Visual / Urban artist. Previously based in Moscow-Ekaterinburg (Russia).
Over 13 years hand-on experience in the street.
Preferable technics: stencils, posters, muralism, installations, performances, urban interventions.
Focus on social & political statements, interactive projects, side-specific works.
Languages – Russian, English (upper-intermediate).
Parthnership with 11.12 Gallery (Moscow).
Creator of independent festival of illegal street-art «Carte Blanche» (2018 – present).
Creator of the series of side-specific shows “Post Scriptum Projects” (2023 – present).
Co-founder and a curator of first street art gallery «Sweater» (2014 – 2016, Ekaterinburg).
Curator of street-art and graffiti festival “Stenograffia” (2011 – 2014, Ekaterinburg)
Education:
2018 – 2019 – The Rodchenko Art School (Moscow)
2017 – School of Contemporary Art «Free Workshops» (Moscow, Russia)
2012 – Bachelor of Journalism, Ural Federal University (Ekaterinburg, Russia).
2004 – Beginning school of art (Shadrinsk, Russia)
Art residences and education programs:
2023 – Montenegro European Art Community, residency (Risan, Montenegro)
2022 – Helsinki Urban Art Residency (Pasila, Helsinki, Finland)
2021 – Fabrik AIR program (Burgdorf, Switzerland)
2019 – CEC Artslink International Fellowship Program, San-Francisco, California, USA.
2018-2019 – Winzavod Open Studios, residence and education program (Moscow, Russia)
2018 – Graniti Murals art residence (Sicily, Italy)
2017 – Art residence in Street Art Museum (Saint Petersburg, Russia) 2017 – School of Modern Art «Summer Academy» (Salzburg, Austria)
2016 – Creative peacebuilding project, A-I-R program (Kiev, Ukraine)
2016 – Dukley European Art Community in Kotor (Montenegro)
2015 – Zarya art center for young artists in Vladivostok (Russia)
2014 – CEC ArtsLink Global Art Lab, education in public art (New-York, USA)
2012 – Workshop residence at the Ural NCCA (Russia).
Solo shows:
– «Present Not Perfect», Pristaniste foundation (2023; Tivat, Montenegro).
– «Nightmares on Air», CUB gallery (2023; Riga, Latvia).
– «Dreams of reason», Montenegro European Art Community (2023; Budva,Montenegro).
– «Macabre» (2022; Graphite gallery, Moscow)
– «Go!» (2022; 11.12 Gallery, Moscow)
– «1999» in collaboration with SBP4 music band (2020-2021; 11.12 Gallery, Moscow; Rostov Gallery, Rostov-on-Don; LongArt Gallery, Petrozavodsk, Russia)
– «Not needed there. Not needed here», Moscow Museum of Modern Art (2019; Moscow, Russia)
– «I’m Alone Here», 11.12 Gallery (2016; Moscow, Russia)
Selected exhibitions and festivals:
– Group exhibition «I am vulnerability», parallel program of Biennal of Youth (2023; Belgrade, Serbia).
– Group exhibition «Quantum Critic», Myymälä2 gallery (2023; Helsinki, Finland).
– Group exhibition «(Anti)Propaganda:Unmasking the Manipulation», BEREG (Berlin Exile Generation) (2023; Berlin, Germany).
– Group exhibition «Exactly.AI exhibition», Shoreditch Arts Club (2023; London, UK).
– Group exhibition «Exactly Lab: Artists embracing new AI» Guelman und Unbekannt Gallery (2023; Berlin, Germany).
– Group exhibition «Between the lines», Triumph gallery (2022; Moscow, Russia)
– Group exhibition «It really gets you down», Street Art Museum (2019; Saint-Petersburg, Russia)
– III Biennale of street art «Artmossphere», main program (2018; Moscow, Russia)
– Street art festival «Stencilibity», street art festival (2018; Tartu, Estonia)
– Group exhibition “Signs of the time”, parallel program of Biennale of Young Art, gallery Belyaevo (2018; Moscow, Russia).
– Group exhibition “Enter the history”, Museum of Moscow (2018; Russia).
– Group exhibition “Other sides”, CES “Manege” (2018; Saint-Petersburg, Russia).
– Street art festival «Mesto» (2017-2018; Nizniy Novgorod, Russia).
– Group exhibition “Guilty!”, Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art (2017; Moscow, Russia).
– Group exhibition “Here is not a Moscow”, Vladey Space (Moscow, Russia, 2017).
– Street Art festival “NuArt Festival” (2017; Stavanger, Norway).
– Street art festival «Long stories of Perm» (2017; Perm, Russia).
– Street art festival «Chillim Fest» (2017; Astrahan, Russia).
– Festival of contemporary art “ArtBat Fest” (2016; Almaty, Kazahstan).
– Group exhibition «KOTORiy», Dukley Art Center (2016; Kotor, Montenegro).
– Group exhibition «Anti-museum, part 1», Electro-museum (2016; Moscow, Russia).
– Group exhibition of international competition “Portrait Now!” (2015; Erarta Museum, Russia; The Museum of National History, Frederiksborg Castle (Denmark), and in Ljungberg, Sweden).
– Group exhibition «Common history», Ural Vision Gallery (2015; Ekaterinburg, Russia).
– Group exhibition «Remember tomorrow», Street-art museum (2015; Saint-Petersburg, Russia).
– Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art, main program (2015; Russia, Ekaterinburg).
– Group exhibition “Tranzite zone”, Museum of Contemporary Art PERMM (2014; Perm, Russia).
– Public art festival “Art Prospekt” (2014; Saint-Petersburg, Russia).
– 10th Siberian Museum Biennale of Contemporary Art “Love Space” (2013; Krasnoyarsk, Russia)
– Group exhibitions in a street-art gallery «Sweater» (Ekaterinburg, Russia, 2014-2015-2016).
– Street-art festival «Stenograffia» (Ekaterinburg, Russia, 2011-2015).
Awards:
– Winner of Kuryokhin art award in category «Art in public space» (2022)
– Artist of the year by The Assembly Of NGOs for work «Barbed wire» (Belarus, 2016)
– Winner of the international contest PORTRAIT NOW! — Brewer J.C. Jacobsen’s Portrait Award, with «Street dirt» project (2015, Copenhagen, Denmark)
– The best artist in nomination «Street work of the year» by the MOST Awards (Moscow, 2014)
– The best artist in the genre of stencil art by the web-portal TRAFORO.RU in 2011 and in 2015.
– Winner of competition of young artists from Ural, Siberia and Far East (Krasnoyarsk, Russia 2014)