ABOUT

Photographer | Art Historian | Сurator

Collaborations
FRANCE

Graduations:

Curating the distribution of Artavazd Pelechian’s latest work La Nature > at international festivals and worldwide (New York, Amsterdam, Milan, Venice, Toronto, Berlin, Mexico…

Since 2014, a collaboration has been established with several Armenian dailies (Mediamax > , Arvestagir > , Bravo).
The principal collaboration is with Kinoashkharh >, one of the few Armenian online dailies dedicated to cinema. Publishing photo series, articles and interviews with Franco-Armenian artists.

Cultural Correspondent in Paris

Collaborations
armenia

Centre d’Art Cafesjian
Director of the Department for Public Relations

Organization of two documentary films screening - debates in the auditorium of the town of Viroflay in France:

• Inna Sahakyan's film Auroras Sunrise
• Vasken Toranyan's film Le Monde de Kaleb

To welcome world-renowned directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne to Yerevan, as principal guests of the twentieth Golden Apricot International Film Festival. The translation of their master class with students and the public, led by film critic Joël Chapron, as well as assisting the filmmakers during their stay in the capital, was a unique experience.

Golden Apricot International Film Festival, 2023

In collaboration with Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, coordination of the Artavazd Pelechian's retrospective in Venice, as part of the 79th Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica at Venice, Italy.
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Artavazd Pelechian

Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica at Venice, Italy September 2022

Assisting in the organisation of the Armenian genocide commemorative concert Armenian Souls in the Royal Chapel of the Palace of Versailles >, assisting in the release of the CD.

Yerevan Holy Cross Choir, Shahe Keshishian, direction

With Shahe Keshishian,
direction of Yerevan Holy Cross Choir

With the Fondation Cartier team, curating the first exhibition devoted to Artavazd Pelechian >

Artavazd Pelechian

Creation of a website dedicated to the work of Artavazd Pelechian, an online project accessible to all on its website: Encounter with Artavazd Pelechian.

The fruit of an ambitious research effort conducted in close collaboration with the artist, this unprecedented project explores the life and work of the rare, yet celebrated filmmaker, a “missing link in the true history of cinema”, in the words of Serge Daney.

Artavazd Pelechian

La Nature

Preview of Nature in Yerevan June 2022

Alongside the day-to-day tasks of managing the collection of the Fondation Cartier, participation in the organization of the Beautiful Elsewhere exhibition in Shanghai, in particular coordination of the Draw me a Flag project. Based on an idea by Christian Boltanski, the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain has launched a project designed for the spectacular fifth-floor terrace of the museum Power Station of Art in Shanghai. The installation consists of around eighty flags designed by artists, scientists, philosophers, and friends of the Fondation Cartier.

La Fondation Cartier

Coordinating of the event Patti Smith, Swans Un hommage à Artavazd Pelechian.
In 1970, filmmaker Artavazd Pelechian directed The Inhabitants, an ode to the wilderness. Fascinated by the lyricism of this work, Patti Smith paid tribute to the filmmaker.

Patti Smith, Swans, Un hommage à Artavazd Pelechian”

Participation in the organization of the exhibition Guillermo Kuitca. Les Habitants of Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris

Guillermo Kuitca

Participation in the organization of the exhibition and events for the 30th Anniversary of the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain.

30th Anniversary of the Fondation Cartier

Swiss Humanitarian Foundation KASA
Cultural Projects Coordinator

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia
Assistant to the Chief of Protocol

Radio Lyon-Arménie
Cultural correspondent in Armenia

Views of the exhibition Nature.
Photo@ Luc Boegly.

Artavazd Pelechian at VGIK,
Moscow, 1968

Curatorial team, relations with artists, coordination of transport of works from Armenia to France.

Festival Un Week-End à l’Est

Working at the Toluca Fine Art (Paris), a gallery dedicated to photography. Assisting Alexis Fabry, publisher, curator and founder of Toluca Fine Art, in organizing exhibitions, photography fairs, publishing catalogs, etc.