Kona Books

Kona Books Tbilisi-based bookseller and publisher Thus producing new geographical and physical encounters as well as creating a conversation within each publication.

Kona books is a Tbilisi-based publishing house and a bookstore focusing on contemporary visual and interdisciplinary projects. We are dedicated to publishing bilingual editions of Georgian and international artists in a dialogue with writers, poets, and other practitioners situated in Georgia or with a shared connection in their practice. Our bookstore offers a selection of printed matter from ind

ependent international press, artists’ books, monographs, poetry editions, journals and zines. It also functions as a space for book launches, readings, screenings, and exhibitions. Initially named as Posta da Kona, the bookstore was founded by Posta Press and Kona Books. Since 2023, the bookstore runs an independent program under the direction of Kona Books. Sales points:

Kona Books
Bookstore and publisher
10 G.Mazniashvili street
0102, Tbilisi, Georgia
Tuesday – Sunday
13:00-19:00

DI Bookshop
Bookstore at the Design Institute
82 D.Uznadze street
0102, Tbilisi, Georgia
Monday-Saturday
11:00-19:00

We are pleased to share documentation from the exhibition and book launch of Gift to Irma.Gift to Irma is a publication ...
01/06/2026

We are pleased to share documentation from the exhibition and book launch of Gift to Irma.

Gift to Irma is a publication dedicated to the work of Elene Chantladze, bringing together a selection of works the artist gifted to her daughter Irma, accompanied by Miciah Hussey’s text Stories in Stones: The Art of Elene Chantladze.

The launch unfolds alongside a presentation of Chantladze’s broader practice, bringing together her writing and works on paper in dialogue with the publication.

Using the existing display structures within the space, Kona Books presents facsimiles of Chantladze’s poetry alongside notebooks and text fragments that reflect her working process. Publications containing her writing, including Stories for Children (LC Queisser, Tbilisi and Saxpublishers, Vienna, 2023), are on view, expanding the context of her work and its relation to the rehearsal of language through “free drawing”, copying, and repetition. The display also includes photocopies of her works and an exhibition poster from her solo exhibition As in a Melody or a Bird’s Nest (Kunsthalle Zürich, 21.01.2024), which the artist reworked and painted over — gestures closely tied to her writing practice, where revision, editing,
and archiving become ongoing attempts to return to and reorient the works she has created.

Editor: Nina Akhvlediani, Lisa Offermann, Dan Solbach
Text: Miciah Hussey
Design: Timur Akhmetov
Language: EN / GE
Year: 2025
Publisher: Posta Press, Tbilisi and Kona Books, Tbilisi

Curator of the display: Nina Akhvlediani in collaboration with LC Queisser
Exhibition design: Julie Dalsgaard Hvass
Photo:

23 May - 20 June
Kona Books, Tbilisi

Gift to Irma, Elene Chantladze This Saturday, May 23, we are excited to invite you to the launch of Gift to Irma and exh...
20/05/2026

Gift to Irma, Elene Chantladze
This Saturday, May 23, we are excited to invite you to the launch of Gift to Irma and exhibition opening at Kona Books.

Gift to Irma is a publication dedicated to the work of Elene Chantladze, bringing together a selection of works the artist gifted to her daughter Irma, accompanied by Miciah Hussey’s text Stories in Stones: The Art of Elene Chantladze. The launch unfolds alongside a presentation of Chantladze’s broader practice, bringing together her writing and works on paper in dialogue with the publication.

What animates Chantladze’s drawings and paintings, as Hussey’s accompanying text describes, is the combination of her unconventional choice of media, her elliptical approach to subject and composition, and the meaning she manages to wrest from the poorest of
materials. Drawing on psychoanalytical and critical theory, Hussey’s text is at heart situated around a personal encounter with the artist and her work, and for this new book serves as much as companion as interpreter: a witness, alongside the reader, to a lexicon that is entirely Chantladze’s own.

Editor: Nina Akhvlediani, Lisa Offermann, Dan Solbach
Text: Miciah Hussey
Design: Timur Akhmetov
Language: EN / GE
Year: 2025
Publisher: Posta Press, Tbilisi and Kona Books, Tbilisi

Curator of the display: Nina Akhvlediani in collaboration with LC Queisser
Exhibition design: Julie Dalsgaard Hvass
Photo:

*Available at our bookshop* Tbilisi Interior, Anna TsitsishviliIn Tbilisi Interiors, photographer Anna Tsitsishvili retu...
07/05/2026

*Available at our bookshop* Tbilisi Interior, Anna Tsitsishvili

In Tbilisi Interiors, photographer Anna Tsitsishvili returns to the subject that defined her acclaimed debut, Tbilisi, with a renewed and intimate focus. This follow-up photobook shifts the lens inward—literally—inviting us beyond the façades of the Georgian capital to explore the layered and often surprising worlds within.

