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A. Melik Ohanian

"Stuttering"

published at 10/08/2018
Exposition de Melik Ohanian pour le Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, 2015 © Melik Ohanian

Exhibited in 2002 for the inauguration of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Island of an Island (1999-2001) was Melik Ohanian's first major piece of work. It depicts the birth of Surtsey island which formed off the coast of Iceland after a volcanic eruption under the sea in 1963. This sliver of land, supervised by the international scientific community and closed to the public, would become an exceptional observatory for studying the emergence of life.

Melik Ohanian hasn't looked back since in his examination of our relationship with the world, with memory, time and space. He shows us his thought process through an array of media (photography, film, video and installations for example). His work is complex and demanding, infused with philosophy, science and research, and can be interpreted as a laboratory of ideas that puts forth other hypotheses. His subtle and immersive showpieces usher the onlooker into a situation “of intense phenomenological experiences”.

Stuttering is a series of photographs taken in the botanical gardens in Palermo. Displayed on a plasma screen - just like an advertising light box – each shot, taken twice with variation in the point of focus, causes a sort of visual oscillation, a quivering sensation. The "stuttering" image blurs our field of vision, conjuring up the idea of a beating heart - perhaps the very heart of nature.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Melik OHANIAN
FRANCE
 
 
Melik Ohanian was born in 1969 and splits his time between Paris and New York. He graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts de Montpellier (1988) and the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon (with a Master in Art and Media (DNSEP), 1993; and a further "Post-Diplôme" in Art and Media, 1994).
 
In 2004, he represented France at the 26th Biennale in São Paulo. He also took part in the Biennales in Sydney, Berlin and Pontevedra in 2004, the 8th Biennale in Lyon and the Moscow Biennale in 2005, the Gwangju (Korea) and Seville Biennales in 2006, the Gothenburg Biennale and 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007 and the Sharjah Biennale (United Arab Emirates) in 2011.
 
He has exhibited across myriad institutions, particularly the Galerie Chantal Crousel, Palais de Tokyo, the Yvon Lambert Gallery in New York, the Centre pour l’image contemporaine de Saint-Gervais, the Dvir Gallery in Tel Aviv, the Institut d’art contemporain in Villeurbanne, South London Gallery in London, De Appel in Amsterdam and the CCA Kitakyushu...
In 2006 the Institut d’art contemporain in Villeurbanne organised the first major personal exhibition on Melik Ohanian.
 
In 2008, 15 sites across the Parisian region showed his project From the Voice to the Hand at the same time (du Plateau/ FRAC Ile de France, MAC/VAL, Abbaye de Maubuisson, CentQuatre, Yvon Lambert…). In 2013, Ohanian was invited to create the Armenian Genocide Monument ("Les réverbères de la mémoire") in a park in Geneva. His work has been displayed at the Centre régional d’art contemporain Languedoc-Roussillon Sète (curated by Noëlle TISSIER & Ami BARAK. Summer 2014).
 

He is represented by the Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris.

AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES

2009
The University of the Arts, Philadelphie, USA
 
2008
Montalvo Arts Center, Sally and Don Lucas Artist Program, Saratoga, USA
 
2007
Montalvo Arts Center, Sally and Don Lucas Artist Program, USA.
CCA (Center for Contemporary Art), Kitakyushu, Japon
 
2005
Prize of October Art Salon, Belgrade, Serbie
Art Pace 2005, San Antonio, USA
 
2003/2004
Villa Medicis, Rome, Italie
 
2003
CCA (Center for Contemporary Art), Kitakyushu, Japon
 
2002
FIACRE, aide à la première exposition
 
2000
IAC Villeurbanne, Residency, Dié
Image en Mouvement CNC/DAP
 
1995
Prix Linossier, Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Lyon
Complete Biography

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2014
Stutttering, Galerie Chantal Crousel & La Douane, Paris, France
Stuttering, Centre d’Art Régional Contemporain Languedoc Roussillon, Sète, France
Welcome To Hanksville, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, USA
Datcha Project, Session #005, Armenia
 
