Gohar Martirosyan

Gohar Martirosyan lives and works between Armenia and France. She was born in Gyumri and grew up in Eastern Europe between Poland and Belarus. Currently, Gohar is a student Le Fresnoy studio national des arts contemporains (France). She studied at the Academies of Fine Arts of Krakow (Poland) and Yerevan (Armenia),  and has presented her work in galleries, museums and exhibitions across Europe and the Middle East including the STANDART Armenian Art Triennale (2017), Gallery 25 (Gyumri), DEPO gallery (Istanbul), Weltkunstzimmer (Dusseldorf), Future2 Gallery (Vienna), and Gallery Dela (Tehran) among others.

Trained as a painter, Gohar has been making multimedia installations, including plastic works, light installations, and site specific performative installation and films. Her artistic research addresses the fragile and opaque area where the public and intimate parts of our lives clash and merge. This work often takes her to open-air and natural spaces of cultural and historic significance, like Mount Aragats in Armenia, the Juist Island in the Northern sea, the Mush district in Gyumri, or the breach on the Rhine river in Dusseldorf.