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Tatev Aslanyan
solo exhibition
Purple surfaces for dreaming bodies and merging souls.
The collection takes a microscopic gaze on sleep and its latent possibilities, observing parallels and subtle similarities between the artist and the surrounding environment. As the body dissolves into the surface on which it rests, the soul begins to wander. Moving between realities, roles, and experiences, from the depth of individual perception toward the unknown.
In times of constant distress, sleep becomes a necessity, a ritual, and at times the only remedy. Through forms and figures, the artist searches for spaces of rest and reflection, reconfiguring reality through a dreamlike lens.…Read more
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Armenia–Diaspora 2026
“Armenia–Diaspora” Permanent Exhibition This project, initiated by Sonia Balassanian, brings together contemporary artists from Armenia and the Armenian diaspora, creating a platform for dialogue and exchange. This exhibition focuses on the theme ‘In the Contexts of Memory,’ exploring memory as a multilayered and dynamic process shaped by social, spatial, political, and cultural environments. In the presented works, memory is revealed at the intersection of individual and collective experiences, interwoven with migration, diasporic existence, loss, and ongoing reinterpretation. Initiator: Sonia Balassanian Curator: Bela Pogosian Artists angela hovakimyan (Armenia) Arpy Gokceyan (Lebanon, Belgium) Gaya Sofoyan (Georgia, Russia) Gennadi Aghajanyan…Read more
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Marcos Grigoryan_emotion
Marcos Grigorian's works, created in the 1990s during his stay with the Balasanyan family, express emotions derived from immediate inspiration. These sketches carry a blend of realities and emotions, with combinations of colors that reflect the artist's inner simultaneous freedom and spontaneity. The displayed works not only narrate the themes of time and space but also open up unique and profound worlds for the viewer, evoking emotions born from the everyday interactions of life. Curated by Silvana Chobanyan NPAKRead more
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Open Call, 30th Annual Festival of Alternative Art
“Wild Children” 30th Annual Festival of Alternative Art OPEN Meeting The 2008 crisis has not yet come to an end. During the great recession, it became clear that the neoliberal model does not work well anywhere in the world. For each of us, the link between economic problems and neoliberal policy became clearer given that the crisis was already to do with capitalism. “Democracy” - which had started to be built after independence - was experiencing a crisis. It was formed in full and at the same time, it failed with the 1998 coup. In Armenia, the dilemma was…Read more
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Mold
An exhibition by Mariam Aleksanyan Curated empathy is a human instinct. Caring is, too. In natural selection, every creature adapts to natural conditions in order to survive and endure. Humans manifest care so that they are selected and endure. What happens when care, love, and compassion cease to exist? Everything becomes covered in mold. Mold is alive; it grows in place of, and by feeding on, the life force of another living creature. Perhaps, with care and compassion, mold unites the broken pieces, filling the emptiness. Curator: Amassia Niziblian Opening: February 27, at 19:00 NPAK, 2026Read more
Edward Balassanian 1936-2024Co-founder of NPAK It is with deep sadness that we inform you of the passing of Edward Balassanian, co-founder of the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art NPAK and a devoted supporter of Armenian art and culture. He passed away in New York at the age of 88.Edward Balassanian was born in Iran in 1936. He is an architect and city planner by training. Balassanian has graduated as an architect from the University of Tehran (1963), and later as a Master of City Planning (1968) and Doctor of Philosophy in City and Regional Planning (1975) from the University of Pennsylvania, USA.Balassanian is on the Roster of the International Experts of the United Nations.In 1970 Balassanian founded Research and Planning Corp. architectural and planning consulting company in Iran.Since 1980 Balassanian relocated to the United States with his family and acquired U.S. citizenship.Since early 1980s Balassanian has devoted his professional life to serving the Armenian communities in the United States and Armenia.He served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Armenian Assembly of America, Washington DC, USA, (1992), Deputy Executive Director, and Director of Construction Department of “Hayastan” All-Armenian Fund, in Yerevan, (1993 through 1995), Executive Director of Armenia Fund USA Inc, in New York, USA, (1996), and Executive Director of The Diocese of the Armenian Church of the Eastern United States (1997-1998).Balassanian has been involved in the performing arts since childhood. In the late fifties and early sixties he has performed as professional actor in Iran in plays by Shakespeare, Chekhov, Prosper Mérimée, Lillian Hellman,John Boynton Priestly, and others. He has also recited Armenian poetry in Iran, the United States, and the United Kingdom at Armenian national and community functions․In 1992 Balassanian, together with his wife painter and poet Sonia Balassanian, co-founded the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art (ACCEA-NPAK in Armenian acronym) in Yerevan. ACCEA/NPAK is dedicated to promotion of the Armenian avant-garde art throughout the world, and facilitation of quest for new frontiers by Armenian artists.Since 1995, by appointment of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Armenia Balassanians have organized the Armenian Pavilions at the International Art Biennale of Venice through NPAK. The effort has continued until 2009, without interruption.Since 1998 Edward Balassanian has relocated to Armenia. In mid September 1998, Catholicos of All Armenians, His Holiness Karekin I, of blessed memory, appointed him as the representative of Holy Mother See of Edjmiadzin, to manage the construction of Saint Gregory the Illuminator Cathedral of Yerevan, with the assignment of completing it in 2001 for the occasion of 1700th anniversary of Armenia accepting Christianity as state religion.From 2002 to 2009 Balassanian has been assigned the duty of Acting Executive Director of Cafesjian Museum Foundation (through December 2008) and from January 2008, Director of Construction Management and Supervision Office of Gerard L. Cafesjian Museum of Art in Yerevan.On behalf of the entire NPAK team, we extend our deepest condolences to his wife Mrs. Sonia Balassanian and son Arne Z. Balassanian, their family, and all friends and artists
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