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. In 2024, he presented the edition Wall Elements 3 and an exhibition of the same name at the Ruarts Foundation. 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.
New Now, Ruarts Foundation, Moscow, Russia
Personal Space, a collective retrospective exhibition, The Ruarts Gallery, Moscow, Russia
The National Architectural Festival "Zodchestvo". The Exhibition Center "Gostiny Dvor", Moscow, Russia
TRUE LY. Ruarts Foundation, Moscow, Russia
Wall. The Street Art Forum. The Moscow Museum of Modern Art, in collaboration with Ruarts Foundation and the Street Art Research Institute, Moscow, Russia
Wall Elements 2. Ruarts Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Wall Elements. Manege Central Exhibition Hall, Saint Petersburg, Russia
I Can't Find What I'm Looking For. Vzlet Project, VDNH, Moscow, Russia
ARTMOSSPHERE Biennale. Manege Central Exhibition Hall, Moscow, Russia
Wall Elements. Neurotitan Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Wall Elements. Ruarts Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Teufelsberg. Faces & Laces, Ruarts Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Prizraki. 10th Moscow Photo Biennale, Ekaterina Foundation, Moscow, Russia
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
And You Want the Same. Museum of Moscow, Moscow, Russia
Ghost in the Machine. Promgrafica Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Vice Photo Show. Artplay, Moscow, Russia
Partola A., Scriabin N. Wall Elements 3. Album. M.: Publishing House "ОСЬ", 2024
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
