Artists in residence

Gohar Martirosyan is a Paris-based Armenian film director with a background in fine arts, performance & site-specific installation. In 2022, she finished her VR film Identity (10min) and film Unlearning (55min) in the frame of Panorama at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains. She studied in the classes of Ben Russell in France, in the course of Julian Rosefeldt in Munich as well as Artavazd Pelechian in Armenia.

Gohar Martirosyan learns to invest her knowledge into collaborative art, she is the co-founder and creative director of Munich-based Gurban Art Platform & Ground Art Fest, focused on site-specific art approaches.

She is a permanent resident of Gallery 25 in Gyumri, under the support of the Honorary Consul of the Federal Republic of Germany. Her artistic development was granted by Fondation Philippossian & Pilossian in Geneva as well as Foundation Neuflize in Paris and Goethe Institut.

In addition to presentations in conventional art spaces, she makes a point of bringing her artistic processes to locations that played particular roles in history, such as the mountain Aragats in Armenia, the island of Ouessant in France, the Juist island in the Northern sea, the Mush district in Gyumri, or the breach on the Rhine river in Dusseldorf.

Gohar Martirosyan studied the complex sets of influences that participate in the building of a person. Whether they are coming from historical events, cultural practices, social connections, ecological needs or relationships with the living. Her artistic research addresses the fragile and opaque area where the public and intimate parts of our lives clash and merge, the reasons and conditions in which subjects are being figured out in society.

Vera Martynov (born in 1981) is an artist whose practice includes performance, exhibitions and site-specific installations. Her work brings together spatial architecture, visual imagery and live performance.

Her works have been presented at venues including the Watermill Centre and the Baryshnikov Arts Centre (New York), the Festival d’Avignon, the Maison Jean Vilar (Avignon), the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the Barbican Theatre (London), the Royal Shakespeare Theatre (Stratford-upon-Avon), and the Schaubühne and HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), among others.

Navigating between different expressional mediums, ranging from writing to music and video-making, Alan Marzo’s practice crystalizes around works of transdisciplinary, transmedia and collective nature.

Defending a fluid creative approach, where the essence of the message is prioritized over the mean of expression, he co-founded the art collective and publishing house FLEE, dedicated to the documentation and hybridization of music phenomena around the world.

In parallel, he is at the forefront of the music project Alan Strani, bringing together rhythms and samples, analog kitschy synths as well as sung voices, an initiative finding inspiration in 80’s disco music.

Finally, maliciously blurring the lines, the Swiss-Italian artist also directs documentaries and short films, with high audience ratings at the 2020 Roma Pigneto Film Festival for his movie Ultimo Giro (Last ride).