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The Official Presentation of the Exhibition: Life Map of a Wanderer - Transcultural Relations

24 October 2024
Preview Opening at The Gallery of the Pembroke Art Fund, Pembroke College, University of Oxford. On October 18, 2024 It was a wonderful official opening at the Pichette auditorium of Pembroke College and afterwards the talk of Krikor presenting the works at the exhibition, at the gallery of the ...

Exhibition 'Life Map of a Wanderer - Transcultural Relations'

01 October 2024
'Life Map of a Wanderer - Transcultural Relations' Exhibition at the Gallery of Pembroke JCR Art Fund, Pembroke College, University of Oxford 18 October - 17 November 2024. Lecture: 15 November 2024 Krikor Momdjian presents recent works at the Gallery of Pembroke Art Fund titled 'Life Map of a W...

EXHIBITION IN DRENTHE

28 May 2024
The exhibition in Drenthe, organised by the Art Route - GKV, is a great success. A presentation/solo exhibition at De Galerij, in IJhorst. 16 May - 2 June 2024. I also gave a lecture on 23.th of May: 'Encounter at the Crossroad - with Vimcent and Piet in Drenthe'. I am very pleased and grateful ...

Exhibition and Lecture in Drenthe (NL)

10 May 2024
The announcement of the lecture (in Dutch) on the 23rd of May 2024, in Drenthe (NL). The language will be in Dutch. This is on the occasion of the exhibition of my works at De Galerij, as part of the exhibitions (Kunst Route) organized by Grensloos Kunst Verkennen. I lived and worked in Dr...

Exhibition at the Galerij

02 February 2024
Special Exhibition/Presentation at the Galerij, organized by Grensloos Kunst Verkennen, in Drenthe. 16 May - 2 June 2024. Recent and previous works, inspired by a special Spot in Drenthe where it all started in The Netherlands 44 years ago, during the first eight months living and working as an a...

The masterclass workshop was a great success!

23 October 2023
At Parkvilla (16-20 October 2023). All ten participants (among them professional painters) enthusiastically created great works during the last five days. I enjoyed every minute of the whole process. The theme I gave them at the start was decided before all the horror of war began in the Middle...

Opening Exhibition at Parkvilla by Mayor Liesbeth Spies

27 August 2023
The official opening of the exhibition and the presentation of the special publication 'Letters to Vincent / Brieven aan Vincent' at Parkvilla - art education center with a theater, in Alphen aan den Rijn, on August 25, 2023. Mayor Liesbeth Spies opened the exhibition with a wonderful speech aft...

Exhibition Parkvilla 24 august - 12 october 2023

08 August 2023
We are pleased to announce that artist and former teacher of Parkvilla, Krikor Momdjian, will exhibit in our foyer from August 24 to October 12, 2023. He himself says about this: "With this exhibition, I want to show 44 years of the development of my work, from the moment I left Paris in 1979 to...

The special publication - Letters to Vincent/Brieven aan Vincent is just delivered

08 August 2023
The special publication - Letters to Vincent/Brieven aan Vincent is just delivered. We are very pleased to share this great joy with you. This is a very special occasion for a Celebration!!!! I can’t believe yet that a beautiful dream has come to life. And I am so grateful and feel ve...

Krikor Momdjian on ‘Missing, Remembering, and Revival’ in conversation with Dr Vazken Khatchig Davidian and Dr Suzan Meryem Rosita Kalaycı

20 October 2022
Thursday 20 October 2022, 5 pm Harold Lee Room, Pembroke College, Oxford, OX1 1DW First seminar This event was part of the Silence and Visuality on Armenian Art & History Seminar Series. The Silence and Visuality Seminars on Armenian Art & History present current research by emerging and...

PRESENTATION AND EXHIBITION AT THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY OF BOLOGNA (BUB)

23 September 2022
We are very pleased with the wonderful official presentation of the exhibition at the University Library of Bologna on 16 Sept. 2022. The 'Artist's Book' Ode to Life! Կենաց (one example of the five Leporello's), is now part of the precious treasures of the University Library of Bologna (BUB). We ...

In The Studio of Krikor

20 May 2022
In The Studio of Krikor Latest works. January - May 2022 Representation of a selection of previous and recent works of Krikor. Showing each time different series of works, one would be able to follow the development of his work of the last fifty years. We shall be very pleased to receive a me...

A Christmas gift. A surprise TV interview

06 January 2021
A Christmas gift. A surprise TV interview ( from Armenia, Iammedia.am) in the Bodleian Library in Oxford, during the exhibition of the manuscript of the Artist's Book - Ode to Life! Կենաց 'Songs for Christmas' ... (in Armenian). For those who don't speak Armenian: The video - TV interview...

