Partola Alex

Works

Solo exhibitions

2025

PRTL, The Ruarts Gallery, Moscow, Russia

Group exhibitions

2025

13, group exhibition featuring works by 13 ‘street wave’ artists of the Ruarts Gallery, Street Art Storage (SAKh), St. Petersburg

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

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, he co-founded the publishing house "Osi" with Nikita Skryabin. Partola is the author of the book "Ghosts" (2012), 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, and the works were included in the collection of the Multimedia Art Museum (MAMM). 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. Co-author of the project "City from the Dungeon" (2021) about the journey of Moscow artists to the catacombs of Paris. In 2020, Partola curated the solo exhibition of the artist Zoom titled "In Vain". 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. In 2024, he presented the edition Wall Elements 3 and an exhibition of the same name at the Ruarts Foundation. In 2025, Alex held his inaugural solo exhibition titled "PRTL" at the Ruarts gallery. Alex Partola’s works are held in both museum and private collections. He currently resides and works in Moscow.

Publications

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

Press