Events / Exhibitions

21.02.2014 - 04.05.2014

Minas and Narek Avetisyan. Modernism and Avant-garde in Armenia“

  In cooperation with the German county Sachsen-Anhalt and its county museum Stiftung Moritzburg (Landesmuseum Sachsen-Anhalt) Cultures in Dialogue will present the exhibition “Minas and Narek Avetisyan. Modernism and Avant-garde in Armenia“ in Halle (Saale), Germany from February 21st to May 4th, 2014. This exhibition in Germany contrasts 19 works by Minas Avetisyan with 9 works by his son Narek Avetisyan. This way, the German audience will gain insight in different periods of Minas' oeuvre and simultanously experience works of Narek Avetisyans „Interfractal-Series of 2008-2010“. Father and son will be united in one exhibition for the first time. 

An illustrated trilingual catalogue (German, Armenian, English) will be published on the occasion of this exhibition in Halle. It includes an essay on Minas by Art History Professor Emeritus Dr. Wilhelm Schlink and a comprehensive and exclusive interview, Narek Avetisyan granted art historian Marie-Christine Fritsch.

Permanent
exhibition

Ilya Yefimovich Repin

Blonde” (Portrait of Tevyashova) (1898)

canvas, oil
71x58 cm