Melik Ohanian

*1969 / France

Works

Solo exhibitions

Portrait of Duration — Cesium Series

Wilde, Genève (CH)
12 Mar 2026 – 7 May 2026
ALTERATION, For a long time in Time

Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris (FR)
13 Mar 2026 – 18 Apr 2026
The Time Before

Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisboa (PT)
18 May 2022 – 10 Sep 2022
MOMENTA | Biennale de l'image

OPTICA, Montréal (CA)
8 Sep 2017 – 21 Oct 2017
In Time

Dvir Brussels, Brussels (BE)
26 Jan 2017 – 18 Mar 2017
PORTRAIT OF DURATION

DIP Contemporary Art, Lugano (CH)
13 Oct 2016 – 6 Jan 2017
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South London Gallery, London (GB)
16 Nov 2006 – 14 Jan 2007
Somewhere in Time

de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam (NL)
9 Sep 2006 – 5 Nov 2006
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IAC - Institut d'art contemporain, Villeurbanne (FR)
20 Jan 2006 – 14 May 2006
Seven Minutes Before

Centre for Fine Arts - Bozar, Brussels (BE)
13 Oct 2005 – 6 Nov 2005
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Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York (US)
12 Mar 2004 – 10 Apr 2004
(T)HERE – installations

Centre pour l'image, Genève (CH)
31 Jan 2004 – 4 Apr 2004
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Rectangle, Lyon (FR)
30 Jan 2004 – 14 Mar 2004
Welcome to Hanskville

Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv (IL)
22 Jan 2004 – 28 Feb 2004
Welcome to Hanksville

Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris (FR)
6 Sep 2003 – 18 Oct 2003

Group

HIT BY NEWS

Press Art from the Nobel Collection

Dox Centre Contemporary Art, Praha (CZ)
6 Mar 2026 – 23 Aug 2026

with Berenice Abbott, John Baldessari, Matthew Barney, Beni Bischof, Erwin Blumenfeld, Margaret Bourke-White, Brassai, Olaf Breuning, Daniele Buetti, Rudy Burckhardt, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson …
The Dawn of Darkness

Elegy in Contemporary Art

The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (IL)
15 Mar 2024 – 16 Nov 2024

with Christian Boltanski, Joshua Borkovski, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Douglas Gordon, Talia Keinan, Jonathan Monk, Yehudit Sasportas
Group show

Dvir Brussels, Brussels (BE)
7 Jun 2018 – 15 Jul 2018

with Latifa Echakhch, Simon Fujiwara, Douglas Gordon, Ariel Schlesinger
wanderings

Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisboa (PT)
23 Nov 2017 – 5 Jan 2018

with Francis Alys, Robert Barry, Katinka Bock, Filipa Cesar, Fernando Calhau, Andre Cepeda, Edith Dekyndt, Peter Downsbrough, Alexandre Estrela, Andreas Fogarasi, Marco Godinho, Dan Graham …
NOWWHERE

Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv (IL)
10 Dec 2016 – 11 Mar 2017

with Miroslaw Balka, Simon Fujiwara, Dor Guez, Ariel Schlesinger, Lawrence Weiner
Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905-2016

Whitney Museum Art, New York (US)
28 Oct 2016 – 5 Feb 2017

with Alex Da Corte and Jayson Musson, Trisha Baga, Ben Thorp Brown, Ian Cheng, Bruce Conner, Joseph Cornell, Oskar Fischinger, Liam Gillick, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Lynn Hershman, Pierre Huyghe, Anthony McCall …
20th Biennale of Sydney

The future is already here - it’s just not evenly distributed.

Biennale of Sydney, Sydney (AU)
18 Mar 2016 – 5 Jun 2016

with Miguel Angel Rojas, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Nina Beier, Richard Bell, Lee Bul, Joyce Campbell, Yin-Ju Chen, CHEN Chieh-Jen, Cevdet Erek, William Forsythe, Nilbar Gueres, Camille Henrot …
A Blind Spot - Berlin Documentary Forum 2

Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (DE)
31 May 2012 – 1 Jul 2012

with Eric Baudelaire, Elisabetta Benassi, Marguerite Duras, Jean Eustache, David Goldblatt, Straub/Huillet, Hassan Khan, Thierry Knauff, Joachim Koester, Vincent Meessen, Olaf Nicolai, Efrat Shvily …
Sharjah Biennial 10

Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah (AE)
16 Mar 2011 – 16 May 2011

with Jumana Emil Abboud, Hala Alani, Ziad Antar, Atfal Ahdath (Vartan Avakian, Hatem Imam & Raed Yassin), Yto Barrada, Judith Barry, Bahar Behbahani, Ammar Bouras, Jem Cohen, Trisha Donnelly, Harun Farocki, Mariam Ghani …
The Times of a Place

