Born in Minsk, Soviet Union, 1962
Studied cibernetics
and automatic control systems at the Belarusian State University of Informatics
and Radioelectronics, 1980-85. Graduated University Degree Electrical Engineer.
Scuba diving courses at Minsk School
of Voluntary Society to Support Army, Air Forces and Navy with instructor
Valery Burtsev, 1980
Worked an engineer, Minsk, 1985-91
Contacting Valery Lobko Creative Photography Studio in Minsk, 1988-89
Started working with photography, 1989
Prize by Kodak-Pathe Foundation at
Salon International de la Recherche Photographique,
Royan, France, 1990
First solo exhibition: Galleri
Index/ Fotograficentrum, Stockholm, 1991
Started a professional artist’s
career, 1991
Started writing texts, 1994, and prose, 1998
Declarative refusal to create new
photographic works, 1997
Started working with mixed media, 1998
First case of stealing his works
from exhibitions – the work 10.92-10, from 'Invisible' series, a
retrospective show of his photographs at Contemporary Art Museum in Minsk, 2002
Resumed practicing scuba diving at
Sea Pegas Diving Club, in Minsk, with instructor
Andrey Likhachyov, PADI, 2003
First courses of technical scuba
diving, with instructor Sergey Borisov, certified ER TDI, Hurghada,
Egypt, 2004
Certified as Adv Tx TDI multigas mixtures diver with instructor Andrey Chistyakov;
Trimix Deep Diving master-class at Chistyakov
and diving with him to the depth of 192 meters (photos and article),
The Blue Hole, Dahab, South Sinai, Egypt, 2005
Resumed taking pictures, autumn 2006
Sets of verses: ‘To you about you’,
April 2009, and ‘Short Breath’,
2010-nowadays
Keeps working with text and mixed
media, till nowadays
All his negatives from the years 1985-96
have been “deconstructed” (destroyed – from the point of view of classical
photography)
in the course of Darius Vaichekauskas action Deconstructing Igor
Savchenko in Minsk, October 2019
Final and irreversible refusal to
take pictures, 2023
Lives and works in Minsk, Belarus.
is currently represented by:
Nailya Alexander Gallery, New York (since
1998)
Liza Fetissova
Gallery, Paris (since 2006)
own website:
PROJECTS AND
WORKS
1989-97 photographs (including Commented Landscapes, 1994-95, and On the Altered Behaviour of Sunlight,
1996)
1997 The Titles to
Photos (textual photography)
Actions (in progress)
1997-98 Art-Dealer and
Artist. New York, late 1990s (audio)
1998-2002 Nach Osten. Bewegt,
doch nicht zu schnell (audio, video,
book)
1999 Yevgeny
Primakov Is U-turning His Plane Over the Atlantic, March 24, 1999 (fragments of
radiocommunications with Moscow and ground flight control services) (audio)
A Small Research on Contemporary Coded Radio
Transmissions (audio, text)
Spatial-Temporal Objects, Processes, Occurrences,
Functions, Systems (text, virtual installation, real life objects and
situations) (in progress)
2001 Sergeyev’s
Temptation (art-object-book)
Action to the opening
of SUPREMUS representative office in Moscow
(text, virtual
installation, real life objects and situations)
2003 Forbidden
Heights (a set of three digital audio compact discs, texts)
2004 On Love
(text, virtual installation, real life objects and situations)
2005 technical scuba diving to extreme depths with mixed
gasses, The Blue Hole, up to 192 m dives (photos and article)
2008 Taking Pictures
(photo negatives, glass)
Taking pictures on photographic
paper – Direct Positive Images (in progress)
Negative (Hi)Story (photo negatives, glass,
handwritten text)
2009 To You about
You (verses)
Nine. Eight. Six. General-Field-Marshal Keitel’ Three
Numbers (text)
2010 <96> +
<96> = <new life> (text)
Twenty Seven Seconds. Demiurge’s Practicing (text)
Guenther, Paul, Franz and Others (archival photographs, handwritten
text)
Short Breath (verses, in progress)
2011 Universal
Virtual Converter of Movies into Documentaries (text)
Schoolkids Occurring on Your Way (text)
Another’s Hand Warmth (text)
Fourteen Stairs. Unreachable Object (text)
2012 Two Slogans
(text, digital photograph)
2014 Klara. Blondi (digital photographs)
Dr. Goebbels. «…In the blue sky» (audio)
Dr. Goebbels.
