11.07.2021

Mikoyan Maro

Maro Mikoyan is a multidisciplinary artist, film director, basic lines is sculpting, video art, AR.

"With Kazakh and Armenian roots, I was born and raised in Moscow, and my adolescent years happened in 90-s and 00-s. I belong to dras tically unlike cultures and I grew up in a rapidly transforming country with an ever-changing environment, and such experience has built me and defined me as an artist. In my works, I explore the relations between the past and the future, nature and technologies, ethnicity, and globalization. I love mixing everything, fulfilling my necessity of keeping the traditions and the techniques of the past and the need to add the new reality. Therefore my ceramics live in a digital space, I film modern scripts with a VHS camera, and I complement classic art with new technologies. I never stop experimenting with the media, choos ing a particular combination for each project, and sometimes I take a big risk when I implement something completely new.

The stories behind my works are also a mix of casual situations, histori cal facts, dreams, deja vus, fantasies, emotions, global agenda, and all the info noise. I aim to create a brand new yet vaguely familiar visual environment, where the spectators could find the answers along with the questions all by themselves".
Maro Mikoyan.

EDUCATION:

2019 - 2020 — British Higher School of Art & Design, Fashion Video
2018 — British Higher School of Art & Design, Contemporary ceramics and art
2003 - 2008 — Moscow State University for the Humanities Sholokhov, Art history

SELECTED PERSONAL AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2021— Victoria Art Gallery (Samara)
2021— Art cener Efir (Moscow)
2021 — Muha Gallery (Moscow)
2021— Kuryokhin center Video Art Club (St. Peterburg) 2021 May — Promgrafica gallery (Moscow)
2021 — "Wow, Fantastic!" Khodynka gallery (Moscow) 2021 April — "Event Horizon" Cultural Centre Kalinina (Korolev) 2021 February — We see items, Flacon (Moscow)
2019 — Artplay, BHSAD (Moscow)
2019 — "Art = All" Proun Gallery (Moscow)

FESTIVALS:

2021 September — Screen & Story Film Festival (UK, International) 2021 July — FilmOneFest (United States, New Jersey)
2021 — Assembly Line Sixties Film Festival (United States, California)