About me

In recent years, Silvina Der Meguerditchian has developed a distinctive artistic practice that operates at the intersections of memory, migration and cultural heritage. Her work is characterised by a collaborative process that interweaves personal and collective stories and creates transgenerational connections.

With an interdisciplinary approach, she combines performative practices, textile craftsmanship and audio-visual media to create living archives and poetic spaces that open up new scope for action in a globalised society. Born in Buenos Aires the artist has lived and worked in Berlin since 1988.

Since 2010 she is artistic director of Houshamadyan (www.houshamadyan.org), a project to reconstruct Ottoman Armenian town and village life.  In 2014/15 she was awarded with a fellowship at the Kulturakademie Tarabya, a residency program of the German Foreign Ministry and the Goethe Institute in Istanbul. Further she participated in "Armenity", the Pavilion awarded with the Golden Lion at the 56. Venice Biennial for the best national participation. Her work has been shown in many exhibitions around the world, including, among others, Germany, Argentina, USA and Turkey. Her last initiated and coordinated collective project "Grandchildren, new geographies of belonging" (DEPO Cultural Center- Istanbul) was supported by the Goethe Institut and the German Foreign Ministry in 2015. In 2018 she participated at Hello World. Revising a Collection, a critical inquiry into the collection of the Nationalgalerie and its predominantly Western focus at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin. Since 2014 she works with „Women mobilizing memory“ a group of artists, writers, theater practitioners, museologists, social activists, and scholars of memory and memorialization, who focuse on how individual and collective testimony and performance can establish new forms of cultural memory and facilitate social repair. In 2020, her film "The Wishing Tree" was awarded with a Special Mention at the Sharjah Film Platform. Her first personal catalog with VFMK (Verlag für Moderne Kunst) has been published in January 2021.

She was awarded the Falkenrot Prize 2021/2. In 2022, she was awarded a work grant from the Berlin Senate and the "In view" grant from the Gulbenkian Foundation (Lissabon/Portugal). In 2023 she participated at the exhibition "Mediterráneo, un mar redondo", at the ARCO Art Fair, Madrid, "Realities left vacant", N.B.K. (Neuer Berliner Kunstverein) , Berlin, “MOVED, what my bones know”, Galerie Nord, Berlin and the show “Home/Hope '' at the 3rd edition of the Larnaca biennale in Cyprus. Further she was presented at the Frieze London Art fair by the Kalfayan Galleries, which have represented her since 2018.  Her last experimental short film Thresholds has been invited to several film festivals worldwide and awarded at the Toronto Woman film festival and the New York Independent Cinema Awards

From January to April 2025 she held"Those who take care of us" her most extensive exhibition at the Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bethanien in Berlin.