«…As soon as spring comes» (text)
I’m here, Mom (audio)
2016 Masha
(audio)
2021 Three Hundred Thirteen Drops
Suite (sound)
1914 (digital photograph)
and more than 100 other text pieces
from 2011-till nowadays which are still to be translated from Russian
WORKS STOLEN
FROM EXHIBITIONS AND EXPOSITIONS
– 10.92-10, from the series
«Invisible», Museum of Contemporary Art, Minsk, 2002
– four pieces from the project
«Taking Pictures», The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography, Moscow, 2013
– 10.92-10, from the series
«Invisible», Y Gallery of Contemporary Art, Minsk, 2015
ONE PERSON
EXHIBITIONS
1991 Galleri Index/Fotograficentrum,
1993
1994 Fotografijos Galerijos, Vilnius
1995 Valokuvagalleria Hippolyte, Helsinki
Northern Photographic Center, Oulu,
Finland
čajovna u Maziarika, Bratislava (catalogue)
1997 Beyond Banality
/a joint project with Nadezhda Korotkina/, The Sixth
Line Gallery,
1998 The Quiet
Light. In the frame of the European Days in Samara Arts Festival,
1999 Nach Osten. Bewegt,
doch nicht zu schnell. Audio-video- textual project (which was still in progress) at Kapelle and Alte Kirche Boswil,
Künstlerhaus Boswil, Boswil, Switzerland
Wir
sprechen Deutsch. Eastern European Photogallery at Palais Jalta,
2000 Das ruhige Licht. Villa Waldberta, Feldafing (Munich), Germany
Something in Hands. Klosterbakken,
Quiet Light. Gary Edwards Gallery,
2001 The Sky Is
Clear over All
Nach
Osten. Bewegt, doch nicht zu schnell. Audio-video-textual project, NOVA
Gallery of Visual Arts,
The Picture Behind Him. noname galerie,
Foto-Recycling. Nederlands
Foto Instituut,
Revealed Stories of the Quiet Light. Al-Mulk Gallery,
2002 Sergeyev’s
Temptation. Retrospective exhibition of photo works,
Documents. The
2003 Commented
Landscapes. noname galerie,
Igor Savchenko. Unidentified. In the frame of Breda Photo 2003,
2004 Faceless.
Royden Prior Gallery,
On the Altered Behavior of Sunlight.
2006 Commented Landscapes. Giedre Bartelt Galerie, Berlin
2008 Taking Pictures.
Podzemka Gallery,
The Picture Behind Him, Small&Co,
Paris, in the frame of Paris Photo 2008
2010 Moderato,
RTR Gallery,
Presentation of End of Words. Home Collection project, Y Gallery of Contemporary
Art,
2011 A Picture
Behind Him. Photography Gallery in
Vilnius Photography Gallery,
Alphabet of Gestures.
2013 Mysteries.
1989-1996.
Verification of Fundamentals. Y Gallery of Contemporary Art,
On the New
Attitude to Photography. The
To Step over
the Threshold. Bialystok Puppet Theatre Gallery, in the frame of Bialystok Interphoto 2013 festival,
2017 Mysteries.
1989-1996. Knizhnaya Shafa,
2019 Uuset suhtumisest fotograafiasse. Nooruse galerii, Tartu, Estonia
The Scratch. Museum of History of
Cinematography, Minsk
The Scratch. KX (KKh)
Space, Brest, Belarus
A Look that
Never Arrives, Where We Are. Klaipeda Cultural Communications Center, Klaipeda,
Lithuania
2020 Time Interval of Indefinite Duration, DK
Gallery of Contemporary and Classical Art, Minsk
Contra punctum, DK
Gallery of Contemporary and Classical Art, Minsk
2021 Sunlight, blowing past.
On-line Gallery F11, https://galleryf11.com/
, St. Petersburg, Russia
GROUP
EXHIBITIONS
1988 Joint exhibition
of “Panorama” Photo Artists Unity, “Provintsiya”
Photographic Association, and “Byelorussian Climate” Group. Exhibition Hall
of National Economy’s Achievements,
1989 Exhibition of
“Panorama” Photo Artists Unity.
