INTERACT PROJECTS
INTERACT PROJECTS is an independent curatorial initiative by Tina Natsvlishvili. It serves as a platform for interdisciplinary and site-specific art projects that engage with questions of place, participation, and collective knowledge. The initiative brings together both artists and communities to develop temporary artistic interventions in urban and rural settings. It focuses on transboundary artistic processes that explore social, ecological, and cultural conditions through collaborative and context-responsive formats.
KUMANONISUMU! 2025
KUMANONISUMU! is an Artist-in-Residence program curated and organized by Tina Natsvlishvili and Hisa Enomoto in the small coastal town of Kumano, located in Mie Prefecture on Japan’s Kii Peninsula.The second edition of KUMANONISUMU! will take place from August 1 to September 1, 2025. Under the theme “Oh, Otherness” this edition focuses on the experience of encountering what feels unfamiliar in times of global migration, interconnectedness, and shifting notions of identity. Rooted in Kumano’s long-standing tradition of hospitality, the project turns attention to the cultural significance of openness and belonging. The residency invites international and local artists to live and work in Kumano for one month, engaging with the local context through site-specific, participatory, and interdisciplinary artistic practices.
Like many rural areas in Japan, Kumano is experiencing demographic and structural transitions, including a declining population and changing socio-ecological dynamics. KUMANONISUMU! 2025 WILL serve as a temporary space for collective inquiry – an experimental ground for planting ideas, questions, concerns, and hopes that emerge from encounters between artists and the community. Through collaborative artistic interventions, KUMANONISUMU! 2025 will explore how cultural practices can reimagine local realities, proposing new ways for people and places to come together and for shared living environments to be reshaped.
Installations, performances, photography, and sound works will be realized in public space, the Kumano Cultural Center, and the former Kamikawa Junior High School. The final presentations, held between August 28 and September 15, 2025, will be accompanied by talks and discussions, creating space for subtle or direct audience engagement.Participating artists:
Chiku Komiya, Midori Mitamura, Elsa Okazaki, Sophia Tabatadze
WHY AM I SOFT IN THE MIDDLE?
10 fragments of crises
An exhibition at Halfsister Berlin
30 April - 4 May, 2025Crises are Universal. Everyone experiences moments of uncertainty, doubt, and inner turmoil. In artistic practice, these moments often run deeper – when the value of one’s own work comes into question, when self-doubt lingers, and the fluctuating visibility become a constant challenge.
The title of the exhibition is borrowed from Paul Simon’s song You Can Call Me Al. While the song reflects, somewhat ironically, on a midlife crisis and a sense of disorientation, the title here points to the fragility and uncertainty that often accompany both artistic and existential states of crisis. This exhibition opens a space for works that emerged in times of personal or artistic upheaval, or that reflect on the inner experience of navigating such states. It is about the struggle with identity, about moments of loss, vulnerability, and quiet resistance. The works on view are rooted in deeply personal conditions, yet, at the same time, they hold something universally familiar.
Especially now, in a time of global instability, it feels more urgent than ever to make room for the personal. What does an existential shift feel like for someone whose medium is expression? How does uncertainty, rupture, or inner conflict take shape in visual form?
The exhibition brings together ten artistic positions that reflect both the depths and the quiet hopes accompanying an artistic existence.Participating Artists:
Anja Ronacher, Anna Witt, Bernd Oppl, Emma Kling, Imre Nagy, Linus Riepler, Lorenz Kunath, Matthias Ramsey, Sophia Tabatadze, Xenia Hausner© All images: Lorenz Kunath
A PLACE TO LIVE. Reimagining Tbilisi
An artist-in-residence and exhibition project at Center Of Contemporary Art Tbilisi
1 August - 30 September, 2023Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Georgia underwent a series of radical socio-political transformations. The most fundamental of these changes, the reintroduction of private property and a complete overhaul of the judicial system had a particularly strong impact in the country’s urban development. Over the past 30 years, the capital city of Tbilisi has been the centre stage of the political, cultural, social and architectural upheavals. The rapid modernization of the city has created a strange fusion of old and new. It’s historical structures coexist with sprawling brutalist architecture of concrete, steel and glass. But central issues such as the relationship between private and public, the accessibility of natural environments or cities perceived identity are only given little attention.How do we want to live in the future? How do we want to deal with our environment and thus with ourselves? What sustainable forms of living together are possible in a big city? What are the roles of the individual and of the collective? – A PLACE TO LIVE critically examined the urban space of Tbilisi through visual art, inspiring visions of the city’s future. Using sculpture and large-scale installations, the participating artists developed an imaginary version of Tbilisi, exploring connections between people, places, and nature while engaging local audiences.Participating artists:
Gala Eristavi, Karine Fauchard, Tamar Gurgenidze, Helmut Heiss, Nanuka Lagidze, Lazar Lyutakov, Thea Moeller, Matthias Ramsey, Linus Riepler, Mima Schwahn, Aleksi Soselia, Data Tsintsadze©All images: Sandro Sulaberidze
KUMANONISUMU! 2022
The first edition of KUMANONISUMU! took place from July 15 to August 14, 2022. Under the theme “At Home” the project explored how the notion of home can be redefined in times of global crises and local rural transformation.
Artists from Austria and Japan collaborated on site-specific, participatory projects that responded to the cultural, ecological, and economic shifts in Kumano – a town affected by rural depopulation and vacant spaces. Working in public spaces and an abandoned school building, the artists developed installations, performances, photographic works, videos, and paintings that engaged directly with the community.
The final works were presented in exhibitions at the former Kamikawa Junior High School, the Kumano Cultural Center, and in public spaces throughout Kumano, accompanied by talks and workshops that opened space for discussion and reflection.participating artists:
Lorenz Kunath & Emma Kling, Krisztina Kerekes, Mayumi Arai, Linus Riepler, Noriaki Imai, Natia Kalandadze, Michaela Falkensteiner, Matthias Ramsey, Laura Nitsche, Ayumi Sawa & Jarek Piotrowski
Mag.art Tina Natsvlishvili MA, is a curator based in Vienna. She studied contextual painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, art history at the University of Vienna, and exhibition theory and cultural management (ecm) at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Following her studies, she worked as a curatorial assistant at KUNSTHALLE WIEN and the Volkskundenmuseum Vienna, where she contributed to research, exhibition development, and publications. She gained further experience in visual arts, working as an assistant editor and author for institutional publications, and later coordinated exhibitions and international art fair presentations as part of the gallery team at MEYER*KAINER Vienna. From 2019 to 2024, she managed the studio of Austrian painter Xenia Hausner, overseeing exhibition planning, artistic productions, and international collaborations.Since 2022, she has been initiating and organizing independent curatorial projects with a focus on site-specific, multidisciplinary, and participatory formats. These projects investigate questions of urban transformation, ecological and economic shifts, and the possibilities of reimagining lived environments in a time of global crises.
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