Kirill Savchenkov works with various media including mediated sculpture, installation, performance, and sound. His artistic practice focuses on the dynamic distance between perception and recognition in the political, social, and technological sense. In his research Savchenkov highlight the questions of agency, political history and the affects produced by informational autocracy. The artist works with spectrum of environmental and sculptural essays that weave together shapeshifted objects from the physical, media, sonic, and cultural fields.

He was nominated to represent Russia in the national pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennial in 2022 but withdrew from the project in protest of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.


KIRILL SAVCHENKOV

Born in 1987 in Moscow, Russia. Lives and works in Pari, France.


EDUCATION

2012
The Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia. Moscow, RU

2009
Moscow Technical University of Communication and Computer science, Moscow, RU

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024
The Stranded Horse and The Riderless Night, Galerie Allen, Paris, FR

2022
The Past Ripens In The Future, Transart Festival and Museion, Bolzano, IT
914, National Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale [withdrawn], Venice, IT

2019
Horizon Community Display, Alkovi/HIAP, Helsinki, FI

2018
Ch(K)ris(tin). Close Air Support, Sidur museum, Moscow, RU

2017
Office of Sensitive Activities / Applications Group, MMOMA, V-A-C Foundation, Moscow, RU

2016
Museum of Skateboarding, Calvert22, London, UK

2015
Horizon Community Workshop, Agency of Singular Investigations, CCA Fabrika, Moscow, RU

2014
Avalanche, FotoDepartament, Saint-Petersburg, RU

2013
Anabasis, Culture Center “Vdohnovenie”, Moscow, RU

2012
The frenzied urge to struggle (with Sasha Kurmaz), Paperworks gallery, Moscow, RU


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023
The Seashore of Endless Worlds, Le Commun, Geneva, CH
Immerse!, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, EE

2021
Baltic Triennial 14: The Endless Frontier, curated by Valentinas Klimasauskas and Joao Laia, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, LT
Training Fantasia, CCA Typography, Krasnodar, RU
Assuming Distance: Speculations, Fakes, and Predictions in the Age of the Coronacene, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, RU

2019
3rd Kyiv Biennial, KPI Library, Kyiv, UA
5th Ural Industrial Biennale, curated by Xiaoyu Weng, Coliseum Theatre, Ekaterinburg, RU
Time, Forward!, curated by Omar Kholeif, V-A-C Zattere, Venice, IT
The Kandinsky Prize, MMOMA, Moscow, RU
Not What It Seems, Richter project space / EUNIC, Moscow, RU
Bureau des transmissions, curated by Iaroslav Volovod, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, RU

2018
Platform blind_spot, Basel, CH
Metageography: Orientalism and Dreams of Robinsons, The Zarya Center for Contemporary Art, Vladivostok, RU
12th Gwangju Biennale, Imagined Borders, The Ends: The Politics of Participation in the Post-Internet Age, curated by Christine Y. Kim and Rita Gonzalez, Gwangju, KR
Based on these new dependencies, we define five normal forms, D21 Kunstraum Leipzig, DE and MMOMA, Moscow, RU

2017
Dance, Dance, Dance, BURSA Gallery, The Kyiv International – Kyiv Biennial 2017, Kyiv, UA
Between fatigue: towards the new forms of life, Palace of culture for railway workers, Ekaterinburg, RU
4th Ural Industrial Biennale, curated by Joao Ribas, Ural Instrument-Making Plant, Ekaterinburg, RU
Metageography Space Image Action, Pushkin House, London, UK
Space Force Construction, curated by Matthew Witkovsky, Richard and Ellen Sandor, Katerina Chuchalina and Anna Ilchenkois, V-A-C Foundation Venice, IT
Hosting the Inhuman, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, V-A-C Foundation, Moscow, RU
BoCA – Biennial of Contemporary Arts Porto and Lisbon, Porto, PT

2017
Inconvenient Questions, Tartu Art Museum, Tartu, EE
Toward the Source, curated by Kate Fowle, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, RU

