🇦🇲 MUSEUM ~ Modern Art Museum : Yerevan

Cost : 1500dram / I paid 500 to take photos!? … anyways
Location : Mashtots Avenue, Yerevan

Right across from the Hay Arts Cultural exhibition centre

For those who know me, I HATE Modern Art (I have quite a few distubing stories from my uni days and after and I think its scarred me lol) im more into Renaissance and realism and have never been interested in the modern stuff but I decided to visit just to see it anyways and see what its about, tbh I really liked it!

Heres a link to a short video for those who would rather a video version!

There were some really impressive paintings which were exciting and beautiful with a lot of feelings and emotions put into creating them I did think it would be somthing like a shoe in the corner with horse poo sticking out of it or something LOL but I was proven wrong! (and happy to have been)

The Modern Art Museum was established in 1972 by the art critic Henrik Igityan, who was the director of the museum for 37 years. It was the first specialized museum for contemporary art in the Soviet Union

The cute ticket, 1500 dram which is fair for this museum

Since the socialist realism reigned supreme in the country and all beyond it was questioned, there was no financial assistance provided from the side of the Armenian Government; thus, the museum was opened solely thanks to the artists’ donations

My Favourites!

I even found a favourite artist! Valentin Podpomogov (1924-1998) – such beautiful, moving eerie paintings!

These 2 artworks were my favourite! Such movement and feeling to the way its been painted, it sucked me in with the moving clouds and the wind and energies that can be felt when looking deep into the artwork – very talented artist!

The works of the 1960s generation – particularly the ones of Minas Avetisyan, Ashot Hovhannisyan, Martin Petrosyan, Hakob Hakobyan, Gayane Khachaturyan, Vruyr Galstyan, Henry and Robert Elibekyans, Harutyun Galents, Rudolf Khachatryan, Ashot Bayandour – are the main exhibits in the museum today

This artwork was amazing! The details and the way it was painted impressed me so much!

The museum grew when the following generation of artists added their works in the 1980s: Sargis Hamalbashian, Artur Sargsian, Ararat Sarkissian, Marine Dilanian, Albert Hakobian, Samvel Baghdasarian, Arevik Arevshatian, Ruben Grigorian, Kamo Nigarian, Armen Gevorgian, Tigran Matulian, Teni Vardanian, Gabriel Manoukian, Nina Kchemchyan and Ayvaz Avoyan

A huge instalation made from mud pieces with armenian writings engraved on it, even this was quite interesting – called “uprooted” based on the story of an Armenian refugee and aims to show the migratory route of his family