INSTALLATION PAINTINGS BROCHURE (pdf) "Drawn Yurts of Yerevan" is the third part of an exhibition series in which I show my work and thoughts on "Shelters". The first exhibition was in Leipzig, Germany in January/February 2007. It was continued in South Korea in November 2007 with an Open Studio presentation during a residency. In the beginning the title "Shelters" revolved around my ideas of nomadism-and what touches me when I think of nomadism nowadays: the big metropolis and "flexible nomads", often changing their flats and jobs, moving, from countries to continents. They might be looking for something familiar in the new-the-same cityscapes, which in fact are more or less homogenous. Thinking about contemporary nomadism and its consequences for human beings I began working on my installations, inspired by the shapes and forms of traditional nomadism. My main inspiration were the former (not only) Siberian nomadic folks from central Asia who developed the great form of their movable domes-yurts. I consider the Yurt as a substance which protects, gathers, and condenses the spirit of the community. I got a deeper understanding about shelters during my artist in residency stay as a visual artist at the Hooyong Performing Arts Center in South Korea. There I realized how fast we need to become acclimatized to new circumstances, to new landscapes or cityscapes. On this endeavour we take with us our portable "homes", however small, abstract or symbolic this home may be. We take it with us on our life routes around the world of shrinking distances. For Yerevan I decided to show more sides of "my" shelters, not only installation but also drawings and paintings integrated into it. In the "Drawn Yurts of Yerevan" exhibition, I install only the "scaffolding" construction of the yurts-objects, without a covering layer, without their "skin". I imagine the scaffolding in the museum space might give the impression of a black charcoal drawing. Like a naked skeleton of housing, like a sketch drawn in the three dimentional space of the museum. Materials like felt, hanji paper, fibreglass fabric or canvas hanging on the walls beside will sugest us the possible covering of yurts. Whereas I imagine the black scaffolding of the yurts in the white cube of the museum space pure and minimalistic, the series of accompanying oil paintings are picking up the yurt topic in a rich, saturated and colorful way. As part of the installation, painting seems to me the most promising and satisfying way to work out my visions of the yurts in the surroundings of different environments. "Drawn Yurts of Yerevan", Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan, Armenia, 13-27.06.2008