Where her first book captured the textured urban landscapes of Tbilisi’s streets and architecture, Tbilisi Interiors reveals the hidden lives behind closed doors: eclectic rooms filled with faded grandeur, modest apartments shaped by decades of personal history, and spaces that quietly tell stories of resilience, creativity, and cultural continuity. Through Tsitsishvili’s eye, interiors become portraits—of individuals, families, and the city itself.

This collection is not merely about design or decor; it is an emotional and aesthetic mapping of Tbilisi’s soul. With sensitivity and an artist’s sense of composition, Tsitsishvili documents spaces both curated and chaotic, refined and improvised, capturing the poetry of everyday life in Georgia’s capital.

Tbilisi Interiors is a love letter to a city in transition, seen from within.

Photographs: Anna Tsitsishvili
Design: Jurgen Maelfeyt
Softcover
Format: 23 × 31 cm
Year: 2025
Publisher:
tsitsishvili

*New in our library* Crip Time„Crip Time“ (2021/22 at the Frankfurt Museum für Moderne Kunst) was the first museum exhib...
20/04/2026

*New in our library* Crip Time

„Crip Time“ (2021/22 at the Frankfurt Museum für Moderne Kunst) was the first museum exhibition to centre on artists living with disabilities. In their works, they call into question the norms and standards of capitalist society and explore who they benefit - and thereby exclude.

The title refers to the idea of „crip time,“ developed by the American scholar Alison Kafer, which contends that people with disabilities need a different and more flexible sense of time in order to thrive. As is not unusual when working in crip time, this catalogue is published three years after the show closed. It provides a comprehensive account of and reflections on the exhibition in 19 texts, an extended thematic reader on the subject that can serve as a resource for future scholarship, and a new collaborative work by the artists Carolyn Lazard, Park McArthur, and Constantina Zavitsanos.

Editor: Susanne Pfeffer
Contributors: Panteha Abareshi, Absalon, John Akomfrah, Karen Barad, Emily Barker, Franco Bellucci, Adelhyd van Bender, Brothers Sick (Ezra Benus and Noah Benus), Franz Karl Bühler, Derrick Alexis Coard, Shawanda Corbett, Chloe Pascal Crawford, Jillian Crochet, Jesse Darling, Amalle Dublon, Pepe Espaliú, Sharona Franklin, Isa Genzken, Nan Goldin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Emilie Louise Gossiaux, Dagmar Herzog, Judith Hopf, Alison Kafer, Karrabing Film Collective, Mike Kelley, Christine Sun Kim, Thomas Lamarre, Carolyn Lazard, Guadalupe Maravilla, Park McArthur, Michelle Miles, Leroy F. Moore Jr., Berenice Olmedo, Dietrich Orth, Susanne Pfeffer, Therí A. Pickens, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Geelia Ronkina, Gerhard Richter, Donald Rodney, Alex Dolores Salerno, Dolly Sen, Finnegan Shannon, Liza Sylvestre, Sunaura Taylor, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rosemarie Trockel, and Constantina Zavitsanos.

Design: Dan Solbach, Leon Stark
Softcover
Format: 22.2 × 27 cm
Year: 2025
Published by and

Cover lettering by
Typefaces by .mclauchlan Printed by .druck

*Available at our bookshop* Patara BaghchaThe garden started in the summer has grown, yielded a harvest and gone to slee...
15/04/2026

*Available at our bookshop* Patara Baghcha

The garden started in the summer has grown, yielded a harvest and gone to sleep. Now we can only imagine the relationships that have developed inside and around the improvised fenced garden.

While the land is resting, we will share with you our impressions from our Georgian- Armenian dialogue.

Author: Elisabed Gedevanishvili
Design: Mariam Chaligava
Riso printed, stapled
Printed by: .press
Format: 14x14 cm
Year: 2026

*Available at our bookshop* Patara BaghchaThe garden started in the summer has grown, yielded a harvest and gone to slee...
15/04/2026

*Available at our bookshop* Patara Baghcha

The garden started in the summer has grown, yielded a harvest and gone to sleep. Now we can only imagine the relationships that have developed inside and around the improvised fenced garden.

