bio

Bela Pogօsian is an artist and one of the curators of NPAK (Armenian Center for Contemporary and Experimental Art: ACCEA / NPAK). Lives and works in Yerevan.

Born on September 2, in 1994 in Voronezh (Russian Federation). Graduated from Voronezh State University, the Faculty of Journalism, Department of Advertising and PR as well as the Moscow Institute of Contemporary Art Theory and Practice «BASE»/«БАЗА».

Actively exhibited since 2017: more than 30 group exhibitions in Armenia and Russia. Bela repatriated to Armenia in 2021.

The artist investigates the theme of folk memory, collective unconscious, using as media found natural materials of Armenia (tuff and other stones), graphics, paintings, Bela also conducts her own artistic research and presents documentation in the form of an installation.

In collaboration with NPAK, Bela curated the opening of a studio in the center where 13 artists worked for a month and a residence in the village of Araks on the border with Turkey.

Since 2022, the artist has been actively conducting master classes in the border regions of Armenia and Artsakh (Stepanakert, Nerkin Karmiragbyur, Araks, Aygepar, Vanadzor, Sevan).

Bela is one of the founders of the self-organization Research group, which is engaged in artistic and social studies of the local context of the Republic of Armenia and the Russian Federation. The participants are representatives of art and other disciplines, such as anthropologists, independent researchers, and scientists.