Vasyl Savchenko – Ukrainian artist, was born on 1994 in Lviv, Ukraine. Work and live in Gdansk, Poland.
Teacher at the Post-digital Graphic Studio on the Department of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Art in Gdansk, Poland.
Co founder of the Savchenko Foundation which run the Savchenko Gallery in Gdansk, Poland
Education:
2015 – 2018 Master's degree in Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts, in Graphic and media art department, Wroclaw, Poland.
2014 – 2017 Master's degree in Arts in Lviv National Academy of Arts, department of Monumental painting
2012 – 2014 Bachelor's degree in Lviv National Academy of Arts, department of Monumental painting.
2008 – 2012 studied at the Lviv College of Decorative and Applied Art named by Ivan Trush, at the Faculty of Art painting.
Solo exhibitions:
2024 – "Ground of Things", project based on collaboration with poet Alexander Najda, curated by Adrienne Kochman, Ukraine Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, USA;
2022 – "Dream and Memory", Gallery of the Graphics Department at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, Poland;
2022 – "Ground of Things", project inspired by the poetry of Alexander Najda, curated by Anna Fronckiewicz-Spodnik, WGS BWA, Contemporary Art Gallery, Walbrzych, Poland;
2021 – "Generative Middle Ages - Basics", Savchenko Gallery, Gdansk, Poland;
2019 – “Report from the Sandbox”, inspired by the poetry of Aleksander Najda, TuBaza, Gdynia, Poland;
2019 – “EXPECTATIVE”, MASLO art space, Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine;
2018 – Hotel “Miramar”, Pigment Gallery, Barcelona, Spain, competition “Roots Project”;
2017 – “The USE”, club “Mleczarnia”, Wroclaw, Poland, competition “Bryły Platona”
2013 – “Estamp Room”, gallery “Markoff”, Odessa, Ukraine;
2013 – “Estamp Room”, gallery “Green Sofa”, Lviv, Ukraine;
2011 – gallery “Detenpula”, Lviv, Ukraine;
2010 – “Workshop 12th”, Lviv, Ukraine;
Art Fairs:
2023 – (13 – 15 Oct), ARTVILNIUS Art Fair, represented by Shcherbenko Art Centre;
2021 – (26 – 28 Nov), 18th Warsaw Art Fair, represented by Savchenko Gallery;
Public collections:
Contemporary Art Gallery, WGS BWA, Wałbrzych, Poland;
Istanbul Art Residency , Istanbul, Turkey;
Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv, Ukraine;
MASLO art space, Khmelnitsky, Ukraine;
Cooper Plate Engraver's House - Museum of Get Stankiewich, Wroclaw, Poland;
Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, China;
Ino-cho Paper Museum, Japan;
Florean Art Museum, Romania;
Public Library in Gliwice, Poland;
Regional Library “Lyuben Karavelov”, Ruse, Bulgaria;
Museum of the City of Ostrow Wielkopolski, Poland;
Selected group exhibitions:
2023 – "HUMAN", Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art in Slupsk, Poland; Project curated by Edyta Wolska, Oksana Karpovets.
2022 – “Maps”, Kordegarda Gallery of the National Center for Culture, project curator Katarzyna Haber, Warsaw, Poland;
2021 –“Memories and Identities”, Akaretler (Istanbul Art Residency), Istanbul, Turkey;
2020 – the curatorial project of Ekaterina Pidgaina, “In print, Ukrainian printed graphics”, Mystetskiy Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine;
2020 – the curatorial project of Mateusz Zywicki, “Trisity vol. 3 – Screen Printing Festival”, "Zbrojownia sztuki", Gdansk, Poland;
2019 – “Exchange Exhibition of Polish Printmaking”, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China;
2019 – “Contradiction”, The Project Space at the University at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA;
2019 – “77th birthday exhibition of Eugeniusz Geta Stankiewicz”, Copper Plate Engravers House - Museum of Get Stankiewicz, Wroclaw, Poland;
2019 – “Graphic Art Department from Academy of Fine Art in Gdansk”, gallery “Zakład Grafiki UMK”, WSzP UMK, Torun, Poland;
2018 – curatorial project of Ekaterina Pidgaina, “Contemporary Ukrainian Graphic XX - XXI century”, Ukraine Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, USA;
2017 – “Ukraine contemporary graphic», curator project of Ekaterina Pidgaina, gallery “Zvonimir”, Zagreb, Croatia;
2017 – “The Festival of Young Ukrainian Artists”, curator project of Kateryna Filyuk, Lizaveta German and Maria Lanko, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine;
2017 – “W Domku M”, Cooper Plate Engravers House - Museum of Get Stankiewicz, Wroclaw, Poland;
2016 – “Young in Museum”, Wroclaw National Museum, Wroclaw, Poland;
2014 – “Index Тame Mariusz Kazan”, gallery “Primus”, Lviv, Ukraine;
