About

 

Irakli Sabekia is a Georgian designer and artistic researcher based in Amsterdam. At the intersection of design, art, and philosophy, he leads a multidisciplinary practice exploring the frictions that arise between the human and the system. In his installations, experience is used as a tool to enter a dialogue with the viewer and create a meaningful encounter, enabling a layered insight into the issues he addresses.

 

 

Awards, Grants, Residencies

 

Arti Air Residency - Arti et Amicitiae - Amsterdam, NL, 2023

 

Commission - Institute of Science and Ethics, University of Bonn, Germany, 2023

 

Art-Science Residency - Ars Electronica Festival - Linz, Austria, 2022

 

Falling Walls - Finalist, Art and Science category - Berlin, Germany, 2022

 

New Technological Art Award - Nomination - Ghent, Belgium, 2022

 

Hublot Design Prize - Nomination - London, UK, 2021

         
Talent Development Grant - Creative Industries Fund NL - the Netherlands, 2020

         
STARTS Prize - Nomination, European Commission,

Ars Electonica festival, Bozar, 2021

 

Youngblood Award - Nomination, Gogbot festival, Enschede, the Netherlands, 2021

 

Cultuur Eindhoven Grant - Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 2020

 

Dutch Datcha Artist Residency - Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 2020

 

Melkweg Award - Design Academy Eindhoven, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 2019

         
Kolga Tbilisi Photo - official selection, International Festival - Tbilisi, Georgia, 2015

 

 

Exhibitions 2019-2023 (Selected)

 

Arti et Amicitiae, Arti Air Residency Exhibition - Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2023

 

Dutch Design Week 2023 - Klokgebouw, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 2023

 

Institute of Science and Ethics, Bonn, Germany, 2023

 

Sustainable AI conference, University of Bonn, Germany, 2023

 

Ars Electronica Festival 2022, Art-Science Residency Exhibition, Linz, Austria, 2022

 

Milan Design Week, DAE - 75th Anniversary Exhibition, Milan, Italy, 2022

 

Zebrastraat, New Technological Art Award exhibition, Ghent, Belgium, 2022

 

Van Abbemuseum, Geodesign: Budget Airlines - ‘Breathe Normally’, Eindhoven, NL, 2021

 

Serpentine Sackler Gallery - Hublot Design Prize exhibition, London, UK, 2021

 

Zagreb Design Week, Dutch exhibition ‘Bounce Back’, Zagreb, Croatia, 2021

 

Onomatopee, ‘A Place to Stay - Practicing embodied Design’, Eindhoven, NL, 2021

 

Bozar Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium. STARTS Prize exhibition, 2020

         
Hello Humanity: Dutch Design for a Holistic World, Virtual Exhibition, 2020

 

Art Rotterdam, WORM, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 2020

PlanetArt, Gogbot 2020 Festival, Enschede,

 the Netherlands, 2020

 

Graduation Show 2019, Design Academy Einhoven, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 2019

 

Humanity House, Night of the Dictatorship, The Hague, the Netherlands, 2019

 

Arminius, Night of the Dictatorship, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 2019

 

Studio of Benevolence - Irregularities, Veenhuizen, Drenthe, the Netherlands, 2019

 

Dutch Design Week - Design Indaba Exhibition, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 2019

 

Temporary Art Centre, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 2019

 

 

Teaching, Lectures, Workshops (Selected)

 

Guest Lecture

     - HKU, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 2023

Artist Keynote

     - Coevolution Research Assembly, Taiwan, 2023

Tutor, Design Research, MA Geo-design

     - Design Academy Eindhoven, 2022-present

Speaker, Sustainable AI Conference

     - University of Bonn, Germany, 2023

Guest Tutor, MA Experimental Design

     - Basel Academy of Art and Design, FHNW, Switzerland, 2023

Guest lecturer and workshop tutor, ‘Manifesting Herzian Space’

     - Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, 2022

Artist talk and panel discussion, ‘Re-Imagining Common Goods in the Age of AI’

     - COP27, Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, 2022

Artist talk and panel discussion, ‘Residency, But How’

     - Ars Electronica Festival, 2022

Lecturer and workshop tutor, Design Campus

     - The Kunstgewerbemuseum, Dresden, Germany, 2022

Artist Keynote and panel discussion

     - Qolony Association The Art & Science Qolony Bucharest, Romania, 2022

Guest Lecture

     - Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art, Ramat Gan, Israel 2021

Guest Speaker, ‘Introduction Master Course’

      - Design Academy Eindhoven, the Netherlands  2020

Panel discussion, Opening Conference STARTS Prize’20’

     - Bozar, Brussels, Belgium, 2020

Speaker, ‘Antenna Conference’19’

    - Design Indaba / Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 2019

 

 

Publications, Press (selected)

 

Articula Magazine, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2023

 

IJopener Magazine, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2022

 

Ars Electronica, Online Portal, ’Tools to Confront Unbalanced Realities’, 2022

 

Wallpaper Magazine, ‘on research and design as 'tools to attack reality’, 2022

 

DesignWanted - ‘Spatial storytelling with Irakli Sabekia’, 2021

 

ACED, Design and Journalism, ‘Irakli Sabekia’s Voicing Borders’, 2021

 

Dd, Dutch Design Magazine, ‘Chaos is a necessary evil’, 2021

 

STARTS Prize guide, STARTS Prize, 2021

 

Dezeen - ‘Irakli Sabekia turns razor wire fence into radio transmitter’, 2020

 

DAMN Magazine, Issue #75, Gent, Belgium, 2020

 

NPO Start, Vpro - De Toekomstbouwers, television program, the Netherlands, 2019

 

This Is Eindhoven, ‘5x Recent alumni of Design Academy Eindhoven', 2019

 

Caucasus Business Week - 'The Weapon to Enforce the Occupation Against Itself', 2019

 

DAE Design Research Podcast - Design Academy Eindhoven, 2019

 

Kolga Tbilisi Photo 2015, Exhibition Catalogue, 2015