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Aren Shahnazaryan

Paintings and drawings

17. Jan 15. Mar

Opening hours
Tue - Fri: 14:00 - 18:00
Sat / Sun: 10:00 - 18:00
Mon: closed

24.12. + 1st Christmas Day: closed
New Year's Eve + New Year's Day: closed
Admission
6 € per person | 4 € reduced
Friday from 12:00 free admission

Free admission with Dresden-Pass and for children under 7 years and other discounts
LMD Shahnazaryan 2026 02Radio (Serie Fragmente der Qualia) 2022 | © Aren Shahnazaryan

We are showing the first museum exhibition of paintings and drawings by the artist Aren Shahnazaryan.

"The centre of my artistic work is to examine and question the creation of a picture using painterly means. In doing so, I always pursue the question of what influence the painter and the picture have on each other in the painting process. (...) I am not the only one who decides on the painting, but the painting also influences my decisions. It is an interactive process, a relationship between the observed object and its observer. This creates a tension that gains the unlimited from the small scale of the work..."

Aren Shahnazaryan

Christoph Tannert will speak at the opening on Friday, 16 January 2026. The artist will be present at the opening and a catalogue will be published.

AI generated: The image shows a rough, expressionistic wooden stump protruding from an open, yellow cardboard box. The background is in muted grey tones, which highlights the wooden stump in the foreground.oversize, 2023 | © Aren Shahnazaryan

Biography

Aren Shahnazaryan was born in Yerevan (Armenia) in 1991. He studied at the Yerevan Art Academy from 2008-2012 and at the HfBK Dresden from 2017 to 2022; he was also a master student of Ralf Kerbach from 2022 to 2025.

Aren Shahnazaryan has lived and worked in Dresden since 2017.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

2023 By Deformation Into The Present, Full Moon Gallery, Dresden, DE

2016 Widerdruck, Dalan Art Gallery , Yerevan, AM

2011 Naregatsi Art Institute, Yerevan, AM

Exhibition dates

Fri / 16. Jan
20:00
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Opening speech: Christoph Tannert

We cordially invite you and your friends to the opening of the exhibition on Friday, 16 January at 8 pm.

The speaker will be Christoph Tannert


Access to the event is not barrier-free.

The car park on Grundstraße above the museum will be available during the opening.