NOBU for TAB
One Road, Many Fragments
Gesture, mark-making and fragmented abstraction explore memory, displacement and personal narratives.
Current · From 9 September 2026
Auguststraße 86, Berlin
The series by emerging artist NOBU develops through a language of fragmented abstraction, where gesture, mark-making, and reduction become central expressive tools. Across the works, NOBU creates a tension between structure and instability: black vertical forms resemble barriers, traces, or architectural remnants, while vivid colorful accents interrupt the compositions with emotional intensity and immediacy. The recurring use of simplified symbols, broken typography, and layered surfaces suggests an intuitive process connected to memory, displacement, and coded personal narratives.
Without constructing fixed meanings, NOBU operates with visual fragments as unfinished signals between language and image, silence and expression.
About NOBU
NOBU (1993) is the pseudonym of Levan Navrozashvili, an emerging artist who studied at the School of Arts and Sciences at Ilia State University, graduating in 2015.
After leaving Georgia, the artist began reflecting more deeply on childhood memories and questions of cultural identity. Working under the resonance of the Japanese word “Nobu”—associated with meanings such as trust, faith, and continuity—his practice balances an emotional attachment to Eastern sensibilities with an experimental visual language shaped by Western abstraction.
While his art was held privately for years, his collaboration with Reach Art Visual (RAV) marked his debut in the public eye, highlighted by his presentation at the Tbilisi Art Fair 2026.