GRIGOR KHACHATRYAN

1952 - Born on November 7 in Yerevan
1984 - International Poster Competition, Moscow, 3-rd prize
1985 - Graduated from the PIY, the Art and Culture department
1985-87 - Head of the department of exposition of the Museum of Modern Art
1988 - Member of the Union of Artists of USSR (Armenia)
1987-96 - Art editor of “Garoun” magazine
1996 - 2001 - Art leader of “AR TV Company”
2003 – director of Art ckoull
home 55-19-65
E-mail: [email protected]
Web page: http://www.geocities.com/grigor_khachatryan

WORKS: PERFORMANCE, ACTION

1972 - Heading of army troops, workday on the 1-st of may: photo with Suren Navasardyan
1973-74 - Psychological hospital
1974 - Physical testing of “Grigor Khachatryan” award: photo with Ashot Hovhannisyan
1975 - Funerals in the institute
1980 - Solemn opening of a WC in the institute
Since 1990 - Awarding of “Grigor Khachatryan” award: 90- Arthur Shahnazaryan, 91- Artak
Bagdasaryan, 92- German Avagyan, 93-98 Arman Grigoryan, 94- Tigran Paskevichyan, 96- Nazret Karoyan, , Vardan Jaloyan, Gohar Sanoyan, Ruben Arevshatyan, 99- Ashot Bleyan, 2000- Nikol Pashinyan.
96- Nazaret Karoyan, Vardan Jaloyan, Gohar Sanoyan, Ruben Arevshatyan
1990 - ”Jan Gilan’s price dropping”. Unprofitable resale of tickets
1990 - ”Arates”: gathering of population’s pee in the basket of ANM
1990 - Yerevan, peeing from a bridge over the river Getar with Armen Davtyan, Vahagn Atabekyan and Tigran Paskevichyan reading Apoliner’s “Marabou’s Bridge” by heart
1990 - Nude walking
1996 - Selfsuggestion as a candidate on the post of the president of Republic of Armenia, interviews in the square of the internal and external political platform
1998 - Paris, peeing from the Marabou’s Bridge with Vahagn Atabekyan and Vahram Sahakyan

EXHIBITIONS

Since 1978 - paintings, graphics, posters
1984 - International Poster Competition, Moscow, 3-rd prize
1988 - Biennial, Brno
1990 - MANIFEST, “Exhibition OF A Single Work”,Union of Artists, Yerevan
1993 -”Armenian Culture Days”, Vienna / Vienculture, graphics /
1993 -”Object #1” / 2 mirrors facing each other and situated in 5mm distance
1994 -”Armenian Culture Days” / Boch, Germany /
1994 -”Pacific” / 3-rd floor, Yerevan /
1994 -”Play House: enter from inside” /EX-VOTO, Yerevan /
1994 - From my personal collection of my undrawn paintings, I’ll show you / a clean sheet of paper, 100x80, CCEA, Yerevan /
1995 -”The modern art of Armenia”, Moscow, Russia
1995 - The Question of the Ark / The exhibition of the artists of Moscow and Yerevan,
CCEA, Yerevan /
1996 -”Subject-Object” / fenced territory chosen by Grigor Khachatryan/ “E” Art Festival,
CCEA, Yerevan
1996 -”There are things that don’t depent on me” / a pipe of a vacuum cleaner hanging
from the ceiling, CCEA, Yerevan /
1996 -”I’m not a chair, I’m a contemporary of Grigor Khachatryan”
1994 Norayr Ayvazyan. “If I remain silent the chairs will make noise”:
Grigor Khachatryan / a chair on the wall, TEXT, Yerevan /
1997 -”Lay Moment “ / analyzing the name Gewte, “Maniacs of Mind and Body”,
CCEA, Yerevan /
1998 Yerevan Biennale of Avant-garde Art, ACCEA, Yerevan
Inernational 6th Festival of Cultural Films, Paris
1999 Great Atrophy, Hay Art, Yerevan
“Closed City”, Yerevan-Moscow
2000 “Parralel Reality”, Yerevan-Vienna
2001 “The World is You”, Vienna
“Beyond the Icon”, State Gallery, Yerevan
“Utopiana”, Hay Art, Yerevan

VIDEO ART, Film

1997 - OPUSETSETERA videoart / CCEA, Yerevan / 4 min 30 sec
1997 - All the forms of the word to fold / “CCEA, Yerevan /
2002 - The First International Biennial in Gyumry, performance, VIDEOART
1997-98 - The festival of homeless musicians /video/
2003 - ”PIONEER”: formerly there were pioneers and was no Pioneer Bar /video/
1998 - “Idol” video. 3 min. 30 sec.
1999 -”Great Atrophy” international exhibition / HAI-ART, Yerevan /
1999 -”VARUJAN VARDANYAN” 10 min, “OPUSETSETERA” (monologue) 10 min,
“CAPACITY” 7 min, Paris
(BOBUR video collection) BETECAM-SP, 6-th International Art Film Biennial
1999 -”A Closed City”, Moscow-Yerevan /videoart, HAI-ART, Yerevan /
1996 -”City” movie series in AR TV Company
City is the root of politics, politeness, citizenship, civilization.
Videotape is a mirror memory.
Mirror – realisation, see – “Meduza Gorgona”

“City - culture” – exhibitions, concerts, films
videotapes, videoart
“out of city” nature movie series

WORDS

1990 - MANIFEST. I’m not a man, I’m Grigor Khachatryan, you are not men, you are
Grigor Khachatryan’s contemporary.
Grigor Khachatryan - a name high and delightful
1990 - ART- The names that are given to earthly things contain too much error
/ Book by Philip /
1990 - Attention: you may be in the spare of influence of Grigor Khachatryan’s sexual
rays, which work in radius of 50000 parsec.
The epicenter moves with Grigor Khachatryan
1991 - Sun, sun come, come, be likely to Grigor Khachatryan
1991 - I’m protected by the state
1991 - I vote for the voice of the caller in desert
1991 - The only negative in me is resus
1991 - I’m the one you weren’t expecting
1991 - Happy is the one who believes without believing
1992 - I’m greater than I think therefore I’m modest.
1992 - Nobody, even me, can’t make news, we can only call attention
1994 - I’m the result of my parent’s wants
1994 - At first I thought I would grow up and become an artist, then I thought I would
grow into an idiot, now I think I’ll die if I grow more,
therefore until I die I’ve not become great enough.
Therefore when I die I’ll be great.
1994 - All the regressive population of the world the November 7 celebrates as the
anniversary of the October Revolution, all the progressive one as
Grigor Khachatryan’s birthday
1994 - The temples were changed into churches, the New Years day was changed into
Saint Johan’s, and this is the concept of how the October Revolution’s
anniversary turned into Grigor Khachatryan’s birthday (EX- VOTO, Yerevan)
P.S. - The ones who lived from the first man till Grigor Khachatryan’s birthday period
are Grigor Khachatryan’s past contemporaries, the ones who lives in the period
Grigor Khachatryan lives are Grigor Khachatryan’s contemporaries,
the ones who will live after Grigor Khachatryan will be Grigor Khachatryan’s
future contemporaries.