This is a most rare art exhibition. Not focused on one artist or even a school, it presents the works of distinct individuals joined through family ties, whose creative endeavors trace out a multifaceted cultural itinerary across vast geographical expanses through decades of turbulent political and social developments. The show that opened in Berlin on May 14, entitled “Four Life Paths: Two Artist Couples in the Armenian Tradition,” is indeed something very special. The works displayed are by four artists whose lives span a century, from before the First World War to the present. Two are Genocide survivors from Western Armenia, who made their way across the Middle East to Yerevan, whereas the other two were born and raised in Armenia, studied and worked there and in Russia. Through their personal and artistic histories, one encounters life in the diaspora, struggles in the Soviet period and the challenges of the independent Republic of Armenia.Read Further...

Tags:Mariam Aslamazyan, Nikolai Nikogosyan, Harutyun Kalentz , InteriorDAsein, Archi Galentz, Dr. Peter Michel, Armine Kalentz, Armenian Tradition, Association of European and Armenian Experts e.V. (AEAE), Berlin Lichtenberg Department of Education, Culture, Social Affair and Sports