Asmik Melkonyan

My name is Asmik. I have an academic background in fine arts, but I currently work primarily in contemporary art. My main focus is graphics and painting, but I also create objects, sculptures, and installations.

For me, art is a way to directly engage with the unknown—through artistic practice, I materialize the hidden, translating it into feelings, emotions, and the body, which is much harder to deceive than the mind. One of my key methods is the search for patterns—both visual and psychological, external and internal—through automatic drawing, abstraction, ornamentation, and the repetition of elements. New ideas and patterns become pieces of an unfamiliar puzzle, gradually revealing themselves in the process.

The sacred nature of the artistic process is essential to me—its regularity and seriality shape the way I work and explore new visual languages.

2006-2010 studied at Moscow Academic Art College in memory of 1905
2011-2017 studied at Moscow state academic art institute named after V.I.Surikov (studios of Nazarenko Tatiana and Aidan Salakhova)
2017-2018 resident of Open Studios (center of contemporary art “Winzavod“)
2019-2021 studiet at ICA Moscow

Group exhibitions:
2024 ''The garden'' NPAK, Yerevan
2023 ''Light'' New Tretyakov, Moscow
2022 ''Armenia-Diaspora. Exhibition of contemporary art'' NPAK, Yerevan
2022 ''All we have is now'' Gallery ''Art-kvartal'', Yerevan
2022 ''(impot)(viol)(dilig)ence'' ''Omelchenco Gallary'', Moscow
2022 ''Thirteen'' NPAK, Yerevan
2022 Residens in ''Ria Keburia Foundation'' Georgia, Kachreti
2022 ''All we have is now'' Gallery ''Art-kvartal'', Yerevan
2022 ''Mixed media'' New Wing of the ''Gogol House'', Moscow
2021 ''Time for things'' center for contemporary art "Winzavod", Moscow
2021 ''(In)visible cities'' Gallery ''Nagornaya'', Moscow
2020 ''Base(less)'' center for contemporary art "Winzavod", Moscow
2020 ''Regard(less)'' ''Cube Moscow'', Moscow
2020 ''The Looking-Glass and Through It'' the Museum of St. Petersburg Art 20th-21st centuries
2020 ''Parallels'' Fine Art Gallery, center for contemporary art "Winzavod", Moscow
2019 "Cosmocscow" Artis gallery, Gostiny Dvor, Moscow
2019 "The process. New Academy" center for contemporary art "Winzavod" Red Ceh, Moscow
2018 "Victory over the white” center for contemporary art "Winzavod" Open Studios, Moscow
2018 “5 life hacks for artists” Omelchenco Gallery, Moscow
2018 ''Home/Street'' K35 ga...