Ponosov Igor

Born in 1980, lives and works in Moscow and St.Petersburg.

Artist and street art theorist, co-founder of the Partizaning movement.

Author of the books "Art and the City" and "Russian Urban Art: History and Conflicts". Winner of the IIC Garage programme to support Russian artists, winner of the Sergei Kuryokhin Prize for Contemporary Art, nominee for the Kandinsky Prize and the Moscow Art Prize. Curator of exhibition and festival projects in Moscow, St Petersburg, Berlin, as well as in Kazan and Bishkek.

In the studio art practice he combines collage and assemblage techniques, in the city space he works in the format of art intervention and performance.

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS:

2022 — Fictional Journey. Syntax Gallery, Moscow
2021 — Cutting the Walls. Urals Branch of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Ekaterinburg
2021 — Included Observation. Syntax Gallery, Moscow
2020 — Cutting the Walls. CTI Fabrika, Moscow, Russia
2018 — Is It Dangerous To Take A Shower During A Thunderstorm. The Coat Gallery, Miami
2017 — GARAGE L6 #17. GARAGE L6, Freiburg
2016 — Thaw. In collaboration with Brad Downey. CTI Fabrika, Moscow

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND FESTIVALS:

2024 — a—s—t—r—a open.vol. 4, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Winzavod, Moscow
2023 — Archipelago of Dreams. CSK "Smena", Kazan. ZIM Gallery, Samara
2023 — Space is the case. GEH8 Kunstraum, Dresden
2023 — Out of Place. New Landscapes. CTI Fabrika, Moscow
2023 — Collector's Room. CUBE Art space, Moscow
2022 — New from Old. Krasnokholmskaya Gallery, Moscow
2021 — 2MAP, Media Centre of Zaryadye Park, Moscow
2020 — rePlastic. Electromuseum, Moscow
2019 — Post-Posters. Syndicat Potentiel, Strasbourg
2019 — The Absurd. Candid Arts Trust space, London
2018 — Habitat Happy. Neurotitan Gallery, Berlin
2018 — Partizaning: Participatory Urban Replanning. Nosna Gallery, Krakow
2018 — Meine Strasse? My Street? August Bebel Institut, Berlin
2018 — Bien Urbain, festival, Besançon
2017 — Cultural Hijack. International School of Architecture ARCHIP, Prague
2017 — Hand luggage only. Nuart Gallery, Stavanger
2017 — Nuart, festival, Stavanger
2016 — XXI Triennale di Milano International. Exposition EXPERIENCE (Ex Expo Area), Milan
2016 — Across Borders / Through Limits. Museum of Street Art, St Petersburg
2016 — Life o' Banner. Cracow Gallery Weekend KRAKERS, Krakow
2015 — Russland vs. Russland Kulturkonflikte. Studio 1 Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin
2015 — 2nd International Award for Public Art. Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Auckland
2014 — Global aCtIVISm. the ZKM, Karlsruhe
2014 — 11. ICI Garage, Moscow. 2013 X Sao Paulo Architecture Biennale. SESC, São Paulo
2013 — Territory of joint actions. Gallery 16th LINE, Rostov-on-Don
2013 — Barents Spectacle, festival. Kirkenes
2013 — Art Ovrag, festival. Vyksa
2012 — Sobyanin, baby, come on! Oriental Gallery, Moscow
2012 — The Wall. Winzavod, Moscow
2008 — About mortal in art. M-Gallery, Rostov-on-Don
2006 — Street Art. Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

“In my artistic and research practice, I focus on introducing deep and comprehensive knowledge in understanding art, perceiving visual work as a kind of impulse in building social relations. I use different means and methods to work with these aspects, building different levels of visual perception. I firmly believe that art is not something beautiful and decorative for an exclusive audience, but a liberating act. I believe in art as a tool that can change society. The central themes I have been working with in recent years are the definition of the place of the individual in urbanized space, as well as the poetic reflection on boundaries and limits, whether they be the boundaries of states, natural areas, public spaces or personal territories.”

Igor Ponosov