Since 2018, the Open Space platform, curated by Eva Khachatryan was created to present contemporary art through new media within the AAF framework
2022
Open Space takes a new approach every year. The last edition was online, due to the pandemic and the impossibility of exhibiting in the physical space. This year being focused on installation art we used also an outdoor area of Mergelyan Institute and Yerevan Expo, to present installation projects related to the space, history and context of the Mergelyan Institute. Participating artists are Katharina Maderthaner, Rebecca Konforti, Romain Ruiz Pacouret and Megan Young.
Images from left to right: Megan Young; Katharina Maderthaner; Rebecca Konforti & Romain Ruiz Pacouret
2020
The Open Space Curatorial Exhibition within the framework of its digital program. Made up of submissions ranging from video artists, photographers, established and emerging artists, over 30 international artists presented their work.
2018
А curatorial project presenting curator-artist collaborations, local and international art platforms and organizations, representing exclusively contemporary art with focus on the video art, photography, performance and installation.
It did not take much for the body to become abject: just a few paintings by Picasso, a series of photographs by Diane Arbus and the films of David Cronenberg. But what is the condition of the abject body in our age of techno-aesthetics, gender fluidity and sexual discursiveness?
Four Contemporary Armenian Photographers
Lianna Mkrtchyan, Vogler, Mika Vatinyan, Irina Grigoryan curated by Vigen Galstyan presented by Lusadaran Armenian Photography Foundation
The border is dividing the inner and the outer space. Controlled and not controlled. Body is a platform and tool. Tool to understand the world and the nature of the self. Body is a platform of confrontation between the social and the inner: a space to throw aggression, fears and wide spectrum of emotions.
Artist- Valentina Maz , emerging artist from Cairo, based in Yerevan.
NarNur is a collage-art project by an urban non artist Narine Vardanyan
Frauenkulturbüro NRW e.V. an international exchange program for female artists in 2013.
Art and Cultural Studies Laboratory (ASL) is a non-governmental organization