Slava Ptrk

Working across both public space and exhibition contexts, Slava creates outdoor interventions alongside indoor projects, including large-scale installations, objects, sculpture, video, and sound. His practice explores themes of freedom and oppression, violence and coexistence, power structures, and human rights, while also reflecting on his experience as an immigrant artist working in a time of war.
Born in Ekaterinburg, in Russia’s Ural region, Slava began creating graffiti at the age of 14. He graduated in 2012 from Ural Federal University (journalism) and later studied at the Rodchenko Art School and Free Workshops School of Contemporary Art in Moscow, the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, and CEC ArtsLink Global Art Lab in New York.
In 2015, his collaborative series Street Dirt (with Vladimir Abikh) received first prize at the international competition PORTRAIT NOW!, organized by the Museum of National History of Denmark. In 2022, he was awarded the Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award in the “Art in Public Space” category for the Black Series project.
In Ekaterinburg, he co-curated the Stenograffia International Street Art Festival (2011–2014), co-founded the Sweater street art gallery (2014–2017), and founded the independent street art festival Carte Blanche (2018–present). After leaving Russia, he initiated the site-specific exhibition
series Post.Scriptum.Projects (since 2023) in Montenegro and BLANK festival in Serbia (upcoming in 2026).
His work has been presented in international exhibitions and street art festivals across Europe and the United States. He has participated in major biennials including the Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, the Moscow Biennale of Young Art, the Siberian Museum Biennale, and the Artmossphere Biennale of Urban Art. His first solo exhibition took place in 2013.
In 2022, Slava left Russia and has since lived in Montenegro, Serbia, and Germany, eventually moved to France.