ToC Creative Hub

Sona Hovhannisyan is a curator and art critic living in Armenia. She is co-founder of the ToC (Triangle of Collaboration) creative hub, which aims to connect art professionals of three disciplines. She is committed to developing innovative collaborations that engage the community, artists, and art professionals from all over the globe.
Sona graduated from the Department of History and Theory of Fine Arts at the Yerevan State Academy of Arts (2010) and over fourteen years, her dedication lies in curating projects that delve into the exploration of space, acting as a medium to blend diverse art forms and foster a range of perspectives in collaboration with architects, sculptors, artists, musicians, and choreographers, both locally and internationally. She was a curator of exhibitions such as the renowned German artist Otto Dix’s "Social Criticism 1920–1924" (Yerevan, 2023), Third and Fourth International Print Biennale Yerevan (2021, 2023), Armenian renowned photographer Gagik Harutyunyan’s "In the Heart of Instant" together with a well-known German artist Jurgen Middelmann (History Museum of Armenia, Yerevan, 2022), etc in cooperation with architects and architectural studios. Also, she participated in a cross-disciplinary project “Body Practices: Post Revolutionary Armenia”(2019) where she was interested in an exploration of urban places in the context of performing art. Furthermore, she studies and researches the architecture and particular abandoned buildings of soviet modernism and truly believes that multidisciplinary cooperation can reveal different perspectives on architecture.