Mihran Hakobyan (; born February 18, 1984) is an

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sculptor. He created the 2014 '' Wikipedia Monument'' in

Słubice Słubice () is a border town in the Lubusz Voivodeship, in western Poland. Located on the Oder river, it lies directly opposite the city of Frankfurt (Oder) in Germany, which it was a part of as ''Dammvorstadt'' until 1945. As of 2019, the town h ...

, the first one of its type.

Biography

Mihran Hakobyan was born in

Stepanakert Stepanakert officially Khankendi is a city in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan. It was the capital city of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh prior to the 2023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh, 2023 Azerbaijani offensive in ...

, Artsakh. His father, sculptor Armen Hakobyan (1941–1990), died during the

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. From 2000 to 2006, he studied

sculpting Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

at the Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts. He thereafter worked in his profession in Armenia and Russia, participated in several exhibitions in Stepanakert and

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. In 2001, he became a member of the Artists Union of the

Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Artsakh ( ), officially the Republic of Artsakh or the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh ( ), was a list of states with limited recognition, breakaway state in the South Caucasus whose territory was internationally recognised as part of Azerbai ...

. In 2011, he participated in an international symposium on sculpture in

Shusha Shusha (, ) or Shushi () is a city in Azerbaijan, in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Situated at an altitude of 1,400–1,800 metres (4,600–5,900 ft) in the Karabakh mountains, the city was a mountain resort in the Soviet Union, Soviet ...

. Hakobyan mainly creates sculptures of stone, wood or

bronze Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals (such as phosphorus) or metalloid ...

. From 2010 till 2013 he studied Polish Philology at the Collegium Polonicum in Słubice. 2012 Hakobyan received a scholarships of the Polish

Kulczyk Foundation The Kulczyk Foundation is a Polish private foundation founded in 2013 by Grażyna Kulczyk, Jan Kulczyk, and Dominika Kulczyk, who has been the President of the foundation since its establishment. Apart from Dominika Kulczyk, the foundation is ma ...

. On behalf of the Director of the Collegium Polonicum, Krzysztof Wojciechowski, Hakobyan created the '' Wikipedia Monument'' in

. On 22 October 2014 the monument was unveiled at the ''Plac Frankurcki'' (Frankfurt square). The monument was sponsored by the city Słubice with 62,000 zlotys. Mihran Hakobyan also works with cartoons, especially with

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figures. For his cartoon „Зонтик“ (''Umbrella'') after a story by

Leonid Yengibarov Leonid Georgievich Yengibarov (; ; March 15, 1935 – July 25, 1972) was a Soviet Armenian clown and actor, People's Artist of the Armenian SSR. Biography Leonid Yengibarov was born in Moscow to an Armenian father and a Russian mother. He s ...

he received the audience award at the Short Film Fund in

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2013.

References

External links

Website of Mihran Hakobyan

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hakobyan, Mihran American people of Armenian descent 1984 births People from Stepanakert 21st-century Armenian sculptors Living people 21st-century sculptors