Slava Ptrk

Slava Ptrk is a visual artist, urban artist and a curator, creating outdoor art and indoor projects featuring »“total“ installations«, objects, sculptures, video and sound art.

He was born in Russia in 1990 and is now living as a nomadic artist. Slava studied at the Rodchenko Art School and the School of Contemporary Art Free Workshops (MMOMA) in Moscow, the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, and the CEC ArtsLink Global Art Lab (New York).

As a journalist by education, he usually works with the social and political reality and responds to urgent challenges of the time, engaging people to interact with his projects, so they become partners and co-authors. His projects are a result of the absurdity of the surrounding reality, which is a general topic for him, a source of inspiration and a platform for new works.

In Yekaterinburg, Slava co-curated the »Stenograffia« international street art festival (2011–2014), co-founded »the Sweater« street art gallery (2014–2016), and founded an independent street art festival, »Carte Blanche« (2018 – present) and series of site-specific shows »Post Scriptum Projects« (2023 – present). He has taken part in street art festivals and group exhibitions in more than a dozen countries across Europe and in the USA. His first solo show was held in 2013.
He also participated in several biennales in Russia and worked as an artist in residence in Russia, Ukraine, Italy, the USA, Switzerland, Finland, Montenegro and Germany. In 2024, Slava Ptrk was artist-in-residence at the ZKM | Karlsruhe as part of Artists in Risk ­– A European Network of Safe Havens (AR-ENSH) for politically persecuted artists.