Geraldina Khatchikian
Geraldina Khatchikian is an Italian multidisciplinary artist based in London, working across painting, installation, jewellery, embroidery, and wereable sculpture. Her practice explores the relationship between body, material, identity, and emotional experience, with a particular interest in transformation and the ways identity can shift, expand, and be embodied through material.
Raised in a family of jewellers, Khatchikian brings an artisanal inheritance into a contemporary visual language. Aluminium wire has become a central element of her practice, moving between painted surface, sculptural object, wearable form, and spatial installation.
Her education has followed an independent path, guided by experimentation, research, and technical study. In 2017, she attended specialised courses in jewellery design and goldsmithing techniques at IED Milan; in 2018, she further developed her practice at Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York.
Her work has been presented internationally and featured in British Vogue. In 2026, her first museum installation, EXIT, was presented at Palazzo Pepoli, the Museum of the History of Bologna, as part of the group exhibition The Plural I during ArteFiera.
Artist Statement
“My practice explores identity as a layered and evolving condition, shaped by change, memory and emotional experience. Working across painting, installation, jewellery, embroidery and wearable sculpture, I investigate how material can carry transformation and the traces of becoming. Over time, my practice has expanded beyond the boundaries of a single medium, allowing each form to become a different expression of the same inquiry.
Aluminium wire has become a central language within my work. I use it as line, structure, gesture, adornment and spatial drawing. Through repetitive and intuitive processes, it moves between surface, body, object and space, creating connections between what is visible and what is felt.
At the centre of my practice is an interest in identity as something continuously shaped through experience, transition and the complexity of human change. I am drawn to moments of contradiction, vulnerability, resilience and transformation.
Whether working on a painting, a wearable piece or an installation, I am interested in how material can embody emotional states and invite reflection on fragility and strength, containment and release, memory and possibility.”
Press & Publication
2026. Il Resto del Carlino, Bologna, ‘L’ alluminio diventa fluido e si intreccia con la fragilità, article written by Nicoletta Barberini Mengoli for Artefiera, Newspaper and online
2026. British Vogue, February Issue, Print Magazine
2026. British Vogue, January Issue, Print Magazine
2025. British Vogue, December Issue, Print Magazine
2025. Full Circle: Geraldina Khatchikian’s Solo Exhibition at Arte Fiera 2025, Create!Magazine Blog
2024. New Visionary Magazine, Issue n.12, by Visionary Art Collective, Print Magazine
2024. "Belonging": Geraldina Khatchikian's New Exhibition in Bologna, Italy, by Ekaterina Popova for Create!Magazine Blog
2024. “Belonging” - Exhibition by Geraldina Katchikian, by Gita Joshi for the Curator’s Salon Blog
2024. “Il Resto del Carlino” Bologna, Culture and show section under “Young Talents”, article written by Nicoletta Barberini Mengoli, Newspaper
2024. TheAQBookVolume1 by EkaterinaPopova, Print Book
2023. Create!Magazine, Issue n.41, Print Magazine
2023. Studio Book Volume II by Arts to Hearts Project, Curated by Ekaterina Popova, Print Book
2023. Woman United Art Magazine, Issue n.2, Print Magazine
2023. The World of interiors, March Issue, Print Magazine
2022. Art Seen Magazine, Winter Issue, Print Magazine
2022. The World of interiors, August Issue, Print Magazine
2022. The World of interiors, July Issue, Print Magazine
2022. Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art, Issue n.10, Print Magazine
2022. The world of interiors, June Issue, Print Magazine
2022. Clover and Bee Mag, Issue n.3, Digital Magazine