David Galstyan Photo

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Piece of Dilijan in Berlin

11/10/2018

07/05/2018

My photos featured in a Revising a Collection Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin Nationalgalerie: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
28.04.2018 to 26.08.2018

Portable Homelands From Field to Factory. Taking the collections of the Nationalgalerie and Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin as a starting point, Portable Homeland s proposes a storyline that traces the transnational itinerancy of artists and cultural workers, focusing on journeys to and from Armenia. The chapter begins with paintings by German artist Heinrich Vogeler (1872–1942) in which he depicts rural life in the Caucasus. Vogeler, who is mainly known as the leader of the Worpswede artists’ colony, was not only a remarkably active painter, architect and designer, but also an aesthetic broker. Through his art - works, he transported ideas across borders. His Agitationstafel paintings, produced following his journey to Moscow in 1923, are visual manifestos for communism aimed at encouraging immigration to the Soviet Union. Vogeler’s reference to rural and communal living is complemented by a Song of the Plough (1903/12), a folk song recorded and sung by Armenian ethnomusicologist Komitas, who studied at the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin at the turn of the twentieth century. Portable Homelands also presents publishing organs produced by travelling artists and intellectuals from Armenia and printed in cities as far apart as Addis Ababa, Istanbul, Paris and New York. These historic inscriptions of an identity on the move are set in dialogue with contemporary newspapers, videos and test works produced during the Dilijan Arts Observatory, an international gathering of artists and researchers which took place in the historic town of Dilijan, Armenia, in 2016. Portable Homelands asks: How do artists forge alliances today? What binds their practice? Is it forced or voluntary displacement, the happenstance of encounters, common political ideologies, or a return to the survivalist and socialist credo that Vogeler so desperately sought?

Curator: Clémentine Deliss

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David Galstyan (Yerevan, Armenia) Born and raised in Yerevan, Armenia (1986). Lives and works in Yerevan (AM). David Galstyan studied dramatics at Yerevan State Theater Institute. Despite hi…

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