Born 1977 in Aleppo (SY)
Lives and works in Antwerp (BE)

Education

1999-2003

• Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK), University College Ghent, MFA Visual Arts, Photography (BE)

1995-1998

• Sint-Lukas Brussels, University College of Art and Design, Audiovisual Arts (BE)

Residences

2009-2010

• Slade School of Fine Art, London (UK)

2007-2008

• APAP VI, Szene (Salzburg) in collaboration with Buda Arts Centre (Kortrijk, B.) and Workspace, Brussels (BE) (cat.)

2005

• Laboratory, Buda Arts Centre, Kortrijk (BE)

Solo exhibitions

2023

• I copied this page in one country and the other page in another land, Baronian, Brussels (BE)

2022

• Public Figure #3 – Antwerp Public Art Collection (Kunst in de Stad), Antwerp (BE)

2019

• fig a, a comme alphabet, Valerie Traan, Antwerp (BE)
• Non. J’ai changé d’avis. J’ai envie d’aller à Hambourg comme dans la chanson d’Édith Piaf., Albert Baronian, Brussels (BE)

2015

• Un bel été quand même, Bozar Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels (BE)

2014

• I love you, but I don’t know, Albert Baronian, Brussels (BE)

2011-2012

• Without even leaving, we are already no longer there, S.M.A.K., Ghent (BE)

2010

• Young Man Blues, KIOSK, Ghent (BE)
  
• The End, Again, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Ghent (BE)

2008

• Something about today, Beurschouwburg, Brussels (BE)

2006

• Happy when it rains, BE-Part, Platform for Contemporary Art, Waregem (BE)

Group exhibitions

2023

• Arménie. Le temps du sacré, Fondation Boghossian, Villa Empain, Brussels (BE)
• Hérétiques, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris (FR)
• SHŌKAKKŌ, The Merode, Brussels (BE)

2022

• Exiting the Vampire Castle, Lichtekooi, Antwerp (BE)
• The Shop Show, Baronian, Brussels (BE)

2021

• The Shop Show, Baronian Xippas, Brussels (BE)
• Surplace, KASK & Conservatorium, Ghent (BE)
• Kunstenfestival Watou, Poperinge (BE)
• After all, a collection is only human, Villa Vandenbussche, Tielt (BE)
• Periphery, Kunsthal Extra City, Antwerp (BE) Ceramicarpet, Baronian Xippas, Brussels (BE)
• Ceramicarpet, Baronian Xippas, Brussels (BE)

2020

• Looking at the Letter A, Kunsthal Ghent, Ghent (BE)
• The House of Opportunity, CC De Steiger, Menen (BE)

2019

• Writing in art, Albert Baronian/Yoko Uhoda, Knokke (BE)
• Ekphrasis, Fondation Boghossian, Villa Empain, Brussels (BE)
• Displacement and Togetherness, Cc Strombeek (Museumcultuur Strombeek Gent), Grimbergen (BE)
• Kontrapunt, Bernaerts, Antwerp (BE)
• De Collectie (1), Highlights for a Future, S.M.A.K., Ghent (BE)

2018

• Shaping Light – curated by Albert Baronian, Fondation CAB, Brussels (BE)
• Buiten/Outside, Santo, Ghent (BE)
• Histories of a Picture to Come, Argos, Centre for Media & Art, Brussels (BE)
• Un/settled, Raversyde, Ostend (BE)
• Over het verlangen en de troost, Kunstenfestival Watou (BE)
• Distortion, Willem Twee Muziek & Beeldende Kunst, Den Bosch (NL)
• 2017

• Celebrations, pt1 Let there be light, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp (BE)
• (Let Yourself) Fall, LUCA Biënnale, Abdij Keizersberg & Universiteitsbibliotheek, Leuven (BE)
• Art and Alphabet, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg (DE) (cat.)
• The Still Point of the Turning World, FOMU, Antwerp (BE) (cat.)
• I am forgetful of everything, but seeing you again (selected by Mekhitar Garabedian), 1M3, KASK/School of Arts, Ghent (BE)
• B-sides and Rarities, Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels (BE)
• A Space Called Home, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (NL)
• wordswordswords, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp (BE)
• The Absent Museum, WIELS, Brussels (BE) (cat.)
• Copy Construct, De Garage, Mechelen (BE)
• Frontières imaginaires, Villa Empain, Brussels (BE) (cat.)
• Homeless movies (in the city), IFFR, Rotterdam (NL)
• 28, Cc Strombeek, (Museumcultuur Strombeek Gent), Grimbergen (BE) (cat.)

2016

• #1.2 Remains or Reproductions, Convent Art Space, Ghent (BE)
• Homeless movies (in the city), Huis van Alijn, Ghent (BE)
• Beirut Art Fair, Albert Baronian Gallery, Beirut (LB)
• Kum Kapi, Traveling Carpets, Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon (PT) (cat.)
• Ungenau, Works from the S.M.A.K. Collection, Cc De Werft, Geel (BE) (cat.)
• Helldorado, sur les chemins de l’exil, L’Orangerie, Bastogne (BE)

2015

• Concrete, Mimar Sinan Fine Art University, Istanbul, (TR)
  
• Heaven and Hell. From magic carpets to drones , Villa Empain, Brussels (BE)
  
• Between the Pessimism of the intellect and the Optimism of the Will, 5th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki (GR)
  
• Armenity / Hayoutioun , The National Pavilion of the Republic of Armenia, 56th Biennale di Venezia, Venezia (IT)

2014

• Ritornando, Albert Baronian @ CIAC, Ghent (BE)
  
• La chaleur de l’usure, De Markten, Brussels (BE)
  
