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Collective to be

Nearly formed collective of independent art book publishers - a small, slightly chaotic, deeply passionate corner of Georgia that packed five years' worth of books into a suitcase and flew to Berlin. We are bringing together four publishers, each with its own style, creative process and perspective on publishing.

Three Hundred Sixty-five is Publishing annual ink on paper newspaper Three Hundred Sixty-five for five years, which brings together texts by Georgian artists working across different disciplines, where they share their working processes and inner states with the reader. For the first time, Three Hundred Sixty-Five will present a newly pressed bilingual book, REVOLVED - an anthology that brings together a carefully curated selection of texts written for the newspaper over the past five years.

Kona Books is a Tbilisi-based publishing house and bookstore focusing on contemporary visual and interdisciplinary projects. Publishing bilingual editions of Georgian and international artists in dialogue with writers, poets, and other practitioners situated in Georgia or with a shared connection in their practice — producing new geographical and physical encounters, and creating a conversation within each publication.

Xaraxura is an artist-run community, a risograph studio and a multifunctional space in Tbilisi. Their interests span contemporary art and illustration, typography, design as practice, research-based art and design, history and anthropology, imperfect and non-linear archiving, music, the digital sphere, urban affairs, experimental printing and publishing, collective memory, queer culture, and a variety of subcultures and identities.

De: Nostalgia is an interdisciplinary, bilingual magazine dedicated to rethinking and de:construction of the past. De:Nostalgia was founded in 2021 within the context of an independent theatrical and cultural company, Haraki, from a space where art and criticism are closely intertwined. The journal unites local and international authors and creates a dialogue of sound between Georgian and global cultural spaces.
Recolved
35 Georgian artists, Recolved, Three Hundred Sixty-Five, 2026 © 35 Georgian artists

Revolved is a collective chronicle of time by Georgian artists, drawn from texts published in the newspaper Three Hundred Sixty-Five between 2021 and 2025. History will record these years differently. This book, instead, offers a parallel history, created by artists, personal, fragmentary, at times unfinished, at times subjective, and at times all-encompassing. It is an attempt to preserve an extended and intimate account of our time through observation and reflection. The book brings together personal stories, fragments of history, reflections, and poetic texts by Georgian artists working in Georgia and Germany.

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Gift to Irma
Elene Chantladze, Gift to Irma, Kona Books, 2025 © Elene Chantladze

A selection of works Elene Chantladze gifted to her daughter Irma, accompanied by a text by Miciah Hussey, Stories in Stones: The Art of Elene Chantladze.

Editor: Nina Akhvlediani, Lisa Offermann, Dan Solbach

Text: Miciah Hussey

Design: Timur Akhmetov

Language: EN / GE

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Turning Square
Mariam, Turning Square, Xaraxura, 2025 © Mariam

Printed on a risograph, hand-bound.



This publication is dedicated to my beloved square located at the turnoff to Nutsubidze Plateau I, which, by decision of the City Hall, has been under restoration for the past three months.

Language: GE

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de:nostalgia magazine, issue no3
Mariam Megvinyte, de:nostalgia magazine, issue no3, de:nostalgia, 2025 © Mariam Megvinyte

The magazine was intended to speak about various forms, experiences, and senses of Nostalgia locally and globally. Georgian people feel nostalgia towards theatre and the feeling is justified. Without analyzing and delving into the reason as to why that may be, I have decided to offer the platform to theatre theory, as I identify the lack of it to be the primary reason for the lack of the broader vitalism in theatre. Theatre can be vital in Georgia, but only in small pockets and crevices, which are not safeguarded but shunned by the government and increasingly used as a tool for political manipulation and control and not vice versa.



Language: GE/EN

Graphic design: Mariam Epitashvili

Editor and founder: Mariam Megvinyte

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