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Data
Data Chigholashvili
Curator, Researcher, Writer, Educator
Data (David) Chigholashvili is a Tbilisi-born and Brooklyn-based curator and visual anthropologist. Their research, curatorial practice, and art projects explore topics around visual and urban anthropology, ethnography, socially engaged art, natural and built environments, public space, migration, foodways, memory, queering, archives, and/or museums.
Data’s practice oscillates between social anthropology and contemporary art.
Currently: Curator of Residency Unlimited (RU, Brooklyn, NY, USA)
Previously: Curator of International Programs at the State Silk Museum (Tbilisi, Georgia)
Arts and Culture
Curatorial Practice and Cultural Management
My practice oscillates between social anthropology and contemporary art, as well as between curatorial work and arts administration. It spans research, exhibition-making, public programming, and cultural management. For more than a decade, I have curated exhibitions, talks, programs and events in cultural institutions and non-conventional exhibition venues. I have coordinated residencies and hosted artists, curators, and researchers from around the world. And I have developed international partnerships, networks, grant applications, and open calls across institutions and countries.
Educational
Talks, Seminars, Classes, Workshops
My educational approach takes many forms – university lectures, conferences, public programs, workshops and discussions – in the context of an auditorium, a cultural institution, an exhibition, a site-specific project, a public space, cooking, or other shared activities and exchanges.
Writing
Publications and Texts
Writing runs through almost everything I do – curatorial texts, research papers, articles, essays, interviews, announcements – and I’ve co-edited several publications along the way. For many years, I also worked as a translator and interpreter between Georgian and English.
Other
Somewhere Between Art and Anthropology
Between everything else, there’s my own practice — projects in visual anthropology, in its more experimental forms. Storytelling, in its many shapes, fascinates me: my work centers on archival materials, artists’ books, moving images, poetry and narration, and a mail art project.
