Aïda Kazarian
Born in 1952 in Ixelles
Lives and works in Brussels
EDUCATION
1985-2007
Drawing and Color Professor in Artistic Humanities at A.R.B.A. Brussels
1982-1985
Assistant in the Painting Workshop at A.R.B.A. Brussels
1982
Graduated from A.R.B.A. Brussels
1976-1977
Art Student League New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Kamer Negen / K9 - Private Space for Contemporary Art, Rixensart, Belgium
2021
L'équipe de nuit. Vitrine N°4: Aïda Kazarain: AR...Tsakoug / Non à ce canon, LMNO, Brussels, Belgium
2019
Tcharadjidji, LMNO, Brussels, Belgium
2018
Touching the Sky, La Cornélie, Vendée, France
2016
Unrolling the Painting, Quai4 Gallery, Liège, Belgium
2015
A K L, the books of a painter, La Librairie Quartiers Latins, Brussels, Belgium
2014
Ancient and Small Moderns, Détour Gallery, Namur-Jambes, Belgium
2010
And the Night Lit the Night... (with L. Mekhitarian in concert), Espace Senghor, Brussels, Belgium
2009
Caresse, La Verrière-Hermès, Brussels, Belgium
A K L, the books of a painter, Bartleby & Co / JAP, Brussels, Belgium
A K L, the books of the philosophical garden project, Erasmus House Museum, Brussels, Belgium
2004
Recent Paintings, Guy Ledune Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Suspended Time (with L. Mekhitarian in concert), Iselp, Brussels, Belgium
2002
To Claire, Artgo, Brussels, Belgium
2001
Aïda Kazarian, Boendael Chapel, Brussels, Belgium
Berühren, Ateliers Höherweg, Düsseldorf, Germany
2000
Aïda Kazarian, Iselp, Brussels, Belgium
Lace, Maison de la Culture, Namur, Belgium
Johan Desender Interiors, Ostend, Belgium
1999
Aïda Kazarian (award 1998), Juvenal Gallery, Huy, Belgium
1998
Recent Paintings, Guy Ledune Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
1994
Aïda Kazarian, Carine Campo, Antwerp, Belgium
1985
Aïda Kazarian, a Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Armenia, The Time of the Sacred, Boghossian Foundation, Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium
Atelier Imaginaires, Espace d'Art Le Neuf, Marilles, Belgium
Bois de Fa LMNO, Grez-Doiceau, Belgium
2022
Limited Edition Art Fair (LEAF) booth, LMNO, Boghossian Foundation, Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium
2021
Limited Edition Art Fair (LEAF) booth, LMNO, Boghossian Foundation, Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium
Agents of Change, LMNO, Brussels, Belgium
International Biennale "Small Paper Format", Warp / Le Grand Curtius, Arlon - Liège, Belgium
2020
International Biennale "Small Paper Format", Musée du Petit Format, Nismes, Belgium
2019
A Country Outing (with Lise Duclaux), Château d'Esquelbecq, France
We Need to Talk About Paintings, LMNO, Brussels, Belgium
Kamer 9 / K9, Rixensart, Belgium
Regenerations, LMNO, Brussels, Belgium
Artists' Path, LMNO, Grez-Doiceau, Belgium
2018
Wishes, LMNO, Brussels, Belgium
2017
You Can't, Yellow Space, Varese, Italy
Vibrations, La Boverie and Quai4 Gallery, Liège, Belgium
His Story Stories, Projektraum Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2016
Modus-Operandi, Bibliotheca Wittockiana, Brussels, Belgium
2015
K.L.L.O.C Kazarian, Lennep, Lambotte, Oosterlynck, Courtois, EXIT Gallery, Château de Petit-Leez in Grand-Leez, Belgium
Rhythms of Writing, École des Arts, Braine-l'Alleud, Belgium
2014
At the Fingertip and Eye, Aïda Kazarian, Philippe Lumai, Bernard Villers, Guy Ledune Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Valentin, La Quincaillerie - Isabelle Baines, Brussels, Belgium
