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The Official Presentation of the Exhibition: Life Map of a Wanderer - Transcultural Relations
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 Pe…
Exhibition 'Life Map of a Wanderer - Transcultural Relations'
'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 Wan…
EXHIBITION IN DRENTHE
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 th…
Exhibition and Lecture in Drenthe (NL)
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 Dren…
Exhibition at the Galerij
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 art…
The masterclass workshop was a great success!
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 E…
Opening Exhibition at Parkvilla by Mayor Liesbeth Spies
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 after…
Exhibition Parkvilla 24 august - 12 october 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 l…
The special publication - Letters to Vincent/Brieven aan Vincent is just delivered
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 very…
Krikor Momdjian on ‘Missing, Remembering, and Revival’ in conversation with Dr Vazken Khatchig Davidian and Dr Suzan Meryem Rosita Kalaycı
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 e…
PRESENTATION AND EXHIBITION AT THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY OF BOLOGNA (BUB)
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 ar…
In The Studio of Krikor
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 mess…
A Christmas gift. A surprise TV interview
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 w…
NEW PROJECT - 'Letters to Vincent'/ 'Brieven aan Vincent' (1979-2022)
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 spiri…
2020 -2021
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 Net…
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).
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 Ar…
Oxford Project - SALT ROOM WANDERINGS' (2014-2016)
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 translat…
Oxford Project
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 Oxford…
'Artist's Book'- 'Ode to Life! Կենաց'
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 B…
ART 'N SOCIETY
'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)
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 th…
'The World of Dido' - Berlin project
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 stories…
Exhibition at the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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 of…
PAN Amsterdam (20-27 Nov. 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
'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 publicatio…
Deelname aan Holland Festival
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 Fe…
Oxford project
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 Eng…