Mekhitar Garabedian

Deploying a variety of media such as drawing, video, photography and installation, many of Mekhitar Garabedian’s works draw from his experience as an immigrant, and play on the humour and poetic qualities he finds between languages, cultures and histories. Just as his personal diasporic history is layered, his work echoes a multiplicity of references to literature, music, philosophy and visual arts. Garabedian was born in Aleppo, Syria, and lives and works in Antwerp. In 2022, he was commissioned by Middelheimmuseum/Kunst in de Stad to create a public sculpture in the Antwerp Stadspark. Previously he had solo exhibitions at BOZAR, Brussels; S.M.A.K, Ghent; Beursschouwburg, Brussels; BE-Part, Waregem and KIOSK, Ghent. In 2015, he was invited to present several works at the Venice Biennale in the Armenian pavilion, which was awarded the Golden Lion. Garabedian has participated in group exhibitions that were held at the New Museum, New York; Hamburger Kunsthalle; WIELS, Brussels; 5th Thessaloniki Biennial; as well as at venues: Marta Herford; Villa Empain, Brussels; Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon; Argos, Brussels; Haifa Biennial; BAM, Mons; M HKA, Antwerp; Drawing Room, London; Museum M, Leuven; and Kunsthaus Dresden, amongst many others.