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 Kiev, 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 Kiev 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,"Kiyv. 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)