2005 Art Villa Garikula hosted Irish, Georgian and English artists, on a work in progress, called Europe’s Peripheries.
2005 International Culture House invited to Garikula student filmmakers from Latvia and Georgia. Organized by Nino Nozadze, from ICH, the meeting aimed at conveying through the film the image of new cultural dimensions; “Open Gauge” works were presented in Georgia and Latvia.
2005 Highlighting Georgian customs, cuisine and culture, “Gourmaniada” was organized in Art Villa Garikula by Karaman Kutateladze, Goga Kalandadze, Gogi and Kote Totibadze, Nina Gomiashvili and Aleksei Kazakov. The catalogue was published in Moscow in 2005. Gourmaniada presents cuisine, art and customs of a particular country.
2005 Kulturschmiede, Austrian Federal Chancellery, Kultur Kontakt Austria, Georgian Ministry of Culture, Sports and Monuments protection and Art Villa Garikula organized the symposium “Wien – Garikula”. Conceived by Giorgi Okropiridze, Lukas Horwath and Johannes Steidl a two-week meeting of 15 artists from Austria in Georgia was to promote direct contact betweeen artists from Austria and Georgia, as well as make Georgian contemporary art known in Vienna where the catalogue covering the event was presented. As an additional benefit one Georgian participant visited Vienna through Kultur Kontakt, and Austrian participant lived in Tbilisi for almost one year. The artworks have been exhibited in National Art Center, Tbilisi, and remain in the collection of Garikula.
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2005 Dutch Federation of Artists’ Associations, European Council of Artists, UNESCO, Georgian Ministry of Culture, Sport and Monuments Protection, and Art Villa Garikula, organized one-week symposium with artists from Netherlands, Lithuania, Turkey and Georgia. In the framework of annual events by European Council of Artists called “A Portrait of the Artist in 2015”, the artists' encounter addressed theme of friendship inspired by Middle Age Georgian poem “The Knight in the Tigers’ Skin”; as well as Georgian, Dutch and Lithuanian song, music and contemporary art. A catalogue with a DVD was published in Netherlands by ECA, covering this encounter in detail.
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2005 Established “National Art Center”/NAC in Tbilisi.