Benutzer:Carowies/Ekatherina Savtchenko
Ekatherina Savtchenko, also with the artist name Ekatherina S, (born November 16.,1965) is a russian/german painter and multimedia artist. Her work is marked by intense color and spatial dynamic, engaging a cosmology in the dialogue between the human body and general forces and energies in a language of signs being one of the main symbolistic approaches of painting today. Her subjects are related to the memory of ancient matriarchy as well as to Russian folk traditions and Russian Constructivism. She is also known for projects engaging a dialogue between cultures, realized in Israel, Iran, India, China, with the Michael Gorbatschow-foundation and twice at the United Nations Building in New York. During the recent COVID-period, she has developed a new body of works entitled "Le Sacre de la féminité" (The Coronation of Feminity) with ironical self-portraits, forming a new genre of neo-feminist allegories. She lives and works in New York City and Düsseldorf.
Life and career
Born 1965 in Leningrad (Sowjet Union), later Sankt Petersburg (Russia), Ekatherina Savtchenko studied first mathematics and computer science. During the Gorbatchev years, she has then been in charge of the computer system of the ministery of commerce in the Soviet Union. With the end of Communism, where an art market and a life as a free artist had not been permitted, she stopped this first career, deciding to live only for painting and visual arts. She studied first painting and graphic arts at the St. Petersburg Art Academy between 1992 and 1994. At this time, she founded the first feminist art group in post-Sowjet Russia, "Art Studio F", who had a big exhibition 1994 at the National Pushkin Museum in St. Petersburg. Her professor in St. Petersburg convinced her to go to Germany in order to develop her work.
She had exhibitions and found important collectors in Germany before entering the famous Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where she was appointed by Michael Buthe, one of the first postmodern painters and multi-cultural artists, and, after his early death, was integrated in the class of A.R. Penck, one of the major german artists of the last 60 years.
Penck celebrated this event with a duo-exhibition in Düsseldorf entitled "Penck and his student". Penck had been under surveillance in East Germany, expulsed from the GDR in 1981, spoke perfectly russian and was very aware of cybernetics since the 1960ies, which Ekatherina Savtchenko had integrated with her computer studies. These subjects constituted the main subject of her discussions between her and Penck at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. She made her final degree with A.R. Penck and Jörg Immendorff in 1998 as "Meisterschülerin" (major student) of Penck. Since 1996, she lives and works in New York City and Düsseldorf.
Recent work
"Le Sacre de la féminité", 2020/21
The title of this series of works, "Le Sacre de la féminité" (The Triumph of the Female), alludes to Igor Stravinsky’s "Le Sacre du printemps" (1914), whose matriarchal rituals correspond to the spiritual world of the whole oeuvre of the artist. The first of these self-estranged portraits, "Everything is going Bananas", was created in July 2020 in response to the Corona crisis. The thirteen paintings of this cycle show as many emotional stated, which are traditionnaly associated with allegorical concepts: "What’s next? (cheerful melancholy)", "resurrection (life is resurrection)", "motherhood", "goddess of the world" et cetera. With humor and triumphant imprudence, they form an encyclopedia of feminity in the era of triumphant feminism.[1]