Joint exhibition of “Provintsiya”
Photographic Association, “Byelorussian Climate” Group and photographers from
1990 Byelorussian
Avant-Garde Photography. Central
1991 Analitical Exhibition
of Photography.
New Wave in Photography of
Photo Manifesto: Contemporary Photography in the
Photo Manifesto: Photography of Perestroika. Fine Arts Gallery & Avram Family
Gallery,
Contemporary Soviet Photography.
1992 International
Month of Photography FotoFest’92.
1993 New
Acquisitions into the Museum Collection. Museet for Fotokunst, Odense,
Denmark
Fotografia Białoruska.
1994 Art of
Contemporary Photography.
Monuments and Memory: Reflections on the Former
Nowa Fotografia Białoruska. Państwowa Galeria Sztuki, Sopot,
Poland (catalogue)
Fotografie
aus Minsk. ifa-Galerie,
Berlin (catalogue)
1995 Fabrique d’Histoire. Saaremaa Biennaal
1995,
Fotografie
aus Minsk (2nd version).
The Sixth Line
Gallery,
1996 Belart: Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Belarus.
Ökonomie von Kloster Bentlage, Rheine; Villa Weiner, Ochtrup, Germany (catalogue)
The Echo of Silence. The National Museum of History and
Culture of Belarus,
Spatia Nova: VI-th St.Petersburg Biennale.
The Point of Resistance. Historical
1997 Status quo
Vadis. Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark
The Art of Contemporary Photography in
Art-Traditions and Experiments. The Sixth Line Gallery,
Photography and Text. NOVA Gallery, Minsk
Królestwo Białoruś. Kultura
Postkolonialna. Koło Podkowy - Ośrodek Kultury, Podkowa Leśna, Poland
(catalogue, tour)
Texte. The
Echo of Silence. International Month of
Photography’97, Galeria Duna,
1998 Texte.
Kulturforum Rheine, Ökonomie von Kloster Bentlage, Rheine, Germany (catalogue)
6+6. Galeria Amfilada, Szczecin, Poland (catalogue)
Dialogues. From the Permanent Collection.
KIASMA - The
Past - Future. The Point of Transition. The
Quiet Pictures. Eastern European Photogallery at Palais Jalta,
1999 Found.
Eastern European Photogallery at Palais Jalta,
After the Wall: Art and Culture in post-Communist
2000 Echo of Silence.
In the frame of Foto Biennial Rotterdam 2000, Sint-Laurenskerk,
Nowa sztuka Białorusi. Centrum Sztuki
Współczesnej, Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw (catalogue)
Nieuw werk. noname galerie,
This Boy Could Be
Private History of Collective. NOVA Gallery,
2001 Beyond the
Sentence. Center for
Dach: Exhibition of Belarussian Art in Berlin. Galerie im Kunsthaus Tacheles,
Berlin (catalogue)
Murnau-Manila-Minsk. Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin (book)
Trieste Contemporanea
Central European Video Art Presentation, on occasion of the SEF Summit
Economic Forum organized in the framework of the Annual Meeting of the Heads of
Government of the countries adhering to CEI (Central European Initiative). Stazione Marittima,
2002 From the
Collection of the State Russian Museum, in the frame of the IV International
Month of Photography in
Ephemeral Reality. The National Museum of History and
Culture of Belarus,
Die
Aufgabe der Zeit. Westfälischer
Kunstverein, Münster, Germany (catalogue)
Calendar! Works on paper by 365 contemporary artists. Studio Tommaseo,
2003 pARTisan. Galerie Garde a Vue,
24/7
2004
Flipside. Artists
Phantom
Expression. Galerie für Zeitgenössische
Kunst, Leipzig, Germany (catalogue, book)
