Anastasia Savinova born near the Ural Mountains in USSR in 1988, currently lives and works in the Swedish North. Her multidisciplinary practice spans drawing, sculpture, photography, collage, text, video, found object, installation and performance. With an architectural background, Savinova has affection for constructing and building. A mountain walker and an aspiring wild water swimmer, she is deeply moved and inspired by the elements and the wilderness. Working with both man-made and natural environment, she embraces a phenomenological approach in exploring it. In recent years, her focus has shifted toward ecologies, explorations of the connection and boundaries between human and the environment. Savinova investigates how everything is intertwined in co-living and in exchange of energy and physical matter with proximate and distant other; and how we are always emerging as a part of something greater. Her work has been shown and performed in Sweden and internationally, including at Bildmuseet, Kvinnohistoriskt Museum, Norrbottens Museum, Ajtte Museum, Sundsvalls Museum, MUViM in Valencia, Michele Mariaud Gallery in New York, and König Gallery in London.
ANASTASIA SAVINOVA
born 1988, Sverdlovsk, USSR
since 2013 lives and works in Sweden
Education:
2022 Umeå Art Academy, MFA / Umeå, Sweden
2011 Samara State Architectural University, MA Design / Samara, Russia
2009 Samara State Architectural University, BA Design / Samara, Russia
Solo exhibitions:
2023 Cod Connection / for Barents Spektakel, Kirkenes, Norway, 2023 (upcoming)
2023 Odenplan metro station, Stockholm, 2023 (upcoming)
2022 Gallery Verkligheten, Umeå, Sweden (upcoming)
2022 Geosmin / Röbäcks Kulturmejeriet, Umeå, Sweden (upcoming)
2022 Genius Loci / Gallery Oss, Umeå, Sweden (upcoming)
2021 We Swim in One Water, act IV, ocean blue / Konstmuseet i Norr, Kiruna, Sweden
2020 We Swim in One Water, act III, beach / Köttinspektionen, Uppsala, Sweden
2020 Genius Loci Norr / Ajtte Museum, Jokkmokk, Sweden
2019 Genius Loci Norr / Norrbottens Museum, Luleå, Sweden
2019 Genius Loci / Sundsvalls Museum, Sweden
2019 High Land / Å-Huset, Konstnärsklubb, Uppsala, Sweden
2018 Geometry of Organic / Umeå Konsthall / Umeå, Sweden
2017 Genius Loci / Architecture designed, narrated, imagined / Palazzo Rava, Ravenna, Italy
2015 Cycle Up!/ Galleri Pictura, Skånska Konstmuseum / Lund, Sweden
2015 Icons / Akademiska Sjukhuset / Uppsala, Sweden
2014 Cycle Up! / Art Lab Studio / Uppsala, Sweden
2014 Who Cares / for TEDx / Stadsteater Uppsala, Sweden
Performances:
2022 Cod Connection / sound-sculpture and performance / Only Connect festival / MUNCH Museum, Oslo, Norway
2019 We Swim in One Water II / GIBCA extended / Stationen Svenshöhen, Sweden
2018 We Swim in One Water / Rum för Performance / Bildmuseet / Umeå, Sweden
2018 What s/he fears / Kvinnohistoriskt Museum / Umeå, Sweden
2018 Come Back, Come Barefoot / Konstepidemin / Göteborg, Sweden
2017 Make you mine / Kunstnarhuset Messen, Ålvik, Norway
2017 You don’t feel pain, do you? / performance and installation in town, Ålvik, Norway
2017 The Love You Send / Luisa Catucci Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Selected group exhibitions:
2023 Speaking Water/ The BAS, The Basil Sellers Exhibitions Centre, Moruya, Australia (upcoming)
2022 Speaking Water / Shoalhaven Regional Gallery, Australia (upcoming)
2022 Festälv / KH Huset, Klöse, Sweden (upcoming)
2022 11th International Biennial of Drawing and Graphic Arts / Győr, Hungary (upcoming)
2022 Live is Life / GSA Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2022 Live is Life / Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden
2021 No Ghosts Need Apply / Von Ahnska magasinet, Umeå, Sweden
2021 Everything will be alright / Alva gallery, Umeå
