About Vahan Roumelian

Vahan was born in 1963 in Yerevan. As his classmates recall, at school he was a difficult and rebellious pupil. The only class during which his behavior was satisfying was that of painting. Once he was given paper and colouring pencils everything surrounding him ceased to matter. The shapes Vahan drew might seem weird and indefinite to others, whilst for him they were of great importance and held a deep significance. He was not a docile character at the Fine Arts Institute either. The only reason his instructors were patient towards his eccentric personality was his apparent talent and the originality he showed in painting and colouring . Still an adolescent, Vahan began to experience doubts about the truth and solidity of three dimensional reality. In 1988, immediately after the earthquake, he moved to Paris to study abstract art. He continued his studies on his later trips to Moscow and London and then back to Paris. Vahan’s path was that of liberation from illusionary limitations and beliefs: his only aspiration was absolute freedom to live and to create. For Vahan , abstraction is also a way of life and a form of In 2017, Aramé Art Gallery published a new catalogue of Vahan Roumelian’s artworks, which was titled “The Harmony of Chaos” and gained a lot of success. In 2023, Aramé celebrated the 60 the anniversary of the artist by holding solo exhibitions both at its Yerevan and Beirut branches. Museum Collections: Modern Art Museum of Armenia, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, History Museum of Armenia, Bertzor Modern Art Museum (Artsakh), DaimlerChrysler Cultural Center (Moscow), Aramé Art Gallery, Yerevan.