So weiss wie Schnee, so rot wie Blut. Giedre
2005 The
Identity beyond Identity. Award for Contemporary Photography
Federico Vender 2005. Palazzo dei Panni, Arco –
2006 Zomertentoonstelling. Berendsen Galerie,
About Love. Nailya
Alexander
Elisabeth Lecourt & Igor Savchenko. Berendsen Galerie,
2007 Belarusian
Identity c’Art, Kunstihoone,
Idee fixe: Conceptual Photography in
One Shot Each, Museet for Fotokunst
Brandts,
Unforseen, Nailya Alexander
2008 Home Bound.
Kunst:raum Sylt Quelle, Rantum,
Private Sector. Pushkin Library,
The Visual Path.
GOOD-BY II Festival of Belarusian Culture. Fuer Fortgeschrittene, Berlin
Beyond Walls. Noorderlicht Festival 2008, The Netherlands
(catalogue)
Belarusian Perspectives. Galeria Arsenal,
Marvelous Place.
Industry of Light. Museum of
Photographic Expedition-1. NOVA Gallery of Visual Arts,
Lost Paradise – The Angle’s Gaze. Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland
2009 Portraits, RTR
Gallery, Paris
AIPAD Show, represented by Nailya
Alexander Gallery, New York, USA
1989-2009:
Bewegte Welt – Erzählte Zeit.
Academie der Künste, Berlin, www.goethe.de/bewegtewelt (catalogue)
2010 Bitter Sweet,
Doswell Gallery, Rosscarbery,
Art.Intouch. Museum of Contemporary Art,
All my Loving.
Secluded. F/Stop – 4.Festival fuer zeitgenoessische Fotografie,
Les Russes! Galerie
Inner Landscapes.
Opening the Door? Belarusian Art Today. Contemporary Art Centre,
Visual Arts. New Practices. Y Gallery of Contemporary Art,
Photographic Expedition-2. Igor Peshekhonov
Studio,
2011 Cinematograf.5.
Artist’
ARTVILNIUS’11. In the frame of She Cannot Say
‘Heaven’ project, presented by Y Gallery for Contemporary Art (
On Horizons – Set 8 from the Collection of the Fotomuseum Winterthur. Fotomuseum
Winterthur,
Inner Landscapes. In the frame of 4th Moscow Biennale
of Contemporary Art, All-Russian Museum of Decorative Applied and Folk Art,
Photographic Expedition-3. Polesie.
2012 FotoFest 2012.
Perestroika: Liberalization and Experimentation – The mid/late 1980s-2010s.
FotoFest at Winter Street Studios,
Zero Radius. Art Ontology of the 00s. Abandoned production space of Horizont Plant,
Definite Time. Y Gallery of Contemporary Art,
Palace Complex. Palace of Rumyantsev and Paskevich Families,
Body Language – works
from the Fotomuseum Winterthur Collection. Centre culturel Suisse de Paris,
The First
Body. Revealed. RTR Galerie, Paris
2013 Within the Borders of One’s Own
«I». Y Gallery of
Contemporary Art,
Anatomia.
ARTVILNIUS’13. Represented by Y Gallery for
Contemporary Art (
What One Man Can Do (Co
moze zrobic jeden czlowiek). Galeria Dawid Radziszewski, Warsaw
Word. Labyrinth Gallery, The National
Library,
2014 Anatomia.2.
Alphabet.
Anatomia.
ARTVILNIUS’14. Represented by Y Gallery for
Contemporary Art (
The
Suma Sumarum.
2015 Anatomia.3.
All What Is Solid Will Melt in the Air. Maxim Bogdanovich Literature Museum, Minsk
ZBOR. Constructing an Archive. Galeria Arsenal,
Space of
Diffusion. Contemporary Art of
Art Prospect. 4th International Public Art
Festival (collaborative project with Andrei Dureika
and Sergey Shabohin),
Winter Tales. Nailya
Alexander
2016 It All Was Different. The
ZBOR.
