'Peace Pandemic'

In nowadays tensed times, when political and economic polarization has been increasing and newly emerged wars are escalating, we offer Tbilisi as a place of messy ecosystem for reflection on coexistence—a case study where diverse religious and ethnic groups have lived together for thousands of years.

Even now, citizens of Iran and Israel make dialogues in Tbilisi restaurants, Shia and Sunni Muslims pray together in the same mosque, Armenians and Azeri spend summer holidays at the Georgian Black Sea coast. Tbilisi is a fundamentally inclusive Cosmo polis, which even today receives new communities of Ukrainian refugees and Belarusian and Russian citizens.

The COVID pandemic and its fallout destroyed the illusion of autonomy. By indiscriminately touching and changing the lives of everyone, our shared present has shown there is no division in nature, and that there is no alternative but for new forms of coexistence, for peace, on this planet.

The map of locations of 5^th Tbilisi Triennial includes venues such as CCA-Tbilisi gallery, Caravanserais, Balneological Resort Tbilisi, National Scientific Library of Georgia, Lisi Lake and independent galleries and cultural spaces.