NEW PROJECT -  'Letters to Vincent'/ 'Brieven aan Vincent' (1979-2022)

20 December 2020
A special publication, with the texts from the diaries of Krikor 'corresponding' with Vincent (van Gogh) for the last 42 years, from the moment he left Paris definitively to start his life as a professional visual artist and poet in The Netherlands. Recent and previous paintings revealing the spi...

2020 -2021

05 December 2020
New Project - 'Letters to Vincent'/ 'Brieven aan Vincent'. A special publication, with the texts from de diaries of Krikor, 'corresponding' with Vincent (van Gogh) for the last 40 years, from the moment he left Paris definitively to start his life as a professional visual artist and poet in The N...

Exhibition of the Manuscript of the Artist's Book - Ode to Life! Կենաց 'Songs for Christmas' at the Bodleian Library - 'Redesigning - The Medieval book' (2017- 2018).

21 September 2020
TV interview ( from Armenia, Iammedia.) in the Bodleian in Oxford, during the exhibition of the manuscript of the Artist's Book - Ode to Life! Կենաց 'Songs for Christmas' ... (in Armenian). For those who don't speak Armenian: The video - TV interview was a surprise interview by the ...

Oxford Project - SALT ROOM WANDERINGS' (2014-2016)

21 July 2020
Presentation of Oxford Project, in collaboration with Professor Theo Maarten van Lint, in Pembroke College. Exhibition of Krikor's paintings and etchings with an installation, at the Pembroke Art Gallery with the presentation of two new books - one on Krikor's poems (the result of the transl...

Oxford Project

21 June 2020
Krikor Momdjian - Artist in residence (2014-2016) – in Pembroke College, at Oxford University. In collaboration with Professor Theo Maarten van Lint. Krikor has been invited as artist and poet by the Professor. who organized workshops of translations in Pembroke College at the University of Oxfor...

'Artist's Book'- 'Ode to Life! Կենաց'   

20 September 2019
Presentation of Krikor 's 'Artist's Book'- 'Ode to Life ! Կենաց ' in The Bodleian Libraries. (a copy of the Limited Edition in the collection of The Bodleian Libraries). A talk and presentation by Krikor in 2021 in The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, UK.  This 'Artist's...

ART 'N SOCIETY

29 July 2019
'ARTI my Love' - in Amsterdam Two works of the recent series - Inspired of questioning the show in the society Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam, as I wrote this poem in my diary, when I met Mondriaan and Breitner. Vincent was also present... The first one will be shown at the exhibition Zomersalon...

Triptych (Jerusalem)

08 April 2019
In Amsterdam, Arti et Amititiae 'Bonjour Monsieur Breitner' It is a pleasure and a great honour at the beating heart of Amsterdam, in Arti to appear near to you, with this ' triptych' (Jerusalem) My Dutch dynamic reality expressif, minimalistic and in a meditative way the present, the past and ...

'The World of Dido' - Berlin project

18 May 2018
Performance of krikor during concert in Berlin (15 April 2018). In a collaboration with the composer Christoph Ostendorf, during the concert 'The World of Dido' and the Release of the new CD of Univocale, Krikor performed as an Artist-Poet by reciting a selection of his poems telling short storie...

Exhibition at the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford

14 December 2017
Redesigning the medieval book (1 December 2017 - 11 March 2018) It is a great pleasure and honour that my latest 'artist's book' inspired of English medieval literature is selected to be presented at the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford. among a selection of submissions ...

PAN Amsterdam (20-27 Nov. 2016)

17 November 2016
PAN Amsterdam (20-27 Nov. 2016) Some early and recent paintings of Krikor Momdjian will be presented by Galerie Helga Hofman

SALT ROOM WANDERINGS

28 October 2016
'WHEN NIGHT FALLS' Krikor Momdjian's first UK show at the Pembroke Art Gallery  was officially opened on 13 October 2016  in Pichette auditorium  with the presence of the Master of Pembroke College Dame Lynne Brindley, who received  the first copies of the two recent publicat...

Deelname aan Holland Festival

27 June 2016
  Honoured being invited to be part of a programme of Holland Festival in Amsterdam. The Art of Remembrance - De Balie, Amsterdam. Podium / di 9 juni / 20:00 uur. De kunst van het herinneren: 100 jaar Armeense genocide. Click here for more info. More information on the Holland ...

Oxford project

10 January 2015
Krikor Momdjian - Artist in residence (2014-2016) – in Pembroke College, at Oxford University. Krikor has been invited as artist and poet, giving workshops and several lectures at the University of Oxford. His poems are being translated by the students of Prof. Theo Maarten van Lint into E...