Aren Shahnazaryan

Iconographic symbols and figures come together in mysterious scenes and immediately convey a deeper, yet still inexplicable meaning. For Aren Shahnazaryan, the creative process in painting plays an equal role to the level of content. Guided by his intuition, he often paints over his pictures until the coarse brushstrokes in thick layers of paint form a structure from which the motifs grow out.

Shahnazaryan was born in Armenia in 1991, where he also completed his first art degree. He came to Germany in 2017 to complete his diploma at the HfBK Dresden. He has been a master student of Prof. Ralf Kerbach since 2022. He lives and works in Dresden.