The first place for me is the audience. I am very sensitive to the gallery community and do everything possible to preserve the atmosphere. These wonderful people are expats, international travelers and locals, united by a love of beauty, good taste, sociability and openness to the world. For me, visitors are my extended family, many of whom have become my close friends.

How do I collect exhibitions? I am not a professional gallerist and I have no art education. But. I was engaged in commercial photography for 12 years, shooting feature films. In essence, the collected exhibitions are me. My sense of art, my vision. I don’t choose authors based on their credentials, I look at the work and nearby there may be eminent, honored artists and newcomers who wrote their first work (there were such precedents, and they were amazing).

And of course the bar. The bar is a separate manifestation of my art. This is a small wine list of amazing wine on exclusive terms — you can only try it in my bar. This wine won silver in Georgia and gold in Italy. This is excellent cuisine from a local chef. These are products that I have collected from all over the world. And of course it’s good coffee from Italy and local Georgian tea.