Partola Alex

Works Exhibitions Biography

Works

Group exhibitions

2023-2024

New Now, Ruarts Foundation, Moscow, Russia

2022

Personal Space, a collective retrospective exhibition, The Ruarts Gallery, Moscow, Russia

The National Architectural Festival "Zodchestvo". The Exhibition Center "Gostiny Dvor", Moscow, Russia

2021

TRUE LY. Ruarts Foundation, Moscow, Russia

2019

Wall. The Street Art Forum. The Moscow Museum of Modern Art, in collaboration with Ruarts Foundation and the Street Art Research Institute, Moscow, Russia

2018

Wall Elements 2. Ruarts Gallery, Moscow, Russia

Wall Elements. Manege Central Exhibition Hall, Saint Petersburg, Russia

2017

I Can't Find What I'm Looking For. Vzlet Project, VDNH, Moscow, Russia

2016

ARTMOSSPHERE Biennale. Manege Central Exhibition Hall, Moscow, Russia

2015

Wall Elements. Neurotitan Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2014

Wall Elements. Ruarts Gallery, Moscow, Russia

Teufelsberg. Faces & Laces, Ruarts Gallery, Moscow, Russia

Prizraki. 10th Moscow Photo Biennale, Ekaterina Foundation, Moscow, Russia

2013

SilverCamera. Kazansky r/w station, Moscow, Russia

Ghost in the Machine. Studio 74, London, UK

"96" Nikita K. Skryabin, The Zoological Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia

2012

And You Want the Same. Museum of Moscow, Moscow, Russia

Ghost in the Machine. Promgrafica Gallery, Moscow, Russia

2011

Vice Photo Show. Artplay, Moscow, Russia

Exhibitions

PERSONAL SPACE Ruarts Gallery turns 18

Biography

Alex Partola was born in 1990 in Riga. In 2013, the artist graduated from the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics and from the British Higher School of Art and Design. Known as a photographer, graphic designer, curator and publisher. In 2012, together with Nikita Skryabin, he presented the Ghost in the Machine book, where he introduced a series of black and white photos of Moscow graffiti writers, taken while they were painting trains. The project was presented as part of the 10th International Photobiennale in Moscow. Partola is the author of the Wall Elements project and exhibition (2014), as well as of the first large-scale study of Russian street art from Kaliningrad to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and of the photo almanac of the same name – Wall Elements 2 (2018), implemented with the support of Ruarts Foundation for Contemporary Art. Alex Partola regularly participates in the Artmossphere Biennale of Street Wave Art. Lives and works in Moscow. Co-author of the project "City from the Dungeon" (2021) about the journey of Moscow artists to the catacombs of Paris. In 2022, he curated the project called “Section” and invited Alexei Luka and Matvey Shapiro as artists to reflect on the remains of the architectural monument of federal significance, the V. F. Snegirev’s mansion.

Publications

City from the dungeon. 0331с, Grisha, PRTL. With support of Ruarts Foundation, Moscow, Russia. 2021

Partola A., Scriabin N. Wall Elements 2. Album. M.: Publishing House "ОСЬ", 2018

Partola A., Scriabin N. Wall Elements. Album. M.: Publishing House "ОСЬ", 2014

Partola A., Scriabin N. Ghosts. Album of documentary photographic material. M.: Publishing house "ОСЬ", 2012