Belarusian Art Movement. Izolyatsia Foundation,
Territories. In the frame of Riga Photo Month
2016,
A Take on
Vintage Photography.
I’m waiting for
someone to call me. Galeria Dawid Radziszewski,
Primary Forces. Nailya
Alexander
Anatomia.4. The
QAI/BY. Y Gallery of Contemporary Art,
Non-Fashion. The
New Arrivals: Late 20th-Century Photographs from
2017 Short list.
Works by nominees of The National Prize in the Field of Visual Arts. The
Space of Diffusion.
Biało-czerwono-biali.
Współczesna sztuka białoruska.
Odessa-Batumi Photodays. Public space in
The Place. House of Culture of Lyntupy
village, village of
New Texts. KODEX Gallery,
Specific Photograph.
2018 Genitive.
The
Elements of Thought. KODEX Gallery,
2019 Here’s Looking
at You. Sven-Harrys Konstmuseum, Stockholm
Sport Is High Art. The
2020 Alphabet of War. The National Contemporary Art
Center, Minsk
A Man Needs a Man. The National Contemporary Art
Center, Minsk
Touchable Distance. Y Gallery of Contemporary Art,
Minsk
Equation of
State. The National Contemporary
Art Center, Minsk
2021 Chernobyl. Sleeper Effect. The National
Contemporary Art Center, Minsk
Genius
loci. Genius lost. The National
Contemporary Art Center, Minsk
The
Ironic Curtain: Art from the Soviet Underground.
The Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
Sequences.
An exhibition for Valery Lobko 70th anniversary. Zair Azgur Memorial museum-studio, Minsk
I
Triennial of Conceptual Art. Palace of Art, Minsk
2022 Delicious and
Malicious. Liza Fetissova Gallery, Paris
Informal Portrait. Zair Azgur Memorial museum-studio, Minsk
Concrete Trampoline – Part Three. Extra Component. Marina Gisich Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
Insk.
Another Look at Minsk. Zair Azgur Memorial museum-studio, Minsk
Wait for Us, Stars! The National
Contemporary Art Center, Minsk
2023 New Wave. Art Photography in the
end of 1970s – beginning of 1990s. Russian State Museum and Exhibition
Center for Photography ROSPHOTO, St. Petersburg,
Tendresse.
Liza Fetissova Gallery, Paris
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Moscow, ISBN 978-5-91674-665-5, p. 807 and other (book)
PERIODICALS
1991 Beck, Ingamaj. Fotografins – och sanningens nya motiv, Aftonbladet,
December 16, Stockholm
GlasNo.st No.13, January/February,
Lobko, Valery. Photography from Minsk, Katalog,
4 arg. No.1, September,
Lobko, Valery. Photography from Minsk, Bildtidningen
No.3, October,
Lobko, Valery. Sensation of „Another World“, Mastatstva
(Art) No.11, November,
1993 Mastatstva, No.7,
July, portfolio,
1994 Art Journal, Summer, vol.53, No.2,
D’Ars, No.145,
Savchenko, Igor. Creative Photography as a Mirror of
Social-Political Analysis?, Mastastva
No.9, September,
Tupitsyn, Victor. Neo-Factografie,
Neue bildende Kunst No.3, June-July,
1995 Korotkina, Nadezhda. Photography of
Savchenko, Igor. The Landscape Which Will Have Been Shot in
Six Minutes from This Spot When..., Mastatstva No.7, July, Minsk, pp.67-71
Savchenko, Igor. Factory of History, Mastatstva
No.12, December, pp.65-69, and No.11, No.vember,
pp.37-42,
Savchenko, Igor. Vaikne Valgus. Pilditagune müsteerium,
Kultuurileht, September 22,
Savchenko, Igor. Valged ja Mustad Riskülikud: Näituse
projekt, Kultuurileht,
September 22, Tallinn, p.9
