ABA

Bookstop

Hosted by Moritz Appich & Aleksander Komarov

OTTO, Haus der Statistik  |  Saturday 4 May, 2–6 pm

We’re inviting you to explore our great selection of artist publications and try out our newly built Book [removed];Bring your book if you’d like and test it [removed];Looking forward to seeing you there!

ABA BOOKSTOP
Ko-Markt Opening | Tuesday 4 May, 2–6 pm

Haus der Statistik
Otto-Braun-Straße 70-72, 10178 Berlin

residency / conversation
running stitch

with Tsolak Topchyan
Uqbar  |  3–24 May

Throughout the month of May Tsolak Topchyan will be making work at Uqbar from 3 to 24 May, Monday to Friday, 9–5 [removed];He will be stitching a large piece of fabric, patiently, thread by thread. The fabric exceeds the dimensions of the space, while the time required to finish it is undefined. Hence, he has imposed a disciplinary regime of working hours – a temporal frame – to declare, at the end, that the work is finished. Or will it be? Towards the end of this residency at Uqbar Tsolak will unveil his work.

On May 24, at 7 pm, in conversation with Dr. Angela Harutyunyan, Tsolak Topchyan will reflect upon the material and conceptual processes of the production of the [removed];

Tsolak Topchyan was born in 1981 in Leninakan (now Gyumri), [removed];He grew up in a turbulent period during which he witnessed the 1988 earthquake, the collapse of the [removed], and the Artsakh wars between Armenia and Azerbaijan. In 2005 he graduated from the Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts (Gyumri branch). In 2011 he left Armenia, joining the ever-expanding Armenian Diaspora. He has since lived in South Korea, Belarus and Brazil. Topchyan’s last solo exhibitions were in Brasília at the Museu Nacional da República (2022) and in New York at Atamian Hovsepian Curatorial Practice (2023). He currently lives and works in Berlin.