What: 2016–2025 by Rooms Studio
When: May 10 – June 30, 2025
Where: Galerie Liberté, Luxembourg
Rooms Studio’s 2016–2025 at Galerie Liberté explores cultural memory and sculptural design
Galerie Liberté in Luxembourg hosts 2016–2025, an evocative exhibition by Rooms Studio, showcasing 16 sculptural works that span nearly a decade of creative evolution. Founded by Georgian designers Nata Janberidze and Keti Toloraia, Rooms Studio operates between Tbilisi and Paris, crafting a design language that merges cultural memory with contemporary form. This exhibition reflects their unique synthesis of function, symbolism, and narrative—furniture as a medium for storytelling.
Each object on view—ranging from seating and tables to lighting and tapestry—is rooted in the tactile essence of materiality. Cast aluminum, wood, beeswax, stone, and textile come together in striking juxtapositions: the dense weight of metal softened by handwoven blankets, rigid forms tempered by organic textures. These contrasts embody the core tensions of Rooms Studio’s practice—monumentality and fragility, fluidity and solidity, heritage and innovation.
Rooms Studio’s work often resists conventional categories. It lives between architecture, sculpture, and design. The studio’s pieces are standalone presences—autonomous, emotionally charged, and rooted in a strong sense of place. Through collections like Wild Minimalism, DNA Archives, and the Street Series, Janberidze and Toloraia interpret Georgia’s architectural history—from medieval and Soviet to post-transitional—through a contemporary, highly personal lens.
A key highlight of the exhibition is the Street Series, which draws inspiration from the improvised, vernacular aesthetics of post-Soviet public space. In these pieces, ad-hoc design interventions become poetic statements—symbolizing resilience, adaptation, and the lived experience of a city in flux. It is here that Rooms Studio’s deeper themes of resistance, cultural continuity, and emotional identity find their most powerful expression.
2016–2025 is not a retrospective, but rather a layered presentation of an ongoing dialogue. The exhibition demonstrates how design can serve as an archive of transformation—where past and present, East and West, and material and meaning converge. Each work offers a spatial narrative that is as much about Georgia’s cultural topography as it is about global design’s expanding language.
All images courtesy of Galerie Liberté
https://www.galerieliberte.com
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