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, Ukraine 2012 – Escape to Egypt, Collection gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2012 – First-person, Pecherskiy Gallery (V-art gallery), Moscow 2007 – Paintings. Daniyal Mahmood Gallery. New York 2005 – Love Story. Galerie Orel Art Presenta, Paris 2003 – Donbass-Chocolate. Galerie Orel Art Presenta, Paris 2002 – Kokto. Marat Guelman Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2001 – Book of the Dead. Art Moscow Workshop, Central House of Artist, Moscow 1998 – Deepinsider: Arsen Savadov (with Alexander Kharchenko), Soros Center for Contemporary Arts Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 1995 — Arsen Savadov & Georgy Senchenko. House of Artist, Kyiv, Ukraine 1995 — Arsen Savadov. Chasie Post Gallery, Atlanta, USA 1995 — (with Georgy Senchenko). Marat Guelman Gallery, Moscow 1994 — Christmas Action (with Georgy Senchenko). Marat Guelman Gallery, Moscow 1992 — The works of Savadov & Senchenko. Berman Gallery, New York, USA 1991 — Arsen Savadov & Georgy Senchenko. Marat Guelman Gallery at Central House of Artists, Moscow

Selected group exhibitions

2017 — Art Riot: Post-Soviet Actionism, Saatchi Gallery, London 2016 — Recycling Religion, WhiteBox, New York 2015 — BALAGAN!!! Contemporary Art from the Former Soviet Union and Other Mythical Places, Curated by David Elliott, MOMENTUM, Berlin 2014 — Volta 10, Basel 2014 — PREMONITION: UKRAINIAN ART NOW, Saatchi Gallery, London 2013 — Days of Ukraine in the United Kingdom, Saatchi Gallery, London 2012 — Apocalypse and Renaissance in Chocolate House, branch of the National Museum "Kiyv Art Gallery,"Kyiv. Curated by Oleg Kulik and Kostyantyn Doroshenko.

Museums Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée, France Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA The Russian Museum, Saint-Petersburg, Russia Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia (Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia) PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine Modern Art Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway

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 (Paris, France) Norton Dodge Collection (New Jersey, USA) Sir Elton John Collection (London) Natalia Ivanova Collection (Moscow, Russia)