Slava PTRK
Slava Ptrk was born in 1990 in Shadrinsk, Kurgan region. He graduated from the art school there and later moved to Yekaterinburg, where he entered the Ural State University named after A.M. Gorky at the Faculty of Journalism, majoring in print media.
In 2014, he graduated from the CEC Artslink Public Art course in New York. In 2016-2018, he studied contemporary art at the Free Workshops school in Moscow, at the Summer Academy Summer School in Salzburg, and at the School of Photography and Multimedia named after him. Rodchenko in Moscow.
From 2011 to 2014, he supervised the Traffaret platform at the Stenograffia Street Art Festival in Yekaterinburg. In 2014, he became a co-founder of the street art gallery “Sweater” (Yekaterinburg). In 2018, he created the festival of guerrilla street art “Carte Blanche” (Yekaterinburg).
Slava Park is Sergey Kuryokhin Award nominee (2013, 2018), winner of the Portrait Now International Award (Denmark). Participant of the Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale of Contemporary Art (2013), the Ural Industrial Biennale (2015), the Moscow International Biennale of Young Art (2018), as well as the II and III Biennale of Street Art “Artmossfera” (2016, 2018). Participant of art residencies in Russia, Ukraine, Montenegro, Italy, USA and Switzerland. He has created works for public art festivals in Russia, Kazakhstan, Estonia, Italy, Spain, Norway.
Slava Ptrk started doing graffiti from the age of 14: at first, it was simple inscriptions, and later he added a stencil, which eventually became one of his typical techniques. Along with it, he also developed large social projects that were represented by a synthesis of research, installations, and actions. In this aspect, he used the skills which he learned during his journalistic education. In every project he created, the key importance is assigned to a person: the social factor has a predominant role, revealed through artistic talent.
The “Loneliness” series has linked together all Slava Ptrk’s artworks of different formats and media (from graffiti and found objects to laser cutting on metal and wood), putting at the forefront the theme of different people living moments alone with themselves. Moreover, not only the specifics of a certain character are important here, but also his compositional “environment”, which helps to reveal the character and, perhaps, get to know him better.
The project “Not Needed There, Not Needed Here” was a large-scale total installation, each element of which represented certain references of the childhood of Slava Ptrk. The artist analyzed what exactly influenced him as an artist. Since he grew up in the 90s, all the topics were recognizable and close to many viewers.
A significant project created by Slava Ptrk was a collaboration with the SPBCH band — “1999”. It was dedicated to the memory of the events of the first and second Chechen wars. Memories of witnesses and soldiers are gathered together and turned into a total installation at an abandoned military facility near Moscow. The project showed personal, subjective and unique stories of people, and through the prism of each hero’s unique experience told about those events once again and highlighted the need of any war.
SELECTED SOLO EXHITITIONS
2022
GO! 11.12 GALLERY, Moscow
Makabr. Center of Urban Culture GRAPHITE, Moscow
2020
1999. 11.12 GALLERY, Moscow
2018
Not Needed There. Not Needed Here. Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
Solitude. Alvitr Gallery, Ekaterinburg
2016
I Am Here Alone. 11.12 GALLERY, Moscow
2014
Street Dirt. ETAGI loft project, Saint-Petersburg
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
Trespassers W! Ural Vision Gallery, Yekaterinburg
State Emergency. Tambov Art Gallery, Tambov
True Ly. Ruarts Foundation, Moscow
2020
Para Bellum. City Contemporary Art Museum, Vladivostok
State Emergency. Triumph Gallery, Moscow
It’s Time. «Na Peschanoy» Gallery, Moscow
2019
Ptrk, Muratov et cetera… CCA Winzavod, Moscow
2018
Sings of the Times. Parallel program of Contemporary Art Biennale «Abracadabra». Belyaevo gallery, Moscow.
Street Art Festival Stencilibity, Tartu
2017
Workshop 2017. A Place, Where Nobody Has a Dream: from Sacred Geography to Non-Place. Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
Come Home. Institute of Russian Realist Art, Moscow
Guilty! Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
Make History. Museum of Moscow, Moscow
Here Is Not Moscow! Vladey Space, Moscow
2016
KOTORiy. Dunkey Art Center, Kotor
Anti-Museum. Part 1. Electro-museum, Moscow
2015
CloneArt 2. Valencia, Spain
Remember Tomorrow. Street Art Museum, Saint-Petersburg
Street Art Festival «Stenograffy. Ekaterinburg
Portrait Now! Erarta Museum, Historical museum Frederksborg, Saint-Petersburg / Copenhagen
Common History. Ural Vision Gallery, Ekaterinburg
2014
Transit Zone. PERMM contemporary art museum, Perm
Public art festival «Art-Prospect». Saint-Petersburg
Street art festival «The Best City on Earth». Moscow
Street art festival «Stenograffy». Ekaterinburg
2013
Floor. Anti-café «4 rooms», Ekaterinburg
Boards – Paints 2013. Taiga creative space, Saint-Petersburg
Something That Was Not. Ural branch of the NCCA, Ekaterinburg
10th Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale of Contemporary Art «Love of the Space». Krasnoyarsk
Street art festival «Stenograffy». Ekaterinburg
2012
Show Me Yourself. «Krasivo» gallery, Saint-Petersburg
Street art festival «Stenograffy». Ekaterinburg
2011
White Nights. Perm Alive festival, Perm
Street art festival «Stenograffy». Ekaterinburg
SELECTED Art Fairs
2022
Contemporary Art Moscow Fair. Moscow
2020
International Contemporary Art Fair Blazar. Moscow
2019
International Contemporary Moniker Art Fair. New York
2017
International Contemporary Art Fair Cosmoscow. Moscow
SELECTED PRIZES AND AWARDS
2015
Winner of the international competition Portrait Now! (Copenhagen, Denmark) with the project «Street Dirt»
Winner in the nomination «Street art work of the year»
2014
Winner of Russian National Prize in the field of street art MOST
Winner of the competition for young artists of the Urals, Siberia and Far East in Krasnoyarsk Book Culture Fair
2013
Nominee for Kuryokhin prize in section «Art in public spaces».
Winner of Weburg.ru award in nomination «The best exhibition project» with the project «Street Dirt».
Winner of street art festival «Ecology of the space» in nomination «Social art».
Winner in nomination «The best art-action» according to Advertology.ru with the project «Street Dirt».
Nominee of Moscow international advertisement festival Red Apple in nomination «Nonstandart social advertisement», the third place at the same festival in nomination «Nonstandart social advertisement – new media».
Bronze medalist of the Kiev international advertisement festival in nomination «Outdoor».
Silver medalist of the social advertisement festival «It’s time!» in nomination «ambient-media, professional works» with the project «Street Dirt».