Lilit Matevosyan is an artist and researcher based in Sochi. Her inquiry focuses on the colonial history of the Caucasus, patterns of migration, and the lived experiences of its Indigenous communities in the region. She investigates how ecological transformation and touristic gentrification reshape local landscapes and collective memory. Matevosyan’s practice involves researching and preserving local personal and artistic archives, aiming to connect individual histories with broader historical narratives. 

Working primarily with photography, video, and artist’s books, she integrates documentary and artistic strategies to develop long-term research-based projects. Collaboration, dialogue, and horizontal exchange are central to her approach. She is a co-founder of Aerarii, a self-organized initiative in Sochi.


Solo Exhibitions
2024 Even Boxwood Forgets, SKLAD_, Sukhum, Abkhasia
2023 I had left my home early in the morning, Yeltsin center, Yekaterinburg, Russia
2022 Resortworld, The Krasnodar Regional Art Museum Of Kovalenko, Russia
2020 Three stories, Aerariy/Portal, Sochi, Russia
2020 I had left my home early in the morning, Untitled Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
2020 And everything stays like this forever…, galleryf11.com, online
2019 I had left my home early in the morning, Franz & Lissy, Ludwigshafen, Germany

Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 When the shores disappear, Debarkader-30, Naberezhnye Chelny, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia
2024 The Coastline Paradox, GES-2, Moscow, Russia
2023 What happened when, Arten Theater, Yerevan, Armenia
2023 Broken ties are restored again, Vladimir Nabokov’s Museum apartment, St. Petersburg, Russia
2022 X-Nowness, Basel Art Center, Basel
2021 Naughty, Center for Contemporary Art Typography, Krasnodar, Russia
2019 Between, Festival OFF Bratislava, Bratislava
2018 Returning to the archives, SKLAD_, Sukhum, Abkhasia
2018 Looking at the other, N. A. Ostrovsky Museum, Sochi, Russia
2018 Centre de gravité, Classical Photography Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2016 GRENZGÄNGE, Rudolf Scharpf Galerie, Ludwigshafen, Germany

Long-term research projects
2023-ongoing: An Island Surrounded by Land with Ekaterina Savchenko, Russia, Abkhasia
2021-ongoing: Resortworld, Sochi, Russia

Grants / Awards
2023-2024 Garage Field Research program, Garage Museum
2022 Garage Museum’s Grant Program for Emerging Artists
2020 The New East Photo Prize 2020, short list
2019 Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum, Multimedia Production Lab Grant

Public Programs & Workshops
2025 When I forget everything, I will start remembering, SKLAD, Sukhum, Abkhasia
2025 Sustainability of horizontal communities: the practice of social architecture (with Anna Galeeva), online
2024 Collage Club program The Resort Landscape, GES-2, Moscow, Russia
2023 An Island Surrounded by Land meetings, Viurok, Sochi, and online
2023 Declassified Laboratory, ZAMAN MUSEUM, Ufa, Russia
2023 Artist Talk, Yeltsin center, Yekaterinburg, Russia

Education 
2020 Krasnodar Institute of Contemporary Art (KISI), Krasnodar, Russia
2017-18 Academy of photojournalism and documentary photography ‘Fotografika’, St. Petersburg, Russia
2006-12 Sochi State University, Graphic Design, Sochi, Russia