Yerevan. By the early 1980s, the first collective actions had taken place in Armenia.
They were initiated by young artists and an older generation of non-conformists.
Exhibitions were staged in novel venues such as artists’ workshops or in the foyer of
the Yerevan State Conservatory. During this period of Soviet President Gorbachev’s
policies of glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) a collection of artists
in Armenia formed the 3rd Floor Group (1987–1994) (fig.1). Read more
