Author: Lizzy Vartanian Collier

Lizzy Vartanian Collier aka Gallery Girl is a writer and curator based in London. Her work has been featured in publications including Dazed, Hyperallergic and Vogue Arabia. She was curator of Perpetual Movement during AWAN Festival 2018 and in 2019 had a residency at the Lab at Darat Al Funun in Amman, Jordan. She has also worked with Armenia Art Fair for its inaugural edition and previously worked as an editor at I.B.Tauris Publishers. In 2019 she co-founded Arsheef, Yemen’s first contemporary art gallery. She has given workshops at Manara Culture in Amman, Jordan and Victoria and Albert Museum in London, UK. As of 2020 she is currently in law school, with the ambition of greater understanding the intersection between art and the law.

Frieze Frame

October 10, 2016.Reading time 1 minute.

Frieze week has come to an end and the Regent’s Park fair must leave London for another year. Every year I find that Frieze Masters leaves more of an impact that its better famed sister Frieze. For me the sculptural and installation works this year were most memorable. Among my personal highlights were Hauser and […]

Marisa Merz @ Thomas Dane

October 6, 2016.Reading time 2 minutes.

It is Frieze Week in London and it seems as though the world is flocking to Regent’s Park. Everybody who’s anybody has already made it inside the world’s most famous art fair. Frieze is loud, it is busy. It is alluringly wonderful and horribly intense at the same time. Some of my readers may […]

Musée de Cluny @ Paris

October 2, 2016.Reading time 3 minutes.

I have probably been to Paris more than 50 times, yet on every visit I still manage to catch a glimpse of something new. On my most recent trip, I took my first visit to the sumptuously gorgeous Musée de Cluny. The museum, which has recently been renamed Musée national du Moyen Âge, is most […]

Superwoman @ GRAD

September 24, 2016.Reading time 2 minutes.

Russia is famous for a lot of things, feminism, in the UK at least, probably isn’t one of them. However, GRAD Gallery is changing that with its Superwoman exhibition, that presents all things woman during the Soviet era. The show illustrates the presentation of the Soviet woman from 1917 to 1991. While women have long […]

Murakami @ Galerie Perrotin, Paris

September 18, 2016.Reading time 2 minutes.

Galerie Perrotin in Paris is quite possibly the most beautiful commercial gallery space I have ever visited. The building which is housed in le Marais invites its visitors inside with two grand staircases up to a sumptuous two-storey white building, covered with greenery. Currently its insides are playing host to Takashi Murakami, an artist who […]