• Here and Elsewhere, New Museum, New York (US)
  
• The Sky is Blue in Some Other Way: A Diagram of a Possible Misreading, gallery Elba Benitez, Madrid (ES)
  
• The Ever Changing Body III, Cc Strombeek (BE)
  
• Bande à part, Albert Baronian, Brussels (BE)
  
• Le Faux Soir, a project by KIOSK (Ghent) for Art Brussels (BE)

2013

• Middle Gate Geel ’13, curated by Jan Hoet, diverse locations Geel (BE)
  
• Long ago, and not true anyway, Waterside Contemporary, London (UK)
  
• MDD auction, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle (BE)
  
• Blijven Kijken / Ce qui nous regarde / Dropouts, M Museum, Leuven (BE)

2012

• Inside Out, Kunsthaus Dresden (DE)
  
• Track, S.M.A.K., Ghent (BE)
  
• Graphology, Drawing Room, London (UK)
  
• BookShowBookShop, BE-Part, Platform for Contemporary Art, Waregem (BE)
  
• Black Pages #28, #29, #30, #31, Galerie Emmanuel Layr (Garage), Vienna (AT)

2011

• Villa II, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Knokke (BE)
  
• Freestate II, Young Belgian Art, ‘Splendid Isolation’, Oostende (BE)
  
• East: Excitable Speech: West, Kerstin Engholm Gallery, curated by Adam Budak, Vienna (AT)
  
• Graphology, Chapter 2, M HKA, Antwerpen (BE)
  
• Distant Montage, ERBA, Valence (FR)
  
• Le Mont Analogue, BE-Part, Platform for Contemporary Art, Waregem (BE)
  
• Art in Belgium After 2010, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Ghent (BE)

2010

• Multiple Solitude, De Garage, Cultuurcentrum Mechelen (BE)
  
• Manières Noires/Black Outs, BAM, Beaux Arts Mons (BE)
  
• Dwelling-In-Travel, Art Today Association, Centre for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv (BG)
  
• Gustav, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Knokke (BE)
  
• Mini Market, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)
  
• Be.Welcome, Atomium, Brussels (BE)
  
• The Haifa Mediterranean Biennale, Haifa (IL)
  
• Changez! A Belgian Show, 21 Rozendaal, Enschede (NL)

2009

• Uit het geheugen, Museum Dr. Guislain, Ghent (BE)
  
• Arte Santander, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Ghent (BE)
  
• The Biennale Knokke, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Knokke (BE)
  
• Video Vortex 4 Exhibition, Multimedia Cultural Center, Split (HR)
  
• Something else!!!!, MAN, Museo d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro, Nuoro (IT)

2008

• 5th Fair of Culture, Studentski Centar, Zagreb (HR)
  
• The Ariane de Rothschild Art Prize, Turn & Taxis, Brussels (BE)
  
• Next, Buda Arts Centre, Kortrijk (BE)
  
• Working Title Festival, WorkspaceBrussels (BE)
  
• ArtForum Berlin, Hoet Bekaert Gallery (DE)
  
• Monologische Dialoge, Tanzfabrik, Berlin (DE)
  
• XS, Ghent (BE)
  
• Belgier, aktuelle Kunst aus Belgien, Figge/von Rosen Galerie, Köln (DE)
  
• Collection Presentation, S.M.A.K., Ghent (BE)
  
• Fragile, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Ghent (BE)
  
• From Armenia with love, GEMAK, Den Haag (NL)
  
• Fresh #3, Buda Arts Centre, Kortrijk (BE)
  
• Minimal Waves, L’écurie, Brussels (BE)
  
• Takaaki Izumi – Mekhitar Garabedian, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Ghent (BE)
  
• Trends 2008, St-Barbara chapel, Ghent (BE)

2007

• Open, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Ghent (BE)
  
• In de wind #1, cc Strombeek, Grimbergen (BE)
  
• Gasthoven’07 – Zonevreemd, cc Het Gasthuis, Aarschot (BE)
  
• Silent Revolutions, Chancart – Kruidtuin/Bibliotheek Tweebronnen, Leuven (BE)
  
• MARTa Schweigt, MARTa, Herford (DE)
  
• Act 2: 50 Years Antigone Theatre, Kortrijk (BE)

2006

• Fortis Young Ones Award, LineArt, the Art Fair, Ghent (BE)
  
• KASK@LineArt, LineArt, the Art Fair, Ghent (BE)
  
• Parcours Video Installations, Beurschouwburg, Brussels (BE)
  
• Youngst*rs II, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Ghent (BE)
  
• mankind, Story of a wound, S.M.A.K. and C.R.K.C., Leuven and Heverlee (BE)
  
• Trends 2006, St-Barbara chapel, Ghent (BE)

2005

• Attack!, Buda Arts Centre – Dans in Kortrijk and Limelight, Kortrijk (BE)

2004

• Undercurrent, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Centre, Istanbul (TR)
• Eclips, cc Bornem, cc Willebroek, cc Puurs (BE)
  
• Trends 2004, St-Barbara chapel, Ghent (BE)

2003

• Contemporary Photography from Flanders, Historical Museum, Tbilisi (GE)
  
• aLOSTaSOULS #1, Netwerk Art Centre, Aalst (BE)
  
• Coming People, S.M.A.K., Ghent (BE)

Projects

• Public Figure #3 – Antwerp Public Art Collection (Kunst in de Stad), Antwerp (BE)

Collections

• S.M.A.K., Municipal Museum for Contemporary Art, Ghent (BE)
  
• Argos, Centre for Art and Media, Brussels (BE)
• Museum of Europe (BE)
  
• The Shoes or no shoes? Museum, Kruishoutem (BE)