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.
Meir Reappears
A rediscovered painting opens a door back to Dresden in 1990: Hans Heiner Buhr tells the story of Meir, a portrait of Meir Mendelssohn, created as part of a triptych that helped finance his painting studies at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.
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.
Otar Chkhartishvili at the Dry Bridge Art Market, Tbilisi, 1998
Rare archive photographs from Tbilisi in 1998: Georgian artist Otar Chkhartishvili (1938 - 2006) and friends at the Dry Bridge art market — a small document of Georgia’s post-Soviet art world, full of improvisation, friendship and belief.
Germania (1995): Love, Promise and Reckoning in 1990s Germany
“Germania” (1995) is both a personal and social painting by Heiner Buhr about love, promise, consumerism and the hopes of reunited Germany in the 1990s.
Kontrabanda
In the mid-1990s Caucasus, trade meant survival. Years later, one encounter became a painting about memory, exchange, and human resilience.
The young poet
A poem about a young poet in East Germany of the late 1980s
time traveler
A time traveler
the blocks of sticky seconds
dried up the road of rocks and hope
side horses carry ax and wood
fiber cables batteries Nokia phones