My name is Simon and I live in a flat in Zurich, together with my twin brother and our girlfriends. I love to work on various kinds of projects. Currently, I’m creating a new collection for my small fashion label called „Laerchensteig“. Besides that, I’m a passionate gardener and now that Spring is coming, I’m very enthusiastic to grow different plants and vegetables.

I consider this exchange program as huge possibility to interact with people from different countries and to share our individual experiences we made in art teaching, but also in life.

I’m really excited to meet you all and I’m looking forward to have an insight into your everyday life in Armenia. 

my personal favorite artist and artwork…

At the moment, it’s the work of Richard Artschwager, that I’m very interested in. His art is difficult to situate. You ask yourself, what you actually see. Is it a sculpture? A furniture? An architectonical ornament? An Illusion? Or neither of all? I consider the indefinable state of his artworks as quite stimulating.

my favorite exercise in school…

My favorite part of school is working on own art projects. I love to do research for topics and getting inspired by all kinds of influences. Especially, I find great pleasure in exchanging ideas and thoughts with my fellow students.

what skills can i share in the group?

Manual printing with various techniques, tailoring clothing and cooking a delicious pasta sauce

Hello, my name is Raya. I am very happy about taking part in this programme. Besides knowledge, I will also get many friends. I love learning and communicating with people and smiling.
And I also love juzz music

Hi, I’m Astghik Kirakosyan and I am 21 years old. My name means “a star”, it is from word Astra, Astrid.
To understand the intensity of my passion for studying arts, it is enough to know that I stopped pursuing a degree in philology at Yerevan State University and transferred to ASPU to study Aesthetic Arts. All this in order to pursue the profession I love.

My favourite artists are Albrecht Dürer, Van Gogh and Paul Cézanne.

Hereby you can see one of my works

I’m fond of birds, cats, rabbits and all kinds of animals. I love travelling, learning something new, and meeting different people.

Also I like modern art and I’m looking for listening to your methods of teaching art.

The “trick” I like practising in the class is, when the children talk, and there is much noise, I tell them, that we need to respect each other, and if someone talks, all of us have to listen the one who talks, and if two or more people begin to talk at the same time, we need to raise our hands and be silent, until everyone becomes silent.

Except of this, I also work as a journalist, so feel free to ask me questions connected with everything which goes on in Armenia.

I am Marine Galstyan. 20 years old.I live in Armenia.My country is beautiful , where the most hospitable people live. Like all Armenians , it is nice for me to help people. Ilike to tesch people.I teach volunteering in the Masis Yourth Developmeny Center for fine arts. I give my students the opportunity to create their own ideas in their paintings freely.This program gives a great opportunity to explore the difference between the cultural, educational, artistic and other spheres of Armenia and Switzerland, based on the experience of the two countries ,in the future we will try to develop and combine the best learning methods and will try to develop new methods for our students to make learning more interesting and effective.

Hopefully ,I will gain good friends, and I will be able to exchange them with new and effective ideas.I am interested in human practical anatomy ,listening to music of different styles, such as jazz, classic.One of my hobbies is collecting antique items.

I love the nature , I think it is the best work that exists.I paint a lot of various environmental issues .At times ,I am triing to raise the voices of disaster.

Art is my life ,and I can not imagine my life without art.It is difficult for me to separate a group of artists whom I believe because I like everyone very much.It is interesting for me to study the works of different artists .

Thanks for attention.

I greet you all.

I am glad of communicating with  You for this opportunity. This is also the important chance for me in the sense of spreading that idea, which has become the key goal of my pedagogical and creative activity.

My pedagogical and creative activity is tend to justification and approval of the ecological function of the landscape painting. Through the landscape painting the process of the ecological upbringing becomes more effective. In this sense the landscape painting obtains the special status of the ecological upbringing. 

I am sure that our cooperative work will obtain the new results in this sense.

Hi everyone. My name is Hripsime. I am glad that we all have this oppurtunity. It would be nice to meet you here. I hope you will like this experience . I like this idea. I live in Echmiadzin. It is a small town near Yerevan. I like everything new. I am fond of dancing, growing flowers, drawing, reading books.

Here are some of my favourite artists

• Picasso
• Vardges Surenyants
• Arshil Gorki
• Claude Monet etc

My favorite exercise

There is no particular method that I use,but I like to help children as much as I can,to answer any question they have.I like to give them time to express their feelings,ideas and show their creativity.

Skills I can share

I know some entertaining games we can play together.I like touring around Armenia ,listening to music and gardening. I hope we’ll enjoy our time

AN ARTWORK FROM THE CANON

PERSONAL FAVORITE ARTIST

FAVORITE EXERCISE IN SCHOOL

As my lecturer once said, being a teacher does not mean giving 100% of the subject in one session, but making students love the subject and motivate them to study it themselves. I am trying to do this during my lesson, and I really like that emotional contact between the whole group.

SKILLS I CAN SHARE IN THE GROUP

Today healthy lifestyle is becoming more and more popular, but I and my whole family have been doing this, since then I remember myself. I would be delighted to share with you healthy diets, activity exercises for keeping fit. The healthier we are, the better we feel, because healthy way of life concerns not only our body, but mind and soul.

My favorite artist is Gevorg Bashinjaghyan. Hi is founder realistic painting.

( Gevorg Bashinjaghyan )

(Armenian village in Rastov )

(Landscape)

( Picture of me )

Im very interedted in sport. My favorite hobbies is snowboard , skiing .

( In Tsaghkadzor )

I love watch football but playing i love much more . My favorite footballer is A . Griezmann

I look forward to aur meeting impatiently…….

Greetings to my friends from Shwitzerland.I am Sevada. I am looking forward to our meeting. I am sure we shall have many thoughts to exchange. The exchange of experience is very important for both sides. For every painter pedagog it is very important and interesting to meet new cultures. It will give me opportunities to create and develop new ideas.

My favorite artists

My favorite painters are Claude Monet and Piter Paul Rubens,especially Rubens because of his unique and popular Baroque style.Rubens specialized in making portraits,landscapes,history paintings.

It is me working with my pupils

First of all it is very important to turn on the music during our lessons.It helps my students to concentrate on their works and to express their thoughts. Its very important for me to have good relationships whit them.

My Skills

One of my favorite hobbies is singing.I have been singing since my childhood. I wanted to become a singer but I changed my mind. Now I work at Arts school, and I have many talented students.One of my skills is to understand my students, their opinions and ideas we love each other very much and I appreciate it very much.

Hi everybody. I am really looking forward to this exchange and meeting you soon. My name is Fabio. I am originally from Italy but I was born in Switzerland and grew up here. When I have time, i love painting and drawing in my studio.

I see this exchange program as a great opportunity to get together, get in touch and interact. I am sure it will be a great experience for us all.

Here is one of my favorite artists: FRANCIS BACON.

my favorite exercise at school…

Actually I do not have a specific favorite one. What I like is reading and doing some research to get inspired by different kinds of artists. At the moment I admire Markus Lüpertz’s artworks.

I prefer painting freely and let the random moment, during painting, surprising me. 🙂