Andrius Arutiunian (b.1991) is an Armenian-Lithuanian artist and composer based between Paris and The Hague. Arutiunian works with hybrid forms of sound through installations, video works and performances. Alternate modes of political organisation, sonic dissent, and playful investigation of esoteric and vernacular histories form Arutiunian’s most recent works. Through aural cosmologies, non-western tuning systems, and the use of resonance and speculative instruments, Arutiunian treats sound as a world-ordering method.
Trained as a composer, Arutiunian studied music composition and sonology at the Royal Conservatory The Hague. In 2022 the artist was selected to represent Armenia at the 59th Venice Biennale with a solo show Gharīb; other solo shows include Diaphonics at Centrala Space Birmingham, and Incantations at CTM festival Berlin.
Selected group shows and solo performances include Le Fresnoy Tourcoing, Survival Kit 13 Riga, documenta 14 Parliament of Bodies Kassel, Stroom The Hague, FACT Liverpool, Rewire Festival The Hague, and Contemporary Art Centre Vilnius, as well as residencies at Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, EMARE/EMAP Liverpool, Amant Siena, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art Gateshead, and ZKM | Centre for Art and Media Karlsruhe.