Gio Sumbadze

Gio Sumbadze (b. 1976, Tbilisi), also known as "Gioslavia," is a Georgian multimedia/audio-visual artist, photographer, and graphic designer. He's a member of Goslab artistic collective. From 1994 to 2000, Sumbadze studied at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, graduating from the Faculty of Design and Visual Communications. He's been participating in various art projects in Georgia and Europe since the mid-1990s. In 2008, Gio Sumbadze established the Urban Research Lab (URL), a cross-disciplinary platform for Tbilisi artists, architects and photographers. He represented Georgia at the 55th Venice Art Biennale with his architectural project "Kamikadze Loggia" in 2013.