Alex Gegia was born in 1980 in Kutaisi, Georgia. From 1998 to 2004 he studied at the Art Academy of Tbilisi. In 2004, Gegia received a DAAD scholarship and moved to Germany, where he continued his studies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in the classes of Jörg Immendorf, Markus Lüpertz and Andreas Schulze and graduated as a Meisterschüler in 2012.

Alexander Gegia's working practice is the result of a theoretical approach to the concept of painting. Two parallel processes lead in different ways to an autonomy of painting as a subject-dependent medium, to the decoupling of everything processual and depersonalization, hence the emancipation of the image as a semiotic phenomenon from the author himself.

This approach takes place in his naturalistic and photorealistic paintings as well as in his concrete works. By perfection of technical skills he gives the works a level of filtered illusion typical of our digital era and eliminates the traces of possible failure. The naturalistic pictorial objects appear narrative only at first glance; in reality, just like the perfect grids and patterns, they are sacrificed to the image itself as pictorial objects.

In two series of his oeuvre he has reversed this sacrificial distancing through perfection, leaving the creation of the image to coincidence, insofar as the interplay of physical and chemical processes can be described as random.(Tinatin Ghughunishvili-Brück)