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Day One, 2026

The starting point of this installation lies in a negated premise: a collective walk through the streets of Freiburg that never physically happened. Instead of a lived intervention, the action exists purely as a conceptual phantom. The work is constructed around the architectural and textual artifacts of this non-event.

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Reduction, 2026

This work repeats an installation made by a friend and fellow artist in early 1999, in which collected cardboard was assembled into the form of a tank.

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Echoes from Day 3650, 2025

Vahram Aghasyan, Post-revolutionary walk: Echoes from Day 3650, (October 8, 2035), (2025)
Vahram Aghasyan’s work, conceived as a post-revolutionary walk, did not take place due to his inability to travel.

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Radiation and Revolution, 2022

The installation draws inspiration from Sabu Kosho's seminal work, "Radiation and Revolution" a book on the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster that sheds light on the intricate connections between nuclear power, capitalism, and the nation-state.

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earth on the floor and a banner with text decolonixe on the wall

Decolonize Land

"Decolonize Land" (2021)

"Decolonize Land" stands as a poignant exploration within the series "Objects that Question Other Objects." 

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Objects that question other objects, 2019

 
The work’s starting point is a banner used during the “velvet revolution” in Armenia in April,
May 2018. As a result of mass protests in the streets of Yerevan and other major cities of Armenia, the Prime Minister and the ruling “Republican” party resigned. 

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flags on a factory building

Red Flags

"In this intervention, the artist appropriates the facade of a former Soviet factory, known as 'Impulse.' Red flags, emblematic of the Soviet era, are placed in the original flag holders, evoking a visual continuity with the historical context.

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Museum of Revolution

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Ghost City

Ghost city, 2005

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artist carrying the plant

Into Wilderness

"Into the Wilderness", 2016

The performance Into Wilderness originates in a privately administered natural conservation space in the Caucasus Wildlife Refuge, which includes the development of tourism along with several other programs.

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Destroyed villas

Ruins of private property

video, 5 min, 2007

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device under glass display

The story of automatika

The story of automatika
collaboration with Helene Sommer (No) installation, mixed media, Yerevan, Armenia 2007
The story of Automatika is the fictional story of a factory.

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banner on the wall

Reverberations of Utterance

A Tribute to Mladen Stilinović, Banner, 2016
The unfurling banner commands attention with its stark simplicity, boldly displaying a timeless message: "Activist who cannot speak English is no activist." This piece pays homage to the seminal artist Mladen Stilinović and reinterprets his iconic declaration, infusing it with renewed relevance.

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Reading hut

Size: 3x3x3 meters, mix media, 2014. 
The artwork takes its stand from the "reading hut model" (избы читальни or читательские комнаты) of the early 1920s Bolshevik era, raises profound questions about public space and education.

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soviet type 14 floor high building

Bangladesh

“Bangladesh” hi8 video, 8 min, 2003

Beyond Yerevan's bustling center, lies a curious urban micro-districts (микрорайон) officially named first as “South-west district” in the 80ies and “Malatia-Sebastia” after the 90ies, but locally known as "Bangladesh.

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