Fence Builders in the Landslide Wind: Nika Kutateladze and “Acacia Bloom” at Galerie Molitor

In a geography where the soil slowly slips out from under our feet, trying to protect one’s own small boundaries is an effort as deeply human as it is mournful. Georgian artist Nika Kutateladze takes us right into the middle of such a fracture in his solo exhibition titled “Acacia Bloom,” meeting viewers at Galerie Molitor in Berlin between September 11 and November 7, 2026.

Kutateladze spent five years in a mountainous village in Georgia—depopulating day by day under the threat of landslides—alongside the last few men confronting abandonment in the embrace of ruined houses and monumental natural scenery. Acacia Bloom tells of the obsession of those few people living amid a fated landslide in this secluded mountain village to persistently build fences around their homes. The oil paintings executed by the artist directly onto wooden surfaces focus on the fragile resistance of these men who drive wooden stakes into the ground regardless of the approaching disaster, designating boundaries and refusing to abandon the place. Those fences built on the slope of the slipping mountain turn into quiet symbols of the human desire to hold on against the inevitable.

Always making the spirit and memory of space visible through raw materials in his painting and installation practice, Kutateladze transforms the natural texture of wood into canvas, bringing the melancholy of solitude, extinction, and vanishing geographies to Berlin. Opening its doors on the evening of Thursday, September 10 during the Berlin Art Week opening marathon, the exhibition stands as one of the most jarring and poetic stops of the autumn season for those wishing to feel those frail yet proud fences built by humans against nature’s monumental power and the final moments of a settlement.