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Urban / Visual artist

35 y.o.

Previously lived and worked in Moscow and Yekaterinburg, Russia.
Currently a nomadic artist based in France.

Over 15 years of hands-on experience in street art.

Main techniques:

drawing, painting, photo, video, installation, murals, actions, urban interventions.

Key themes:

freedom and oppression; violence in its broad sense; the nature of power; human rights; and reflections on migration and the personal experience of an artist-immigrant working during wartime.

Languages:

Russian, English.

In March 2025, officially proclaimed a “foreign agent” in Russia.

 

Curatorial and Teaching Experience:

Founder of the guerrilla street art festival “Carte Blanche” (2018–present, Yekaterinburg) and the series of site-specific exhibitions Post.Scriptum Projects (2023–present).

Co-founder and curator of the street art gallery “Sweater” (2014–2016, Yekaterinburg).

Former curator of the “TraFFaret” platform at the Stenograffia Street Art Festival (2011–2014, Yekaterinburg).

Since 2025 — teacher at the international camp for children and teenagers “Marabou”

Author of original educational courses on street art.

Collaborations:

Dispard Gallery (Moscow, Russia)

L’Galerie (Paris, France)

Novoriznica Gallery (Belgrade, Serbia)

 

Education:

  • 2018 — Rodchenko School of Photography and Multimedia (Moscow)

  • 2017 — Free Workshops School of Contemporary Art (Moscow)

  • 2012 — Faculty of Journalism, Ural Federal University (Yekaterinburg)

  • 2004 — Primary Art School (Shadrinsk)

 

 

Artist Residencies & Educational Programs:

  • 2024 — ZKM | Center for Art and Media, artist residency (Karlsruhe, Germany)

  • 2023 — Montenegro European Art Community, artist residency (Risan, Montenegro)

  • 2022 — Helsinki Urban Art Residency (Helsinki, Finland)

  • 2021 — Fabrik, artist residency (Burgdorf, Switzerland)

  • 2019 — CEC ArtsLink International Fellowships, artist residency (San Francisco, USA)

  • 2018 — Winzavod Open Studios Project, artist residency and educational program (Moscow, Russia)

  • 2018 — Graniti Murals artist residency (Graniti, Sicily, Italy)

  • 2017 — Street Art Museum artist residency (St. Petersburg, Russia)

  • 2017 — Summer Academy of Contemporary Art (Salzburg, Austria)

  • 2016 — Creative Peacebuilding Project, artist residency (Kyiv, Ukraine)

  • 2016 — DEAK School of Contemporary Art and residency (Kotor, Montenegro)

  • 2015 — Zarya Center for Contemporary Art, artist residency (Vladivostok, Russia)

  • 2014 — CEC ArtsLink Global Art Lab, public art training program (New York, USA)

  • 2012 — Ural Branch of the National Center for Contemporary Art, artist residency (Yekaterinburg, Russia)

 

Solo Exhibitions:

  • All Cats Are Beautiful (And All Dogs Too!), KP Radionica (2025; Belgrade, Serbia)

  • The Pavement Echoes, L’Galerie (2025; Paris, France)

  • 1999 (with the band SBPCh), Montenegro European Art Community (2025; Budva, Montenegro)

  • BLACK ERA, All Rights Reversed Gallery (2025; Berlin, Germany)

  • Complaints and Roads, BIFE Bar (2024; Belgrade, Serbia)

  • 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, Graphite Gallery (2022; Moscow, Russia)

  • GO, 11.12 Gallery (2022; Moscow, Russia)

  • SBP4 / PTRK / 1999 (with the band Samoe Bolshoe Prostoe Chislo),
    11.12 Gallery (2020; Moscow, Russia), Rostov Gallery (2019; Rostov-on-Don, Russia)

  • Not Needed There. Not Needed Here, Moscow Museum of Modern Art (2018; Russia)

  • I Am Here Alone, 11.12 Gallery (2016; Moscow, Russia)

 

 

Selected Group Exhibitions & Festivals:

