CV – Andreas Savva
| Born in 1970 in Kyrenia, Cyprus. He lives and works in Nicosia. | |
| 1991-6 | Athens School of Fine Arts (Painting) |
| 2002-4 | Postgraduate Programme in Digital Arts |
| SOLO EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2013 | Sleep Sliding Away, EDW, ReMap4, Athens |
| 2012 | Martyrium, gallery Françoise Heitsch, Munich, Germany |
| 2009 | Kapsel, gallery Françoise Heitsch, Munich, Germany |
| 2005 | Kosmos, Cork Vision Centre, Cork, Ireland |
| 2004 | Smoking seriously damages the country, Diaspro Art Center, Nicosia The view that I love, Siakolas Tower, Nicosia |
| 2002 | ¥€$, gallery a.antonopoulou, AthensOccupied, gallery Mylos, Thessaloniki |
| 2001-2 | x365, (currency change), 365art project, Athens |
| 1999 | Space-Eater, Diaspro Art Centre, Nicosia |
| 1996 | Graduate Show, National School of Fine Arts, Athens |
| 1994-5 | Opportunist III, Installation in an abandoned neoclassical building at the National School of Fine Arts, Athens |
| 1994 | Opportunist II, Installation in abandoned fields, Nicosia |
| SELECTED GROUP SHOWS | |
| 2016 | 2016 Summer Exhibition, The Fields Sculpture Park, Omi International Arts Center, Ghent, New York (cur.: Nicole Hayes) Art-Athina, International Contemporary Art Fair of Athens, gallery Françoise Heitsch, Athens Devalue/Value/Surplus Value; between “work” and “art”, Contemporary Greek Art Institute, Athens, Greece (cur.: Charis Kanellopoulou) |
| 2015 | Epitopou 2015, Livadia, Andros, Greece (cur.: Stratis Pantazis) |
| 2014 | Art Omi 2014 Residents, Omi International Arts Center, Ghent, New York (cur.: Moukhtar Kocache) Trauma and therapy, Cypriot antiquity and contemporary art, Paphos archaeological museum, Paphos (cur.: Niki Loizidi) No Words, Larnaca Municipal Gallery,Larnaca (cur.: Tonia Loizou) |
| 2013 | Medium as Narrative, CAMP Contemporary Art Meeting Point, Athens (cur.: Lina Tsikouta) Art-Athina, International Contemporary Art Fair of Athens, gallery Françoise Heitsch, Athens |
| 2012 | Terra Mediterranea – In Crisis, Nicosia Municipal Art Centre, Nicosia (cur.: Yiannis Toumazis) Contemporary Cypriot Sculpture, DOM UMENIA, Bratislava, (cur.: Tonia Loizou) Mapping Cyprus Contemporary Views, Bozar, Brussels, (cur.: Andri Michael) Plus One, Cultural Centre “Leonidas Kanellopoulos”, Elefsina, Greece (cur.: Maria Maragou) |
| 2011 | The Location of Culture, Pulchri Studio, The Hague, Netherlands (cur.: Pavlina Paraskevaidou) UNCOVERED, Nicosia International Airport, Ledra Street Buffer zone, Nicosia, (cur.: Pavlina Paraskevaidou, Basak Senova) The Roads of Hereafter, Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete, Rethymno, (cur.: Maria Maragou) The Little Land Fish, EMAA Capital Art Center, Nicosia (Cur.: Antonis Danos and Yasa Yaman) Art-Athina, International Contemporary Art Fair of Athens, gallery Françoise Heitsch, Athens |
| 2010 | Chypre 2010, Lárt au present, Espace Commines, Paris (cur.: Yiannis Toumazis, Andri Michael) Jannis Spyropoulos, Mpenaki museum, Athens (cur.: Olga Daniylopoulou) Mona Hatoum Art Workshop, Villa Iris, Fundación Marcelino Botín, Santander, Spain (cur.: Mona Hatoum) The Little Land Fish, Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture, Antrepo Exhibition Venue, Istanbul, Turkey (Cur.: Antonis Danos and Yasa Yaman) Looking Awry: Views of an anniversary, Evagoras Lanitis Centre Limassol, Cyprus (Cur.: Antonis Danos) Art is…, Marfin Laiki Bank Cultural Centre, Nicosia (Cur.: Marina Vryonidou) 1974 – Landmark in Politics and Art, Famagusta Gate, Nicosia (Cur.: Marina Sxiza) |
| 2009 | Open 12 International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations, Venice Lido, Italy (cur.: Olga Daniylopoulou) The Roads of Hereafter, European Cultural Centre of Delphi (cur.: Maria Maragou) Art-Athina, International Contemporary Art Fair of Athens, gallery Françoise Heitsch,Athens The Creation of the Image – The Consumption of Emotions//The Consumption of the Image – The Creation of Emotions, 10 years after, House of Cyprus, Athens (cur.: Lina Tsikouta) |