2013
Points d’Intentions, Centre d’Art Contemporain Les Eglises, Chelles, France
 
2012
DAYS, I See what I Saw and what I will See, Lo Schermo dell’Arte Film Festival, Florence, Italy
In The Desert of Images, Mumbai Art Room, Mumbai, India
Points d’Intentions, Centre d’Art Contemporain Les Eglises, Chelles, France
Concrete Tears, 3451, Musée National Pablo Picasso, Vallauris, France
 
2011
DISPLAY NONE, Galerie Ecole des Beaux Arts de Montpellier, France
DAYS, I See what I Saw and what I will See, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Peripherical Communities, Rich Mix, London, United Kingdom
DATCHA Project, Session #004, Armenia
 
2010
Cadence Modulaire, Public Art, UPR, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Paris, France
Lightbox Melik Ohanian, Café Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
DATCHA Project, Session #003, Armenia
DATCHA Project, Session #002, Armenia
 
2009
Melik Ohanian avec Romain Kronenberg, BLANK, Paris, France
From The Voice To The Hand, In Between, Centre Musical Goutte d’Or - Barbara, Paris, France
DATCHA Project, Session #001, Armenia
 
2008
El Agua de Niebla, Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile
DATCHA Project, Session #000, Armenia
From The Voice to The Hand, Paris, France (Mac/Val, Le Plateau/FRAC Ile-De-France, Abbaye de Maubuisson, Collection, Centre Pompidou, Cité Nationale de l'Histoire de l'Immigration, Association FACE, Cinéma l'Entrepôt, Le CentQuatre, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Galerie de Multiples) 
 
2007
37 seconds - Melik Ohanian, CCA Kitakyushu, Japan
Harun Farucki & Melik Ohanian, Lunds Konsthall, Sweden
 
2006
Seven Minutes Before, South London Gallery, London, United Kingdom
(M)UT(E)OPIA, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Somewhere In Time, De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Let’s Turn or Turn Around, Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
 
2005
ArtPace, San Antonio, USA
At the Same Time, Somewhere Else (avec Sean Snyder et Pia Ronicke), The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
A Moment as an Event, PERFORMA 05, New York, USA
 
2004
Seven Minutes Before, French Pavilion, 26th Sao Paulo Biennial, Brazil
Revolving Analogia, Galerie Yvon Lambert, New York, USA
{T}HERE, Centre pour l’Image Contemporaine, Saint Gervais, Genève, Switzerland
Welcome To Hanksville, Galerie Dvir, Tel-Aviv, Israel
 
2003
Slow Motion, from Slave to Valse, CCA Kitakyushu, Japan
Welcome To Hanksville, Studio Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Sound Bilboard, Museum in Progress, Vienna, Austria
You are mY destinY, The Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, USA
AlightningtruckonablueracetracK, Galerie BF15, Lyon, France
 
2002
Nightsnow, Galerie Navona, Rome, Italie ; Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Island of an Island, Art Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland
Island of an Island and Peripherical Communities, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Freezing Film, FRAC Languedoc Roussillon, Montpellier, France

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2014
Music Palace, the power of music seen by visual artists, organisé par Diana Wiegersma, Fondation Boghossian, Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium
Simples gestes, organisé par Jean de Loisy et Sandra Adam-Couralet, La Grande Place, Musée du cristal Saint-Louis, Saint-Louis-lès-Bitche, France
Der Blitz, organisé par Denis Isaia et Federico Mazzonelli, Galleria Civica G. Segantini, Arco Di Trento, Italy
Entre-temps, l'artiste narrateur, organisé par Angeline Scherf et Odile Burluraux, MOCA Chengdu, China
Des choses en moins, des choses en plus, organisé par Sebastien Faucon et Agnès Violeau, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Ilots d'Utopies: Un esprit Jaurès, Musée / Centre du Verre, Carmaux, France
 