  • IBUG Street Art Festival (2024; Riesa, Germany)

  • Artists Against the Kremlin, De Balie (2024; Amsterdam, Netherlands)

  • Brainwashing Machine, La Zona Gallery (2024; Madrid, Spain),
    The Crypt Gallery (2024; London, UK),
    Crucible Hub (2024; Oslo, Norway),
    Artten Gallery (2025; Stockholm, Sweden)

  • Sans Drapeau, Yellow Cube Gallery (2024; Paris, France)

  • I Am Vulnerability, parallel program of the Youth Biennale (2023; Belgrade, Serbia)

  • Quantum Critic, Myymälä2 Gallery (2023; Helsinki, Finland)

  • (Anti)Propaganda: Unmasking the Manipulation, BEREG (Berlin Exile Generation) (2023; Berlin, Germany)

  • Exactly.AI Exhibition, Shoreditch Arts Club (2023; London, UK)

  • Exactly Lab: Artists Embracing New AI, Guelman und Unbekannt Gallery (2023; Berlin, Germany)

  • Between the Lines, Triumph Gallery (2022; Moscow, Russia)

  • Stand or Fall, Street Art Museum (2019; St. Petersburg, Russia)

  • Artmossphere III Street Art Biennale, main program (2018; Moscow, Russia)

  • Stencilibity Street Art Festival (2018; Tartu, Estonia)

  • Signs of the Times, parallel program of the Young Art Biennale, Belyaevo Gallery (2018; Moscow, Russia)

  • Entering History, Moscow Museum (2018; Russia)

  • Other Sides, Manege Central Exhibition Hall (2018; St. Petersburg, Russia)

  • Place Street Art Festival (2017–2018; Nizhny Novgorod, Russia)

  • Guilty!, Moscow Museum of Modern Art (2017; Moscow, Russia)

  • This Is Not Moscow, Vladey Space (2017; Moscow, Russia)

  • NuArt Festival (2017; Stavanger, Norway)

  • Long Stories of Perm, Street Art Festival (2017; Perm, Russia)

  • Chilim Fest, Street Art Festival (2017; Astrakhan, Russia)

  • ArtBat Fest, Contemporary Art Festival (2016; Almaty, Kazakhstan)

  • KOTORiy, Dukley Art Center (2016; Kotor, Montenegro)

  • Anti-Museum, Part 1, Electro-Museum (2016; Moscow, Russia)

  • Portrait Now!, international competition exhibition
    (2015; Erarta Museum, Russia; Frederiksborg Castle Museum, Denmark; Ljungberg Museum, Sweden)

  • Shared History, Ural Vision Gallery (2015; Yekaterinburg, Russia)

  • Remember Tomorrow, Street Art Museum (2015; St. Petersburg, Russia)

  • Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, main program (2015; Yekaterinburg, Russia)

  • Transit Zone, PERMM Museum of Contemporary Art (2014; Perm, Russia)

  • Art Prospekt Public Art Festival (2014; St. Petersburg, Russia)

  • 10th Siberian Museum Biennale of Contemporary Art: Space of Love (2013; Krasnoyarsk, Russia)

  • Group exhibitions at Sviter Street Art Gallery (2014–2016; Yekaterinburg, Russia)

  • Stenograffia Street Art Festival (2011–2015; Yekaterinburg, Russia)

 

Awards:

  • Winner of the Sergei Kuryokhin Award in the category Art in Public Space (St. Petersburg, 2022)

  • Artist of the Year (NGO Association) for the work Barbed Wire (Belarus, 2016)

  • Winner of the international Portrait Now! competition with the project Street Dirt (Copenhagen, Denmark, 2015)

  • Winner, Street Artwork of the Year, MOST Street Art Award (Moscow, 2014)

  • Best CIS stencil artist according to TRAFORO.RU (2011, 2015)

  • Winner of the Young Artists Competition of the Urals, Siberia, and the Far East, Book Culture Fair (Krasnoyarsk, 2014)