Andrej Savski

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Andrej Savski is a visual artist, active in the fields of contemporary art and painting. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Ljubljana, and is a founding member of the artists' collective IRWIN, a group of five painters from Slovenia, active in the field of contemporary art since 1983. He is also a founding member of Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK), 1984. The basic working methods and concepts of IRWIN are collective work and the so-called “retro principle,” defined as a principle of thought and a way of behaving and acting. During the 1980’s, the group created a series of predominantly painterly projects focused on the relationship between art, politics and ideology. Since the 1990’s, they have been concentrating on a critical examination of the art history of "Western Modernism" and developed a line of conceptual projects that focus on the dialogue between East and West. As a part of the IRWIN collective, Andrej Savski has exhibited in institutions and galleries such as the Reina Sofia, Madrid; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow; Moderna galerija, Ljubljana; Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg; Galleria Civica di Modena; the House of World Cultures, Berlin; Tate Modern, London; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Centre for Art and Media (ZKM), Karlsruhe; the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Taipei Biennial; and many others.