Petr Kirusha was born in 1978 in Dushanbe (Tajikistan), moved to Riga (Latvia). Lives and works in Moscow and Riga.
Education:
2005 the Higher Academic School of Graphic Design, workshop by Boris Trofimov
2012 Institute of Contemporary Art (Moscow).
Personal Exhibitions:
2026 Der Zauberberg, Maxim Boxer Gallery, Riga
2025 Ivres d’un soleil qui crève la poitrine, IRAGUI Gallery, Paris
2025 Create a couple: Alina Glazoun and Petr Kirusha, Sinara Center, Ekaterinburg
2024 MYTH Gallery x SOMA, SOMA restaraunt, Moscow
2024 Close your eyes, look at sunlight. The Light. Saray Gallery, Anna Akhmatova Museum, St. Petersburg
2024 Close your eyes, look at sunlight. The Dark. Luda Gallery, St. Petersburg
2023 Entangled in a velvet curtain, MYTH Gallery, St.Petersburg
2023 Mia aventura Italiana, Perfume Art Creation, Venezia
2023 Portal, Aiki Terrasa, St.Petersburg
2022 Shadows of realism, Perfume Art Creation, Zollikerberg, Switzerland
2021 Flickering memory, Iragui gallery, Moscow
2021 Saplīsa Krūms, MYTH Gallery x Iragui gallery, St.Petersburg
2019 Masks of governance, Studio, Moscow
2019 Burn, Notfound gallery, Moscow
2017 Brightest, Elektrozavod gallery, Moscow
2015 So, and not otherwise, Nadja Brykina Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2013 Tissue & doors, Galerie Iragui, Moscow
2009 Blow-up, M & J Guelman Gallery, Moscow
Group exhibitions:
2026 Moscow, who are you?, Geometry Foundation, Moscow
2026 The Rhythms of the Inner Sea, Creative Cluster RAZIN, Saint Petersburg
2026 Exhibition of Natalia Maslova's private collection, 3L Gallery, Moscow
2026 Above the avant-garde, Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, Ekaterinburg
2026 MYTH. Unlimited, masters:dom, Moscow
2025 Liminal Zones, Ivanovo
2025 Homines Novi, A-HOUSE, Moscow
2025 Ritual for Clearing the Mind, Fonarny baths, St. Petersburg
2025 The position of the paintings depends on taste. Contemporary art from the collection of Anton Kozlov, МАММ, Moscow
2025 Jessica: "I'm not that bad — that's how I was painted", Jessica Gallery, St. Petersburg
2025 Garden of Memories, 3L Gallery, Moscow
2024 Twenty-one long, one short, Yeltsin Center Art Gallery, Yekaterinburg
2024 Focus: Collector, MYTH Gallery, House of Kochneva, St. Petersburg
2023 It's wintertime, and all feels novel, Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, Moscow
2023 MYTH and MOX, МОХ Space, Moscow
2023 Focus. Graphics, MYTH Gallery, St. Petersburg
2022 Things, ART 4 Museum, Moscow
2021 Paper Vision / Digital Waste Paper, Inart gallery, Moscow
2021 100 ways to live a minute (online exhibition), The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
2020 Slipping Line, Cube Moscow, Moscow
2020 Neoinfantilism, LUDA gallery, St. Petersburg
2019 Dreams of Moscow, Museum of Moscow, Moscow
2018 If you close your eyes, it will probably disappear, Vladimir Smirnov & Konstantin Sorokin foundation, Moscow
2017 Three, Vladimir Smirnov & Konstantine Sorokin foundation, Moscow
2017 Pictures of Nothing, PG Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
2016 Raw magic, Galerie Iragui, Moscow
2016 Small school, Bogorodskoe gallery, Moscow
2015 #SoftNorm, Artplay, Moscow
2015 Heineken Art Hub, Bolshaya Lubyanka, 26, Moscow
2014 Be fun, but do not destroy, do not break and do not bite, CCA Sokol, Moscow
2014 High-touch, CCA Sokol, Moscow
2014 Parallel program of Manifesta 10, Sale, First Cadet Corps, St. Petersburg
2014 Hotel Antalya, CCA Sokol, Moscow
2014 By Might & Magic, Gallery Bogorodskoe, Moscow
2014 Turn on to Guslitsa, Creative manor Guslitsa, Ilyinsky Pogost
2013 Love the earth, heaven and all, Fabrika, Moscow
2013 Mystavka, European College of Fine Arts Brittany, Rennes, France
2013 1/13, Performance, Museum of Moscow, Moscow
2013 Saturnalia, Exhibition of Russian artists in Georgia, Tbilisi, Batumi, Georgia
2013 Why do we go to the exhibition, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow
2013 Nothing like that, Special Projects of 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Museum of Moscow, Moscow
2012 Outdoors, Artplay, Moscow
2012 Try to cats, Simon Mraz, House on the Embankment, Moscow
2011 Maximum / concrete, Perm Museum of Contemporary Art PERMM, Perm
Fairs:
2026 countour, Nizhny Novgorod
2025 Winter market of contemporary art 1703, St. Petersburg
2025, 2024 Art Busan, Busan
2025, 2024, 2023 Drawing now Art Fair, Paris
2026, 2024, 2023, 2022 COSMOSCOW, Moscow
2023, 2022 Bordeaux Art & Design, Bordeaux
2023 Zandele. Vol. 3, Riga
2022 Tupik 20 22, Moscow
Residences:
2026 The Dom Artist-In-Residency Programme, Dom Art Project, Dubai
2024 MuseumQuartier's Artist-in-Residence Programme, MuseumsQuartier Wien, Vienna
Petr’s works are in the collections of Caviar Factory (Henningsver), Zuzeum (Riga), Daniel & Florence Guerlain (Paris), AZ Museum (Moscow), Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantin Sorokin Foundation (Moscow), Kozlov Collection (Moscow), as well as in private collections.
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