Mekhitar Garabedian (°1977, Aleppo, Syria) lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium.
Deploying a variety of media such as drawing, video, photography and installations, 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 with a multiplicity of references to literature, music, philosophy and visual arts.
Garabedian’s work has been presented in solo exhibitions at Bozar, Centre of Fine Arts, Brussels, 2015, S.M.A.K., Ghent, 2011, KIOSK, Ghent, 2010.
His work has appeared in group exhibitions such as: Periphery, Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerpen, 2021, The Collection (1), Highlights for a Future, S.M.A.K., Gent, 2019, Shaping Light, CAB, Brussels, 2018, Art and Alphabet, Hamburger Kunsthalle, 2017, The Absent Museum, WIELS, Brussels, 2017, Kum Kapi, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, 2016, Armenity/Hayoutioun, National Pavilion of The Republic of Armenia, Venice Biennale 2015, Between the Pessimism of the Intellect and the Optimism of the Will, Thessaloniki Biennale 2015, Here and Elsewhere, New Museum, 2014, …