Igor Ponosov(Moscow)
Artist
In 2022, LL’Editons published the multiple Two-Faced by Igor Ponosov and American, Berlin based, artist Brad Downey.
Igor Ponosov (b. 1980, Nizhnevartovsk) is a Moscow based artist, co-founder of the Partizaning movement, and researcher focused on Urban Art. He is the writer, publisher and author of numerous books and publications on contemporary art. Ponosov has undertaken residencies including the Global Art Lab public art residency in New York, as part of the 2014 Arts Leadership Fellows, as well as at the National Centre for Contemporary Arts in Moscow, in 2016. Igor Ponosov works as an activist, artist and independent curator of multi-disciplinary projects, focusing on the social environment of the city and its transformation through the arts.
Igor Ponosov is the author of the following books: Art and the city (Russian: Искусство и город) and Russian Urban Art: History and Conflicts. Laureate of The Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award (St Petersburg).
Between 2005 and 2009 Ponoisov published three books on street art in Russia and the ex-USSR. From 2011 to 2013 he curated The Wall a project based in the CCA Winzavod, Moscow. In 2011 he founded the Partizaning art project as a platform for exchange among activists, artists and urbanists. From 2013 to 2016 he curated Delai Sam festival, which focused on grassroots iniatives and activism in Russia. Igor is author of the book Art and the city (2016), for which he received The Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award 2016 for Best Text on Contemporary Art (St. Petersburg), in 2019 he was nominated with the book to Kandinsky prize in Moscow. In 2017 he was curating of group show and lab in Berlin, which have been focused on Urban Art and activism of Eastern Europe. In 2018 Igor wrote and published Russian Urban Art: History and Conflicts book, which has been launched in Tartu, Besancon, Paris, Helsinki, Krakow, Berlin, Freiburg and Weil-am-Rhein. Since 2005 Ponosov has published many books focused on Urban Art and Activism.
In 2022, LL’Editons published the multiple Two-Faced by Igor Ponosov and American, Berlin based, artist Brad Downey.