2016
Young blood, CCA Winzavod, Moscow, RU

2015
Expanding Space. Artistic practice in the urban environment, V-A-C Foundation, GES-2, Moscow, RU

2015
Metageography, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, RU

2014
Manifesta 10, Parallel Program, St. Petersburg, RU


CONFERENCES / TEACHING / SCREENINGS

2023
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris, FR

2021
Knowledge Editing Division, Springs. Video

2020
Remote player, Garage. Digital

2023
Talk in the clsss of Petrit Halilaj, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Paris, Paris, FR

2022
Image in motion (with Polina Kanis, Andrey Kachalian, Boris Klushnikov), Tutor/Lecturer, Moscow School of New Cinema, Moscow, RU

2022
Image in motion (with Polina Kanis, Andrey Kachalian, Boris Klushnikov), Tutor/Lecturer. Moscow School of New Cinema, Moscow, RU

2019 - 22
Practice class “Image in motion” (with Polina Kanis, Andrey Kachalian, Boris Klushnikov), Tutor/Lecturer. Rodchenko Art School, Moscow, RU

2013 - 22
Transmedia and Contemporary Photography, Lecturer, Rodchenko Art School, Moscow, RU

2021 - 22
Mediated sculpture and new media, Guest lecturer, Baza Institute, Moscow, RU

2020 - 22
Transmedia laboratory, Tutor and program developer, Sreda Obuchenia x Rodchenko art School, Online Educational platform.

2012 - 20
Photography color printing (with Andrey Shagin), Tutor, Rodchenko Art School, Moscow, RU

2016
Transmedia Workshop, ICA, Moscow, RU


AWARDS, GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES

2023
ArtExplora residency program, Paris, FR

2022
Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, FR

2018
Innovation Art Prize, “New Generation” category

2017
Scholarship within the program of Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in support of emerging artists, RU

2014
MACK First Book Award (shortlist)

2011
The Silver Camera Art Prize, “Architecture” category
 

COLLECTIONS

Kadist Foundation, Paris, France and San Francisco, USA
V-A-C Foundation, Moscow, RU
Stella Art Foundation, Moscow, RU


PUBLICATIONS

2015
Atlas, Self-published

2014
Iceberg, Self-published


BIBLIOGRAPHY

2024   
Russia Will Not Participate in the 60th Venice Biennale, Jo Lawson-Tancred, Artnet, 7 February 2024
Russian Artist Kirill Savchenkov Reemerges with Ethereal Sculptures in Paris, Devorah Lauter, Artnet, 16 February 2024

2021
Kirill Savchenkov, architect of all too real role-playing games, Silvia Dal Dosso, Domus, 29 November 2021

2017
Kirill Savchenkov at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Oliver Basciano, ArtReview, 22 December 2017
Vagues et tombes (Événement en trois actes), Kirill Savchenkov, Moscow Art Magazine No. 103
Kirill Savchenkov at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Oliver Basciano, ArtReview, 22 December 2017
ArtReview, Space Force Construction Matthew Witkovsky and Katerina Chuchalina, Anna Ilchenko, May 2017

|2016
Issue 06: Boulevard Ring, Moscow, Flaneur magazine, issue 6, fall/winter 2016
To Know Russia, Tou Must Skate it, 032c, 11 August 2016

2015
British Journal of Photography, february’15

2015
Echo, Kirill Savchenkov, Anastasiia Fedorova, Svilova, 20 April-25 May 2015 (exhibition in artist-run online platform)

2014
Post-Soviet Suburbia: KIRILL SAVCHENKOV’s “Umwelt”, 032c, 13 November 2014
Calvert journal, Anastasiia Fedorova august’14
Teenage kicks in post-Soviet suburbia, Dazed digital, 17 June 2014
Calvert journal, may’14
Calvert journal, april’14

|2013
Artchronika magazine, march/april’13
Around art, november’13

2012   
Prism Photo Magazine #03, january’12
Afisha magazine No. 319

2011
Photo.Art, October’11
Ojodepez, When We Were Young, edited by Bruno Ceschel