Andrius Arutiunian (b.1991) is an Armenian-Lithuanian artist and composer working with hybrid forms of listening, vernacular knowledges and contemporary cosmologies. His research often experiments with perception of time, resonance, and alternate methods for world-ordering. Through playful investigation of hypnotic and enigmatic forms, Arutiunian’s installations, films, and performances challenge the concepts of musical and political attunement.

In 2022 Arutiunian represented Armenia at the 59th Venice Art Biennale with a solo show Gharīb. Other biennial shows include the 15th Gwangju Biennale, the 17th Lyon Biennale, the 14th Shanghai Biennale, the 15th Baltic Triennial, and documenta 14 Parliament of Bodies.

Other selected shows include Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Centre Pompidou (Paris), M HKA (Antwerp), Sapieha Palace (Vilnius), Stroom (The Hague), Survival Kit 13 (Riga), FACT (Liverpool), Rewire (The Hague), CTM festival (Berlin), Meduza (Vilnius), and Contemporary Art Centre (Vilnius).

In 2024 Arutiunian was shortlisted for the Future Generation Art Prize. He is a 2023/24 DAAD fellow in Berlin.

CV & Portfolio

Contact: studio@andriusarutiunian.com

Education

2010/16Music Composition, BA & MA; The Royal Conservatoire, The Hague

Solo shows

2023Medūza, Vilnius, Counterfates
PYLON-Lab, Dresden, Silent Talking
2022The 59th Venice Biennale, Armenia Pavilion, Gharīb
CTM festival and silent green, Berlin, Incantations

Biennial shows

202415th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud
17th Lyon Biennale, France, curated by Alexia Fabre
9th Asian Art Biennale, Taiwan, co-curated by Anne Davidian, Merv Espina, Haeju Kim, Asli Seven, Fang Yen-Hsaing
2nd Riyadh Biennale, Saudi Arabia, curated by Ute Meta Bauer
15th Baltic Triennial, Lithuania, co-curated by Tom Engels and Maya Tounta
202314th Shanghai Biennale, China, curated by Anton Vidokle
14th Kaunas Biennale, Lithuania, curated by Alicia Knock and Inga Lāce
202259th Venice Biennale, Armenia Pavilion, Gharīb, curated by Anne Davidian
Survival Kit 13, curated by iLiana Fokianaki

Group exhibitions & performances

2024Centre Pompidou, Paris
Pinchuk Art Centre, Future Generation Art Prize, Kyiv
Palais de Tokyo, Les Frontières sont des animaux nocturnes, Paris
Kadist, Les Frontières sont des animaux nocturnes, Paris
Rewire Festival, The Hague
2023Le Fresnoy and Centre Pompidou, Tourcoing, Saodat Ismailova. Double Horizon
Slavs and Tatars, Radicants, Pickle Bar, Paris
Stroom, Positions: Elsewheres, The Hague
2022M HKA, EURASIA − A Landscape of Mutability, Antwerp
2021FACT, Unseen Data, Liverpool
Rewire festival, The Hague
werkleitz, Halle
BALTIC Contemporary Centre for Art, Opening the Archive, Newcastle

2020

Lucia Festival, Florence
Exrotaprint, Berlin (w/ Adapter ensemble)

2019

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (w/Ensemble Modelo62)
Sacrum Profanum Festival
Kablys, Vilnius
MO, Modern Art Museum, Vilnius (w/ Ensemble Synaesthesis)
Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam (w/ Marianna Maruyama)

2018

Centraal Museum, Gaudeamus Muziekweek festival, Utrecht
Korzo, The Hague
Ephémère, Studio Loos, The Hague


2017documenta 14, Parliament of Bodies (w/ Marianna Maruyama)
Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius
Melos Ethos festival, Bratislava (w/ Ensemble Synaesthesis)
deSingel, Antwerp (w/ Nadar ensemble)

Residencies

2024DAAD Artists in Berlin
2023Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt
Cité internationale des arts, Paris
2022Rupert, Vilnius

2021

FACT, EMARE/EMAP, Liverpool
Cité internationale des arts, Paris

2020

Amant, Siena

2019

BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
ZKM | Hertz Lab, Karlsruhe

2018

The Deep Splash, Vilnius
Quartertone, Yerevan

2015

Conlon Foundation, Utrecht

2014

National Cyprus Museum and Slagwerk Den Haag, Nicosia

Press

2024https://www.e-flux.com/criticism/632242/15th-gwangju-biennale-pansori-a-soundscape-of-the-21st-century
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-8-standout-artists-gwangju-biennale-2024
2023https://boomkat.com/products/seven-common-ways-of-disappearing
2022https://echogonewrong.com/gharib-conversation-with-andrius-arutiunian-about-the-armenian-pavilion-at-the-59th-venice-biennale/
https://www.pressreader.com/france/artpress/20220419/282471417409381
https://www.artforum.com/events/survival-kit-13-250750/
https://groove.de/2022/02/09/ctm-festival-eine-selbststudie-des-eigenen-koerpers-im-akustischen-raum/

Publications

2022The Book of Gharīb (Pavilion of Armenia and Hallow Ground)
2020Four Essays, w/ Raimundas Malašauskas, Marianna Maruyama, Isabelle Sully
2019Portraits & Poets, digital release

Awards & grants

2024Future Art Generation Prize, shortlisted
2020Talent Development Grant, Stimulerings Fonds, NL
Makersregeling Den Haag, NL
Stroom, Promise Grant, NL
2018Young Artist of 2017, Lithuanian Composer’s Union, LT
2017JCDecaux award, shortlisted, LT

Teaching & research

2016–ongoingSound researcher at the Sedje Hémon Foundation, The Hague
2016–2021Guest tutor at the Master Artistic Research department, The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, The Hague