2013
All About These..., Viafarini Docva, Mila, Italy
Sound Design For Future Films, Et al., San Francisco, USA
El Agua De Niebla, Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Canada
Sans Matières Ajoutées by About Blank, CNEAI, Paris, France
Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Canada
Le Pont, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Marseille, France
Honey I rearranged the collection, Passage de Retz, Paris, France
Bande à part, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Liberation Annlee, Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Montpellier, France
Tireless Refrain, Nam June Paik Art Center, South Korea
I’m Dreaming About a Reality, La Douane, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
 
2012
In spite of it all, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Collection'12, Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
OilScapes, Peacock Visual Arts, Centre for Contemporary Art, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
The Eyes of the Soul, collection Isabelle and Jean-Conrad Lemaître, Fundació Godia, Barcelona, Spain
A Blind Spot, curated by Catherine David, Berlin Documentary Forum, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Néon, Who’s afraid of red, yellow and blue ?, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
Living With Video, organisé par Chantal Crousel, Pavillon Downtown, Dubaï, United Arab Emirates
 
2011
J'ai Deux Amours, Cité Nationale de l'Histoire de l'immigration, Paris, France
FIAC 2011, El Agua de Niebla, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, France
Entre-Temps, L'artiste Narrateur, Collection MAM Paris, Taipei, Taiwan
Atmosphères, Collection FRAC Rhône-Alpes, Romans, France
Entre-Temps, L'artiste Narrateur, Collection MAM Paris, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Nuages, Cité Radieuse, Marseille, France
Magical Consciousness, Arnolfini, Bristol, United Kingdom
10th Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates
 
2010
Collection, Mac/Val, Paris, France
Persistence of Vision II, Nikolaj Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
L'Homme debout, Galerie Chantal Crousel, FIAC, Paris, France
Still/Moving, The Israël Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Sound Design for Future Films, Wexner Center for the Arts Columbus, USA
Persistence of Vision I, FACT, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Telling Stories, WUK Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria
 
2009
America, Beirut Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon
L’Attraction de l’espace, Au fond de l’inconnu pour trouver le nouveau, Musée d’Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne, France
Entre-temps, L’artiste narrateur, Une décennie d’art français issue des collections vidéo du Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France; MIS / Paco de Artes, Sao Paulo et Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Behind the Image, The Image Behind, ArteFact Festival, STUK Kunstencentrum, Leuven, Belgium
Los Tiempos de un Lugar, Centro de Arte y Naturaleza, Fundacion Beulas, Huesca, Spain
La Scène Française 1980-2008, Réfléchir Le Monde, Centrale Electrique, Brussels, Belgium
 
2008
Interstitial Zone, Argos, Brussels, Belgium
Sound Design for Future Films, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
U-Turn, Quadrennial, Copenhagen, Denmark
Du Jardin au Cosmos, Espace de l’Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux, France
The Space of Man, Merz Foundation, Turin, Italy
Re-Make/Re-Model, Courtisane Film Festival, Ghent, Belgium
Locked-In, Luxemburg Casino, Luxemburg
Voice and Void, Im Taxipalais Gallery, Innsbruck, Austria
Collection08, Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne
Collateral 2 (organisé par Adeline von Furstenberg), SESC Anevida Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil
Perform History, U-TURN at Overgaden, Copenhagen, Denmark
 
2007
Fiction Vs Reality, Modern Art Centre, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
Passages, Hommage à Walter Benjamin, Gandy Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
Playback, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Intrusions, FMAC Collection, Petit Palais, Paris, France
Voice and Void, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, USA
On the limits of politics and possibilities of resistance, 4th Gothenburg Biennial, Gothenburg, Sweden
Collection, MAC VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine
Poëziezomers, Watou, Belgium
Borderline-Moving Image, Beijing Centre for Creativity, Chine
Think with senses, Feel with the mind, 52th Venice Biennial, Italy
Critical Foreground, New Langhton Arts, San Francisco, USA
The Hand, National Museum of Fine Arts, Riga, Latvia
On Peter Watkins, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna, Austria
Air de Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Centre of the Creative Universe: Liverpool and the Avant-Garde, Tate Liverpool, United Kingdom
Parabol Magazine #2, Vienna, Austria
Collateral, When Art looks at Cinema (curated by Adeline von Furstenberg), Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy
 
