The Armenian National Pavilion at Biennale Arte 2024

April 20, 2024 – November 24, 2024 The Armenian National Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia presented the project, Echo, a multi-dimensional multi-media installation by Paris-based Armenian artist Nina Khemchyan.


The Organizer and Patron of the Pavilion was the Cafesjian Center for the Arts.


Curator: CCA Director of Exhibitions, Armen Yesayants


Comssioner:  The Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports of the Republic of Armenia (RA MoESCS)


The pavilion encapsulates concepts drawn from Medieval Armenian cultural heritage and diverse spiritual universal principles, reconsidered in the realm of nowness. The central layer of the project Echo features two major installations -- two profound components related to and fulfilling one another: Seven Deadly Sins and Echo. The idea and concept of the pavilion are completed with a delicate endpoint striving towards human perfection, which, however, can become a new starting point…

 
The Armenian Pavilion invites a dialogue with the title of the Biennale Arte 2024, Foreigners Everywhere, featuring Nina Khemchyan, an Armenian female artist living in France. Although based in Europe, her recent oeuvre is deeply rooted in Armenian medieval heritage, endangered today, transcending geographical and temporal boundaries to address universal themes of identity, memory, and belonging.