INHABIT #10 // Andrius Arutiunian
Angela Grabowska, 2023, courtesy of the artist
September – December 2023
Andrius Arutiunian is an Armenian-Lithuanian artist and composer based in Paris and The Hague. Arutiunian works with hybrid forms of sound through objects, installations and performances.
Alternate modes of political and musical organization, sonic dissent, and playful investigation of esoteric and vernacular histories form Arutiunian’s most recent works. Through aural cosmologies, non-western tuning systems, and the use of resonance and speculative instruments, Arutiunian treats sound as a world-ordering method.
Biography
Trained as a composer, Arutiunian studied music composition and sonology at the Royal Conservatory, The Hague. In 2022, the artist was selected to represent Armenia at the 59th Venice Biennale with a solo show Gharīb. Other solo shows include Diaphonics at Centrala Space (Birmingham, UK) and Incantations at CTM festival (Berlin, Germany);. Selected group shows and solo performances include Survival Kit 13 (Riga, documenta 14 Parliament of Bodies (Kassel, Germany); Le Fresnoy (Tourcoing, France); Stroom (The Hague, Belgium); FACT (Liverpool, UK); Rewire Festival (The Hague, Belgium); Contemporary Art Centre (Vilnius, Lithuania). He has held residencies at Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris, France); EMARE/EMAP (Liverpool, UK); Amant Siena, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art (Gateshead, UK); ZKM | Centre for Art and Media (Karlsruhe, Germany).
