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2016 International Doll Festival in MOMA Georgia



The Zurab Tsereteli Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in Tbilisi, Georgia, held the first International Doll Festival of Author’s Dolls from 3-5 December 2016. The exhibition, called ‘ArtDoll Tbilisi 2016’ has dolls by 11 artists from 6 countries – such as Georgia, Estonia, Russia, Ukraine, Czech Republiv, Azerbaijan, and Italy.

The materials for making the dolls exhibited include papier-mache, porcelain, wood, cloth, and metal. There are a diversity of styles, images, and techniques. They are all 'one-of-a-kind' works of ArtDoll.

The Society of Doll Masters of Georgia (GeoDoll) organized the exhibition with support from the Ministry of Culture and the Mayor’s Hall of Georgia.


 Tea Mindadze, Georgia

 Mako Gnolidze, Georgia


 Laura Scattolini, Italy

 Salome Tchedia, Georgia

 Nana Yaulashvili, Georgia

Julia Sorokina, Georgia

 Nana Okruashvili, Georgia

 'Leonardo da Vinci' by Tornike Goginashvili, Georgia

 Tinatin Magalashvili, Georgia

Johannes Vermeer's 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' by Nana Bediashvili, Georgia

 Keti Dzidziguri, Georgia

 Olga Egupets, Russia


 Veronika Sido, Czech Republic

  Veronika Sido, Czech Republic

 'Akasha' doll by Tetyana Aksyonova, Ukraine

 'Forest Elf' by Alla Kotlyar, Ukraine

 Estonian Art Doll House by Svetlana Pchelnikova, Estonia

'Bathing Imaginations' by Parvis Houseinov, Irina Gundorina, Azerbaijan

 Viktor Grigoriev, Russia

 Tamar Kvesitadze, Georgia




 Nana Mchedlishvili, Georgia

Levan Bujiashvili, Georgia






MARTINA NICOLLS is an international aid and development consultant, and the author of:- The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).


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