GIFT 2025 opens with Sankai Juku
The 28th edition opened at the Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre with the Japanese Butoh company’s “Meguri — Teeming Sea, Tranquil Land”.
Focus Italia, the Basque–Georgian Crossroads and a new Biennale College
GIFT 2025 runs from 25 October to 20 November with three strands and a stage for emerging Georgian artists.
From humble beginnings to global recognition
Georgia Today on how GIFT began in 1997 — 220 artists from 18 countries, and a city that opened its homes to them.
GIFT 2024 opens with Declan Donnellan’s Oedipus Rex
The 27th edition runs 3–15 November; the Mikheil Tumanishvili Prize goes to Donnellan, Giorgi Margvelashvili and Davit Evgenidze.
The Glory Wall comes to Tbilisi
Leonardo Manzan’s Golden Lion–winning piece about censorship joins GIFT 2023.
The 25th GIFT opens with a Greek Focus
A jubilee edition with a Greek Focus, featuring Theodoros Terzopoulos’ “Alarme” at the Marjanishvili Theatre.
GIFT 2019: Maguy Marin, Rocío Molina, Carolyn Carlson
The 22nd edition runs 19 October – 16 November and closes with Andriy Zholdak’s world-premiere King Lear.
