Andrius Arutiunian
Andrius Arutiunian is a sound and visual artist based in The Hague, working internationally across installation, film, and performance. His practice is rooted in an in-depth exploration of expanded temporalities, alternative cosmologies, and forms of cultural resistance, engaging closely with geopolitical contexts and vernacular traditions.
Sound lies at the core of his work, conceived as a material capable of shaping time and perception. Arutiunian develops immersive environments combining generative composition, psychoacoustics, voice, analog synthesis, and mythological narratives, examining how belief systems, collective memory, and contemporary technologies influence our experience of reality. He represented Armenia at the 2022 Venice Biennale with the exhibition Gharīb and participated in the 2024 Lyon Biennale.
During his residency at Providenza, Arutiunian pursued a phase of research and composition informed by the site’s natural cycles—light, night, and environmental rhythms—approaching sound as a fluid architecture of time. This work directly contributes to Obol, his solo exhibition at the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès / Ginza Maison Hermès (Tokyo), on view from February 20 to May 31, 2026. The Corsican territory functions as a site of listening and reflection, playing a key role in the final articulation of a project connecting myth, long temporalities, and contemporary technologies.
