MEKHITAR GARABEDIAN

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MEKHITAR GARABEDIAN mekhitargarabedian@telenet.be+ 32 (0) 475 76 13 50

born November 6, 1977, in Aleppo, Syrialives and works in Ghent, Belgium

education1999-2003, Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK), University College Ghent, MFA Visual Arts, Photography1995-1998, Sint-Lukas Brussels, University College of Art and Design, Audiovisual Arts

residenciesSlade School of Fine Art, London, U.K., 06/09/2009 - 10/02/2010APAP VI, Szene (Salzburg) in collaboration with Buda Arts Centre (Kortrijk, B.) and Workspace, Brussels, 2007/2008 (cat.)Laboratory, Buda Arts Centre, Kortrijk, Belgium, 09/2005 - 12/2005

exhibitionsSOLO EXHIBITIONSwithout even leaving, we are already no longer there, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium, 2/12/2011 - 26/2/2012 (cat.)Young Man Blues, KIOSK, Ghent, Belgium, 19/02 - 28/03/2010The End, Again, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Ghent, Belgium, 6/12/2009 - 11/01/2010Something about today, Beurschouwburg, Brussels, Belgium, 20/11 - 20/12/2008Intimacy is being angry..., ArtBrussels, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Belgium, 18 - 21/04/2008 (cat.)Happy when it rains, BE-Part, Platform for Contemporary Art, Waregem, Belgium, 15/05 - 2/07/2006 (cat.)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS2013Blijven Kijken / Ce qui nous regarde / Dropouts, M, Museum Leuven, Belgium, 14/02 - 12/05 (cat.)

2012Graphology, Art Exchange, University of Essex, UK, 1/10 – 3/11Inside Out, Kunsthaus Dresden, Germany, 10 - 14/07TRACK, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium, 12/05 - 16/09 (cat.)Graphology, Drawing Room, London, UK, 10/05 - 30/06 (cat.)BOOKSHOWBOOKSHOP, BE-Part, Platform for Contemporary Art, Waregem, Belgium, 15/04 - 10/06 (cat.)BLACK PAGES #28, #29, #30, #31, Galerie Emmanuel Layr (Garage), Vienna, Austria, 29/3 - 5/5

2011Villa II, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Knokke, Belgium, 1/07 - 28/08Freestate II, Young Belgian Art, ‘Splendid Isolation’, Oostende, Belgium, 25/06 - 11/09 (cat.)East: Excitable Speech: West, Kerstin Engholm Gallery, Vienna, Austria, 12/05 - 18/06 (cat.)ArtBrussels, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Brussels, Belgium 28/04 - 1/05Graphology, Chapter 2, M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium, 8/04 - 13/06Distant Montage, ERBA, Valence, France, 24/02 - 11/03Le Mont Analogue, BE-Part, Platform for Contemporary Art, Waregem, Belgium, 20/02 - 22/04ArtRotterdam, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, the Netherlands, 9 - 13/02Art in Belgium After 2010, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Ghent, Belgium, 23/01 - 27/02

2010Multiple Solitude, De Garage, Cultuurcentrum Mechelen, Belgium, 18/12/2010 - 27/02/2011Manières Noires/Black Outs, BAM, Beaux Arts Mons, Belgium, 2/10/2010 - 13/02/2011 (cat.)Dwelling-In-Travel, Art Today Association, Centre for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 11/09 - 5/10Gustav, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Knokke, Belgium, 13/08 - 26/08 (cat.)Mini Market, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 29 - 31/05Be.Welcome, Atomium, Brussels, Belgium, 22/05 - 31/08/2010ArtBrussels, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Brussels, Belgium 28/04 - 2/05The Armory Show, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, New York, USA, 4 - 7/03The Haifa Mediterranean Biennale, Haifa, Israel, 19/02 - 6/04Changez! A Belgian Show, 21 Rozendaal, Enschede, The Netherlands, 24/01 - 9/05

