CURRICULUM VITAE FOR 

NIKOLA   SAVIC      

 

 

Lives and works in London  

from 1998

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Solo exhibitions

      2023        Troto Art Club and Gallery Zvono, paintings, Pinwheel Selection, Belgrade

 

      2018        Saint Saviour's Church, paintings, 1 Corinthians 13:13, London

 

      2017        House of the Nobleman, paintings, Control Panel, London  

 

      2016        Hay Hill, Mehta Bell Projects, paintings, Control Panel, London  

       

      2015        House of Heritage, 'Sans Arret', paintings, Belgrade  

 

      2015        The Bank of America Merrill Lynch, paintings, City of London

 

      2012         Salon-Vert London, ‘Switchroom’, stainless steel paintings, London  

 

      2011         Zvono Gallery, ‘Ovations and Flying compositions’, paintings, Belgrade 

 

      2011         St James’s Church, Zero 10 Gallery, Piccadilly, paintings, London  

 

      2008         Museum of Contemporary Art, paintings, Belgrade

 

      2008         Zvono Gallery, paintings, Belgrade

 

               2007       The Burlington Club, paintings, London  

 

      2006        Rollo Contemporary Art, (GEH) paintings, London                

               

      2005        Rollo Contemporary Art, paintings, London      

                     

        2001          Gallery Sanders and Gordon, paintings, London  

               

   1998        Zvono Gallery, paintings, Belgrade

 

1997        Gallery SKC, installation, Belgrade

 

               1997        Zvono Gallery, paintings, Belgrade

 

               1995       Zvono Gallery, drawings, Belgrade  

 

      1994        Gallery of Academy of Fine Arts, drawings, Belgrade  

      1990        Architectural Technical School, drawings. Belgrade curated by Mihailo Tripkovic      

 

 

 

 

 

 

             

 

Group exhibitions

      2023     ‘Annual Exhibition’, paintings 

                    City Museum Belgrade, Serbia

                    Arte Gallery Belgrade, Serbia

                    Radomir Damjanovic Damjan, Djordje Ozbolt, Vuk Vidor, Nebojsa Bezanic

                    Biljana Djurdjevic, Andree Jaksic, Stojan Celic, Bora Oljovski i drugi

 

      2023     Viline Vode Gallery, 30 years of Zvono Gallery  

                   Vuk Vidor, Nikola Pesic, Simonida Raicevic, Vesna Golubovic, i drugi.

      2022      ‘Annual Exhibition’, paintings 

                    City Museum Belgrade, Serbia

   Arte Gallery, Belgrade and Academy of Fine Arts Belgrade                                                                                                                                                                                  

                   Radomir Damjanovic Damjan, Djordje Ozbolt, Aleksandar Cvetkovic, Branko  

                   Miljus                                                          


 

      2022     ‘Identities’, paintings 

                   Arte Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia with Slobodan Trajkovic,Vuk Vidor, Nenad  Rackovic Ivan Suletic, Mrdjan Bajic                                                                                                                                                Vladimir Lalic, Selman Trtovac, Ivan Grubanov, Anja Toncic, Petar Mirkovic, Uros         Djuric,Djordje Ozbolt, Bora Iljovski, Mihael Milunovic, Srdjan Apostolovic

      2022      ‘Contemporary Sequences’, paintings

                     Viline Vode Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia

 

      2022      ‘Parallax Art Fair’, paintings

                     Kensington, London  

 

      2020       'Acquisitions of the museum 1993 to 2019', paintings

                      Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Serbia  

 

      2018       ‘Between us’, paintings, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia

with Sasa Tkacenko, Milos Tomic, Mladen Bizumic, Zolt Kovac, Marta    Jovanovic, Maja Rakocevic Cvijanov, Vesna Pavlovic and Ivan Grubanov

 

      2018      ‘Agents of Space’, paintings, 18th Biennial of Art, Pancevo, Serbia with Nesa        

Paripovic, Tomislav Gotovac, Katalin Ladik, Janez Jansa, Balint Szombathy,    Jovana Banjanac, kuda.org, Mariela Cvetic, Vuk Cuk, Davor Dukic, Spartak Dulic, Grupa OHO, Marko Pogacnik, Hugo Glendinning, Adrian Heathfield, MajaMaljevic, Djile Markovic and others.  

