fine Art (Studio practice), Goldsmiths, University of London
2005 MA in Fine Art Photography, London College of Communication, UAL
2001 BA in Film, Georgian National Institute of Theatre and Cinema
Solo Exhibitions and Screenings
2022 TATE Film, Sophio Medoidze: Kotori, Southbank, London
Artificial Sleep (Her her her her her her her HER), OUTPOST Gallery, Norwich
2021 Sophio Medoidze in focus (curated by Adam Pugh), Intersección, A Coruña, Spain
2020 Sophio Medoidze: Jackals and Drones, LUX Waterlow park, London
2019 ‘Xitana’ Projections Commissions, Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle (Touring to UK cinemas)
2018 Sophio Medoidze, AB-JOY, Serpentine Cinema (Serpentine Gallery), Peckhamplex, London
2010 Sophio Medoidze & Tank.tv, MRA projects space, London
2008 Laboratory For The Future, Swiss Cottage Gallery, London
Group Exhibitions and Screenings
2022 Drück nur auf die Klinke, Jägerschere Gallery for contemporary art, Germany
2021 Paris Internationale, duo presentation with Melike Kara, LC Queisser, Paris
Bastard Sun, Oxygen Biennial of Contemporary Arts, Tbilisi
Scallops #1, a collaboration between Ermes Ermes & LC Queisser, Vienna
2020 Sâr Dubnotal, curated by Damien Delille and Céline Poulin, CAC Brétigny, France
Three, four trees, E.A. Shared space, Tbilisi
Desire Night, IMMA, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Three positions with E.A. Shared space, Contemporary Istanbul, Turkey
2019 Long Story Short (Part of Pirosmani Exhibition), Foundation Vincent van Gogh, Arles
Hotel Europa, Open Space (Part of Tbilisi art fair), Tbilisi
Projections touring programme, HOMEmcr, Hyde Park Picture House, Plymouth arts cinema,
Watershed, Exeter Phoenix and others
Printed Matter’s LA art book fair, with Danarti zine, Los Angeles
Sergei Paradjanov: Reminiscence, Close Up Cinema, London
2018 Jackals and Drones: Chronicles of A summer, In focus, Festival Scope, online
2017 Love among the Artists, invited by Laure Prouvost, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland
2016 MFA final year show, Laure Grove Baths, Goldsmiths, London
Georgian arthouse cinema, Veto Films, B-movie cinema, Hambur
2015 EX(C)IT(e), Sixtyeight Institute, Copenhagen (two person)
In competition for the best video award, Avanca film festival, Aveiro
Art Wall, curated by Wato Tsereteli (CCA Tbilisi), Tbilisi
2013 We are only in it for Money, Princess Alice, London
2012 Westworld at Xero, Kline, Coma, London
2010 All That Glitters is not Institution, Whitechapel Gallery, London
This Is Not a Gateway, Hanbury Hall, London
Artist’s film and video, 2nd Georgian Film Festival, Riverside studios, London
After Paradjanov: Artists' film and video from Georgia, Arnolfini, Bristol
After Paradjanov: Artists film and video from Georgia, Pushkin House, London
2009 22nd Instants video, Qattan Foundation, Ramallah
Interzone/City, Galerija Galzenica, Zagreb
2008 Shortlisted for Salon 08, VINEspace Gallery, Vyner Street, London
Contemporary Georgian Photography, F Gallery, Kaunas
2006 Artconcept, Festival of conceptual art, St Petersburg
2005 MFA Photography degree show, Well Galleries, London college of printing
Insomnia (part of the Refugee Week), Oxo Tower, South Bank, London
Nominations and Awards
2022 Georgian National Film Centre, documentary film funding
Nominated for the Jarman award
2021 Arts Council England Project Grants
2020 Nominated for the Jarman award
Elephant Trust Project awards
2019 Nominated for Arts Foundation Award
Artists roundtable with On&For (Auguste Orts), Brussels
Nominated for the Jarman award
Shortlisted for FLAMIN productions, round 8
Projections Commissions, Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle
Feature Expanded development and SUBti awards, Lo Schermo dell’arte and HOMEer
(Jury formed by Andrea Lissoni, Hila Peleg and Anna Lena Vaney)
Talks and Lectures
2022 C-MAP Seminar, MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art New York
Artist talk, Conditions studios, Croydon, London
Artist talk, Goldsmiths MFA Fine Art, London
2021 Visiting lecturer, London College of Communication, UAL
2019 Jury member for Projections Commissions, Newcastle
Visiting lecturer, Richmond American University, London
2014 Visiting Tutor, BA Fine Art, Camberwell College of Arts, London
Curatorial Projects
2009 Artists’ film and video from Georgia, co-curated with Laure Prouvost and TANK.tv
2nd Georgian film festival, curator of artists’ cinema, Riverside studios, London
Publications
Great Amnesiac and Other Stories, Clara Emigrand publishing, London (*self-published)
Selected Press
A conversation between Millie Norman and Sophio Medoidze, OUTPOST Gallery
Arthouse films and dark comedy, Matt Janney, The Calvert Journal
What I am looking for is where the lines converge, LUX
Projections Commissions at Tyneside Cinema, Ben Eastham, ArtReview
Mike Sperlinger on ‘Xitana’, online and print publication
Sophio Medoidze in conversation with Maria Palacios Cruz, LUX
Jackals and Drones, videos by Sophio Medoidze, Mackinnon-Little, TANK Magazine
Twelve woman gone missing, S. Obolashvili, Forbes Georgia
Tbilisi, Roses from the rubble, HG Master, ArtAsiaPacific
The Lovers, Danarti Magazine, Issue 5, Kunsthalle Zurich
Interview with Sophio Medoidze, O Rukhadze, Radio Liberty/Free Europe
Interview with Sophio Medoidze, Radio Gipa, Tbilisi
Educational Changes, Sh McGregor, Huffington Post
The Year in Pictures, Axis Magazine
Olympic Art attack, F Brooks, Hackney Citizen
Interview with Sophio Medoidze, Radio 101 Zagreb
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