2006
2nd International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Seville, Spain
6th Gwangju Biennial, South Korea
Datcha Project, Kamaris, Armenia
Tell Me, Luxemburg Casino, Luxembourg
Human Games, Fondation Pitti, Florence, Italy
Undo Redo, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Seven Minutes Before, projection en extérieur, Massif du Vercors, France
Negative Space, Extended (par Susanne Bürner), Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
Satellites of Love, Witte de Whit, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
25 PEACES, Billboard project, Vienna, Austria
 
2005
Collection, MAC VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
Rencontres Internationales des Arts Multimédia, Ateliers d’artistes de la Ville de Marseille, France
Leçon Zéro, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Istmo, Vermelho Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
Experiencing Duration, 8th Lyon Biennial, France
Dialectic of Hope, 1st Moscow Biennial, Russia
Tell me, Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec, Canada
Art That Works / Catch me, 46th October Art Salon, Belgrade, Serbia
Multipistes, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Nach Rokytnik, EVN Collection, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
Greengrassi Gallery (organisé par Francesca Grassi), London, United Kingdom
Land Marks, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Remagine, Collection du FNAC, Musée d’art contemporain, Lyon, France
Collection, Musée d’Art Contemporain (MACRO), Roma, Italy
Documentary Creations, Museum of Art, Lucerne, Switzerland
Universal Experience, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
 
2004
ReasonEmotion, 14th Sydney Biennial, Australia
3rd Berlin Biennial, Germany
4th Pontevedra Art Biennial, Spain
Communautés, Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
Mediterraneo, Musée d’Art Contemporain (MACRO), Roma, Italy
Nuit Blanche, Paris, France
Eblouissement, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
 
2003
Géographies #3, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Freezing Film, Festival d’Automne, Gare de Lyon, Paris, France
Par le chas d’une aiguille, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Collective Exhibition, Centre Régional d'Art Contemporain Languedoc-Roussillon (CRAC), Sète, France
Embassy, Galleri F15, Moss, Norway
2O ans des FRAC, Musée d’art Contemporain de Strasbourg, France
Moltitudini–Solitudini, Museion, Bolzano, Italy
No Ghost Just a Shell, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA
ARCO, Madrid, Spain
 
2002
No Ghost Just a Shell, Institute for Visual Culture, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Toasting Agency at Openspace (organisé par Alexis Vaillant), Piazza Duomo, Milan, Italy
No Ghost Just a Shell, Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA
Migration de l’image, Erevan, Armenia
Haunted House (organisé par Gabriel Lester), Outline, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Stories, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Less Ordinary, Artsonje Center, Séoul, Corée du Sud ; Artsonje Museum, Kyungju, South Korea
 
2001
Traversées, Musée d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (MAM/ARC), Paris, France
A comme Accident, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Rencontres vidéo, Galerie Piazza Navona, Roma, Italy
 
2000
Institut d’Art Contemporain de Villeurbanne, Residency in Dié, France
Soirée Nomade, Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris, France
 
1999
ThirtyFiveSecondsLater Interval Program, Musée d’art Contemporain, Lyon, France
Icono Festival, Printemps du Québec à Paris, Métro Stalingrad, Paris, France
 
1998
Collective Exhibition, Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, France
Junge Szene 98, Secession, Vienna, Austria
In Vitro, Glassbox, Paris, France
 
1997
Mobile TV (avec Pierre Huygue), Le Consortium, Dijon, France
Histoires en Forme, Le Magasin, Grenoble, France
Galerie de Portraits, Collection FRAC Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne, France
3rd Cetinje Biennial, Montenegro
 
1996
Bande Sonore pour un Film Potentiel (avec Pierre Huyghe), Le Hall, Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts, Lyon
Arte Fiera di Bologna, Galeria Nuova Icona, Bologne, Italie
 
1995
Critique, Critique, Post-diplôme, École Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Cité de l’image, Lyon-Vaise, France; Galeria Nuova Icona, Venice, Italy
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