2020 König Galerie / London, UK
2020 All That is Solid Melts Into Air / Michele Mariaud gallery / New York, USA
2020 100! Nordic Artists / Galleri CC, Malmö, Sweden
2020 Celebration of the dark side of life's circus / Konsthall Kåddis, Umeå, Sweden
2018 Västerbotten museum, Bothniasalongen / Umeå, Sweden
2018 Luleå Konsthall, Bothniasalongen / Luleå, Sweden
2017 Nord Art / Kunstwerk Carlshütte / Büdelsdorf, Germany
2017 Fresh Legs / Galleri Heike Arndt / Berlin, Germany
2017 Transience / Å-Huset, Konstnärsklubb, Uppsala, Sweden & Schau Fenster, Berlin, Germany
2016 Discoveries / Galleri Heike Arndt / Kettinge, Denmark
2016 AAF New York (with Michele Mariaud Gallery)
2016 Art Market San Francisco (with Michele Mariaud Gallery)
2015 Ung Salong / Uppsala Art Museum / Uppsala, Sweden
2014 Discoveries II / Galleri Heike Arndt DK / Kettinge, Denmark
2014 Fresh Legs / Gallery Heike Arndt / Berlin, Germany
2013 Deluge / exhibition for TEDx “Resilience”/ Concert and Congress Hall / Uppsala, Sweden
2013 Belfast Photo Festival / Love and Death Gallery/ Belfast, UK
2012 Festival of Independent Art INCUBARTE / MuVim, Valencia, Spain
2012 Virion / Biennale of digital art / Brisbane, Berlin, Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland
Public art collections:
Moderna Museet, Sweden
Uppsala municipality, Sweden
Umeå municipality, Sweden
Sundsvalls municipality, Sweden
Norrköpings municipality, Sweden
Höganäs municipality, Sweden
Region Norrbotten, Sweden
Region Kronoberg, Sweden
Region Västra Götaland, Sweden
Region Jämtland Härjedalen, Sweden
Västerbotten county council, Sweden
Upplands Art Society, Sweden
Uppsala Akademiska Sjukhusets Art Society, Sweden
Center for Sustainable Development, Uppsala University, Sweden
Metro Health Medical Center, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA
Public art works:
Genius Loci Craiova, Traian Demetrescu street, Craiova, Romania
Grants / Awards:
2022 Verklighetens prize / Umeå, Sweden
2021 Sparbanksstiftelsen Norrland / Sweden
2021 Estrid-Ericsons Stiftelse
2019 Resurscentrum för konst, Art North / Sweden
2017 Konstnärsnämnden / IASPIS / Sweden, International exchange grant
2016 Nordic Culture Point, Mobility support
2015 Konstnärsnämnden / IASPIS / Sweden, International exchange grant
2013 Experiment bio / Special mentions / Bilbao, Spain
2012 Incubarte festival / Laureate Incubarte V / Valencia,Spain
Residencies:
2021 Pikene på Broen / Kirkeness, Norway
2021 Kunstnarhuset Messen / Ålvik, Norway
2021 Street delivery / Craiova, Romania
2019 Kunstnarhuset Messen / Ålvik, Norway
2018 Swedish Lapland AiR, Sweden
2019 Swedish Lapland AiR, Sweden
2019 Kunstnarhuset Messen, Ålvik, Norway
2018 Kunstnarhuset Messen, Ålvik, Norway
2017 Alstra Atelje, Umeå, Sweden
2017 Kunstnarhuset Messen, Ålvik, Norway
2016 Kunstnarhuset Messen, Ålvik, Norway
2014 Art Lab Studio, Uppsala, Sweden
Selected publications:
2022 Arctic Art Newspapers, issue 1, Norway
2019 Anastasia Savinova: through architecture, nature and ecology/ ARTNORTH issue 1, Scotland
2019 We Swim in One Water / Pamphlet for GIBCA extended, Sweden
2018 The Collage Ideas Book / Octopus Publishing Group, UK
2018 Genius Loci / in Contrast educational method book / Staal&Roeland, The Netherlands
2018 On collages, new places and the feeling of home / Megapolis issue 39, Kiev, Ukraine
2017 Geist des Ortes / NORR magazine, Scandinavian Norr Publishing AB, Stockholm
2017 Genius Loci / Archithese, issue september‐november 3, Zurich, Swizerland
2017 Fictions, Collage, Photomanipulation and Architectural Image in the Digital Era / ZARCH , issue 9 / Journal of Interdisciplinary studies of Architecture and Urbanism / Department of Architecture of the School of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Zaragoza