Sidorov, Ivan. Terve Nikolai!, Valokuva
(Finnish Photography) No.4, July,
Stromdahl, Keth. Skulgen och Skuggan, Hufvudstadsbladet, March 15, Helsinki, p.15
Uimonen, Anu. UNo.hdetun Kuvavirran Uusi Elämä, Helsingin SaNo.mat,
February 25, Helsinki, p.C3
1996 Bagaliantz, Vera. Echo of Silence, Imago No.3,
Winter 1996-97,
McEvilley, Thomas. The Pendulum Swings, Art in
Sandbye, Mette. Fotografisk anamnese: fotografiets indeksikalitet og temporalitet som
strategi i samtidskunsten, Kritik, vol.122, September, Copenhagen,
pp.55-67
Savchenko, Igor. The Quiet Light/ „A Mystery Behind the Picture“?...,Tsirk-Olimp: Vestnik sovremennogo iskusstva (Herald
of Contemporary Art), Samara-Moscow, No.12, May, p.3
Savchenko, Igor. The Pensive Commander, Herald of Contemporary Art,
Samara-Moscow, No.14, July, p.11
Thrane, Finn. Status quo Vadis, Katalog, vol.9, No.2, Winter, Odense,
Denmark, pp.4-19
Valokuva (Contemporary Imagery Review),
No.6,
1997 Kharevsky, Sergey. Beyond Banality, Nasha niva No.1-2 (77), January 13,
Herald of Contemporary Art,
1998 Bergendahl, Berit. Det förflutnas mysterium, Göteborgs-Posten,
No.vember 10, Gothenburg, Sweden, p.45
Igor
Savchenko – La quiete della luce, Gente di fotografia, anno - n.17 - estate,
Palermo, Italy, pp.6-9
Slonawski, Agneta. Gäst på Konstepidemin, Arbetet,
November 10, Gothenburg, Sweden, p.45
1999 Bischof, Petra.
Gäste in unseren Ateliers, Boswil Aktuell, April, Boswil, Switzerland, unpaged
Ein
doppeltes Spiel mit falshen Realitäten, Wohler Anzeiger, 30. April, Wohlen, Switzerland
Igor
Savchenko — El misterio vive en las imagenes, La fotografia No.72, Barcelona, Spain, pp.8-10
Moskaleva, Galina. East – West: The Relations Between Concepts
And Their Influence On Each Other, Imago No.7, Winter,
Schneiter, Elsbeth. Neues Leben für alte Fotos, TR7, No.13,
27.März-2.April, Zurich, Switzerland,
p.75
2000 Amelungse-Kurth, Astrid. Durchbohrende, russische Blicke, Münchner Merkur, July 10, Munich, Germany
Bekus-Goncharova, Nelly. New Art of
Kopenkina, Olga. A Catastrophe Which Has
Korol,
Dmitry. Private History of Collective,
Mastatstva No.10,
Mikhnevich,
Larisa. An Intention to Fit the
Circumstances of Time, Mastatstva No.10,
Sauerwald, Nike. Wie eine Brücke zur Gegenwart, Süddeutsche Zeitung,
July 13, Munich, Germany
2001 Antonova-Melianovich, Tatiana. Manifestation of One’s Own, or an Attempt of Research on Stereotypes and Common Standards of Consideration of History, Kultura weekly, No.9 (465), March 3-9, Minsk, pp.5-6
Daneiko, Elena. Limitlessness of Interpretation, Izvestia
daily, No.61 (25899), April 6,
Floor,
Marc. Oude foto’s
met een dramatische lading:
Fotokunstenaar ‘reconstrueert’
de Russische geschiedenis,
Rotterdams dagblad
daily, Tuesday, June 12, No.3135,
Salzirn, Tatiana. Igor Savchenko – A New Cycle, Imago,
No.12, summer 2001,
Savchenko, Igor. Jürgen, Supremus, No.7(8), Moscow-Pustyn-Zurich, p.4
2002 Bekus, Nelli. “Sergeyev’s Temptation”: Content in Search
for Expression, PROdesign, journal of the
Belarusian Union of Designers, No..4,
Burak, Irina. Photo Temptation of Igor Savchenko, Vo Slavu
Rodiny daily (the newspaper of the Ministry of
Defense of the
Daneiko, Elena. ANo.ther Life of “Sergeyev’s Temptation”, Izvestia
daily, January 25, No.13 (26092),