| 2008 | Action Field Kodra, Artist in Residency programme of Forum European Cultural Exchanges, Thessalonica, Greece (cur.: Ruth Noack) Cypriots Contemporary Art, Paris & Action Field Kodra, Thessalonica (cur.: Andri Michael) No place – no space, zeon, Athens, & gallery Diatopos, Cyprus (cur.: Marilena Koskina) Waiting news from you, Gounaropoulos museum, Athens (cur.: Andri Michael) |
| 2007 | Grey (I had a dream Cyprus was a superpower), House of Cyprus, Athens & Rethymnon Centre for Contemporary Art, Crete, Greece (cur.: Maria Maragou) Crossings: A Contemporary View, Nicosia Municipal Art Centre, Nicosia (cur.: Yiannis Toumazis, Andri Michael) Meeting Europe – Cyprus, La Châtaigneraie – Centre Wallon d’ Art Contemporain, Liege, Belgium (cur.: Dimitri Konstantinidis) |
| 2006 | The Scarecrow, E. Averoff Museum, Metsovo, Greece (cur.: Olga Daniylopoulou) Meeting Europe – Cyprus, Palais du Rhin, Strasbourg, France (cur.: Dimitri Konstantinidis) |
| 2005 | Treason of Sculpture, Gallery Mario Sequeira, Braga, Portugal (cur.: David Baro, Agar Ledo) Accidental Meetings, Nicosia Municipal Art Centre, Nicosia (cur.: Yiannis Toumazis) Seducidos polo Accidente, Luis Seoane Foundation, Corunna, Spain (cur.: David Baro, Agar Ledo) |
| 2004 | Instant Europe, Villa Manin, Centre for Contemporary Art, Passariano, Italy (cur.: Francesco Bonami and Sarah Cosulich Canarutto) The joy of my dreams, BIACS 1st international Biennale of Contemporary Art of Seville, Spain (cur.: Harald Szeeman) Athena by art, Athens (cur.: Christina Petrinou) Fair ARCO, Gallery a.antonopoulou, MadridTwelve Positions in Contemporary Greek Art, European Patent Office Munich, Germany (cur.: Françoise Heitsch) ausderferne, ausdernähe, ausdermitte, Galerie Françoise Heitsch, Munich, Germany (cur.: Françoise Heitsch) |
| 2003 | EUROPE EXIST, Macedonian museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki (cur.: Rosa Martinez & Harald Szeeman) Sketching out Tomorrow and Yesterday, Young Greek artists, tribute to the region of Yiannena, Macedonian museum of Contemporary art, Thessaloniki & Gazi, Athens (cur.: Lina Tsikouta) |
| 2002 | La Belle et la Bête, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Bruxelles (cur.: Marina Vryonidou, Dimitri Konstantinidis) Sketching out Tomorrow and Yesterday, Young Greek artists, tribute to the region of Yiannena, E. Averoff museum, Metsovo (cur.: Lina Tsikouta) |
| 2001 | DestePrize 2001, Deste Foundation Center for Contemporary Art, Athens (cur.: Katerina Gregos) La Belle et Bête, Palais du Rhin, DRAC Alsace, Strasbourg, FRAC Corse, Corde, Corsica, Casteliotissa, Nicosia & Macedonian museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki (cur.: Marina Vryonidou, Dimitri Konstantinidis) |
| 2000 | From Chisel to Amber – 100 Years of Contemporary Sculpture in Cyprus, National Gallery of Contemporary Cypriot Art & Casteliotissa, Nicosia(cur.: Eleni Nikita) Artists of the Spyropoulos Museum, The Foundation of the Hellenic World, Athens (cur.: Olga Daniylopoulou) |
| 1999 | Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, Rome (cur.: Jannis Kounellis) |
| 1998 | Spyropoulos Foundation Awards, Jannis Spyropoulos Museum, Athens (cur.: Olga Daniylopoulou) |
| 1998 | Young Cypriot Artists, Palais des Nations, Geneva (cur.: Eleni Nikita) Time, House of Cyprus, AthensThe Berlin Wall, Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Nicosia (cur.: Yiannis Toumazis) The Creation of the Image – The Consumption of Emotions/ / The Consumption of the Image – The Creation of Emotions, House of Cyprus, Athens (cur.: Lina Tsikouta) |
| 1997 | Class of ’96, the National Gallery, Athens (cur.: Lina Tsikouta & Triantafyllos Patraskidis) A Century of Visual Artistic Creation – Works from the National Collection of Contemporary Art, HELEXPO – Thessaloniki 1997 Cultural Capital of Europe, Thessaloniki (cur.: Eleni Nikita) advARTising – 50 Years of ADEL Saatchi & Saatchi, Pierides Gallery, Athens (cur.: Olga Daniylopoulou) |