Alicja Khatchikian is a Berlin-based artist whose work explores contested and familiar realms such as borders, memory, and the body through photography, collage, and archival materials. Blending documentary fine art with conceptual approaches, her practice unfolds over months or years, producing layered and intimate investigations. She has exhibited internationally in solo and group shows, including Villa Oppenheim, Bivy, PhMuseum Days, and the Rotterdam Photo Festival. In addition to her artistic practice, she works as a freelance photographer and facilitates image-based and self-publishing workshops that foster collaborative learning.

Teaching
2025 Eigenseiten, weekly printing and book-binding workshop, Bona Peiser, Berlin
2022 Our body/selves, self-portraiture workshop with Stephanie Telomere, UdK Berlin 

Education
2022 Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie, Berlin
2017 Il libro fotografico. Culture, progetti, professioni, pratiche, SISF, Pieve Tesino, Italy
2016 Master’s Degree (with honors) in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Univ. of Vienna
2011 Bachelor’s Degree in Political Sciences, Univ. of Trieste

Group Exhibitions
2025 Re-Membering: Traces of Armenian life in the diaspora, Villa Oppenheim, Berlin
2023 Loss, Soft Eis Magazine, 90mil, Berlin
2023 A sense of place, Photographic Exploration Project, Berlin  
2022 One eye sees, the other feels, Zone Magazine, Daste, Bergamo
2022 Fünfzehn, Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie, Quartier 206, Berlin
2021 Rain Makes Little Lakes, Bivy, Anchorage, Alaska
2021 Die Rose ist ohne Warum, Stiftung Schloss Neuhardenberg, Germany
2020 Transitions, Rotterdam Photo Festival

Solo Exhibitions
2017 Denali Thai Food, Bivy, Anchorage, Alaska

Collaborative Projects
2018 Bakunin, theatre performance, premiered at the Swamp Pavilion, Venice Biennale of Architecture and Laboratorio Artistico Pietra, Torino 

Grants
2024–25 Eigenseiten, Berliner Projektsfonds Kulturelle Bildung
2022 Interflugs’ Project Funding, Universität der Künste, Berlin

Selected Features
2025 The Prince Edit, Volume I, A/W 2025
2024 On Envy, by fffllleeessshhh
2024  POP Adriatico – Porto Osservatorio Partecipato, Adriatico Book Club
2023 Softeis Magazine, ISSUE03
2023 Chronographies and the experience of transience by Steve Bisson, published on Urbanautica, Journal of Visual Anthropology and Cultural Landscapes
2022 Edited, selected graduates from the International Center of Photography in New York and the Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie in Berlin

Selected Academic Publications
2019  ‘Between archive and repertoire: The Ju|’hoansi San Living Museum in Grashoek,’ in W. Zips and M. Zips-Mairitsch (eds), Bewildering Borders: The Economy of Conservation in Africa, pp. 121-135, Berlin and Zürich: LIT Verlag

2018 ‘Trespassing Borders: Encounters and Resistances in Performance Art,’ in T. Fillitz and P. van der Grijp (eds), An Anthropology of Contemporary Art: Practices, Markets, and Collectors, pp. 163-178, London: Bloomsbury

2017 “On participation, beyond participation: a conversation with Maya Quattropani”, roots§routes – research on visual cultures, No 24 | January – April

2016 “Intertwining discourses: a visual history of bodies”, roots§routes – research on visual cultures, No 22 | May – August

Selected Talks
2018 ‘Attempts at collaboration between ethnography and performance (or: how to fail better?),’ in Art, Materiality and Representation conference by Royal Anthropological Institute, British Museum, London

2016 ‘Trespassing borders: encounters and collaborations in performance art,’ in Anthropological legacies and human futures conference by the European Association of Social Anthropologists, Univ. of Milano-Bicocca

2014 (with G. Palekaite) ‘The performing body-in-space through the lens: The Living Museum in Namibia,’ in Anthropology and Photography conference by Royal Anthropological Institute, British Museum, London
(Last update: September 2025)