Connect
CONNECT is an exchange project between Georgian artists and international sound art students from Berlin. It looks at connections between different cultural contexts, as well as possible and impossible relationships, harmonies, and disruptions expressed through sound and other media.
Initiated by the Goethe-Institut Georgien in collaboration with the Berlin University of the Arts (Master’s program Sound Studies and Sonic Arts), the project brings together thirteen Tbilisi- and Berlin-based artists working with sound, performance, and time-based media.
Residency – Connect–Disconnect
The first encounter between the participants took place during the residency Connect–Disconnect from October 19 to 24, 2025, in Tbilisi, Kutaisi, and Tskaltubo. Through listening, artistic research, and site-sensitive practice, the artists engaged with the three places, their rhythms, atmospheres, and material presence. Sound became both method and medium, opening space for experimentation, encounters, and the development of artistic works across different media.
The ideas that emerged during the residency were further developed into artistic works through long-distance collaboration and are now presented in the exhibition Connect–Reconnect – first in Tbilisi and subsequently in Berlin.