Artist Profile Valeri Miqava

Miqava’s dream-like, intuitive abstractions utilize powerful somatic techniques to evoke a timeless, primordial silence.

Artist Biography

Born 1959, Tbilisi, Georgia. Lives and works in Georgia.

Valeri Miqava began painting at a young age and studied Tbilisi state academy of Arts, graduating in 1999. His artistic development has been shaped by both academic training and long term independent exploration.

From 1985 onward, he has been professionally active as a painter and educator, teaching painting techniques rooted in ancient and traditional practices, including encaustic and tempera. Between 2001 and the present, Miqava has participated in international art competitions and exhibitions, receiving recognition among leading artists working in traditional ancient encaustic practice. With more than 25 years of continuous artistic activity, Miqava’s work reflects a sustained commitment to painting as a material, philosophical, and individual pursuit.

“My artistic practice is centered on the development of a personal visual language as an expression of individual perception. Working primarily through abstraction, I explore how form, material, and intuition can function independently of narrative and established symbolism. Influenced by spiritual traditions, material experimentation, and decades of sustained practice, my work resists standardized visual systems and stylistic conformity. Each painting evolves intuitively, allowing inner states, memory, and sensation to shape the image rather than predetermined concepts. In this way, the act of painting becomes an assertion of individualism – an open process that values uncertainty, transformation, and personal truth.”