From Darkness to Light — Paintings, Memory and the White Cube in Tbilisi
Eleven new Caucasus paintings at Vernissage Gallery Tbilisi, on the occasion of the publication of the catalog In the Prison of Art — 137 paintings from 30 years in Georgia.
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From Darkness to Light – Hans Heiner Buhr | Vernissage Gallery Tbilisi
Hans Heiner Buhr opens From Darkness to Light at Vernissage Gallery Tbilisi on 3 June 2026 — new paintings tracing thirty years between East Berlin and the Caucasus, alongside the first presentation of his catalogue In the Prison of Art.
Desire: Three Caravan Drawings and a Poem
Three recent drawings of caravans and pack horses, accompanied by the poem Desire — a meditation on movement, longing, trade routes, and the imagined landscapes between the Caspian Sea and Isfahan.
The Caravan — now on Saatchi Art
The Caravan is a 2016 oil painting by Hans Heiner Buhr, painted in Tbilisi on two joined canvases. The work shows a rider with pack horses and herd protection dogs — one of the artist’s recurring Caucasus motifs.
Paintings from the Caucasus Now on Saatchi Art
My Saatchi Art profile has been updated with a focused selection of paintings from different periods of my work. Many of them are rooted in Georgia and the Caucasus — in horses, mountain passes, borderlands, memory, conflict and the strange beauty of post-Soviet landscapes.