Publications

Important publications that illuminate main topics on this web site, such as:

  • Curatorial practice of Archi Galentz
  • Artistic heritage of Harutyun and Armine Kalentz
  • Work of repatriate artists to Soviet Armenia
  • Armenian Surrealism, Saro Galentz and his generation
  • Exhibitions representing and researching Armenian art
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    See media coverage of an exhibition „Vereinte Gegenüberstellung“ (26.01.- 16.02.2024) together with Ukrainian artist Gagik Kurginian in Berlin based project space „Toolbox“.Detailed Information about the show : HERE

    Review of the show by Gayane Arakelyan in ORER (in Armenian):

    https://orer.eu/hy/2024/02/05/kurghinyan-kalents-berlin-exb-2024/?fbclid=IwAR3N5iqDSG3jc6p44DiS5WtrBmce0gVs9Y7bKEKFXM2Z9CBHU1pTWeNw4e4

    Translation into Englich in Boston, USA based Armenian Mirror Spectator:

    Kurghinyan and Galentz Hold Joint Exhibition in Berlin


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See the Interview with „Vernatun“ Programm by Public Radio of Armenia  from Oktober 6th 2023. Ca. 30minutes (in Armenian). Talk about general situation in Armenia, cultural issues and presentation of new publications.

Link to the interview on YouTube:
(7) «Վերնատուն»․ Մշակույթը այգի է, որն ամենօրյա խնամք է պահանջում 06.10.2023 – YouTube

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See the article by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach about the publication of „Archi Galentz. Stellungnahmen zu allem Unmöglichen“ by Artbearbooks Berlin, pushed by Armenian Mirror Spectator , May 19, 2022 issue:

Celebration of Artist Archi Galentz as a Cross-Cultural Multihyphenate

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See the Interview with „Vernatun“ Programm by Public Radio of Armenia  from April 15th 2022. Ca. 30minutes (in Armenian)

Article by Archi Galentz “Sechs Facetten der Selbstbefragung“ in ADK Nr.192,  Oktober 2021 (in German).

Article features:  Curated show at Kulturhaus Karlshorst in frames of German-Armenian Cultural Days. Opened on May 2nd 2021

Armenische-Deutsche-Korrespondenz, ADK, is a quarterly publication of the „Deutsch-Armenische Gesellschaft”

Armenisch-Deutsche Korrespondenz Nr 192

ADK192 Sechs Facetten der Selbstbefragung

See the article by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach about the exhibition „Armenian: Grace and Violence. Images of Landscapes and Traces of War“ pushed by Armenian Mirror Spectator, September 5, 2020 issue:

AMS September 5, 2020

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See the Interview with „Vernatun“ Programm by Public Radio of Armenia  from August 3d 2020. Ca. 30minutes (in Armenian)

Nazeli Ohanyan moderating „Vernatun“ radio broadcast 3.08.2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIQJHBkYWFA

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See the reportage at the Armenian online TV broadcast Factor TV from 23.11.2019 (in Armenian)

https://factor.am/201664.html?fbclid=IwAR0MybKc5i1mJcbWG80ujDi0q3d64_C1N5TVuYqhnCYIB0fK3N2Exly12W8

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See the article by Archi Galentz about the „Dialogues about Revolution and Power“ show at Wolf&Galentz gallery piblished by Armenian Mirror Spectator:

https://mirrorspectator.com/2019/09/19/post-revolution-art-dialogues-about-revolution-and-power/

More information about the show under: https://wolf-galentz.de/en/about-revolution-and-power/

See the PDF of the article:

AMS_Dialogues_Revolution_2019

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See the article in „Aravot“ newspaper by Gohar Hakobyan (in Armenian) from 21.08.2019

https://www.aravot.am/2019/08/21/1061605/?fbclid=IwAR3ATi4dcnkW_enkOfJVj_vQC3Ela8mSbZnlXffecRG0pThO9WTbhOqI3Pg

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See the article in Armenian Mirror Spectator by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
about this web page:

https://mirrorspectator.com/2019/08/08/armenian-artists-in-research-and-dialogue/

Article about Galentz Research Center
Article in Armeina Mirror Spectator by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach, Galentz research Center, Diaspora

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Article by Archi Galentz “Revolution auf Sparflamme” in magazine ADK Nr.183, June 2019, in German.

Article features: A review of 2019 Armenian pavilion in Venice Biennial Exhibition; review of Archile Gorky exhibition in Venice; review of solo show of Hera Buyuktasciyan in Berlin.

Armenische-Deutsche-Korrespondenz, ADK, is a quarterly publication of the „Deutsch-Armenische Gesellschaft”. See: http://www.deutscharmenischegesellschaft.de/about-the-dag/

Video by an Armenian A1+ broadcasting company. An excerpt from a talk in Yerevan Media Club at 14th of June 2019 about the problems of the Armenian pavillion organization at the Venice Biennial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUpSFekwnbc&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0czhgFk_rPCRiyxM73NoXyrhhdfsIC8qRRDz6ebY3zHhmk4mBn80X_j4k

Article by Archi Galentz “Der Streit um Kultur und die Streitkultur“ in ADK Nr.182, March 2019, in German.

Article features: 2019 Armenian Venice pavilion preparations; today’s cultural politics; problems museums face in Armenia; a few aspects in the conflict for Saro Galentz’s legacy.

