RUBEZH Atelier Residency Program in Tbilisi
Resident:
Resident:
Maria Kutuzova
August 10–23, 2026
RUBEZH Atelier Residency Program in Tbilisi
Resident:
Resident:
Maria Kutuzova
August 10–23, 2026
Maria Kutuzova is an interdisciplinary artist who has lived and worked in Georgia since 2022.
She works with installation, objects, video, and performance. Her work explores everyday situations, simple actions, and human interaction with natural and technological environments.
Her practice focuses on states of instability and crisis, in which familiar values and norms lose their certainty and must be reconsidered, while change and destruction shape our perception of the world and our relationship with ourselves.
Maria is also a part of the RUBEZH organising team.
Her practice focuses on states of instability and crisis, in which familiar values and norms lose their certainty and must be reconsidered, while change and destruction shape our perception of the world and our relationship with ourselves.
Maria is also a part of the RUBEZH organising team.
The Residency Through Maria’s Eyes
For three weeks, I worked at RUBEZH on the first version of a shop for affordable art. During the day, the space became my temporary studio, where I created the first objects, gathered materials, developed the project’s structure, and observed the life of the place itself.
On some days, I invited friends to join me. We drank tea and talked about the works, their prices, and the accessibility of art. Some ideas developed through these conversations, and some objects were created together.
To produce perfect books, these rules have to be brought back to life and applied.
To produce perfect books, these rules have to be brought back to life and applied.
The residency brought together making, observation, conversation, and collective action, all of which shaped the project’s development.
At the final open studio, I presented the first objects,
materials, and stages of the work, and talked about how the project and my working process developed at RUBEZH.
At the final open studio, I presented the first objects,
materials, and stages of the work, and talked about how the project and my working process developed at RUBEZH.
The Project
I want original art to become a natural part of everyday life.
This led me to develop a shop for affordable art. Here, accessibility is not only about price, but also about size, materials, weight, storage, and portability.
These works can exist in a rented room, studio, or temporary home and move together with their owners.
The project grows out of the experience of unstable living, in which people regularly move between homes, cities, and countries. I am interested in what kind of art can remain close to a person through these changes.
This led me to develop a shop for affordable art. Here, accessibility is not only about price, but also about size, materials, weight, storage, and portability.
These works can exist in a rented room, studio, or temporary home and move together with their owners.
The project grows out of the experience of unstable living, in which people regularly move between homes, cities, and countries. I am interested in what kind of art can remain close to a person through these changes.
Affordability does not reduce a work’s artistic value or complexity. Each object begins with a specific situation
or observation that shapes its material, form, function, and price.
I see the shop as both a place of sale and an artistic situation that includes the work’s entire journey: creation, pricing, acquisition, use, exchange, movement, and later life.
or observation that shapes its material, form, function, and price.
I see the shop as both a place of sale and an artistic situation that includes the work’s entire journey: creation, pricing, acquisition, use, exchange, movement, and later life.
The first version is being developed at RUBEZH — a space based on shared resources, where tools and materials pass from one person to another. It offers a fitting environment for exploring accessibility, the relationship between price
and value, and how art can exist under unstable conditions.
and value, and how art can exist under unstable conditions.
Maria’s works in other RUBEZH projects