2013
Did You See Me?, Royal Academy of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
Speculoos - Nebuloos, A.R.B.A., Brussels, Belgium
Ostinato, Maison de la Culture of the Province of Namur, Namur, Belgium
2012
Present! Creation and Transmission, La Centrale Électrique - De Markten, Brussels, Belgium
2010
Painting and Book / Books and Paintings, Black Box, Guy Ledune Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2009
At Full Tube on Light and Color, Black Box, Guy Ledune Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2008
Point Zero, Marijke Scheurs Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
XXL, Guy Ledune Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Look#1, La Vénerie - Écuries, Brussels, Belgium
2007
(face to face)² (with Nigel Freake), Duqué & Pirson Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
PA.PER, Marijke Scheurs Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2006
White, Triskel, Cork, Ireland
2005
White, Jacques Cérami Gallery, Charleroi, Belgium
The Touch of Painting, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
2004
10X Grand Groot, De Markten, Brussels, Belgium
Festival of Visual Arts, Varna, Bulgaria
The Touch of Painting, UQAM Gallery, Montreal, Canada
2003
Past? Present... 1010 Artists at MRAH, Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels, Belgium
Small Size, Guy Ledune Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Abstractions: A Century of Abstract Art in Wallonia and Brussels, Le Botanique, Brussels, Belgium
Of the Diaphanous and Illusion, Iselp, Brussels, Belgium
2002
Paintings / Painting, Guy Ledune Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Ping-Pong (with Aimé Ntakiyica), La Raffinerie and JAP, Brussels, Belgium
2001
New Abstract, Guy Ledune Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
New Abstract bis, Guy Ledune Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2000
Fairy Tale for Another Book, Royal Museum of Mariemont, Mariemont, Belgium
With Bernard Tullen, Le Triangle Bleu Gallery, Stavelot, Belgium
Path, Center for Contemporary Art, Brussels, Belgium
1999
Contemporary Art Center of Rairie, Nantes, France
Freedom, cherished freedoms or art as resistance to art, Iselp, Brussels, Belgium
1998
Attitudes Nord, La Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille, France
Prospectives, Artgo, Brussels, Belgium
1997
More Transparency, Guy Ledune Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
1994
States of Grace (with Ghada Amer, Brigitte Closset, Aïda Kazarian), Guy Ledune Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
AWARDS
2005
Elected member of the Royal Academy of Belgium
2006
Project for a Carpet at Château de la Hulpe (2nd Prize)
1998
Bolly-Charlier Prize
1980
Evenepoel Prize
RESIDENCY
2001
Ateliers Höherweg, Düsseldorf (DE)
LIMITED EDITIONS (UNIQUE BOOKS)
Publishing project in progress: a compilation showing her Painted Books (1993-2022)
2018
Là-haut, là-bas (150 numbered and signed copies, finished with a thumbprint), Brussels, Belgium, by Aïda Kazarian
2013
Six contes, by Joseph Kessel, 1926 ed. (1 cover and 1 flyleaf: original painting - 6 little finger's imprints on fluorescent acrylic painting), Brussels, by Aïda Kazarian
2012
Mon frère d'encre (36 unique copies - embellished with original paintings), Au coin de la rue de l'Enfer ed., Saint Étienne les Orgues, by Edith Azam and Aïda Kazarian
