Diana Markosian

Image credit: © Diana Markosian

Father, on view from 21 Nov 2025 to 19 Apr 2026 at Fotografiska Berlin, is a deeply personal and autobiographical exhibition by artist Diana Markosian. It explores themes of absence, memory, and reconciliation, reflecting on how decisions shape who we become.

Born in Moscow, at the age of seven Markosian left Russia with her mother and older brother, eventually relocating to California. This move across the world would solidify, and seemingly finalize, a fracturing of her family that had already taken place. Markosian’s parents had separated before she was born, and by the time they moved to America her father was, in many ways, already absent from her life. Once in California her mother sought to remove even the image of him from their lives by cutting his picture out of family photographs.

Fifteen years since she last saw him, and with no picture to remind her nor address to direct her, Markosian set out to find her father in Armenia. Father captures Markosian’s attempt to build a relationship with him over a decade with each visit revealing new complexities about the parent she lost and how that loss, originally and over time, came to shape the person Markosian had become.