2013 – art symposiom, Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv, Ukraine;
2011 – curatorial project M. Shcherbenko “MUHI 2011”, the project “Micro Portals in Micro Reality”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Kyiv, Ukraine;
Selected Print Exhibitions:
2021 – the Second International mini print Triennial "Intaglio", Gallery "White world", Kyiv, Ukraine
2019 – “Kaunas International Printmaking Biennial”, Lithuanian Museum of Medical and Pharmaceutical History, Kaunas, Lithuania;
2019 – “The 6 International Triennial of Digital Graphic Art”, PPNT - Design Center, Gdynia, Poland;
2018 – “Contradiction”, Aknoon Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran;
2018 – “Contradiction”, "CTRL Art Studio", Wrocław, Poland;
2016 – “XVI Biennale of Small Forms of Graphic and Exlibris”, Ostrów Wielkopolski, Poland;
2016 – “Osten Biennial of Drawing 2016”, Skopje, Macedonia;
2015 – “The 8th International Competition of Ex Libris Biblioteca Bodio Lomnago”, Bodio, Italy;
2015 – “PARP-PIM 2015”, Kalwit Art Studio, Bangkok, Thailand;
2015 – “25th Biennial Exlibris Exhibition”, Malbok, Poland;
2015 – “Ex Libris Expo Milano 2015”, Milan, Italy;
2015 – “XI International Exlibris Competition”, Ruse, Bulgaria;
2015 – “Bibliotheca Alexandria International Biennale for Miniature Graphics”, Alexandria, Egypt;
2014 – “Guangzhou International Exlibris and Mini-prints Biennial”, Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China;
2014 – “XV Biennale of Small Forms of Graphic and Exlibris”, Ostrow Wielkopolski, Poland;
2014 – “The 9th Kochi Internationak Triennal of Prints 2014”, “Ino-cho Paper Museum”, Kochi-ken, Japan;
2014 – “X International Exlibris Competition», Ruse, Bulgaria;
2014 – “The 7th Inernacional Competition of ex libris Biblioteca Bodio Lomnago”, Bodio, Italy;
2013 – “Biennale Printmaking”, Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara, Bergamo, Italy;
Awards and Scholarships:
2022 – a four months scholarship from the Department of Culture of Gdansk city, Poland;
2022 – a six months scholarship “Gaude Polonia” from Ministry of Culture of Poland, with the allocation in Gdansk, Poland;
2020 – Rectors Award (III degree) at Academy of Fine Art in Gdansk, Poland;
2020 – (I place), design competition on the logo with elements of visual identity for the 100th anniversary of the Sea Fisheries Institute - National Research Institute’s activity, Gdynia, Poland;
2019 – a six months scholarship “Gaude Polonia” from Ministry of Culture of Poland, with the allocation in Gdansk, Poland;
2019 – (I place), “Best Layout and Typesetting”, for the book “Moje Curriculum Vitae” in Ukrainian Young Book Design Awards 2019;
2017 – (II place),“X edition of the best graphics of semester” on the Graphic department in Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, Poland;
2017 – ( II place), Poster the 54th edition of the Festival “Jazz nad Odrą”, Wroclaw, Poland;
2011 – (III place), Competition of Young Ukrainian Artists, “MUHI 2011” the project “Micro Portals to Micro Reality”. The curator and organizer of event was M. Shcherbenko, the owner of Bottega gallery in Kyiv, Ukraine;
Scientific art research :
2022 – 2023 , title of the research project: Post-Digital printmaking in the field of etching and lithography. Contributor: Master of Arts Vasyl Savchenko. Faculty: Graphics. Faculty Artistic Graphics, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, Poland;
2019 – 2020, title of the research project: The potential of inkjet printing in the context of fine art and printmaking. Contributor: Master of Arts Vasyl Savchenko. Team members: Professor Janusz Akermann, Ph.D. of Art Lukasz Butowski. Faculty: Graphics. Chair: Artistic Graphics, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, Poland;
Scenography:
2017 – “Cracovians and Highlanders” ( “Krakowiacy i Górale” ), directed by Barbara Wiśniewska, Opera House in Wroclaw, Poland;
Residencies:
2021 – (11 - 24 Nov) Istanbul Art Residency. Theme “Memories and Identities”, project director: Polina Somochkina, Gest curators: Beral Madra and Sabiha Kurtulmuş. Akaretler, Istanbul, Turkey;
2019 – (19-18 Aug), artistic residence in Maslo Art Space, Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine;
2017 – (17-27 July) artistic residence supported by CatenaArt, Berlin, Germany
2016 – (11-24 Aug) the Forum “PohranKult: HalitsiyaKult”, graphic residence “Workshops with Pavlo Makov and Graphic Artists”, Kharkiv, Ukraine;
2016 – (11-24 Aug) the Forum “PohranKult: HalitsiyaKult”, mural residence “Turboart”, Kharkiv, Ukraine;