Konstantin Danilov (b. 1979, Moscow, live and work in Athens, Greece)
Konstantin Danilov is a painter and muralist from Moscow, now live in Athens, Greece after he moved out from Russia in 2022.
He was one of the pioneers of the burgeoning graffiti movement in 1990s Russia, and the experiences of working with color and shape in urban space still inform his work. At the moment, he associates himself with Color Field painting. He also makes prints, drawings, and digital editions.
IKonstantin is currently working on two series of paintings. In the first one, titled "Borderline States,” he explores the psycho-emotional state of concentration and the role of peripheral vision in interpreting different external emotional fields. Here he is interested in suppression and substitution of emotions, the relationship between border and center, and the function of unconscious memory.
The second project is devoted to the problem of human integration into a different society under the conditions of emigration. Through form and color, Konstantin presents a psychological color chart of the ability or inability to blend in and cooperate in new contexts.
He has two solo exhibitions,“Flashbacks” at Triumph gallery in 2019 and “Spring 2020” at the Fineart Gallery in 2020, both in Moscow, Russia. The notable group shows he participated in are “Apologia for Delusions”at Moscow Museum of Modern art in Moscow, 2019, “Boundless space... the possibilities of Burning Man”, group show and auction, Burning man Project and Sotheby’s, New York in 2021, TRUE ЛИ, group show at RuArts Foundation, Moscow in 2022, “30 Year Anniversary” group show at Fineart gallery, Moscow in 2022.
His artworks are included in RuArts Foundation collection, Sofia Trotsenko collection and Montresso Foundation.
SOLO EXHIBITONS
2024 Borderline States, Reloft Art, Moscow, Russia
2020 Spring 2020, Fineart gallery, Moscow, Russia
2019 Flashbacks, Triumph gallery, Moscow, Russia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Awareness of space in time. 30-years anniversary, Fineart gallery, Moscow, Russia
2022 Retrogaming, Goldshteyn-Saatort Gallery, Paris, France
Grand opening, Red Door gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
True Ли, Ruarts Foundation, Moscow, Russia
2021 Cyberpunk, Goldshteyn-Saatort Gallery, Paris, France
Boundless space… the possibilities of Burning Man, Sotheby’s and Burning man Project, New York, USA
Open letter, Fineart Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2020 10 anniversary, Mathgoth gallery, Paris, France
Nothing box, Moscow, Russia
Uncovered, Goldshteyn-Saatort Gallery, Paris, France
2019 Land of stars, Fineart Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2018 Other Shores, Manege, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Apologia for delusions, Moscow Museum of modern art, Russia
2017 Enter the history, Moscow Museum, Moscow, Russia
Urban Art Show, NUNC! Gallery, Grenoble, France
Kvadrart, Wallery gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2016 #Project64, Optics pavilion, VDNH, Moscow
Wall elements, Neurotitan gallery, Berlin, Germany
2015 City - territory of love, Fineart Gallery, Moscow, Russia
A Major minority, 1AMgallery, San Francisco, USA
The New wave: Uncut 2, MSK Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2014 Urbanism: city in my head, Museum of Moscow, Moscow, Russia
The New wave: Uncut, MSK Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Wall elements, RUARTs Gallery, Moscow, Russia
ART FAIRS
2024 Catalog, ReLot Art booth 1.8 , Moscow, Russia
Art Russia, Moscow, Russia
2023 Affordable Art Fair Amsterdam, Netherlands. Glo.Art gallery booth
EuropeArt Fair Amsterdam, Netherlands. Glo.Art gallery booth
2021 Artlife, Manege, Moscow, Russia
Russian Antique Salon, Fineart gallery booth, Moscow, Russia
Da! Moscow, Fineart gallery booth, Moscow, Russia
2020 DA! Moscow, Triumph and Fineart Galleries booths, Moscow, Russia
Russian Antique Salon, Fineart gallery booth, Moscow, Russia
ArtFair 14C, Verityfair booth, New Jersey city, USA
Cosmoscow, Format 1 booth, Moscow, Russia
2017 Urban Art Fair Paris, NUNC! Gallery booth, Paris, France
AUCTIONS
2021 Boundless space… the possibilities of Burning Man, Sotheby’s, New York, USA
2020 Vladey, Moscow, Russia
6th Urban contemporary art Auction, RuArts gallery X Artmossphere
2014 1st Urban contemporary art Auction, RuArts gallery X Artmossphere
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
2023 GLO.ART Residence, Lanaken, Belgium
COLLECTIONS
Sofia Trotsenko collection Founder of Winzavod Center
RuArts Foundation (Mariana Sardarova collection)
Montresso Foundation collection
STRAAT Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
STREET ART EVENTS
2023 L’Art habite la Ville, Mons, Belgium
Eternelles crapules, Briançon, France
Pompei Street Art, Pompei, Italy
LeMUR Oberkampf 107, Paris, France
Step in the Arena, Eindhoven, Netherlands
2022 Memorandum, Ufa, Russia
Khalandri street art, Athens, Greece
2021 4 Murals for Polus-Magadan, Omchak, Russia
2020 NewTon, Kursk, Russia
Plesk, Pskov, Russia
Iskra, Neftekamsk, Russia
2019 Mural Oasis, Primm, USA
Urbanmorphogenesis, Odintsovo, Russia
Wall street art Grand Paris Sud, Lieusaint, France
Mesto project, Nijniy Novgorod, Russia
Step in the Arena X, Eindhoven, Netherlands
HKWalls, Hong Kong, China
2018 Loures Art publica, Loures, Portugal
Urban Art Astana, Astana, Kazakhstan
Stenograffia, Ekaterinburg, Russia
2017 Loures Arte Publica, Loures, Portugal
Step in the Arena, Eindhoven, Netherlands
La Grande schmirage, Ingolstadt, Germany
Mural art, Almaty, Kazakhstan
2016 Street Dealin X, Jakarta, Indonesia
Spectr, Vyksa, Russia
Stenograffia, Omsk, Russia
2015 Meeting of Styles, Milan, Italy
Streetfire, Moscow, Russia
2014 Rehlatna, Dubai, UAE. World Guinness record was set by more than 100 artist. The longest graffiti scroll
Baltic Sessions, Tallinn, Estonia
Meeting of styles, Lublin, Poland
Faces&Laces, Moscow, Russia
2013-1999 Meeting of Styles, Mainz-Castel, Germany; Minsk, Belarus; Lyon, France
Selected Faces&Laces, Moscow, Russia
German-Russia Project, Berlin, Germany
Versus Project, Barcelona, Spain
Collaboration with Rubin415, 5 Pointz, New York, USA
Roskilde graffiti, Roskilde, Denmark
Like it Art, Kazan, Russia
Just writing my name, Kiev, Ukraine
Graffiti nonstop, Wroclaw, Poland
Paint Methods, Krasnoyarsk and Omsk, Russia
Urbanize, Sofia, Bulgaria
Write 4 gold Finals, Chemnitz, Germany
ART FAIRS / BIENNALES
2017 Paris Urban Art Fair, NUNC! Gallery booth, Paris, France
2014 Artmosphere street art biennale, Moscow, Russia
1997 Started graffiti career