2009Uit het geheugen, Museum Dr. Guislain, Ghent, Belgium, 10/10/2009 - 2/05/2010 (cat.)ArtForum Berlin, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Germany, 24 - 27/09 (cat.)Arte Santander, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Spain, 22 - 26/07The Biennale Knokke, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Knokke, Belgium, 11/07 - 6/09Video Vortex 4 Exhibition, Multimedia Cultural Center, Split, Croatia, 21 - 26/05ArtBrussels, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Belgium, 24 - 27/04Something else!!!!, MAN, Museo d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro, Italy, 6/02 - 19/04

20085th Fair of Culture, Studentski Centar, Zagreb, Croatia, 11 - 14/12The Ariane de Rothschild Art Prize, Turn & Taxis, Brussels, Belgium, 28/11/’08 - 11/01/’09 (cat.)Next, Buda Arts Centre, Kortrijk, Belgium, 22/11 - 6/12Working Title Festival, WorkspaceBrussels, Belgium, 8 - 16/11ArtForum Berlin, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Germany, 30/10 - 3/11 (cat.)Monologische Dialoge, Tanzfabrik, Berlin, Germany, 29/10 - 2/11XS, Ghent, Belgium, 25 - 28/09Belgier, aktuelle Kunst aus Belgien, Figge/von Rosen Galerie, Köln, Germany, 22/08 - 2/10Collection Presentation, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium, 19/07/’08 - 25/01/’09Fragile, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Ghent, Belgium, 15/06 - 31/08From Armenia with love, GEMAK, Den Haag, the Netherlands, 28/04 - 11/05Fresh #3, Buda Arts Centre, Kortrijk, Belgium, 18 - 20/04Minimal Waves, L’écurie, Brussels, Belgium, 21 - 22/03Takaaki Izumi - Mekhitar Garabedian, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Ghent, Belgium, 16/03 - 27/04/2008Trends 2008, St-Barbara chapel, Ghent, Belgium, 1 - 15/03ArtRotterdam, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, the Netherlands, 7 - 10/02

2007Artissima, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Torino, Italy, 9 - 11/11Open, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Ghent, 26 - 28/10In de wind #1, cc Strombeek, Belgium, 1/10 - 31/12Gasthoven’07 – Zonevreemd, cc Het Gasthuis, Aarschot, Belgium, 6 - 30/09 (cat.)Silent Revolutions, Chancart - Kruidtuin/Bibliotheek Tweebronnen, Leuven, Belgium, 6/07 - 2/09 (cat.)MARTa Schweigt, MARTa, Herford, Germany, 2/06 - 7/10 (cat.)ArtBrussels, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Belgium, 20 - 23/04Act 2: 50 Years Antigone Theatre, Kortrijk, Belgium, 26 - 28/01

2006Fortis Young Ones Award, LineArt, the Art Fair, Ghent, Belgium, 1 - 5/12 (cat.)KASK@LineArt, LineArt, the Art Fair, Ghent, Belgium, 1 - 5/12Parcours Video Installations, Beurschouwburg, Brussels, Belgium, 24/11 - 23/12Youngst*rs II, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Ghent, Belgium, 24/11 - 23/12mankind, Story of a wound, S.M.A.K. and C.R.K.C., Leuven and Heverlee, Belgium, 16/09 - 19/11 (cat.)Trends 2006, St-Barbara chapel, Ghent, Belgium, 10 - 19/02 (cat.)

2005Attack!, Buda Arts Centre - Dans in Kortrijk and Limelight, Kortrijk, Belgium, 13 - 16/04

2004 Undercurrent, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Centre, Istanbul, Turkey, 6/05 - 12/06 Eclips, cc Bornem, cc Willebroek, cc Puurs, Belgium, 18/04 - 30/05 (cat.)Trends 2004, St-Barbara chapel, Ghent, Belgium, 12 - 28/03 (cat.)