Korol, Dmitry. No.tes on Margins of a Photographic Print, photoscope
internet-based photographic journal, http://wwh.nsys.by:8101/photoscope/obzor10.htmlNo.1, http://www.photoscope.org
Martinovich, Viktor. Lance Corporal’s Solipsism, Belorusskaya Gazeta weekly, No.2 (318),
January 14,
Nenasheva, Polina. The One Who Is Aware of the Purpose of Protracted Gloaming, pARTisan, No.1, winter 2002,
Salzirn, Tatiana. Sergeyev’s Temptation, Katalog,
journal of photography & video, vol. 14, No.. 1, spring 2002,
Salzirn, Tatiana. Igor Savchenko. Commented
Landscapes, Imago, No.13, winter 2002,
2003 Gryl, Yanka. “They”
Had a Great Epoch, Belorusskaya Gazeta
weekly, No.19 (386), May 26,
Martynenka, Vitaut. The Music Is Not Responsible?, Belorussky RyNo.k
weekly, No.21 (554), June 2-8,
Naudts, Filip. Igor Savchenko. ‘Photo Recycling’ in
Pavlova, Elizaveta. An Artist on Forbidden Heights, Izvestia daily, April 18, No.69 (26386),
2004 Jene, die in die
Ferne blickt, Sachsen am Sonntag weekly,
6. Jg./ Ausgabe 48, November 28,
2005 Amelkovich, Darya. Temptation of Contemporary Art, Kultura weekly, No.39 (700),
Boika, Alena.
Zaroff, Larry. One Last Recipe From Mother, for the Good
Death, New York Times,
2006 Konopka, Bogdan. Igor
Sawczenko – puszka Pandory (Igor Savchenko – Pandora’s Box), Fotografia,
No.20 / 2006, Wrzesnia, Poland, pp. 18-23, 100-101
2007 Gavrilyuk, Lyubov. Middle of Summer – Middle of the Road, Photo-Magic, No.1,
pARTisan, No.5,
pARTisan, No.6,
2008 The Picture
Behind Him, Images, November 2008,
2009 Belyavets, Alesya. A Trip to the West of Minsk, Mastatstva, No.3,
Marvelous Life, Monolog (Monologue), No.13,
2010 Monolog (Monologue), No.14, Minsk, p. 14,
20-21, 27, 48-55, 64-67
Interview by Dmitry Korol: Igor Savchenko. Looking for a Photographic Fact, Mastatstva, No.7,
2011 Korol, Dmitry. The
Irretrievable Red…, Mastatstva, No. 9,
2012 pARTisan,
No.19, Minsk, p. 79
2013 Gavrilyuk, Lyubov. Real Things. «Verification of Fundamentals» by Igor Savchenko, Mastatstva, No. 9,
2018 Igor Savchenko’s Deep Waters. Kultura weekly (Culture), No. 8 (1343), 24.February.2018,
Oushakine, Serguei Alex. Presence without Identification: Vicarious Photography and Postcolonial
Figuration in Belarus, October, No. 164, Spring 2018, MIT Press,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, pp. 49-89
2019 Grigor, Indrek. Igor Savchenko taas
Eestis ja endiselt päevakajaline, Sirp, 29.märts.2019,
Tallinn, pp. 28-29
Amelkovich, Darya. Savchenko’s Alphabet, Kultura
weekly, No.27 (1414), July 6, 2019, Minsk, p.8-9
2020 Gavrilyuk, Lyubov. «When I’ll
Die…», Mastatstva, No. 6, Minsk, pp. 18-21
Semyonova, Elena. How Pause
Sounds. On Two Exhibitions by Igor Savchenko at DK Gallery, Mastatstva, No. 11, Minsk, pp. 18-19
2022 Oushakine, Serguei
Alex. Icons of Defacement: Portraitures Without Faces and the Minsk School of Postcolonial Photography [Oblich›ia Obezlichivaniia: portrety bez litsa i Minskaia shkola postkolonial›noi fotografii]. Anthropologies,
2022, No 1, pp. 77-135, https://doi.org/10.33876/2782-3423/2022-1/77-135
1990 Prize by Kodak-Pathe
Foundation at Salon International de la Recherche Photographique,
1997 Hartford Art School - University of Hartford,
in the frame of the ArtsLink Residence Program of CEC
International Partners (New York), Hartford, Connecticut, USA, October 27 -
