Pierre and Cedric KOUKJIAN, designers based in Geneva, Switzerland. Postmodern industrial creators working with talented european craftsmanship. At the core of their creativity is a constant research for new shapes and materials.

Meet the Artists on Wednesday 27th August 6-9pm

Pierre KOUKJIAN (1962), conceptual artist & designer working across a wide range of media, and common daily subjects, Pierre transforms well known materials and stories into artistic phenomena. His works are known for their strong character, primitive and yet Avant Garde with often provocative symbolic resonance. Transforming materials, such as hammered steel, titanium, industrial foam, brass, neon, glass etc. and giving them new use and meaning. Using his nomadic life experience as a source of inspiration, holding 3 nationalities fluent in 5 languages, living around the World, gave him the ability to target some very global issues. Born in Beirut 1962, Pierre was a teen with passion for drawing, when the outbreak of the Lebanese civil war forced him to leave his homeland in the late seventies. Pierre started life in Germany where he encountered many artists and designers and gained valuable experience and skills in design and sculpture. In 1990 Pierre moved to Paris, where he re-news his skills. His work was immediately recognized by the most prominent private collectors, who acquired his most poetically daring erotic sculptures, a few pieces found their way to a private museum. In 1994 he moved to the far east living between Bangkok and Singapore, gaining a reputation in Asia, then in the late 90’s Pierre choose Madrid as his home. Today Pierre works from his workshop in Geneva as a conceptual artist, in this city he found himself and coming out with concepts as hammered steel, cement with bronze sculpture, neon works, while still oil on canvas is his daily task. Pierre likes to give back to the young Artists of tomorrow by lecturing them at Colleges in Hong Kong, Paris and Madrid.

Cedric Koukjian – Born 1985 – Is an experimental industrial designer concentrating on sculptural works across multiple mediums and materials. From miniature carvings and metalwork to large objects. He now consolidates his creative work on the concept of the “Link”. Research on the idea of the bond expressed in multiple ways. He believes it is a constant exercise in exploration to materialise this ambiguous notion into a creation that can simplify its interpretation. Conducting his ideological research by exploring and living across multiple continents from Europe to the plains of the Himalaya and being exposed to cross cultural experiences he would have never thought possible. Ethnically, he is also an oddity. A blend from multiple culture. From one side side, Armenian and Phoenician. From the other side, Roman, Assyrian and Greek. The five major pillars of antiquity.