Sophio Medoidze
London / Tbilisi
Sophio Medoidze (b. Tbilisi, Georgia) is a London-based artist and filmmaker working across moving image, photography, performance, and writing.
Her work has been shown internationally at institutions including Tate Modern, Serpentine Galleries, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, CAC Centre d’art Contemporain, LUX, London, and the Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles. She was awarded the Sainsbury Scholarship in Visual Arts at the British School at Rome (2024–2025).
Her practice—shaped by experiences of post-Soviet migration—is situated between Georgia and the Georgian diaspora in the UK. Working through poetic structures and long-term collaborative projects, such as Let Us Flow (2023), her first feature made with nomadic Tushetian communities in Georgia, she examines how language, memory, and belonging shift under conditions of displacement and late capitalism.
In the early 2000s, Medoidze founded and led the artist collective Clara Emigrand, staging performative interventions across London. Active in publishing and experimental writing, she is the author of Bastard Sun (DISTANZ / Kona, 2023), a bilingual monograph that interweaves photography and text to reflect on personal and political change.
Her recent exhibitions and screenings have been held at
institutions including Tate
Modern (London), MoMA (online), Kunsthal
Charlottenborg (Copenhagen), Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art (Newcastle), Royal Academy of Arts (London), LUX
(London), Serpentine
Cinema Serpentine Galleries (London), Beursschouwburg (Brussels), the Fondation
Vincent van Gogh (Arles), CAC Centre
d'art Contemporain (Brétigny-sur-Orge), Foreman Art Gallery (Sherbrooke), LC
Queisser (Tbilisi), Outpost
Gallery (Norwich), and Le
Cyclop (Milly-la-Forêt).
She has participated in international film festivals, including the Short Film Festival Oberhausen (Oberhausen), European Media Art Festival (Osnabrück), BFMAF Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival (Berwick), Eastern Neighbours Film Festival (The Hague), Kasseler Dokfest (Kassel), Intersección (A Coruña), Tbilisi International Film Festival (Tbilisi).
Recent performances have been presented at Courtisane Festival (Ghent), Cafe OTO (London), Biblioteka (London).
She is a Lecturer in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Medoidze’s films are distributed by LUX, London.
For distribution contact: distribution@lux.org.uk
*Photo: Birgit Ludwig, 2025.