Armenia Art Fair is proud to present in partnership with Hong Kong’s Hanart TZ Gallery a highly anticipated show of Chinese Contemporary Artists.

Hanart TZ Gallery is a pioneering gallery in the field of Chinese contemporary art. Johnson Chang, an active curator since the 1980s and co-founder of the Asia Art Archive, is regarded as an influential figure on the Hong Kong art scene.

This presentation includes two works of video art: Rite of Archery by Jeffrey Shaw based on one of the seventeen chapters of the ancient text Yi Li (Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial), a comprehensive record of the rituals that prevailed during the Zhou Dynasty, and which was compiled by followers of Confucius in the 5th century BCE, and Retainers of Anarchy by Howiw Tsui a Chinese ‘gothic fantasy’ based on modern martial arts novels and a historical quarter in Hong Kong.

Also presented is Scrolls by BuZi who through his calligraphic art constructs a kind of personal totem that is distinctively contemporary.

Raffi Yedalian’s solo exhibition is about the challenges of life and the psychological deconstruction of the human.

“We are all born as asymmetrical beings. My uncommon human figures are represented in an asymmetrical balance, inspired by challenges of human life and his survival, as well as the psychological deconstruction of the human, such as memories, emotions, thoughts, and the state of spirits… “

“For Yedalian considers sculpture and painting two sides of the same coin…. Recently, he has also taken to incorporating clothes and other elements, like pieces of metal, in his acrylic and oil canvases…Leaving no technique or material untouched, from etching to found materials, he finds in all of them expressive potential, he believes, to “reflect hidden realities of mankind.”

Excerpt from the article by Marie Tomb, Gallery Art Magazine, Issue#3, 2019

Katharina Maderthaner’s recent works / installations are often odd and unexpected combinations of familiar objects. The project “There is no place like home” presented at the Dalan Art Gallery is inspired by the Armenian context, to which Katharina was introduced yet in 2016.

By juxtaposing seemingly incompatible objects defining “inside” and “outside”, Katharina gives them a new breath, a new meaning, while at the same time characterizing the inventive existence of the Armenian reality, covered with elements of kitch aesthetics.

Online curatorial project by AAF Guest Curator and Director of Curatorial Studies Institute in Slovakia, Juraj Carny. Carny’s project asks difficult questions and challenges how to speak about human issues and avoid political propaganda dressed as art. Through the lens of a metaphor, this project explores the importance of social and political visibility and its complex relationship with modes of art and exhibition.

Olaf Nicolai Presents in partnership with Goethe-Zentrum Eriwan.

Sound performance In the Woods There is a Bird by German conceptual artist Olaf Nicolai, with an interpretation by Hayk Karoyi Karapetyan The soundtrack is  using the radio not as a medium of spreading information, but rather as a source. It makes the relationship between sound and indexicality a subject of discussion.  

All over the world different radio correspondents were asked to offer their materials for production, materials they usually call ″Atmos″ and which were recorded during demonstrations, protests and riots. From those materials were chosen particular sequences for the composition. The material was not alienated. It was just looped and cross-faded.

The track aired within the radio program documenta 14 Every Time A Ear Di Soun and the German radio Kultur. It comes also on Vinyl.

It comes with a publication, which is visualizing the concept of the composition as a collage on the one hand, and on the other hand is registering the events of the sixties, whose sounds serve as a basis for this track.

by Asymetria Gallery from Poland

The exhibition digs into the past to examine historical artistic events and what cultural and political phenomenon have on artists and their work

The exhibition features Nikita Kadan, Zbigniew Libera, Yuri Mechitov, Paweł Pierściński and Wacław Ropiecki. The exhibition digs into the past to examine historical artistic events and what cultural and political phenomenon have on artists and their work. The exhibit is divided into three categories: 1) Destruction (burning), 2) Archivization (preservation) and 3) Creation. 20th Century Polish, Ukranian, and Armenian-Georgian photographers and artists, both dead and alive, with and without their work challenge the spectator’s assumptions about art and its preservation. The show concludes with an Armenian-language installation by Zbigniew Libera.

(In conjunction with the ARè performing arts festival)

Presentation of Christian Zehnder – the art performer, soloist, and director, one of the most creative minds MORE of the current music scene, an unusual vocal artist who has made his name internationally coining a new musical and performance style which is both innovative and homely He introduces new impulses into vocal techniques. Sounds emerge that are at once earthy yet unknown, mysterious, impossible to categorize.