ART WEEK

Art Week

Armenia Art Fair’s cultural program Art Week is a citywide event, which runs concurrently with the Art Fair and helps bring attention to Yerevan’s cultural attractions, museums, and galleries.

Hay Cultural Center ​, ​ 7a Mashtots, ​Yerevan

The Border (Die Grenze). Presented by Goethe-Zentrum Eriwan
Where does Asia begin, where does Europe end? The group exhibition curated by Thibaut de Rutyer and Inke Arns,  reflects on the geographical and cultural border between Europe and Asia Read More

Victor Hambardzumyan Observatory of Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Abovyan Street 43, Yerevan 7 pm  MAY 26

|Transformation of Stated Above|presented by Soundlab Gyumri: A platform for experiment in art, science and technology. The performance touches on the unique phenomena of relativity and raises the questions concerning the limitations that science creates. The limitations are strict, but have a temporary notion, they exist until the moment when the scientific research bursts into new space horizons and confronts new challenges, forcing it to design new approaches. Organized by the Armenia Art Foundation and Gyumri Technology Center.

Koryun str. 8, apt 8, 7pm

4Plus  collective of Armenian women photographers hosts an open studio where you can meet the four main members of the team and learn about their aim of promoting documentary photography that empowers women in Armenia and beyond. Read More

Saryan Apartment, Saryan Street 5 2:00-6:15pm

IN SITU and HAYP Pop Up Gallery present Artists: How to Prepare Yourself for Today’s Market, and panel discussion, Rethinking the Art Market – How a changing and globalized market is spawning new models for exhibition, collaboration, and sustainability with Irina Popiashvili, Dean at the Visual Art, Architecture and Design School (VAADS) at the Free University of Tbilisi and conceptual artist,  Olaf Nicolai, moderated by Anna Gargarian. Artists can register online before 20 May for one-on-one portfolio critique at HAYP Pop Up Gallery

Saryan Museum, 6 Saryan Street, 4th Floor

Exhibition Opening: June 2, 2019 6pm-8pm

The Unseen//Posthumous Works of Felix Eghiazarian
Exhibition Opening, with performance by Alex Baboian and Armen Hyusnunts

Never-before seen works by renown artist Felix Eghiazarian will be on exhibit at Saryan Museum. See abstract and figurative works that explore themes of reunion, loss, sexuality and the space between life and death in an exhibition displaying the artist’s latest works prior to his death in 2014.  Read More

National Gallery of Armenia, 1 Aram Street

Armenian calligraphy workshop by Ruben Malayan, an award-winning creative director and visual artist. His career in graphic design spans more than 20 years, crossing over into the fields of visual identity design, typography and calligraphy.
 For more than a decade, he has been researching the art of specialized scripts and has developed a portfolio of unique Armenian calligraphy. Read more

Check out ARé Performing Arts Festival for more events, details, and updates. 

 Grigor Khachatryan, Edik Boghosian present the text exhibition and performance: The Discreet Charm of Bullshit at DALAN Gallery 12 Abovyan (26 May, 7pm)

I am a European! Where is Europe? is curated by Nazareth Karoyan of Karoyan Gallery and presented by ARé performing arts festival.  The dialogue between Grigor Khachatryan and Edik Boghosian within the framework of one public performance refers to this uncertainty of not only the European political borders but also to the “European” in general. Is it possible in Armenia to say “I am European” or “You are a European”, as Grigor Khachatryan claims in the chalk written text on a school board?ICA, 48 Fizkulturnikneri, Agestan, 5th Street, 7-9 pm (28 May) 

German artist Olaf Nicolai  presents dialogue & discussion with an art critic and curator Nazareth Karoyan (Armenia) entitled Game/Control and book discussion on The Labyrnth (Special presentation in partnership with Goethe-Zentrum Eriwan and ARé performing arts festival) Location: Goethe-Zentrum Eriwan, 1 Mher Mkrtchyan str., (30 May 7 pm)

Zurich based performance artist Mathias Ringgenberg aka PRICE presents the performance and artist’s talk: Where Do You Wanna Go Today? At NPAK (Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art) 1/3 Buzand (1 June, 7pm)

9am – 6pm Ardēan Gallery Abovyan 1/1 Second Floor, Yerevan

The works developed at Ardēan, under the leadership of Vasken Brudian, engage in the concerns of collective identity, history, memory and attempt to introduce a distinct national visual vocabulary, expressed though means of technology. With their multiple viewpoints and multiple visual languages, the paintings represent complexity as well as a historic trace from our past to present. They aspire to present a body of work which manifest that Armenia continues to culturally expand and create innovative, pioneering works in the visual language of the 21st century. Read More