While the land is resting, we will share with you our impressions from our Georgian- Armenian dialogue.

Author: Patara Baghcha
Design: Patara Baghcha
Riso printed, stapled
Format: 14x14 cm
Year: 2026

*Available at our bookshop* Picking Up, Turning Over, Slamming Down, Archil TsereteliPicking Up, Turning Over, Slamming ...
28/01/2026

*Available at our bookshop* Picking Up, Turning Over, Slamming Down, Archil Tsereteli

Picking Up, Turning Over, Slamming Down was written as a Master’s Thesis in Graphic Design. It examines art, architecture and design that revolve around the processes of deconstruction and destruction — works that try to represent, communicate or utilize the dysfunctional in order to create new forms or new knowledge of forms. The central starting point for the thesis is Tbilisi, the phenomenon of self-built extensions and the binary of self-building and self-destruction.

Author and design: Archil Tsereteli
Digital print, stapled
Format: 17x11 cm
Year: 2025

*Available at our Bookshop* Underground Souvenirs Graphic Archive, Can Can PressThis book brings together the graphics o...
25/01/2026

*Available at our Bookshop* Underground Souvenirs Graphic Archive, Can Can Press

This book brings together the graphics of Underground Souvenirs produced by Can Can Press between November 2022 and August 2025. A practice that was born as a game and became an essential part of the studio: images printed on T-shirts, bags, caps and accessories that circulated as improbable memories of Mexico City and the project’s travels.

Here the graphics appear in their most direct state, displayed as a file under construction. This volume is a break to review three years of work, share them in a contained format and thank the community that has accompanied Can Can since 2017.

Compiled, designed and published by: Can Can Press

Contributions

Gabino Azuela, Jackie Crespo, Diego Gracida, Mauricio Garza, Bianca Fiorischi, Johnathan Barragán, Andrea Silva, Regina Barragán

COLLABORATORS IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE

Secret Riso Club (US), Fantasma Press (MX), Studio H13 (FR), Cult Classic Magazine (US) & Georgina Treviño (MX), Corner Books (JP), Feria Material (MX), Fifth General Store (JP), Kiosko (JP), Oven Universe (JP), Ling Ling (MX), FM/AM (MX), Dale Zine (US), Solosé F.C. (MX), Hardcore Art Book Fair (MX)

Bilingual – Spanish and English
First edition of 1,000 copies
Offset printed in Mexico City

*NEW IN* Line FilesLine Files is the journal of the Line Armenian Architecture Biennial—an open space for ideas that mov...
13/01/2026

*NEW IN* Line Files

Line Files is the journal of the Line Armenian Architecture Biennial—an open space for ideas that move alongside, but not within, the biennial’s curatorial frame. Each issue gathers reflections that expand the ethos of Line through writing, speculation, and imagination.

In 2025, the biennial explored the theme “Up in the Air.” This edition collects contributions that examine the unseen forces shaping our world—suspension, fragility, uncertainty, and possibility-through a range of voices and perspectives. Together, they chart a constellation of thoughts on what it means, to be up in the air.

“Sometimes unstable, sometimes not yet decided, the city’s atmosphere is shaped by forces both visible and imperceptible. Heat urges us to redesign our habits. Smog softens once-crisp skylines. We navigate not just streets, but moods, weather, and microclimates, where boundaries are drawn not by walls or fences, but by the shared air we breathe. In these suspended states, we ask: what holds a city together? The answer is rarely fixed. It drifts, fragile, collective, and in motion.”

Editors: Shant Charoian, Arevik Vardanyan
Authors: Farah Al-Khoury, Lerna Bagdjian, Garine Boghossian, Gaianè Casnati, Maria Chassioti, Nida Ekenel, Nare Filiposyan, Leon Hidalgo, Nairi Khatchadourian, Chaido Karpoulia, Tigran Kostadyan, Eva Lavranou, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Alessandro Pasero, Anna Orlinski, Jan Ribbers, Felix Schuschan, Klelia Siska.
Graphic design: Kristina Sargsyan
Publisher: Line Armenian Architecture Biennial
Year: 2025

We are deeply grateful to all our friends and collaborators for being with us this past year.Many thanks to everyone who...
27/12/2025

We are deeply grateful to all our friends and collaborators for being with us this past year.

Many thanks to everyone who attended our events and we look forward to welcoming you back in 2026.

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Tuesday 13:00 - 19:00
Wednesday 13:00 - 19:00
Thursday 13:00 - 19:00
Friday 13:00 - 19:00
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