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Ruben Arevshatyan

Ruben Arevshatyan is an artist and curator. He is the president of AICA-Armenia and leads the research based art practices studio at the Institute for Contemporary Art, Yerevan. He has published widely on contemporary art, architecture, and theory - mainly around topics and on issues of urban and cultural transformation focusing on Post Socialist contexts. Member of the editorial board of Red-thread e-journal. In 2011 he was the curator of Manuals: Subjects of New UniversalityArmenian National Pavilion in 54 Venice Art Biennale and in 2014 he was the curator of The Capital of Desires Armenian National Pavilion in 14 Venice Architecture Biennale. Author and curator of Sweet Sixties international research project. He led the scientific restoration project of Sevan Writers’ Resort in the frames of Getty Foundation’s Keeping it Modern program. Lives and works in Yerevan.