Nikoloz Nadirashvili is a contemporary art researcher and curator from Tbilisi, Georgia, whose work focuses on religious-themed imagery, sexuality, and their intersections with different forms of authoritarianism. From 2017 to 2021, Nadirashvili managed Contemporary Art Archive – Tbilisi, a publicly accessible multimedia database of Georgian contemporary art. He is a contributing author of Tsisferi (Blue), a publication on Georgian queer art that drew sharp criticism from the Government of Georgia and was released amid a broader political climate that culminated in the adoption of Russian-style, nationwide anti-LGBTQ+ legislation. Nadirashvili serves as the student representative on the board of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES); He is also a member of the College Art Association (CAA).

Nadirashvili is a recipient of the 2026 Digital Humanities Summer Fellowship for the project "Blessed by the Feed: Digital Strategies of Neo-Soviet Religious Nationalism." This project investigates how religious platforms on social networks shape public opinion during politically sensitive moments. Drawing on nearly 1.1 million posts from religious pages, he combines computational analysis of texts (including word embeddings, topic modeling, and word collocations) with close study of images to examine patterns in propaganda strategies. By mapping this digital activity onto recent political events in Georgia, he explores how online religious discourse responds to moments of political tension and whether the Church intensifies its digital presence when the government faces instability. This question represents one avenue of inquiry within a broader investigation of the relationship between religious communication, nationalism, and political power in the digital sphere.