Main museum exhibitions [2]
- 2012 Tree of Life, Museum of Russain Art MORA, Jersey City, USA
- 2009 Unity Jerusalem, United Nations building, New York
- 2008 Sensuality and Spirituality, Museum Lalit Kala Akademie, New Dehli, India
- 2007 Mystery of Woman, Contemporary Art Museum B.S.1, Beijing, China
- 2006 Unity: divine geometry, Niavaran Museum, Tehran, Iran
- 2006 Unity: passport, Museum of the Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
- 2005 Unity, United Nations building, New York, USA
- 2004 Unity, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia [3]
- 1999 Fire, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
- 1998 Fire, Museum of Contemporary Art, Washington, USA
- 1994 Puschkin Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
- 1991 Creation of Fruits, Museum of Russian History in St. Petersburg, Russia
- 1990 Ekatherina Savtchenko, Titan hall, St. Petersburg, Russia
Solo Exhibitions [4]
- 2020 Healing, Tenri Cultural Institute, New York, USA
- 2020 Kunstpunkte, Düsseldorf, Germany
- 2019 Mother- Earth, Gallery Pingvin, Oslo, Norway
- 2019 Energy of Love, Ender & Margo Gallery, New York
- 2019 Stream of Life, Graf von Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
- 2019 Kunstpunkte, Düsseldorf, Germany
- 2019 Jerusalem, St. Chrysanthus and Daria church, Düsseldorf- Haan, Germany
- 2018 Journey of the Soul, Gallery Pingvin, Oslo, Norway
- 2018 Unity, exhibition space in Larry Flint building, Los Angeles, USA
- 2018 Kunstpunkte, Düsseldorf, Germany
- 2017 Inspiration, Clean Art Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
- 2016 Happy New World, Pingvin Gallery, Oslo, Norway
- 2016 Gold Medal Award, Foro Europa 2001, Westin Palace, Madrid, Spain
- 2015 Polar Light, Gallery Pingvin, Oslo, Norway
- 2015 Unity, Art Nou Mil.lenni Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
- 2015 Dance of the Earth, Mymicro Gallery, Milan, Italy
- 2015 Rising to the stars, Ashok Jain Gallery, New York, USA
- 2014 The 12 Chinese years, Gallery Pingvin, Oslo, Norway
- 2014 Spirits of America, Ashok Jain Gallery, New York, USA
- 2014 Spirits of America, 30Works Gallery, Cologne, Germany
- 2013 Garden of Love, Gallery Pingvin, Oslo, Norway
- 2013 Himmelzeichen, Kunstdetektiv Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
- 2012 Tree of Life, Gallery 30Works, Cologne, Germany
- 2012 Unity: Life and Death, Pingvin Gallery, Oslo,Norway
- 2011 Unity: Life and Death, Ana Tzarev Gallery, New York, USA
- 2011 Inspiration, Gallery Pingvin, Oslo, Norway
- 2010 Unity: Jerusalem, Pingvin gallery, Oslo, Norway
- 2009 Unity: Jerusalem, GalerieZ, Stuttgart, Germany
- 2009 Connections, Galleri Pingvin, Oslo, Norwa
- 2008 Unity, State Exhibition Hall A3, Moscow, Russia
- 2008 Sensuality and Spirituality, A. Jain Marunouchi Gallery, New York
- 2007 Mystery of Woman, Galleri Pingvin, Oslo, Norway
- 2006 Unity, artforum E&Y GAP 15, Duesseldorf, Germany
- 2006 Dialogue, Galleri Pingvin, Oslo, Norway
- 2005 Mystery of the Man, Art galerie 7, Cologne, Germany
- 2005 Illusions, Westwood Gallery, New York, USA
- 2005 Die Liebe, Galleri Pngvin, Oslo, Norway
- 2005 Phoenix", Michael Gorbatschow- foundation, Bonn, Germany
- 2004 Unity, State Museum of Montenegro, Montenegro
- 2004 God and his religions ,Galleri Pingvin, Oslo, Norway
- 2004 Gallery GNG, Paris, France