Saisir, by Henri Michaux (1 cover and 1 hand-embellished box with a 22-carat gold leaf index fingerprint), Ben Durant collection, Brussels, by Aïda Kazarian
2011
HAY 1978-2008 (5 copies, each one composed by 9 unique hand-embellished volumes), Bartleby & Co. ed., Brussels, by Aïda Kazarian
2009
Caresse (edited in 24 original copies), Brussels, by Aïda Kazarian
2008
Fenêtres du vert levant (50 unique copies, signed by the author and the artist - 1 folded kromekote paper sheet 45x45cm, with a printed text and a painting, in a canvas pouch), Warda ed., Brussels, by Henry Bauchau and Aïda Kazarian
2006
Hell (2 unique copies - hand-embellished: hole-charcoal-hammer-fixative), Bartleby & Co ed., Brussels, by Aïda Kazarian
2005
Hell Inferno Dante (2 unique copies - embellished with gouache fingerprints), Bartleby ed., Brussels, by Aïda Kazarian
2004
Aïda Kazarian: Peintures Paintings (500 numbered and fingerprint-signed copies - First Edition of 50 copies, with an original painting on pages 1 and 4), Aïda Kazarian Editeur ed., Brussels, by Aïda Kazarian
2002
To Claire (50 unique copies), Petits Plaisirs collection (published by Cristine Debras and Yves Bical), Au coin de la rue de l'Enfer ed., Saint Étienne les Orgues, by Aïda Kazarian
Ping-Pong: Aïda Kazarian & Aimé Ntakiyica (60 unique copies), JAP ed., Brussels, by Aïda Kazarian and Aimé Ntakiyica
CATALOGUES
2022
Les sillons irrigués, La rivière sèche ed., Brussels, by Aïda Kazarian
2017
Screening Memory: the Prophetic images of Aton Egoyan, ARB ed., Brussels, by Marie-Aude Baronian (foreword by Aïda Kazarian)
2015
Armenity: The National Pavilion of the Republic of Armenia..., Skira ed., Milan, by Adelina Cüberyan v. Fürstenberg (tribute by Aïda Kazarian)
2014
Valentin, Isabelle Baines ed., Brussels, by Isabelle Baines (tribute by Aïda Kazarian)
2013
Modus operandi, Quadri-Bibliotheca Wittockiana ed., Brussels
M'as-tu vu?... at 2013 Classe des Arts in the Royal Academy of Belgium, Brussels
Ostinato: Dessin/musique/interactions, Maison de la Culture de la Province de Namur ed., Namur, by Hanna Alkema and André Lambotte
Cinéma et mémoire : sur Atom Eogyan, Académie royale de Belgique ed., Brussels, by Marie-Aude Baronian and Aïda Kazarian
2012
PRESENT ! Création et transmission, A.K.A. ed., Paris-Brussels
Decorum, Quadri-Bibliotheca Wittockiana ed., Brussels
2010
Caresse, Fondation d'entreprise Hermès ed., Paris, by Aïda Kazarian
"Éloge de Simon Hantaï" Bulletin de la Classe des Arts. - Bruxelles : Académie royale de Belgique, 6e série, tome 21, p. 49-55 , Brussels, by Aïda Kazarian
2008
Anatomie des vanités, Maison d'Erasme ed., Brussels
Stephan Balleux Persona, think.21contemporary gallery ed., Brussels, (tribute by Aïda Kazarian)
2007
PAP.ER, Marijke Schreurs Gallery ed., Brussels
2006
Rouge Blanc Noir, Galerie Jacques Cérami ed., Charleroi
2005
Höherweg 271, Ateliers Höherweg ed., Düsseldorf
L'image manquante, les petits carnets Galerie de l'UQAM ed., Montreal
2004
Editeurs belges de bibliophilie (1991-2003), Bibliothèque royale de Belgium ed., Brussels
2003
Du diaphane et de l'illusion, Iselp ed., Brussels
1985
Aïda Kazarian (120 copies), a gallery ed., Brussels
ARTICLES - TEXTS - INTERVIEWS
Specialised press
2024
"Orp-jauche : 20 artistes sous le regard d'un poète", DH net, Brussels, Belgium, by Marc Welsch
2022
""Tout est là". Une rencontre avec Henry Bauchau et Aïda Kazarian, dans le cadre des éditions Warda", Henri Bauchau dix ans après, Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium, by Françoise Thonet
