MAI GOGISHVILI is a Georgian stage designer and spatial artist.
She has been working for various theaters in German-speaking countries since 2010.
(e.g. Schauspielhaus Frankfurt, Theater Dortmund, Theater Freiburg, Münchner Volkstheater, Kammerspiele München, Rote Fabrik Zürich, Theater Neumarkt Zürich, Staatsschauspiel Stuttgart...)

Her spatial designs are symbolic translations of the themes dealt with in the texts. She searches for the confrontation between image and action, between order and chaos, corporeality and artificiality. The formula is the more artificial the spatial world, the more visible the corporeality of the organic bodies. Like a second pillar of the narrative, they reinforce the content. If one part is missing, the message of the narrative is overturned.

Bertolt Brecht's birthday party is being held in the hall of the Alevi community in Augsburg. The birthday guests have been invited, the tables are laid, the birthday cake has been ordered. Only the birthday boy is absent.
Mai Gogishvili is interested in Brecht's absence in the present. She borrows various objects from his life, mixes them with stage elements from other plays at the Staatstheater Augsburg and further blends them with Turkish-Alevi decorative elements by the decorator Özsari Bahriye ("Bahriye Deko"). In this way, she creates a presence of the absent and opens up the space for new narratives through the mixture.