Sarkis Zabunyan (b. 1938, Istanbul), internationally better known as Sarkis, is an Armenian conceptual artist living in France. Sarkis studied at the St. Michel French High School and got his degree from Mimar Sinan University. Sarkis’ work has been exhibited internationally since the early 1970s at the Venice Biennale, the Istanbul Biennial and the Documenta in Kassel amongst others. The artist recently had a solo exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Invited by Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Sarkis will transform the 5000m2 Submarine Wharf in the Rotterdam docklands into a poetic installation during the Summer of 2012.