Vartan Markarian

Vartan Markarian

Biography

(1991) is an interdisciplinary artist from Poltava, Ukraine, whose practices based on work with painting, graphics, installation, video, VR. Explores man in the urban industrial environment.
He is currently interested in statements about posthumanism, paying special attention to the problems of war, emigration, ecology, and the synergy of all these concepts in the context of modern positions. "I believe that these topics have a dynamic nature of interaction and a certain specificity of consequences. One event gives rise to another. The chain of needs for resources, territories, dictates an aggressive policy, which in turn is sprayed with a poisonous mixture of total war."
Vartan often works with different media, believes that each topic has a characteristic material and only it can fully convey the essence, form, emphasize the idea, focus on yourself, from it depends on how accurately the information will be read by the viewer. "The ability to combine different tools opens up many
possibilities: to fantasize, to reflect through artistic language, to see what is happening around us now, to look into the future, to create a new reality."
2020 - American Arts Incubator - IZOLYATSIA. Kyiv. Ukraine.
2020 - Artefact Chornobyl 34. Kyiv. Ukraine.
2020 - Two roots - artistic research. Germany, Ukraine.
2020 - ARS Electronica Festival American Art Incubator - project "VirtualPolitik". Austria
2020 - a:pART - audiovisual collaboration. Berlin-Poltava.
2020 - International webinar from the ARTIF platform. Georgia. Tbilisi.
2019 - Hackathon. Frontier - VR Art Festival. Ukraine. Kharkiv.
2019 - III Ukrainian Summer Program of Artistic Residence. Nazar Voitovich. Travneve village, Ternopil.
2019 - Biennale of Contemporary Art "Bread". Hlebzawod. Kyiv. Ukraine.
2019 - Personal exhibition "Danger looking for a fairy tale" Center of contemporary art JUMP.
Ukraine.Poltava.

Works

FREEdom. Vartan Markarian

Are we free in our choice of desires, or have they sometimes imposed things? Today, man does not belong to himself, although we find ourselves free and independent. Social networks have access to our preferences, photos, travel routes, statistics on the time of our stay in different places. By using and imposing a product on us for commercial gain. As soon as we think about something, advertising immediately begins to haunt us.