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Markarian Vartan
Our spaces are full of different symbols, and signs, information. All this does not let us dissolve into nature, feel alone or even like a primitive man. There are pedestals symbolizing idols of “eras” on each square meter. Sometimes they contrast with each other to the point of being absurd. Of course, this is our history, but perhaps its place is in museums where it will shock by hyperbolizing or, conversely, fascinate with its elegance.
Parks nowadays are green oasis-islands, the places where we escape from the “maze of walls”. The artist placed some jellyfish in the fountain near Maxim Gorky Central Park with the help of augmented reality. They plunge into a new mystical world and urge us to fantasize about who they are. Perhaps this is a digitized world of the past, or perhaps our “fabrication” of a rethought world.
FRONTIER: New Monuments exhibition & FRONTIER VR Art Festival
Exposition #Laboratory
Vartan Markarian was born in 1991 in Poltava, Ukraine.
Education
2008–2014 – Poltava National Technical University named after Y. Kondratyuk. Master’s Degree in Fine Arts.
Collective Exhibitions
2023 – Long Night. Contemporary Art Center JUMP. Ukraine. Poltava
2023 – “Ukraine: Fields of Plough, Fields of War”. Narodni Zemedelske Muzeum. Ostrava. Czech Republic
2022 – Ukrainian Biennale of Digital and Media Art. Ukraine. Lviv, Kyiv
2022 – Neutralization. Contemporary Art Center JUMP. Ukraine. Poltava
2022 – ВИСТАВКА. Contemporary Art Center JUMP. Ukraine. Poltava
2020 – PLAN B Fest. Ukraine. Online
2020 – ARS Electronica Festival American Art Incubator – Project “VirtualPolitik”. Austria
2020 – Immunity Project. Museum of Contemporary Ukrainian Art of the Korsaks. Ukraine. Lutsk
2020 – The Environment of Existence. Manifesto 2020. Lavra Art Gallery. Kyiv. Ukraine
2019 – Biennale of Contemporary Art “Bread”. Hlebzawod. Kyiv. Ukraine
2019 – Art Project Genesis. Dancing House Gallery. Prague. Czech Republic
2019 – Frontier – VR Art Festival. Ukraine. Kyiv. M17 Contemporary Art Center
2019 – “Waves of Reality or Excitement in Travneve”. Art Residence Nazar Voitovych, Modern Art Research Institute of Ukraine. Kyiv
2019 – “417 Error. Expectation Failed”. Nikolai Yaroshenko Art Museum. Poltava. Ukraine
2018 – “Without Three Steps Genesis”. Palazzo Velli Expo. Italy. Rome
2017 – “Fixing the Impossible”. Modern Art Research Institute of Ukrainian Academy of Arts and National Taras Shevchenko Museum. Ukraine. Kyiv
2017 – Finalist of “Art-Battle”. Gallery “White World”. Ukraine. Kyiv
2017 – “White on the White”. Contemporary Art Center JUMP. Ukraine. Poltava
2017 – Art Autumn Contemporary. M17 Contemporary Art Center. Ukraine. Kyiv
Personal Exhibitions
2019 – “Wandering Only Whispers”. Bunkermuz Gallery. Ukraine. Ternopil
2019 – “Danger Looking for a Fairy Tale”. Contemporary Art Center JUMP. Ukraine. Poltava
2018 – “City Identification”. AVS Art Gallery. Ukraine. Kyiv
2017 – “Smoke Part 2”. Sklo Gallery. Ukraine. Kyiv
2016 – “URBAN”. Poltava Art Gallery (Nikolai Yaroshenko Art Museum). Poltava. Ukraine
2016 – “Smoke”. Contemporary Art Center JUMP. Poltava. Ukraine
Achievements
2018 – Scholarship of the President of Ukraine for young artists in the field of fine arts
2016, 2017 – Scholarship of the President of Ukraine (wood carving, National Union of Masters of Folk Art of Ukraine)
Collections
- JUMP Center for Contemporary Art. Poltava
- Artsworld Gallery. Dnipro
- White World Gallery. Kyiv
- Imagine Point Gallery. Kyiv
- Bunkermuz Gallery. Ternopil
- Poltava Art Museum named after M. Yaroshenko
- NVAIR Residence. Travneve
- Residence of the Aura of the City. Starobilsk
- Symposium “Imago Anima”. Trnava. Slovakia
- Private collections
