bio

Bela Pogosian is an artist and curator based in Yerevan and Vanadzor, Armenia. She is the curator of the permanent exhibition Armenia–Diaspora at the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art (ACCEA/NPAK) and the founder of bb home gallery in Vanadzor an independent space dedicated to artistic practices, research and community engagement.

Born in 1994 in Voronezh, Russian Federation, she graduated from Voronezh State University (Faculty of Journalism, Department of Advertising and Public Relations), completed the Artists’ School at the Voronezh Center for Contemporary Art, and later studied in the Theory and Practice program at the Moscow Institute of Contemporary Art BAZA.

Working across installation, sound, video, participatory research, and archival methodologies, Pogosian explores the intersections of memory, sound, color, and spatial perception. Her practice investigates how individual and collective experiences become embedded in places, landscapes, and sensory environments, with a particular focus on migration narratives, diasporic experiences, local histories, and processes of belonging.

Rather than approaching archives as fixed repositories of information, she understands them as living structures shaped by voices, movements, encounters, and acts of listening. Central to her work is the translation of one sensory experience into another: sounds become colors, routes become scores, conversations become maps, and memories are reconfigured as spatial and audiovisual environments.

Through field recordings, collective mapping, oral histories, and site-specific research, she develops projects that function as sensory archives, inviting audiences to navigate memory and experience the invisible connections between people, places, and time.

Since 2017, Pogosian has participated in more than thirty group exhibitions and artistic projects in Armenia and internationally. After repatriating to Armenia in 2021, she became actively involved in artistic research, curatorial initiatives, and community-based projects across the country.

Alongside her artistic practice, she develops curatorial projects focused on diaspora, migration, memory, and cultural transmission. Her work explores how identities, histories, and forms of belonging are negotiated across geographic, linguistic, and generational boundaries, while creating platforms for dialogue between artists, researchers, and local communities.