 

      2015       ‘Imago Mundi’, paintings, Benetton Foundation, Italy,  

 

      2011      ‘Cadavre Exquis’, Gallery Zero 10, with Adam Ball, Gordon Cheung and  

                        Piers Secunda, paintings London                                                                                            

      2010        ‘Oblik (a)’, Gallery Zero 10, with Adam Ball, Sinta Tantra, and Jasmina                                                    

                       Cibic, paintings, London

      2010        FIFA World Cup, Fine Art 2010, with Mrdjan Bajic, Selena  

                      Vickovic, Milos Gavrilovic and Ljiljana Drezga

             

      2010        ‘Vision 21’, Bonham’s, auction, paintings, London 

 

      2010        ‘Likovni Cukaricki Salon’, Gallery 73, paintings, Belgrade  

 

      2009        Moscow Art Fair, paintings, Gallery Zvono

 

      2009        Zvono Gallery, paintings, Belgrade

       

      2009         ‘Metro-Land’ Flora Fairbairn Projects, with Ian Monroe, Paul Archard, Henry                                                      Krokatsis, Zebedee Helm, Anna Bogon, Ryan Mosley and other 47 artists.                        Curated by Flora Fairbairn and Rowena Chiu.

     

      2009         'At Home' Flora Fairbairn Projects, paintings, London                        Curated by Flora Fairbairn.

 

      2008         Zvono Gallery, paintings, Belgrade 

       

      2008         'Young Serbian Artist' Muzel de Arta Timisoara, , paintings, Romania                        With Nikola Bozovic, Nikola Pesic, Filip Radonjic and Igor Marsenic                        Curated by Ljiljana Tadic.

 

      2008         Zvono Gallery, paintings, Belgrade 

     

      2008         Bolzano Art Fair, paintings, Italy

 

      2008         Vienna Art Fair, paintings, Austria

 

      2008         Italian Cultural Centre Rome and Belgrade, paintings, Transart 

 

      2008         Zvono Gallery, paintings, Belgrade 

 

      2008         Gallery Nog, paintings, London   

  

2007         Art Cologne, paintings, Germany

 

                 Moscow Art Fair, paintings, Russia

         

                       Vienna Art Fair, paintings, Austria 

 

     2006          Art Cologne, paintings, Germany 

 

                        Ralph Lauren, drawings, London                          

 

                        Vienna Art Fair, drawings, Austria      

     2005         Vienna Art Fair, paintings, Austria 

 

                  Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, On Normality, paintings                                                                  Curated by Branislava Andjelkovic, Branislav Dimitrijevic and Dejan Sretenovic

 

 

2004         Royal Summer Exhibition, paintings, at The Royal Academy      of Arts, curated by David Hockney and Allen Jones, London

 

                 Art Auction ‘Save the Ocean’, Old Billingsgate Market, drawing, Abigail Lane,                        Damien Hirst, Anish Kapoor, etc, London

 

                  Contemporary Art Society, Art Futures, paintings, London

 

2003         ‘October Salon 2003’, paintings, Pavilion Cvijeta Zuzoric                                                                     Curated by Lidija Merenik, Belgrade

 

        2002            ‘Art Futures’, Contemporary Art Society, paintings, London                                

 

                ‘The Painting Class’, Lethaby Gallery, CSM, paintings, London    

 

                  ‘Gimme 5’, Flora Fairbairn & Tom Astor Projects, WS-project, paintings,  

                        London

 

2001        ‘Nineties’, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, paintings, Belgrade                                                                                                                Curated by Svetlana Jovanovic

 

2000         ‘At the End’, UNESCO Gallery, paintings, Paris

                 Curated by Jovan Despotovic

 

           ‘Thirty Best Postgraduates in the UK’, Atkinson Gallery, paintings         

                       Ida Branson Memorial Bequest, Somerset, England    

                 

                       ‘Outer spaces, Outer shape’, Gallery Park Lane, paintings, London      

       

 

1999         ‘Free for All’, paintings, Poland Street, selection of MA Fine Art students,

                        London

                     

                     ‘Third Yugoslav Biennial of Art’, paintings, Soros Centre, Vrsac, Serbia                                

                       

                       ‘Kerosene Group 2’, paintings, Association of Young artists, Belgrade curated                      

                        Curated by AYAB, Mercedes Salon, Belgrade  

 

     ‘Seven Actual Artists’, paintings, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade                           Curated by Svetlana Jovanovic

 

    1996        ‘Kerosene Group 1’, paintings, Hyatt Hotel, curated by Nikola Savic,  Belgrade

 

 

1996         ‘Workshop 13’, paintings, Association of Young Artists Belgrade, Palace of Princess Milice  

 

        1995         ‘Workshop 13’, paintings, Abundant Sugar Factory, Belgrade

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

COLLECTIONS                                                                                                          

                                                                                                       

