2025 – 7th Berliner Herbstsalon, Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin, Germany
I participated in the final edition curated by Shermin Langhoff, one of Berlin’s most important platforms for politically engaged art. Bringing together more than a hundred international artists, the biennial situates work around migration, survival, and resistance in dialogue with Berlin’s layered histories of displacement.
2025 – Future Imperfect: Armenian Art from the Aftermaths, 100 + 10 – Armenian Allegories, Berlin, Germany
My installation How-to Manual: A Monthly Salary was presented in this major festival of Armenian cultural narratives. Curated by Vigen Galstyan, the exhibition reflected on legacies of trauma, economic precarity, and adaptation. My work explored the absurdity of survival strategies in Armenia after the collapse of centralized systems, resonating with global discourses on resilience and everyday struggle.
2024 – Ordinary, Johannissyan Institute, Yerevan, Armenia
Curated by Nare Sahakyan, this exhibition focused on everyday gestures as sites of meaning. My contribution engaged with survival practices and the absurdities of daily life, connecting personal memory to wider socio-political realities in Armenia during ongoing transitions.
2020 – Armenia Art Fair, Yerevan, Armenia
Curated by Harutyun Simonyan, this fair gathered contemporary Armenian artists for international dialogue. I presented works interrogating fragmentation and survival, reflecting on the shifting cultural and economic landscapes of the region.
2018 – EXTENSION.AM: A Geographic Experience, Triumph Gallery, Moscow, Russia
This large-scale exhibition connected Armenian contemporary art with wider Eurasian contexts. My work addressed the transformation of urban environments shaped by past socialist infrastructures, reflecting on how memory and adaptation endure across architectural and social landscapes.
2011 – Manuals: Subjects of New Universality, Armenian Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale, Italy
Presented at the Armenian Pavilion, curated by Vardan Azatyan, Nazareth Karoyan, and Ruben Arevshatyan, my work explored bureaucratic survival systems in Armenia after the collapse of Soviet structures. In Venice, it became part of a broader conversation on universality, daily struggle, and the politics of living.
2008 – Ghost Archives, IX Gyumri International Biennial, Armenia
Curated by Anna Barseghian and Isabella Papaloizos, this edition emphasized forgotten histories and erased memories. My work contributed to this dialogue by investigating overlooked fragments as alternative archives of survival and resilience within fractured political landscapes.
2007 – Musée d’art moderne de Saint-Étienne Métropole, France
Exhibited alongside international artists, I presented a project reflecting on migration and displacement, situating Armenian experience within broader European discourses of belonging and identity.
2000 – Manifesta 3, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Curated by Ruben Arevshatyan, my work — co-authored with Alexander Melkonyan — was part of an international exhibition examining transformations that followed the collapse of the Soviet system. This early project engaged with shifting urban environments and fragile infrastructures of transition, laying the foundation for my ongoing exploration of memory, displacement, and adaptation.
1999 – Shut City, Hay Art Cultural Center, Yerevan, Armenia
Co-authored with Alexander Melkonyan, this installation reflected on the constraints and contradictions of urban life in Armenia after systemic collapse. Curated by Narine Zolyan and Harutyun Zulumyan, the work opened a dialogue on public space, restriction, and imagination.