2003Contemporary Photography from Flanders, Historical Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia, 12 - 30/11aLOSTaSOULS #1, Netwerk Art Centre, Aalst, Belgium, 25/10Coming People, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium, 5/07 - 25/08

publicationsSomething about today, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium, 2011Yavreeges hokeet seerem (My beloved / my little one, let me love your soul) , KIOSK, Ghent, Belgium, 2010M. et moi, Céline Butaye and Mekhitar Garabedian, Szene/Buda Arts Centre/WorkspaceBrussels, 2008Yerkaran (Songbook), 1890 - 1923 SONGS, 2006, C.R.K.C., Leuven/S.M.A.K., Ghent, 2006Happy when it rains,Toohcsmi Uitgevers/Publishers, Ghent, Belgium, 2006

academic2008: guest professor, since 2009: researcher, Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK), University College Ghent

screeningsFESTIVAAALLLAALLAL 2012, Scheld’apen, Antwerp, Belgium, 3 - 23/9/2012Learning Piece: Be Patient, My Soul, Argos, Centre for Art and Media, Brussels, Belgium, 31/03 - 11/04/2009Open Archive #2, Argos, Centre for Art and Media, Brussels, Belgium, 3/11 & 12/11/2010Break Even Store, IFFR, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 27/01 - 7/02/2009Kaskades #2, KASK, Sphinx, Ghent, Belgium, 16/11/2009Open Archive #1, Re:collections: acquisitions 2005-2007, Argos, Brussels, Belgium, 29/09 - 10/11/2007

collectionsS.M.A.K., Municipal Museum for Contemporary Art, Ghent, BelgiumArgos, Centre for Art and Media, Brussels, BelgiumMuseum of Europe, BelgiumThe Shoes or no shoes? Museum, Kruishoutem, Belgium

grants and prizesgrant of the Flemish community, 2012grant of the Flemish community, 2010grant of the Flemish community, 2009winner of The Ariane de Rothschild Art Prize, Brussels, Belgium, 2008nominee, Fortis Young Ones Award, Lineart, Ghent, Belgium, 2006Prize Legate Franciscus Pycke, 2003, Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK), University College Ghent

commissioned worksTu, que me lees, ¿estás seguro de entender mi lenguaje?permanent public artwork, commissioned by the city of Genk, Belgium, 2009

magazinesPsychoanalitische Perspectieven, VOL 30 (1) - (4), UGent, Belgium, 2012 (Covers)BLACK PAGES #29, Vienna, Austria, 29/3/2012Gagarin #23, Antwerp, Belgium, 2011A Prior #20, Ghent, Belgium, spring 2010Code #8, Brussels, Belgium, winter 2008 - 2009Kunst Nu, Vrienden van het S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium, 09 - 10/2003

catalogues (selection)Shoebox Memories, TopoCopy, Ghent, Belgium, 2013TRACK, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium, 2012Graphology, Drawing Room (UK), M HKA, KASK, Ara.Mer, Belgium, 2012BOOKSSHOWBOOKSHOP, Art Paper Editions, Ghent, Belgium, 2012Werktank, Bierbeek, Belgium, 2011Freestate II, Young Belgian Art, ‘Splendid Isolation’, Vrijstaat O., Oostende, Belgium, 2011East by Southwest, Curated by_Vienna, Departure, Vienna, Austria, 2011KASK 2011, University College Ghent, Faculty of Fine Arts (KASK), Ghent, Belgium, 2011Invitation au Voyage, Academia Press, Leerstoel Karel Geirlandt, Ghent, Belgium, 20105 Years of BE-Part, BE-Part, platform for contemporary art, Waregem, Belgium, 2010Be.Welcome, Atomium, Brussels, Belgium, 2010 Over vorm (Flower Power, deel twee), Hans Theys, Croxhapox, Ghent, Belgium, 2009Kunst & Architectuur in Genk 2007 - 2009, Cahier 6, Stad Genk, dienst Cultuur, 2009TIME IS A BOOK, Time festival 2009, Ghent, Belgium, 2009Artforum Berlin 2009, Germany, 2009Uit het geheugen. Over weten en vergeten, Museum Dr. Guislain, Ghent, Belgium, 2009S.M.A.K. 07/08, S.M.A.K., Ghent Belgium, 2009The Ariane de Rothschild Art Prize, Brussels, Belgium, 2008Desire, ArtForum, Berlin, Germany, 2008APAP VI: The Art of Survival, artistic views on the social, Corpus/Transforma, 2008Contemporary Art in Belgium 2008, Stichting voor de Kunsten in Brussel, Belgium, 2008ArtBrussels 2008, Belgium, 2008Contemporary Art in Belgium 2007, Stichting voor de Kunsten in Brussel, Belgium, 2007Gasthoven’07 - Zonevreemd, cc Het Gasthuis, Belgium, 2007

