# Nona Gabrielyan

Nona Gabrielyan (Armenian: Նոնա Գաբրիելյան; born January 27, 1944) is an Armenian painter and ceramist. Born in Tbilisi, she lived and worked in Germany for 30 years, teaching graphics and painting.

## Career

Nona Gabrielyan was born in 1944 in Tbilisi, Georgia. In 1968 she graduated from the Fine Arts and Drama Institute of Yerevan. Since 1971 she has been a member of Artists' Union of Armenia and a member of Artist’s Union of the ASSR, 1999 a member of the International Academy of Pottery KERAMOS in Warsaw. Since 1995 Gabielyan has given master classes (painting and graphics) at Art Atelier N&V in Wiesbaden, Germany. Since 2004 she has been a lecturer at Teacher at National High School VHS, Culture and Creativity, Wiesbaden, Germany.

## Exhibitions
### Solo exhibitions

* 2016 "Between Heaven and Earth", Museum of Modern Art, Yerevan, Armenia
* 2015 Art from Eastern Europe, Wallau, Germany
* 2013 "Eastern European painting", Main-Taunus-Gallery, Hochheim, Germany
* 2012 "World in Colors", Kurhaus Christian-Zais Hall, Wiesbaden Germany
* 2011 Hofheim Town Hall, Chinonplatz, Wallauer Fachwerk Kulturkreis, Germany
* 2011, 2005, 1996, 1998 Kurhaus, Christian-Tsays-Hall, Wiesbaden, Germany
* 2009 "The Road to Light", Christian-Tsays-Hall, Wiesbaden, Germany
* 2008 National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan
* 2006 "Painting Graphics" Haus der Heimat, Wiesbaden, Germany
* 2003 "The colour of the form" The City Gallery of Bergheim, Germany
* 2002 The City Gallery "Salz Tour", "Easel Pottery" Halle Germany
* 2001 Kurhaus, Colonnade, Wiesbaden, Germany
* 2000 "Modern Art of Armenia", Old City Hall, Fürstenwalde, Germany
* 1999 Gallery Art Present, Paris, France
* 1999 Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France
* 1998 "Route" Municipal Gallery, Walluf, Germany
* 1997 GRS-center, Köln, Germany
* 1997 City Gallery, Bergheim, Germany
* 1995 "Ceramic plastic from Armenia", City Gallery, Halle-Saale, Germany
* 1994 "Plastic - Painting - Graphics" Museum of Ceramics, Frechen, Germany
* 1993 Plastic - Painting – Graphics, Museum of Ceramics, Frechen, Germany
* 1992 Editorial board of "Arvest" magazine, Yerevan, Armenia
* 1986 "Masters of Fine Arts of Armenia" Permanent Mission of the Armenian SSR, Moscow
* 1980 The Museum of Modern Art, Yerevan, Armenia

### Symposiums

* 1974, 1976, 1983 International Symposium of Ceramics, House of Creativity of Artists Dzintari, Latvia

### Group exhibitions

* 2004, 2007 "1+14" Haus der Heimat, Wiesbaden Germany
* 1999, 1994 MIASTO IV, II International Ceramic Biennial "KERAMOS" International Ceramics, Design Center Warsaw, Poland
* 1995 "Plastic" Kreishaus, Bergheim Germany
* 1993 "Painting and Graphics" Goethe Institute, Frankfurt, Germany
* 1992 "Color of Armenia", Haus der Heimat, Wiesbaden, Germany
* 1987 "Art of Armenia" Prague, Czech, Warsaw Poland, Budapest, Hungary
* 1986 "Armenian Art", Leningrad Academy of Arts, USSR
* 1985 Soviet Decorative Art, Berlin, Germany
* 1984 Modern Ceramics of the USSR, Hohr-Grenzhausen, Germany
* 1983, 1973 "Armenian Art", Artists‘ Union, the USSR, Moscow
* 1982 40Della CERAMICA D’ARTE Ceramics International Competition in Faenza, Italy
* 1980 International Biennale De Ceramique D’ART Ceramics International Competition, Vallauris, France, Diploma
* 1980 38 Della CERAMICA D'ARTE International Ceramics Competition, Faenza, Italy
* 1978 International Biennale de Céramique d'Art, international ceramics competition Vallauris, France
* 1971 "Armenian Art", Montreal, Canada
* 1968 The exhibition of the best diploma theses, Leningrad Academy of Arts, the USSR (today the Academy of Arts of St. Petersburg, Russia

## Collections

* Museum of Modern Art Yerevan, Armenia
* National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan
* State Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow, Russia
* Ethnography Museum in Sardarapat, Armenia
* "Keramion" Frechen, Deutschland

## Catalogues

* 1983 Nona Gabrielyan’s ceramics
* 2007 Album "Plastics, Art, Poetry"

## Literary works

* 2003 The collection of poems "Fossils of Heavens" (in Russian).
* 2005 Collection of poems "The Touch" (Russian)
* 2006 Russian-German collection of poems "Ins Nirgendwo" (From Nowhere)
* 2011 Russian-Armenian collection of poems "Color of the Word"
* 2013 Essay "Tender Clouds of Sadness" (Russian).
* 2017 Fictional and non-fictional stories "The Magic of Solitude" (Russian).

## Family

* Husband - Van Soghomonyan, artist
* Daughter - Lilit Soghomonyan, painter
* Grandson - Guy Ghazanchyan, painter, sculptor

## Gallery

Paintings
Sculptures