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ABOUT SLAVA PTRK

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Slava Ptrk has a journalistic education. He usually works with surrounding social and political reality. Slava tries to make his artworks clear, concise, sharp, topical, and whenever possible interactive, as well as inscribed in the physical and informative context of the place. Artist states: "My major instrument is irony. I sneer at the absurdity that is happening around, the absurdity of Russian reality (and other countries, sometimes) is both an issue and a ground for new works for me". Tools, specific genres and media are no longer essential - it can be drawings, actions or just posts on Facebook. Slava's preferable technics are stencils, posters, muralism, installations, urban interventions. As time goes, Slava prefers moving and experimenting without focusing on one thing.

SELECTED ARTWORKS

SLAVA PTRK

CONTEMPORARY ARTIST

1990

Street-artist, Moscow-Ekaterinburg, Russia

Over 7 years hand-on experience in the streets

EDUCATION

Beginning School of Arts in Shadrinsk city, Russia

Ural Federal University in Yekaterinburg (Russia), department of journalism (Majors in Print Media & Web-Journalism)

School of Contemporary Art "Free Workshops", Moscow Museum of Modern Art

ART RESIDENCES AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES

2017

Graniti Murals art residence, Sicily, Italy
Art residence in Street Art Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
School of Modern Art "Summer Academy", Salzburg, Austria

2017

Graniti Murals art residence, Sicily, Italy
Art residence in Street Art Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
School of Modern Art "Summer Academy", Salzburg, Austria

2016

Creative peacebuilding project, art residence in Kiev, Ukraine
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

AWARDS

2016

Artist of the year by The Assembly Of NGOs for work "Barbed wire", Belarus

2015

Winner of first grant for public-art project by Artmossphere Community, Moscow

Winner of the international contest PORTRAIT NOW! — Brewer J.C. Jacobsen’s Portrait Award, with "Street dirt" project, Copenhagen, Denmark

Twice nominated for Kuryokhin award in category "Art in public space" (in 2013, too)

The best artist in the genre of stencil art by the web-portal TRAFORO.RU (in 2011, too)

2014

The best artist in nomination "Street work of the year" by the MOST Awards, Moscow

2013

Winner of the festival of street art "Ecology of Space", in the category "Social Art" with the project "Street dirt", Perm

The winner in the nomination "The best art event"  version of the portal Advertology.ru with the project "Street dirt"

Nominated on Moscow International Advertising Festival Red Apple in the category "Precarious social advertising" with the project "Street dirt", third place at the same festival in the "Custom PSAs — New Media" with the project "Street dirt"

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND FESTIVALS

2019

Personal exhibition "No Needed Here, No Needed There", MMOMA, Moscow, Russia

2018

Street art festival "Stencibility", Tartu, Estonia
Festival of illegal street art "Carte-blanche", Ekaterinburg, Russia

Group exhibition "Signs of time", biennial of young art "Abrakadabra", Belyaevo gallery, Moscow, Russia

2017

Street art festival "Mesto", Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia
Street art festival "NuArt", Stavanger, Norway
Street art festival "Long stories of Perm", Perm, Russia
Street art festival "Chillim Fest", Astrahan, Russia

Group exhibition "Here is not Moscow", Vladey Space, Moscow, Russia

Group exhibition "Framescription", Printing shop art-space, Moscow, Russia

Group exhibition "Come back home", Institute of Russian realistic art, Moscow, Russia

Group exhibition "Guilty!", Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia

2016

Personal exhibition "I’m Alone Here", 11.12 Gallery, Moscow, Russia

Group exhibition "Not A Peace", Kiev, Ukraine

Group exhibition "Project 64: Independence", part of Second Biennale of Street Art "Artmossphere", Moscow, Russia

Group exhibition "KOTORiy", Dukley Art Center, Kotor, Montenegro

Group exhibition "Anti-museum, part 1", Electro-museum, Moscow, Russia

Group exhibition "What picture are you going to be?", Ural Vision Gallery, Ekaterinburg, Russia

Group exhibition "Enemy" in street-art gallery "Sweater", Ekaterinburg, Russia

Festival of urban culture "Art-Ovrag", Vyksa, Russia

Festival of contemporary art "ArtBat fest", Almaty, Kazakhstan

Festival of public art "SIGNAL", special project with project "Barbed wire", Minsk, Belarus

2015

Group exhibition "Common History", Ural Vision Gallery, Ekaterinburg, Russia

Group exhibition "CloneArt 2", Valencia, Spain

Group exhibition of international competition "Portrait Now!", Erarta museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

Group exhibition of international competition "Portrait Now!", The Museum of National History, Frederiksborg Castle (Denmark), and in Ljungberg, Sweden

Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg, Russia

Group exhibition "Remember tomorrow", Street-art museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

Street-art festival "Stenograffia", Ekaterinburg, Russia

2014

Personal exhibition with project "Street Dirt", loft-project "Etaji", St. Petersburg, Russia

Group exhibition "Tranzite zone", Museum of Contemporary Art PERMM, Perm, Russia

Public-art festival "Art Prospekt", St. Petersburg, Russia

Public-art festival by Fair of Book Culture KRYAKK, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

Street-art festival "Best city of the world", Moscow, Russia

2013/ 2012/ 2011

Tenth Siberian Museum Biennale of Contemporary Art "Love Space", Krasnoyarsk, Russia

Group exhibition "Voice of the streets", loft-project "Etagi", Saint-Petersburg

Group exhibition "Workshops" in Ural NCCA, Ekaterinburg, Russia

Festival of street-art "Makaronka", Rostov-on-Don, Russia

Festival of modern media and journalism "Media-fest" with project "Fears", Ekaterinburg, Russia

White Nights Festival, with interactive project "POWER", Perm, Russia

ART FAIRS

2019

2018

Art Fair 14C, New Jersey, USA

Cosmoscow 2018, Gostiny Dvor, Moscow, Russia

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

2017

SAM Fair, Street Art Museum, St. Petersburg

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