Beatrice Moumdjian

Beatrice Moumdjian (*1986) deals, based on her Slavic–West Asian, diasporic, and migrant connection to the Eurasian continent—the so-called “Orient”—with cultural continuities and their ruptures, borrowing from bureaucratic, archaeological, and reconstructive methods. 

Her practice is intersectional: it has been, on one hand, informed by her own complex experiences of racialization and marginalization. On the other hand, Beatrice’s work is influenced by experiences of systemic violence within various political systems, which have been passed down through her family history and, being unresolved, remain politically charged.

Beatrice has exhibited at institutions like nGbK Berlin (2019), Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig (2019, 2025), Kassel Documentary and Video Festival (2018), KO-OP Gallery (2022), Goethe Institut Montréal (2021), Noorderlicht International Photo Festival (2021), Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz (2020), LUMA Arles (2023), Škuc Gallery (2024). Scholarships and awards from institutions such as Stiftung Kunstfonds, the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, the Berlin Cultural Senate, the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony, Dior, Culture Moves Europe, Künstlerhof Frohnau.
Founding and ’22-’24 board member of Resonanzraum Erzgebirge e.V., 2022, co-founding and since co-direction of artistic research program “ost in space”. 

Beatrice has also exhibited under the name Beatrice Peter (BP) Schuett. She was born in Sofia, People’s Republic Bulgaria into her mother’s Armenian family and moved with her in 1990 to the former East of Berlin. In 1994, she obtained German citizenship using a birth certificate secured through a bribe to the Bulgarian secret intelligence service DS in the late 80s.