Benetton Foundation, Turin, Italy                                                                              

Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia

The American Embassy, Belgrade, Serbia                                                                                    

Dr Takashige Shimizu, Kyoto, Japan                                

Christiaan Rook, London, UK

The Bank of America Merrill Lynch, London, UK

European Diamonds Plc, London, UK

Gallery Rollo Contemporary, London, UK

John Jones Collection, London, UK

Salon Vert, London, UK

Alexei Sitnikov, Moscow, Russia

HRH Crown Prince Aleksandar of Serbia

Radix Collection, Belgrade, Serbia

Gallery Zvono, Belgrade, Serbia

Private collections USA, RUSSIA, UK, JAPAN, UAE and EUROPE 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EDUCATION

 

 

1998-1999

MA Fine Art, Central St Martin’s College of Art, London

 

1992-1997

BA Fine Art, Academy of Fine Art, Belgrade

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

2023 Three Decades of Zvono Gallery: Passion, Inspiration and Dedication

To Serbian Art

Editor Katarina Djoric

 

 

2014 Futuristic Forms, Country Gentlemen Association Magazine  

Editorial, Futuristic Forms  

Lucile Parker  

 

 

 

2013 Lorenzo Belenguer, Huffington Post  Is Abstract Art Making a Comeback?  

 

 

2011 Interviews-Artists Vol.4 (December 2011)

(a gathering of two decade’s interviews)

Cv/Var Publications

Editor Nicholas James

London

 

2011 October

Artists Interviews Vol.3 (October 2011)

Cv/Var Publications

Editor Nicholas James

London

 

2011 The Man Magazine

New Painters

Editor  Belgrade, Serbia

 

2010 May

Marija Djordjevic

Style Section

Politika Newspapers

Belgrade

 

2008 September

Written by Barry Schwabsky

Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade

Catalogue

 

 

 

 

2008 September                                                                                        

Vreme Weekly

Magazine, interview

By I.Milanovic

 

 

2008 September

Yellocab Monthly

Magazine interview by

I. M

 

 

2008 September

Danas News

 

2008 September

Glas Javnosti  

News

 

 

2006 February

ARTFORUM

In Print Section “The New Normal” Tom Hollert

New York

 

 

2006 February

Northwest Magazine London, “Colour-Fest” Events editor

Cathy Levy

 

 

2006 January

ATTITUDE MAGAZINE

Art section

Paintings

By Iris Abramovici Tevet

2005 January

 

 

MoCo Art Mocoloco L.A.

Web Magazine

Paintings

By Sabine Modder

 

 

2005 December

Politika Newspapers. Belgrade, ‘’London Review’’Marija Djordjevic

 

 

2005 November

Evening Standard, London

“The Collector’s Choice”

Katrina Burroughs

 

2005 November

Museum of Modern Art

Belgrade, Branko Dimitrijevic Officail Catalogue

“About Normality”

 

 

 

 

2005 November

Pennysweet

London,

Web Magazine

 

 

 

 

 

2005 May

The Financial Times, London Supplement ‘How to spend it’

Article ‘Cracking Art at the cutting Edge’

Emma Crichton-Miller

 

2005 April

Newspapers

Der Standard, Austria, Vienna

Article ‘Willkommen in der Gerenwart!’

Markus Mittringer

 

 

2005 April

Art Fair Vienna,

Artaffair/ Austria

Official catalogue

 

2005 January

Herald, Scotland

Art Market Review

 

2004 July

Politika Newspapers,

Nikola Savic at the RSE

By Marija Djordjevic

 

2004. July

Royal Summer Exhibition

Catalogue

Edited by Allen Jones and David Hockney London

 

2004 April

Independent Newspapers Review about Art Futures 2004 J.M.

London

 

 

 

2003, September

Politika newspapers “London story of Nikola RS” Marija Djordjevic

Belgrade

 

 

2002, May

Art-Review-London

“Sites Unspecific” Charlotte Edwards

London

 

 

2002, May

The Times “The best London Shows”

Rachel Campbell Johnston

London

 

2002, May

Soen magazine, Tokyo “Who’s who, who’s next”-London

Misha Milovanovic

 

 

 

 

 

1998, July

Blic newspapers

“NS paintings”

Branimir Gajic  

Belgrade

 

1998, February

Blic Newspapers “Schizophrenic society and likewise aesthetic”

Branimir Gajic

Belgrade

 

1995, September

Borba Newspapers, Belgrade “Urban story of a young sketcher”

S.Popovic