Nikoloz Nadirashvili

Nikoloz Nadirashvili is a research projects manager and arts policy consultant, working for public entities and NGOs. From 2015 to 2017 he was committed to the development of the following national policy papers: Culture Strategy 2025 and the Roadmap for Developing Cultural and Creative Industries in Georgia. As of 2017 Nikoloz switched to the NGO sector. While working as a Research Projects Manager at Propaganda, he co-developed medium- and large-scale research projects, such as Contemporary Art Archive-Tbilisi 鈥 www.archive.propaganda.network. From 2015 onwards, Nikoloz is also involved academically, giving lectures at Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Film State University and at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in arts management from arts sociological perspective for MA and BA students. Nikoloz obtained a BBA from the Georgian-American University (GAU) in 2013, a MA in Cotemporary Visual Arts Theory from the Tbilisi State Acadmey of Arts in 2014 and another MA in Arts Policy and Marketing from the University of Groningen in 2015. His articles are regularly published on at.ge and stories.propaganda.network. He is a member of the Central Eurasian Studies Society and the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) since 2016. From 2019 to 2021, Nikoloz worked as a National Expert for EU/UNESCO project: 鈥淒esigning a Creative Cluster Ecosystem in Georgia鈥, for which he elaborated the Policy Paper aimed at the public sector and co-organized large scale awareness-raising events and workshops.