CDAN - Centro de Arte y Naturaleza, Huesca (SO)
23 Jan 2009 – 29 Mar 2009

with Darren Almond, James Benning, Stan Brakhage, Patricia Dauder, Tacita Dean, Beryl Korot , Robert Smithson, Chris Welsby
LOCKED IN: THE VISIBLE

Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg (LU)
19 Apr 2008 – 29 Jun 2008

with Carlos Amorales, Miklos Gaal, Douglas Gordon, Jesper Just
Voice & Void

Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck (AT)
19 Apr 2008 – 8 Jun 2008

with Janet Cardiff, Valie Export, Anna Gaskell, Asta Gröting, Christian Marclay, George Bures Miller, Hans Schabus, Cerith Wyn Evans
Rumore: un buco nel silenzio

Spazio Oberdan, Milano (IT)
28 Feb 2008 – 25 May 2008

with Miguel Angel Rios, Marcel Broodthaers, Mircea Cantor, Jimmie Durham, Jan Fabre, William Kentridge, Shirin Neshat, Adrian Paci, Diego Perrone, Mungo Thomson, Bill Viola, Jordan Wolfson
Playback

Mus. d'art moderne Paris, Paris (FR)
20 Oct 2007 – 6 Jan 2008

with Doug Aitken, Cory Arcangel, Joseph Beuys, Johanna Billing, Rebecca Bournigault, Olaf Breuning, Brice Dellsperger, CAO Fei, Robert Frank, Rodney Graham, Jonathan Horowitz, Susanne Jirkuff …
Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art

Göteborg Biennial, Göteborg (SE)
25 Aug 2007 – 25 Nov 2007

with Lida Abdul, Adel Abidin, AES+F, Jane Alexander, Anri Sala, Santiago Sierra, Sislej Xhafa
The Venice Biennale - 52nd International Art Exhibition

Think with the Senses – Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense

The Venice Biennale, Venezia (IT)
10 Jun 2007 – 21 Nov 2007

with Ignasi Aballi, Adel Abdessemed, AES+F, Mounira El-Solh, Francis Alys, Alexander Hnilitsky & Lesia Zaiats, Alterazioni Video, Ghada Amer, Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin, Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin, Sonia Balassanian, Oladélé Ajiboyé Bamgboyé …
On Peter Watkins

Galerie Martin Janda, Wien (AT)
28 Apr 2007 – 26 May 2007

with Gerard Byrne, Roman Signer
COLLATERAL Quando l'arte guarda il cinema // When Art looks at Cinema

Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milano (IT)
2 Feb 2007 – 15 Mar 2007

with Cory Arcangel, Pierre Bismuth, Candice Breitz, Christoph Girardet & Matthias Müller, Brice Dellsperger, Omer Fast, Liam Gillick, Pierre Huyghe, Runa Islam, Mike Kelley, Dimitri Kozaris, Philippe Parreno …
2nd International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville (BIACS 2)

BIACS Biennial Foundation of Contemporar, Sevilla (ES)
26 Oct 2006 – 8 Jan 2007

with Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Lara Almarcegui, Tete Álvarez, Olivo Barbieri, Yto Barrada, Julie Becker, Ursula Biemann, James Casebere, Jacobo Castellano, Nose Chan, Cinémathèque de Tanger, Hannah Collins …
raconte-moi/tell me

Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg (LU)
1 Jul 2006 – 3 Sep 2006

with Francis Alys, Janet Cardiff, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Pascal Grandmaison, George Bures Miller, Anri Sala, Michael Snow, Su-Mei Tse, Gillian Wearing
Question(s) de temps

Oeuvres de la collection IAC – Frac Rhône-Alpes

La Conciergerie, La Motte-Servolex (FR)
3 Feb 2006 – 22 Apr 2006

with Rodney Graham, Alain Jacquet, Allen Ruppersberg, Jean-Luc Vilmouth
Satellite of Love

Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam (NL)
27 Jan 2006 – 26 Mar 2006

with Franz Ackermann, Francis Alys, Angela Bulloch, Edith Dekyndt, Michel Francois, Laurent Grasso, Mauricio Dias & Walter Riedweg, Yves Netzhammer, Pierre Bismuth & Michel Gondry, Erik van Lieshout, Francesco Vezzoli
At the same time somewhere else ...

