Mikheil Charkviani is a theatre director, scenographer, author, and political activist from Tbilisi, Georgia, based in Germany.

He is the one of the founders of Open Space | Center for Visual & Performing Arts (Tbilisi) and the South Caucasus Documentary Theatre Network.

Working frequently in documentary theatre, he develops projects between performance, visual composition, and political intervention.

His works have been presented internationally at major festivals including Wiener Festwochen and Radikal Jung.

His practice is process-driven and developed in close collaboration with performers.

Artistic Statement

I work in theatre because it interrupts the constant flow of information and brings people into the same space. What happens there matters.

Working with documentary material—interviews, testimonies, situations from real life—stays close to how political conditions are lived, carried, and resisted on the level of the individual.

This material is carried by performers as themselves. They bring their own biographies, voices, and positions.

The work moves between speaking, repeating, documenting, and resisting.

I am not interested in escape. I try to avoid using the theatre as distraction.

At certain points, material appears that cannot be absorbed into the performance. It does not fit. It remains.

The work does not aim to deliver a clear message. It insists on what is already there and difficult to ignore.

What remains, ideally, is a conversation between people, and beyond the performance.

I come from Georgia, a context shaped by war and political change. This is what I bring into the work.