Silent Revolutions, Chancart, Belgium, 2007Marta Schweigt, MARTa Herford, Germany, 2007Trends 2006, Ghent, Belgium, 2006mankind, Story of a wound, C.R.K.C. and S.M.A.K., Belgium, 2006Lineart 2006, Ghent, Belgium, 2006Eclips, cc Bornem, cc Willebroek, cc Puurs, Belgium, 2004 Trends 2004, Ghent, Belgium, 2004

literature (selection)De Ander als readymade in het oeuvre van Mekhitar Garabedian, Filip Geerardyn, Psychoanalitische Perspectieven, UGent, VOL 30 (2), 2012Track ontrafelt de fysionomie van Gentse wijken, Paul Depondt, Hart nr. 100 - 6/09/2012Von der Fleischerhalle zum Traum vom Baumhaus, Anne Katrin Fessler, derStandard.at - 4/07/2012Gante hecha museo (contemporáneo), Tereixa Constenla, El Pais - 20/05/2012Track, een spoor van kunst doorheen Gent, Liesbeth Langouche, Collect AAA, nr. 427 - mei 2012‘Het iets van vandaag’, Boek van Mekhitar Garabedian, Inge Braeckman, Hart nr. 95 - 12/04/2012De Kunstenaar is niet Thuis, Pieter Van Bogaert, Hart nr. 90 - 22/12/2011The Library of Memory, Marie-Aude Baronian, in Something about today, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium, 2011Here, and always already Elsewhere, Pieter Van Bogaert, in Werktank, Bierbeek, Belgium, 2011Verzamelen tegen het vergeten, De meervoudige identiteit van Mekhitar Garabedian, Peter VanTyghem, De Standaard - 17/12/2011Verzamelen tegen het vergeten: Armeens-Belgische kunstenaar Mekhitar Garabedian stelt tentoon in het S.M.A.K, De Morgen - 5/12/2011Hoeders van de hand, Sacha Bronwasser, De Volkskrant - 29/07/2011Jong en relevant, Marc Ruyters, Hart nr. 84 - 14/07/2011Vrijstaat voor jonge kunst, Jan Van Hove, De Standaard - 1/07/2011De Toekomst van de kunst blikt terug, Sarah Theerlynck, De Morgen - 24/06/2011De onbereikbare overkant, Marc Ruyters, Hart nr. 79 - 24/03/2011‘Mijn Armeens is een uitdovende Taal’, Paul Depondt, Hart nr. 78 - 3/03/2011Dingen Zien (De Werktank in de Garage), Pieter Van Bogaert, Hart nr. 76 - 20/01/2011Seebad mit Guerilla-Flair, Ingeborg Wiensowski, Spiegel Online - 10/08/2010Eigentijdse memorie van Kriemann en Garabedian, Inge Braeckman, Hart nr. 63 - 4/03/2010Kiosk is half museum, half experiment, Sven Rammeloo, de Standaard - 22/02/2010Gent is mini-S.M.A.K. rijker, Karel Van Keymeulen, de Gentenaar - 20/02/2010Elk einde: een begin, Inge Braeckman, Hart nr. 60 - 24/12/2009Learning as not to forget, Heleen Rodiers, Brussel Deze Week - 6/04/2009Collectiepresentatie S.M.A.K., Jan Evens, Zone 09 nr. 234 - 21/01/2009Schilderkunst is elastisch, Christine Vuegen, Hart nr. 45 - 26/12/2008Qui a peur de la peinture?, Claude Lorent, La Libre Belgique - 11/12/2008Niveaus van indiscretie, Pieter Van Bogaert, Hart nr. 44 - 4/12/2008Rote Punkte und traurige Ritter, Elke Buhr, Frankfurter Rundschau - 31/10/08De taal van de kunst, Hans Theys, Hart nr. 40 - 11/09/2008Belgier. The dark side of art, Inge Braeckman, Hart nr. 40 - 11/09/2008Die Schattenseite des schönen Scheins, Bettina Deschler, Kölner Stadt Anzeiger - 5/09/2008Kunst onder een rieten dak, Jan Van Hove, De Standaard - 6/08/2008

