Curator and art historian Angela Harutyunyan unpacks the work of Marie Zolamian in relation to her fields of research spanning Armenian post-Soviet art and culture, political aesthetics and historicity.
Photo: Ute Langkafel & Egbert Trogemann
Angela Harutyunyan is Professor of Contemporary Art and Theory at the Berlin University of the Arts. She is a founding member of The Ashot Johannissyan Research Institute in the Humanities, Yeravan, and the Beirut Institute of Critical Analysis and Research. One of the founding editors of ARTMargins journal, she has extensively researched and written on post-Soviet art and culture, Marxist aesthetics, historical temporality and curatorial theory. She is the author of The political aesthetics of the Armenian avant-garde: The journey of the ‘painterly real’ 1987–1994 (Manchester University Press, 2017). She is commissioned to co-curate the 17th Sharjah Biennial in 2027.