December 12
1998 Konstepidemin/
School of Photography and Film of Göteborg
University/ IASPIS Program, Gothenburg, Sweden, October 12 - December 31
1999 Künstlerhaus Boswil, Boswil, Switzerland, February 9 - June 25
2000 Writers’ and Artists’ House Villa Waldberta (grant and invitation from the Cultural
Department of the City of
2006 Literarisches
Colloquium
2007 kunst:raum sylt quelle, Rantum,
2009 kunst:raum sylt quelle, Rantum,
2011 Cultural City Network
PRESENTATIONS,
PUBLIC TALKS, LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS
1992 The International Month of Photography FotoFest’92,
Photography from Minsk, The International Month of
Photography FotoFest’92,
1994 Mystery of
Photography, ‘Monuments and Memory: Reflection on the Former
1995 A Mystery
Behind the Picture, Turku School of Art and Communication,
Some Aspects of Belarusian Photography,
The Quiet Light,
1996 Few Photos
Selected from a Large Series Taken by Joachim von Weber in Spring 1954, Turku
School of Art and Communication, Turku, Finland (workshop)
On Some Aspects of Transcultural Dialogue: A New
Experience of Belarusian-German Cooperation — „Echo of Silence“ project, ‘Art Today’ Symposium, 6th
Month of Photography in
1997 Hartford Art School - University of Hartford,
1998 School of Photography and Film of Göteborg University,
Valand School of Fine Arts,
Gothenburg,
2000 World Festival of Light 2000, Odense Photo
Triennial 2000, Odense, Denmark (portfolio review expert)
2009 The First Portfolio Review in Belarus,
Smolny Institute,
2011 34th Annual Photography Seminar in Nida,
2013 The Lumiere Brothers Center for
Photography: a public talk with Irina Chmyryova, Moscow
COLLECTIONS
PUBLIC
Brandts Museet for Fotokunst,
Fotografiska Museet - Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Fotomuseum München, Munich, Germany
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig,
Germany
KIASMA -
The
The Hasselblad Collection,
The
The National Library,
The National
The
The Norton and Nancy Dodge
Collection, The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State
University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
The
The
PRIVATE
Aad Speksnijder
and Mrs. Speksnijder-Jansen,
A. Vlemmix,
Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer &
Feld, L.L.P.,
Alan Siegel, New York-Woodstock,
Annette
Martens, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Antti
and Tiina Herlin, Kirkkonummi, Finland
Barbara
Straka, Berlin
Brenda
Edelson, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Christoph
Schifferli, Zurich, Switzerland
Daniil Parnyuk, Minsk-Barcelona, Belarus-Spain
Darius
Vaichekauskas, Klaipeda, Lithuania
Erik
Lieber, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Fotofolio Collection,
Gary Edwards,
Henry Mendelssohn
Igor Peshekhonov,
Jaime Sanford & Ted Storey,
Jan Bor,
Joseph
Joshua P. Smith,
Max Dolgicer,
New York, USA
Michael and Paula Kroll Collection,
New York, USA
Partisan Collection,
Peter Herzog,
Rainer Haarmann,
SUPREMUS Archive – Aleksandr Schumow, Moscow-Zurich, Russia-
Tatiana Salzirn,
Vladimir Svartsevich,
William M. Hunt Collection Dancing
Walter
Burkley, USA
Wim
Paling, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Wolf
Erlbruch, Wuppertal, Germany