Armenische-Deutsche-Korrespondenz, ADK, is a quarterly publication of the „Deutsch-Armenische Gesellschaft”

Archi Galentz article in ADK Nr.182
Archi Galentz article in ADK Nr.182 in German, March 2019

English translation of article by Archi Galentz (ADK Nr.182), entitled, “The Debate about Culture and the Culture of Debate”, published by Armenian Mirror Spectator (Boston, USA), April 2019. Translation by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach

The link to the Armenian Mirror Spectator web page:

https://mirrorspectator.com/2019/04/04/the-debate-about-culture-and-the-culture-of-debate/?fbclid=IwAR1cSjsnnvEiGB78tjBzBlC7dnoyGFXCurNkXoW1Vu2I3qkzayjdKNUFUfk

Armenian translation of the article by Archi Galentz (ADK Nr.182), published by ORER (Prag, Czech Republic). May 2019. Translation by Stepan Gantralyan

The link to the ORER web page:

http://orer.eu/hy/allcategories-hy-am/72-hy-am/6752-archi-galents-article.html?fbclid=IwAR2QngjLfBdBs4qss-t1c0wssah7OA0SJ58heeE50NHrvwAioahZ6DpjrPs

Article by Archi Galentz “Timeline. Side steps to avoid a disaster“ in ADK Nr.179,  June 2018, in German.

Article features:  Armenian art in Moscow, a review of Nikolaj Nikogosyan in Trtyakov Gallery and a group show „Extention.Am“ at Triumph gallery

Armenische-Deutsche-Korrespondenz, ADK, is a quarterly publication of the „Deutsch-Armenische Gesellschaft”

Article by Archi Galentz “Timeline. Side steps to avoid a disaster“ in ADK Nr.178, March 2018, in German.

Article features: 2017 Solo show of Archi Galentz in Yerevan Modern Art Museum (MAMY)

Armenische-Deutsche-Korrespondenz, ADK, is a quarterly publication of the „Deutsch-Armenische Gesellschaft”

Archi Galentz Timeline solo show at MAMY 2017
Archi Galentz Timeline solo show at MAMY 2017

Interview with Archi Galentz in “Zham” (Moscow, Russia) magazine in Russian by Anna Givargizyan. Published in Zham Nr.1/38 July 2018

The link to the Zham web page

http://zham.ru/categories/vernissage/460-archi-galenc-iskusstvo-eto-grazhdanskiy-akt.html

Article by Archi Galentz “Schall und Rauch in Collegio Armeno Moorat Raphael“ in ADK Nr.176, September 2017, in German. Review of the 2017 Armenian Venice pavillion.

Armenische-Deutsche-Korrespondenz, ADK, is a quarterly publication of the “Deutsch-Armenische Gesellschaft”

Interview by Sputnik Armenija  (in Russian) from 16.07.2017

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Archi Galentz at his solo show at Yerewan Modern Art Museum. July 2017.

https://ru.armeniasputnik.am/exclusive/20170716/7966276/galenc-na-zapade-stereotipnoe-predstavlenie-ob-armyanskom-iskusstve.html

 

Article by Archi Galentz “Armenische „Klassiker“ im Focus“ in ADK Nr.172, December 2016, in German.

Article features: Review of the show of artist couples, Harutyun and Armine Kalentz and Nikolai Nikogosyan and Mariam Aslamazyan in Kulturhaus Karlshorst in Berlin.

Armenische-Deutsche-Korrespondenz, ADK, is a quarterly publication of the “Deutsch-Armenische Gesellschaft”

Article by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach in English, entitled  “Artistic Journeys through National Destinies”, published by Armenian Mirror Spectator (Boston, USA) June 25 2016 issue (Nr. 4443)

Catalogue of the exhibition “Vier Lebenswege. Zwei Künstlerpaare in der Armenischen Tradition“ in Kulturhaus Karlshorst from 14. May till 3. July 2016. 76 pages. Texts by Hans-Jochen Schmidt, Dr. Peter Michel and Archi Galentz. Published by Ziethen, Harry. 978-3-86289-134-4 (ISBN)

For more information about the exhibition visit:

http://www.interiordasein.de/de/curated-projects/qvier-lebenswegeq2016

"Desecrated Museum" at "Grandchildren. New Geographies of Belonging", Tütün Deposi, Istanbul, 2015
„Desecrated Museum“ at „Grandchildren. New Geographies of Belonging“, Tütün Deposi, Istanbul, 2015

Article by Archi Galentz “Enkel – Neue Geographien der Zugehörigkeit“ in ADK Nr.169, December 2015, in German.

Article features: Review of the show curated by Silvina Der Meguerditchian in Istanbul with works of grandchildren of armenian genocide survivors.

Armenische-Deutsche-Korrespondenz, ADK, is a quarterly publication of the “Deutsch-Armenische Gesellschaft”

Article by Archi Galentz “Goldener Löwe für den armenischen Pavillon“ in ADK Nr.168, September 2015, in German.

Article features: 2015 Golden Lion winning Armenian Venice pavillion at the 56th Venice Biennial

Armenische-Deutsche-Korrespondenz, ADK, is a quarterly publication of the „Deutsch-Armenische Gesellschaft”

Article by Archi Galentz “Armenity&Armenische Abstraktion“ in ADK Nr.167, June 2015, in German.

Article features: 2015 Armenian Venice pavillion at the 56th Venice Biennial and a group shpw of Armenian abstract art in Berlin

Armenische-Deutsche-Korrespondenz, ADK, is a quarterly publication of the „Deutsch-Armenische Gesellschaft”

For more information about the exhibition of Armenian Abstraction visit:

http://www.interiordasein.de/de/curated-projects/qarmenian-abstractionq2015