Vernissage/ Opening | Nice to meet you
Mit: Live-Transfer zu Sound-Text-Performance im ICA Yerevan.
With: Narek Simonian (sound artist), Melikset Panosian (artist, writer), Ruzan Petrosyan(visual artist), Vahag Hamalbashyan (visual artist).The parallel event in Yerevan is curated by Anna Kamay.
Artists Duygu Bostancı (TUR), Valentina Maz (ARM) and Joanna Zabielska (PL) along with curator Tereza Davtyan (ARM) will be working for two weeks at the Künstlerhaus S11, which will serve as a place of production and exchange. The common denominator of the invited artists is their connection to Yerevan. The pieces created in Solothurn will be showcased as part of a dialogue with pieces created in Yerevan. The curators are Lea Fröhlicher, Stefanie Steinmann as well as Tereza Davtyan Tereze Zok Zok.
The parallel event "Nice to Meet You Too" is curated by Anna Kamay at ICA Yerevan featuring artists Narek Simonian, Melikset Panosian, Vahag Hamalbashyan and Ruzan Petrosyan.
Opening | Friday, 16.08.2019 | 20:30
About the artists:
Narek Simonian
A digger, an explorer and finally a kind person who has started his music diggings since being a schoolboy. You can find him sitting in front of his laptop, always searching for something new, creating own ideas about future art. Narek performed at GemFest in Anaklia, Georgia (2016) and at ARTsakh Fest contemporary art festival in Stepanakert, Nagorno Karabakh (2018). For now: he's a member of the supercool duo Kitsuné. Narek is also a part of lézvání record label and a media platform, discovering emerging sound artists in the South Caucasus region. He has a lot of stories to share, if you manage to catch him somewhere sometime.
Melikset Panosian
Melikset Panosian is an artist, writer and translator hailing from Gyumri, Armenia. Since 2012 he participated in various artistic projects focusing on the troubled past of Gyumri, borders, conflicts and consequent traumas. Panosian contributed to a number of literary magazines in Armenia such as Queering Yerevan, Gretert and others. He also participated in the translation of Hannah Arendt’s “We refugees” into Armenian language. Melikset Panosian’s published works include “Silent Stroll”, a novella he authored in 2014, and the Armenian translation of Kardash Onnig’s “Savage Chic: A Fool's Chronicle of the Caucasus” published in 2017.
Vahag Hamalbashyan
One of the leading and up-and-coming young contemporary avant garde artists, Vahagn uses, among others, his amazing artistic professional skills in graphics, panel painting, etching, monotyping, and stencil to project multimedia and vibrant powerful and controversial art. His interposition of images superimposed by emotion and profound and subliminal messages makes Vahag's works among the forefront of expressive art. Vahag does not shy away from expressing his contemporary views and current state of affairs projected in his works. His messages, artistic juxtaposition and collaborative mixed media flow through his works as a powerful yet seamless, disciplined and mature beautifully crafted art.
Ruzan Petrosyan
Ruzan Petrosyan is a visual artist from Yerevan, Armenia. Her scope of interests include drawing, photography, video art, experimental video and video installation.In 2018 she was awarded a grant to attend the course ''Exploring a void'' (photography, film, video) at the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts and she participated in a group exhibition in Salzburg.Her works were showcased in several international exhibitions and festivals in Armenia and abroad, such as Traverse video festival in Toulouse, France(2018, 2019), VideoArt.Ist International Screening Program in Izmir In cooperation with IZDOF and as part of the 7th International EGEART Art Days, ''Lips of Pride'' international collective exhibition in Armenia by HAYP Pop Up Gallery and "Where I lay my head is home" collective exhibition of female artists in ACCEA in Armenia.
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