2019
"Aïda Kazarian, de l'or au blanc", Mu-in the city, Brussels, Belgium, by Muriel de Crayencour
"Peindre ou ne pas peindre", Mu-in the city, Brussels, Belgium, by Muriel de Crayencour
"Les empreintes de la vie", La Libre Culture, Brussels, Belgium, by Claude Lorent
2015
"Cinq academiciens peu académiques à Grand-Leez", La Libre Culture, Brussels, Belgium, by Claude Lorent
2014
"Faire corps du doigt avec la peinture", La Libre Culture, Brussels, Belgium, by Claude Lorent
"Aïda Kazarian", Collect / Art Antiques Auctions, Gent, Belgium, by Gwennaëlle Gribaumont
2013
"Ayl par la main", Catalogue Ostinato, Namur, Belgium, by Alexandre Vanautgaerde
2012
"Les coulisses du travail - I. "Le fil et le rebond"", Bulletin de la Classe des Arts. - Bruxelles : Académie royale de Belgique, 6e série, tome 23, p. 67-72, Brussels, Belgium, by Aïda Kazarian
2010
"Un trio en variations de supports pictureaux", La Libre Culture, Brussels, Belgium, by Claude Lorent
2009
"Graphologie chromatique", l'Echo, Brussels, Belgium, by Muriel de Crayencour
"Caresse", Zone 02, Brussels, Belgium, by Anne Hustache
"Rituels d'imposition des mains", La Libre Culture, Brussels, Belgium, by Claude Lorent
"Empreintes d'amour", Up to Art, Paris, France, by Anne Hustache
"La peinture à tâtons", L'art même n° 44, Brussels, Belgium, by Tristan Trémeau
"A la Verrière Hermès", Le vif Weekend, Brussels, Belgium, by Baudouin Galler
2008
"Couleurs et lumières d'été", La Libre Culture, Brussels, Belgium, by Claude Lorent
"Extrait d'un entretien avec AK", L'art à petits pas nº47, Vénerie, Brussels, Belgium, by Muriel Peers
2007
"Jekyll et Hyde", Agenda, Brussels, Belgium, by Yves De Vresse
2005
"Le touché de la peinture", Arte News, Brussels, Belgium, by Françoise Osteaux
2004
"La peinture au doigt et à l'Oeil", La Libre Belgique, Brussels, Belgium, by Claude Lorent
"Le pinceau originel", by Michel Baudson
"Le touché de la peinture", UQAM Journal, Montreal, Canada, by Claude Gauvreau
2003
"Toucher et être touché", digitalité et picturalité, by Kim Leroy
"Encore deux doigts de peinture", by Maxime Longrée
"1010 artistes aux MRAH, La présence du corps en fragments", Arte News, Brussels, Belgium, by Roger Pierre Turine
"Abstractions Petite note sur Aïda Kazarian", Le Botanique, Brussels, Belgium, by Emmanuel Lambion
2001
"Aïda Kazarian - Le rythme de l'iris", Haratch, Paris, France, by Chakè Matossian
2000
"Dentelles", Maison de la Culture Namur, Namur, Belgium, by Maxime Longrée
1997
"L'atelier d'Aïda", by Anne Hustache
General press
2005
"Comme un drapeau, pour une vision en couleurs", L'art même nº28, Brussels, Belgium, by Emmanuel Lambion
Interviews / medias
2012
"Aïda Kazarian & Aimé Ntakiyica", Brussels Academy YouTube channel, Brussels, Belgium, by the students of the A.R.B.A.
2011
"40 portrais pour les 40 ans de l'Iselp", Author's Vimeo channel and blog, Brussels, Belgium, by André Goldberg
2009
"AK à la Verrière", Par ouïe dire - le monde invisible (RTBF TV show), La Une, by Thierry Génicot
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Government of the French Community, Belgium
Musée d'Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium
Royal Museum of Mariemont, Belgium
Hainaut Province, Belgium
Stadtsparkasse, Düsseldorf, Germany
Musée Matisse, Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France
Royal Library of Belgium
Library of Genève, Switzerland
National Library of Armenia