Natalia Chobanyan
Artist
Born in Tbilisi, Georgia 1987. Currently based in Moscow.

I am attracted by everyday life, the relationship of a human and the space surrounding him. I have worked with fresco al secco, cyanotype and ceramics. Each work is an attempt to slow down and create a pause.

For me fresco is a pause in time, which is why it is so important in our modern world, where high temporality does not allow creating a pause in art.

An anonymous fresco is a kind of archetype where the heroes of the works and people from the outside world find themselves, they unite in this lost blurred face and peer through it into themselves, into personal mythology.
I combine modern subjects with such monumental and archaic techniques in order to further “glorify” the moment of the present and the comonness. This is about experiencing something important that you want to keep in your memory.
Education:

2021 - Sculptural school by Katerina Sokolovskaya
2020 - 2021 School of contemporary art «Free Workshops» at Moscow Museum of Modern Art
2019 - 2020 Drawing course at Moscow State Academic Art Institute Named after V.I. Surikov
2016 - 2017 Master’s Program of Garage Museum of Contemporary Art and RANEPA «Curatorial Practices in Contemporary Art»
2010 - 2015 Fine art. Russian-Italian art school Perotti
2004 - 2009 Moscow State Linguistic University

Selected Solo/Group exhibitions/art fairs/auctions:

2025 Narcissists Anonymous, Cultural center "Artishok", Moscow
2025 The city remembers all summer dreams, pop-up solo show by Elephant in the louvre at Studio 7
2025 What do they tell the poet about flowers? Joy Gallery, Saint-Petersburg
2024 Try to hear the melody of movements, Cultural center "Artishok", Moscow /solo show
2024 12th International Contemporary Art Fair Cosmoscow
2024 |catalog| art fair
2023 Souvenirs. Cultural center "Artishok", Moscow
2023 Friends. Masters Moscow /solo show
2023 Out of place. New landscapes, CCI Fabrika, Moscow

2023 Garden of continuous blooming, pop up Gallery VZOR, Moscow /solo show
2022 Blazar young art fair, Moscow
2021 The underside and what’s inside. «Third place» art space, Saint- Petersburg
2021 Moscow without outskitrs. Taganskiy district. Museum of Moscow, Moscow
2021 Workshop 2021. Adaptation. Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow

Residence

2024 Masters digital gallery on Gulf of Finland, Repino
site-specific installation

Publications

2025 interview on snob.ru
2025 interview on design-mate
2025 Grazia.ru
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