LALI PERTENAVA

Assistant Professor
Photography History Theory
Institute of Photography and New Media
Tbilisi, Georgia

E-mail: lpertenava_lp@yahoo.com

During the 2002-2003 academic year, Lali Pertenava was a visiting research professor at The George Washington University, affiliated with the Research Program in Social and Organizational Learning. Her stay in the USA was supported by the Junior Faculty Development Program, which is funded by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Her advisor at GWU was Professor Frank Goodyear, National Portrait Gallery.

EDUCATION:

1999:               Postgraduate Study, Art History Department, Tbilisi State University.
Research work: “Body representation in contemporary art of post-soviet countries.”
1996:               Honors Diploma in Art History and Theory, Tbilisi State University
research work: Time and Space in German Expressionist Art.

SEMINARS and WORKSHOPS:

Spring 2005: Contemporary Georgian Art (Caucasian Center for Cultural Development/Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art).
Summer 2004: Workshops in Curatorial work (Goethe Institute (CCCD).

2002/2003: Workshops in video art and photography with Urs Stahel, Keiko Sei, Josef Koudelka (CCCD).

EXPERIENCE:

2005: Contemporary Georgian artists’ web-archive (financed by Georgian Ministry of Culture)

2003-present: Institute of Photography and New Media
Lecturer of Photography History and Theory
Teaching Photography History and Theory to II, III & IV year students. Translating reading materials of course syllabus. Made curriculum design and interdisciplinary planning.

2004- present: Caucasian Center for Cultural Development
Head of Contemporary Art Library
Cataloguing the books, networking with international art libraries, fundraising.

2001-present: Tbilisi State Institute of Culture
Assistant Lecturer in Modern Art History

1999-2001: Newspaper Resonansi
Art Critic/Correspondent

PUBLICATIONS:

2005,
February: Belgian video art (Quarterly addition to Newspaper 24 hours)

2004,
November: Arte Povera (Quarterly addition to Newspaper 24 hours)