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Some of our projects carry Armenian art out to the world’s great stages. Some bring it home to Armenia. All of them are listed here, newest first.

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

The Armenian Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale

armenianpavilion.org ↗

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

Since 2023

Everything we have done

  1. 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

    Artist
    Zadik Zadikian
    Curators
    Tony Shafrazi, Tina Chakarian
    Commissioner
    Svetlana Sahakyan
    Exhibition
    61st International Art Exhibition, In Minor Keys
    armenianpavilion.org ↗Read about the opening
  2. 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

    Read about the opening
  3. 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

    Read about the pledge
  4. 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

    See the production
  5. Milestone8 Jan 2026

    Armenia Fund supports the pavilion

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

    Los Angeles

    Read about the gift
  6. 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

    Read the announcement
  7. 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

    Curator
    Armen Yesayants
    Supported by
    The Ourfalian, Khudikyan, Sarafyan, Torosyan, Setrakian and Keosian families; Gabriela Voskerician, PhD; Edward Demirjian; Armenia Fund
    Read about RETURN
  8. 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

    See the proposal
  9. 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

    Our nonprofit status

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