Resonance, disappearance and hypnotic rituals are recurrent themes in Andrius Arutiunian’s practice. These works also often rely on vernacular knowledges, speculative cosmologies, and sound as “a fluid architecture of time”. The solo exhibition at Memphis presents pieces from Arutiunian’s newest series of works experimenting with psychoacoustic phenomena, ghostly presences, and slippery disappearance of time.

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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 temporality, 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.

Arutiunian participated in various biennial shows including the 59th Venice Art Biennale (Armenia Pavilion), the 14th Shanghai Biennale, the 15th Gwangju Biennale, the 17th Lyon Biennale, the 9th Asian Art Biennale, and the 15th Baltic Triennial. Selected shows include Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Centre Pompidou (Paris), M HKA (Antwerp), Stroom (The Hague), Kadist (Paris), Pinchuk Art Centre (Kyiv), Survival Kit 13 (Riga), FACT (Liverpool), silent green & CTM (Berlin), and Contemporary Art Centre (Vilnius). In 2024 Arutiunian was selected for the Future Generation Art Prize shortlist. He was DAAD artist-in-residence fellow in 2023. His works are in various collections including Centre Pompidou and KADIST.

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Andrius Arutiunian

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