- 2003 Energy, Galleri B.A., Oslo, Norway
- 2003 Church Street Gallery, Orlando Florida, USA
- 2003 Contact, Jain Marunouchi Gallery, New York, USA
- 2003 Gallery Ott, Düsseldorf, Germany
- 2003 Stop, Galarie Casteel, Mönchengladbach, Germany
- 2002 Communication, Galleri B.A., Oslo, Norway
- 2002 Dreams, Gallery GNG, Paris, France
- 2002 Le Sacre du Printemps, Gallery Marina Gisich, St. Petersburg, Russia
- 2002 Gallery Ott, Düsseldorf, Germany
- 2002 Church Street Gallery, Orlando, Florida, USA
- 2002 Gallery Jain Marunouchi, New York, USA
- 2001 Tra sognoa realta, Forum Artis Museum, Modena, Italy
- 2001 Human Fractals, Gallery Stendhal, New York, USA
- 2001 Dreams, Gallery Art Point Black, Florence, Italy
- 2001 Gallery Casteel, Berlin, Germany
- 2001 Gallery B.A., Oslo, Norway
- 2001 Gallery Ott, Düsseldorf, Germany
- 2001 Church Street Gallery, Orlando, Florida, USA
- 2001 Big Bang Blue, Gallery A. Jain Marunouchi, New York, USA
- 2001 Prime Universe, Gallery Westwood, New York, USA
- 2000 Performance and Photo Exhibition, Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida, USA
- 2000 Galerie Noack, Mönchengladbach, Germany
- 2000 Gallery B.A., Oslo, Norway
- 2000 Warehouse Gallery, Orlando, Florida, USA
- 2000 Kama Sutra, Gallery Stendhal, New York, USA
- 2000 Kama Sutra, Gallery D«ars, Milan and Rome, Italy
- 2000 Gallery GNG, Paris, France
- 2000 Tierra Desconocida, Exit Art, Cologne, Germany
- 2000 Begegnungen, Gallery Heidefeld, Krefeld, Germany
- 2000 Gallery Ott, Düsseldorf, Germany
- 1999 Fire, Gallery Stendhal, New York, USA
- 1999 Gallery "8-PQ", Bonn, Germany
- 1999 Script - Pictures, Galerie Noack, Mönchengladbach, Germany
- 1999 Feu, Gallery GNG, Paris, France
- 1999 Galerie PIN, Bielefeld, Germany
- 1999 Okieh Jahr New York, Gallery Casteel, Berlin, Germany
- 1999 Gallery Ott, Düsseldorf, Germany
- 1998 Galerie Noack, Mönchengladbach, Germany
- 1998 Galerie Ott, Düsseldorf, Germany
- 1998 L'air des symboles, Galerie GNG, Paris, France
- 1997 Dance of Love, Gallery Stendhal, New York, USA
- 1997 Galerie Ott, Düsseldorf, Germany
- 1996 Galerie GNG, Paris, France
- 1996 Galerie Ott, Düsseldorf, German
- 1995 Galerie Noack, Mönchengladbach, Germany
- 1995 Galerie Ott with A.R. Penck, Düsseldorf, Germany
- 1995 Gallery Nassaugang, Assen, Netherlands
- 1994 Exit Art, Cologne, Germany
- 1994 Gallery Am Stadthaus, Bonn (with A.R. Penck und Keith Haring), Germany
- 1993 Galerie May ,Wertle, Germany
- 1993 Sponsorship Club for the Contemporary Art, Euskirchen, Germany
- 1990 Ekatherina Savtchenko, Titan hall, St. Petersburg, Russia
Publications (selection)
Fire, cat. E.S., State Russian Museum, St. Peterburg, 1998, by Alexander Borovsky; Fine Art Magazine, 2000 by Donald Kuspit; Unity, cat. E.S., State Russian Museum, St. Peterburg, 2004 by Alexander Borovsky/ Barbara Thiemann/ Ole Limboe; ARTnews 2008 by Valerie Gladstone; Ekatherina S., Her Life and her Vision, Düsseldorf/St. Petersburg/New York (Palace Edition), 2009; E.S., "Le Sacre de la féminité", Robert Fleck, Düsseldorf/New York 2021 [5]
References
- ↑ Robert Fleck: "Le Sacre de la feminite". 15. Februar 2021, abgerufen am 14. März 2021 (englisch).
- ↑ Ekatherina S. / Savtchenko. Abgerufen am 11. März 2021.
- ↑ Ekatherina Savtchenko. Unity - The Marble Palace - Русский музей. Abgerufen am 11. März 2021.
- ↑ Ekatherina S. / Savtchenko. Abgerufen am 11. März 2021.
- ↑ Robert Fleck: E.S., Le Sacre de la féminité. Hrsg.: published by Passport of the Universe. New York/Düsseldorf 2021, S. 20.
