Arsen Savadov


Arsen Savadov is a Ukrainian conceptualist photographer and painter of Armenian descent. Participant of the Ukrainian New Wave.

Biography

Arsen Savadov was born in 1962 in Kyiv, to the family of Vladimir Savadov, a book illustrator, originally from Baku, Azerbaijan. He studied painting at the Shevchenko State Art School. A graduate of the Kyiv Art Institute, Savadov lives and works in Kyiv.

Selected personal exhibitions

2017 – Gulliver's dream, Art Ukraine Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine2012 – Escape to Egypt, Collection gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine2012 – First-person, Pecherskiy Gallery, Moscow2007 – Paintings. Daniyal Mahmood Gallery. New York2005 – Love Story. Galerie Orel Art Presenta, Paris2003 – Donbass-Chocolate. Galerie Orel Art Presenta, Paris2002 – Kokto. Marat Guelman Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine2001Book of the Dead. Art Moscow Workshop, Central House of Artist, Moscow1998 – Deepinsider: Arsen Savadov, Soros Center for Contemporary Arts Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine1995 — Arsen Savadov & Georgy Senchenko. House of Artist, Kyiv, Ukraine 1995 — Arsen Savadov. Chasie Post Gallery, Atlanta, USA 1995 — Keine dressur!. Marat Guelman Gallery, Moscow1994 — Christmas Action. Marat Guelman Gallery, Moscow1992 — The works of Savadov & Senchenko. Berman Gallery, New York, USA1991 — Arsen Savadov & Georgy Senchenko. Marat Guelman Gallery at Central House of Artists, Moscow

Selected group exhibitions

2017 — Art Riot: Post-Soviet Actionism, Saatchi Gallery, London2016 — Recycling Religion, WhiteBox, New York2015 — BALAGAN!!! Contemporary Art from the Former Soviet Union and Other Mythical Places, Curated by David Elliott, MOMENTUM, Berlin2014 — Volta 10, Basel2014 — PREMONITION: UKRAINIAN ART NOW, Saatchi Gallery, London2013 — Days of Ukraine in the United Kingdom, Saatchi Gallery, London2012 — Apocalypse and Renaissance in Chocolate House, branch of the National Museum "Kiyv Art Gallery,"Kyiv. Curated by Oleg Kulik and Kostyantyn Doroshenko.

Museums

Collections

  • Stephane Janssen Collection, USA
  • Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Pierre Broche Collection, Paris-Moscow
  • Collection Igor Markin, Moscow, Russia
  • Pinchuk Art Center Collection, Kyiv, Ukraine
  • Phillips De Pury Collection
  • Bernar Loze Collection
  • Norton Dodge Collection
  • Sir Elton John Collection
  • Natalia Ivanova Collection