Ketevan Chitashvili

Biography

Ketevan is the first and only Georgian provider of consulting, educational and creative individual services related to old and new money and museums. She works with central banks, mints, coin and banknote dealers, money museums and money-related educational institutions and associations globally.

Ketevan is a numismatist and money specialist with many years of local and international practice. Ketevan tries to convey the story of money by painting. She has a small workshop where you can travel to the world of money.

In addition to being known as an artist who paints about money, she is also known as a museum specialist, as she has work experience in several museums in her region, and among them she worked for the longest time in the Money Museum of National Bank of Georgia.

Ketevan considers money and numismatics as finance and art, as well as a tool for investment and development, and most importantly as an objective means of traveling through the world of money.

Her experience includes: promoting numismatics from the client’s collection, participating in the manufacturing process. She is also responsible for public engagement and collection care.

Archival and field research on currencies, collections management, exhibition content planning and establishing themes and designing catalogues. Assistance with the process of acquiring new objects for the collection, including selecting appropriate objects, conducting research, documenting and completing acquisition records.

Her unique knowledge, which combines finance, culture, museums, art, makes her interesting in the international professional environment.

At the British Museum

During her time on the International Training Programme Ketevan was based in the Department of Coins and Medals and her partner placement was spent at Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester Museum and Whitworth Art Gallery.

In 2019 participants were asked to plan and propose a temporary exhibition around an object from the Museum’s collection working within the theme of journeys. Ketevan worked with Ciprian-Mircea Dobra (Romania) on her Object in focus project. Their exhibition proposal was titled The Never-Ending Journey of Life.

Ketevan’s place on the International Training Programme was generously supported by the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust.

ITP Newsletter Publications
ITP Newsletter 9 (2022) Collection in focus: How Georgian numismatics responded to the challenge of climate change