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Finding Good Balance

Sasha Korban's mural Finding Good Balance in Tbilisi: a young woman in a blue dress balances with outstretched arms on a pile of tilted wooden chairs on a weathered building.
Artwork FileTbilisi, Georgia

Finding Good Balance

SeenJan 2019

Sasha Korban · Isani district, Tbilisi, Georgia · documented January 2019

Photo as published on Street Art Utopia; the photographer is not named there.

Sasha Korban’s mural shows a fragile young woman keeping her balance on a heap of scattered chairs, on a wall in Tbilisi. Ukrainian and Belarusian media reported it on 16 and 17 January 2019, quoting the artist’s own Facebook post. Source Source Checked

Seen Jan 2019: the newest dated evidence we found is the artist’s photos of the finished mural, reported on 16 and 17 January 2019. A Tbilisi street-art guide updated on 13 October 2026 still lists the mural, but its photo is undated. Source Source Reported

💡 4 things to know

  1. Balance is the subjectIn the artist’s words, quoted by Rubryka, the main idea is the need to find balance in a life full of unpredictability; the pile of chairs is a metaphor for the chaos of the world. Source Checked
  2. First planned for MinskMoy BY reports that Minsk’s expert art council turned down the sketch, planned for a wall at Mogilevskaya 16, and that the artist then realised the project in Tbilisi. Source Reported
  3. A human-rights projectRubryka and Moy BY both say the mural was made within a project of the international human-rights organisation Truth Hounds. Source Source Checked
  4. In the Isani mural circuitRed Fedora Diary’s Tbilisi street-art guide places the mural in the Isani district, near Elektrowerk. Source Reported

📍 Where it is

In the Isani district of Tbilisi, near Elektrowerk, according to a local street-art guide. We could not verify the exact wall or address. Source Reported

Open in Maps

Opens the Isani district on Google Maps; the exact wall is not verified.

🗓️ Sightings

  1. 201916 Jan

    Artist’s photos reported · Rubryka

  2. 201917 Jan

    Artist’s photos reported · Moy BY

  3. 202613 Oct

    Still listed in guide (updated) · Red Fedora Diary

Green stamps mark dated photographs; amber stamps mark records or reports; red stamps mark loss. Publication dates are not camera dates.

🗞️ In the sources

Rubryka16 Jan 2019

“Основна ідея цього муралу – необхідність знайти баланс у житті, повному непередбачуваності.”

“The main idea of this mural is the need to find balance in a life full of unpredictability.” (the artist, quoted)

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Moy BY17 Jan 2019

“Поэтому мурал решили изобразить при более благоприятных обстоятельствах — в Грузии.”

“So it was decided to paint the mural in more favourable circumstances, in Georgia.”

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✅ The facts

Artist
Sasha Korban Source Source Source Checked
Title
Finding Good Balance (as given by a local guide; the January 2019 reports give no title) Source Reported
Documented
January 2019: the artist’s photos of the finished mural were reported on 16 and 17 January 2019 Source Source Checked
City
Tbilisi, Georgia Source Source Checked
Area
Isani district, near Elektrowerk; exact address not verified Source Reported
Project
Truth Hounds, an international human-rights organisation Source Source Checked
First plan
A sketch for a wall at Mogilevskaya 16 in Minsk, not approved by the city’s expert art council Source Reported
Status today
Seen in the January 2019 reports; still listed in a guide updated in October 2026 (undated photo) Source Source Reported

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Last checked: 3 November 2026. How we verify art