Fallen Angels Inc. · a 501(c)(3) for Armenian art

Armenian art on the world's great stages

We carry Armenian artists to the biennials and museums where the world looks at art, and bring their work home to Armenia. A stronger nation, built through its culture.

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Our largest project · Venice · 9 May – 22 November 2026

The Armenian Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale

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Armenia's national pavilion at the world's oldest art biennial is our largest project to date. For six months the pavilion has been a working sculpture studio in the Arsenale: Zadik Zadikian: The Studio, where the artist and seven students of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia cast and stack pigmented plaster units in public.

Fallen Angels Inc. supports the pavilion and its production in Venice.

Exhibition: Zadik Zadikian: The Studio
Curators: Tony Shafrazi, Tina Chakarian
Commissioner: Svetlana Sahakyan
Venue: Tesa 41, Arsenale Militare, Venice
Open: Tuesday – Sunday, 10:00–17:30

Our name

Named for those who fell for Armenia

Fallen Angels carries the memory of everyone lost in the struggle for Armenian sovereignty and in the defence of the homeland. Our work is built in their honour, for the Armenia they gave their lives for.

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Our philosophy

A stronger nation through culture and the arts

Seen by the world

When Armenian art stands in Venice, Armenia is present in the rooms where the world forms its view of a nation. Culture opens doors that diplomacy alone cannot.

Strong at home

Bringing artists and their work home to Yerevan gives Armenians in Armenia and across the diaspora a shared place to meet, and a reason to return.

Known by the next generation

A nation hands its identity to its children through what it makes. The art we support today is part of who Armenians will be tomorrow.

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Our work

Since 2023

Flight9 May – 22 Nov 2026

Armenian Pavilion, 61st Venice Biennale

Armenia's national pavilion at the world's oldest art biennial: Zadik Zadikian: The Studio, a working sculpture studio in the Arsenale, open to the public for six months.

Tesa 41, Arsenale Militare, Venice

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Milestone9 May 2026

The Armenian Pavilion opens

After three days of previews, Zadik Zadikian: The Studio opens to the public, with the artist and seven students of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia at work in the hall.

Tesa 41, Arsenale Militare, Venice
Milestone18 Mar 2026

The Shafrazian Foundation funds the pavilion

The Shafrazian Foundation pledges the remaining budget, and the pavilion is fully funded seven weeks before it opens.

Los Angeles and Venice
Milestone13 Feb 2026

Production begins in Los Angeles

Zadikian builds the pavilion at full size in foam, testing every proportion before the work moves to Venice.

Los Angeles
Milestone8 Jan 2026

Armenia Fund supports the pavilion

Armenia Fund makes a gift to the Armenian Pavilion as production begins.

Los Angeles
Milestone26 Oct 2025

Zadikian to represent Armenia in Venice

Zadik Zadikian is announced as the artist of the Republic of Armenia’s pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale.

Venice
ReturnMay 2025

ՎԵՐԱԴԱՐՁ – RETURN

Zadik Zadikian’s first exhibition in Armenia, nearly sixty years after he left: Foreigners, thousands of gilded faces suspended in a black void. Dedicated to the soldiers who fell in 2020.

Cafesjian Center for the Arts, Gallery One, Yerevan
Return2024

Layering Reason

A proposed monument to the soldiers who fell in 2020, conceived for the Cafesjian Center for the Arts as a gift from the Armenian community.

Cafesjian Center for the Arts, Yerevan
Founding15 Sep 2023

Fallen Angels Inc. is founded

A nonprofit to bring Armenian art to the world’s great stages, recognised by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) public charity in October 2023.

Los Angeles