Savchenkov Inal

Born in 1966 in Novorossiysk.

Since 1982 lives and works in Leningrad — St. Petersburg.

1983—1989 — exhibited together with New Artists Art-group. A member of public performances of S. Kuryokhin’s Pop Mechanics Orchestra. Worked as an artist with New Composers, Kolibri and Dva Samolyota. Together with a sculptor F. Rotvald founded Engineers of Arts Group in 1987. In the late 1980s created North Pole Society engaged in film and animation production.

Lives and works both in St. Petersburg and Novorossiysk.  

 

Selected solo exhibitions 

  • 2014 — “Awakening”, AFTER: SIX Gallery, Moscow
  • 2011 — “Space Attraction”, Name Gallery, St. Petersburg
  • 2001 — “Inal Savchenko”, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg 

 

Selected group exhibitions 

  • 2014 — “Engineers of Arts”, under the parallel program of the Biennale of Contemporary Art Manifesta 10, Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art
  • 2012 — “In the Footsteps of Good Wizards”, Ultramarine Gallery, St. Petersburg 
  • 2012 — “The New are Coming!”, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
  • 2010 — “Brushstroke”, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
  • 2004 — “Homegrown and Wild”, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
  • 2000 — “By the Steps of Popular Mechanics”, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
  • 1997 — “Red Color in Art”, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
  • 1997 — “The Study”, the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 1993 — “Different St. Petersburg”, Museum of Modern Art in Martigny, Switzerland
  • 1991 — “Young Artists from Leningrad”, Mexico City Museum of Modern Art, Mexico
  • 1990 — “The New from Leningrad”, Budapest, Hungary
  • 1988 — “The Red Wave”, Sawtel Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
  • 1988 — “The New from Leningrad”, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
  • 1988 — “The New Artists”, Raab Gallery, Berlin, Germany
  • 1987 — “Without an Aureole”, Gdansk, Poland

 

Collections

  • The Russian State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
  • The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
  • Art4ru Museum, Moscow
  • Frederic R. Weisman Art Foundation, US

 

Filmography

  • “Olf’s Supporter”, together with Evgeny Kondratev, 1985
  • “Models and Constructions”, animated cartoon 16mm, 1986
  • “North Pole”, animated cartoon 16 mm, 1987
  • “Country Meets the Heroes”, Lenfilm production (Berlin Film Festival), 1991
  • “Cupid's Arrow”, Lenfilm production, together with Sergey Kuryokhin, 1992