The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (GB)
17 Dec 2005 – 19 Feb 2006

with Pia Roenicke, Sean Snyder
Remagine - Œuvres du Fonds National d'Art Contemporain

, Lyon (FR)
18 Jun 2005 – 31 Jul 2005

with Boris Achour, Pierre Bismuth, Pierre Joseph, Christian Marclay, Catherine Sullivan, Stephen Vitiello
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greengrassi, London (GB)
2 Jul 2005 – 30 Jul 2005

with Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda, Jozef Robakowski, Lawrence Weiner
Land Marks

Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris (FR)
9 Apr 2005 – 18 Jun 2005

with Darren Almond, Fikret Atay, Alberto Garcia-Alix, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Hassan Khan, Jean-Luc Moulene, Anri Sala, Yorgos Sapountzis, Sean Snyder
Documentary Creations

Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern (CH)
26 Feb 2005 – 29 May 2005

with Artlab - Charlotte Cullinan & Jeanine Richards, Matthew Buckingham, Adam Chodzko, Manon de Boer, Tacita Dean, Douglas Gordon, Marine Hugonnier, Hayley Newman, Charles Sandison, Mathew Sawyer
First Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art

Moscow Biennale, Moscow (RU)
28 Jan 2005 – 28 Feb 2005

with Boris Achour, AES+F, Pilar Albarracin, Pawel Althamer, Vasco Araujo, Ana Bilankov, Johanna Billing, Blue Noses, Andreas Bock, Christian Boltanski, Sergey Bratkov, Gor Chahal …
26th Bienal Internacional de São Paulo

Curator: Alfons Hug

Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo (BR)
25 Sep 2004 – 19 Dec 2004

with Karim Ainouz, Jaime Ávila, Cornelius Augustt Azzaglo, Juan Britos, Edward Burtynsky, Miguel Calderon, Mama Casset, Jonas Dahlberg, Thomas Demand, Jean Depara, SONG Dong, Felten & Massinger …
Communaute 1+2

IAC - Institut d'art contemporain, Villeurbanne (FR)
7 May 2004 – 26 Sep 2004

with Francis Alys, Sam Durant, Anri Sala
L'ARTE DEL MEDITERRANEO

MACRO Testaccio, Roma (IT)
3 Jun 2004 – 19 Sep 2004

with Adel Abdessemed, Martí Anson, Yael Bartana, El Perro, Amit Goren, Hassan Khan, Avish Khebrehzadeh, Panos Kokkinias, Andrea Kuluncic, DeAnna Maganias, Oliver Musovik, Zoran Naskovski …
Éblouissement

Jeu de Paume, Paris (FR)
23 Jun 2004 – 12 Sep 2004

with Dieter Appelt, Yael Bartana, Rosella Belluschi, Rhona Bitner, Anna & Bernhard Blume, Jacques-Andre Boiffard, Gerd Bonfert, Slater Bradley, Constantin Brancusi, Brassai, Victor Burgin, Jean-Marc Bustamante …
14th Biennale of Sydney

Biennale of Sydney, Sydney (AU)
4 Jun 2004 – 15 Aug 2004

with AES+F, Francis Alys, Helena Almeida, Pat Brassington, Loulou Cherinet, James Coleman, Nathan Coley, XING Danwen, Matias Faldbakken, Asta Gröting, Jeroen de Rijke & Willem de Rooij, Emiko Kasahara …
3. berlin biennale für zeitgenössische kunst

Gropius Bau, Berlin (DE)
14 Feb 2004 – 18 Apr 2004

with Willie Doherty, Isaac Julien, David Lamelas, Mark Lewis, Ryuji Miyamoto, Piotr Nathan, Fanni Niemi-Junkola, Ulrike Ottinger, Mathias Poledna, Aura Rosenberg, Constanze Ruhm, Bojan Sarcevic …
Geographies #3

Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris (FR)
27 Oct 2003 – 4 Dec 2003

with Fikret Atay, Jeroen de Rijke & Willem de Rooij, Jean-Luc Moulene
Par le chas d'une aiguille

Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris (FR)
3 Jul 2003 – 13 Sep 2003

with Sophie Calle, Alberto Garcia-Alix, Hassan Khan

Events

Busan Biennale 2018

Divided We Stand - 125 artworks of 66 artists (team) from 34 countries

Busan Museum of Art, Busan (KR)
8 Sep 2018 – 11 Nov 2018

with Ferhat Oezguer, Bani Abidi, Chantal Akerman, Khaled Barakeh, Yael Bartana, Sunah Choi, LIU Ding, Smadar Dreyfus, Rokni Haerizadeh, Ramin Haerizadeh, CHIA-WEI HSU, Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige …
26th Bienal Internacional de São Paulo

Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo (BR)
25 Sep 2004 – 19 Dec 2004

with Edward Burtynsky, Jonas Dahlberg, Thomas Demand, Jean Depara, SONG Dong, Felten & Massinger, Samuel Fosso, Frederic Moser & Philippe Schwinger, Simryn Gill, Naoya Hatakeyama, Vera Lutter, Lars Mathisen …