06/09/2026
Eau de Cologne is proud to present a showcase of q***r visual artists from Tbilisi, Georgia at KREUZWERK
Working across installation, photography, film, sculpture and performance, these artists emerge from Tbilisi’s underground club culture, where nightlife has become a vital space for q***r creativity, community and resistance.
ᴜᴛᴀ ᴘ. ʙᴇᴋᴀɪᴀ / უტა ბექაია is a Georgian-born multimedia artist working between Berlin, Tbilisi and New York. His interdisciplinary practice spans performance, wearable sculpture, textiles, ceramics, film, and installation, exploring collective memory, ancestral rituals and q***r futures. Through immersive and participatory works, he reimagines traditional cultural narratives through a contemporary lens. Bekaia is also a co-founder of Eau De Cologne, a q***r cultural collective and event series that fosters community, artistic exchange and alternative forms of gathering across the Caucasus and beyond.
Levani (Levan Mindiashvili) is a Georgian trans-disciplinary artist living and working between Tbilisi and New York. Levani’s practice merges indigenous cosmologies of the Caucasus and underground q***r culture with developmental biology and neuroscience. Levani works across sculpture, neon, film, sound and images and creates immersive installations that host performances, readings, rituals, parties and dinners.
They hold an MFA from IUNA Buenos Aires National University of Arts and a BFA from the Tbilisi Academy of Arts. Levani has exhibited extensively at venues and institutions such as Vera List Center for Arts and Politics at The New School, NY, CUE art foundation, NY, Yapi Kredi Museum, Istanbul, Artists Alliance Inc., NY, Georgian National Museum, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Tbilisi Kunsthalle, Socrates Sculpture Park NY, the Beijing Biennial, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kiev, and the BRIC Biennial, among others. Levani’s work has been featured in magazines and publications such as Frieze, Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, BOMB, ArtAsia Pacific, Art Papers, HYPERALLERGIC, and more. Levani’s works are in public collections at the National Art Museum of China (Beijing), Sammlung Hackelsberger (Berlin), Georgian National Museum (Mestia),