From Armenia with Love, Riet van der Linden, Beelden nr. 43 - 28/08/2008Armeense diaspora blijft onduidelijk in ‘Gemak’, Nathalie Hartjes, Den Haag Centraal, nr. 48 - 11/04/2008Tegen het vergeten van een genocide, Haroon Ali, Trouw - 18/04/2008‘Silent Revolutions’ in Leuven, Gerrit Vermeiren, Hart nr. 24 - 12/07/2007 Vreemdeling van 100 jaar geleden, Bert Popelier, De Tijd - 5/12/2006Wreedheden blijven in het geheugen hangen, Th. C. Madder, Kerk + Leven - 09/2006Kwetsbaarheid wordt kunst, Geert van der Speeten, De Standaard - 29/09/2006Happy when it rains, Sarah Kessene, UrbanMag - 08/2006 Zonder romantiek, Luk Lambrecht, Knack - 14/06/2006Het in beeld brengen van identiteit, Luk Lambrecht, Knack website - 5/06/2006Je bent wat je spreekt, Gerrit Vermeiren, Hart nr. 7 - 1/06/2006Mekhitar Garabedian: Happy when it rains, Tom Viaene, Goddeau - 19/05/2006

lecturesSomething about today, conference “Evaluating Research in the Arts”, VUB, Brussels, Belgium, 15-16/11/2012Étrangers à nous-mêmes, seminar “Cliniques de la création”, FUNDP, Namur, Belgium, 6/05/2010Artist Talk, KIOSK, Ghent, Belgium, 18/03/2010Everything I can’t say / All that I can’t say, ‘Invitation au Voyage, Kunst als voertuig voor mentale reizen’, Symposium Leerstoel Karel Geirlandt, University Ghent, Belgium, 2 - 4/12/2009De stilte van de polyglotten, seminar “Cliniques de la création”, Department for Psychoanalysis and Clinical Consulting, Ghent University, Belgium, 17/11/2009 And that’s why I’m happy when it rains, SIC (Sound Image Culture), Netwerk, Aalst, Belgium, 11/06/2009

WORKS

Search And Destroy (And Honey, I’m the world’s forgotten boy)2012, aluminium, paint, approx. 1600 cm x 172 cm x 8 cm

Search And Destroy (And Honey, I’m the world’s forgotten boy)2012, aluminium, paint, approx. 1600 cm x 172 cm x 8 cm

fig. a, a comme alphabet (carpet, 2012)2012, hand made carpet, 2 m x 3 m

Bourdj Hamoud, Mar Mikhael, 2010 2010-2011, 5 lightboxes, 5 x 75 cm x 111.5 cm

Bourdj Hamoud, Mar Mikhael, 2010 2010-2011, 5 lightboxes, 5 x 75 cm x 111.5 cm

Without even leaving, we are already no longer there 2010-2011, video installation, DVD, 3 x 30min

Without even leaving, we are already no longer there 2010-2011, video installation, DVD, 3 x 30min

Les mots des autres 2011, neon, 4.76 m x 22 cm

Untitled (Daniel Varoujan, Ghent), 2011 2011, paper, intaglio print, 73.5 cm x 58.5 cm

Untitled (Daniel Varoujan, Ghent), 2011 2011, paper, intaglio print, 73.5 cm x 58.5 cm

Les mots des autres 2011, neon, 4.76 m x 22 cm

exhibition view without even leaving, we are already no longer there, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium, 2011-2012

Library (of memory), Chapter One 2002-ongoing, mixed media, dimensions variable

Library (of memory), Chapter One 2002-ongoing, mixed media, dimensions variable

Library (of memory), Chapter One 2002-ongoing, mixed media, dimensions variable

Words, Recollected 2010-ongoing, marker on wall, dimensions variable

fig. 2009, marker on address book, 7.8 cm x 6.5 cm

fig. 2009, marker on address book, 7.8 cm x 6.5 cm

Hi, I’m Kit, from Badlands (1973)2009, marker on plasterboard, 145 cm x 148 cm

fig. a, a comme alphabet2009–ongoing, pencil, pen, marker on paper, dimensions variable