Alexey Luka (b. 1983, Moscow) is a Russian artist and a prominent figure in the street art movement. His practice combines abstract painting with a re-examination of modernist traditions, particularly Neoplasticism and Constructivism, within the urban environment. He graduated from the Moscow Architectural Institute (MARCHI) in 2006 and soon became engaged with graffiti and street art. Since 2008, Luka has actively worked in public art. His first exhibition took place in 2010 alongside Vova Nootk. In the following years, he regularly exhibited in Moscow galleries and art spaces, including Side B at the Creative Industries Center “Fabrika” (2012, with Natalia Serkova) and Long Tomorrow at Pechersky Gallery (2014, with Dmitry Aske). From 2013 onwards, Luka has participated in numerous international group exhibitions. His work has been shown in Paris (Famille Recomposée, Galerie Open Space, 2013), Portland (Wider than a Postcard, Breeze Block Gallery, 2013), Amsterdam (Col.la.ge, Mini Galerie, 2013; Five Years, Mini Galerie, 2019), San Francisco (A Major Minority, 1AMSF Gallery, 2014), Lyon (Late, Still Life, Enjoyted Galerie, 2014), Sidi Bou Said (Let Me Be Your Hero, GHAYA Gallery, 2016), Catanzaro (AltRove Group Show, Altrove Gallery, 2016), London (Contemporism, The Old Truman Brewery, 2017), Saarbrücken (Echoes, Zimmerling & Jungfleisch Gallery, 2018), and Philadelphia (Direction/Instruction, Paradigm Gallery, 2019).
Luka’s first solo exhibition, Being Here, was held in 2015 at Wunderkammern Gallery in Rome. Since then, he has worked exclusively with Ruarts Gallery. His practice spans collage, assemblage, painting, drawing, objects, installations, and site-specific projects. Luka’s work is distinguished by a restrained, predominantly warm palette and a meticulous attention to texture and material. He treats gallery and urban spaces equally, creating assemblages that appear both in wall niches in the city and in exhibition halls, often incorporating found objects from the street. Large-scale murals form a central part of his practice, realized at international public art festivals since 2012. His murals have appeared in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don, Astrakhan, and numerous cities in Italy, Spain, Germany, Denmark, France, Estonia, Slovakia, and Morocco.
Luka is a regular participant in Russian and international biennials, including the 8th Moscow International Biennale of Contemporary Art, the I–IV Artmossphere Street Art Biennales (2014, 2016, 2018, 2023), and the 6th Marrakech Biennale (2016). Notable projects include the photo-almanac Wall Elements 2 (2018, Alex Partola), the exhibition Wall Elements at the Manege Central Exhibition Hall in St. Petersburg (2018), and the Wall project at the Street Art Forum, MMOMA, Moscow (2019). In 2020, he realized the site-specific project Mezzanine House at Nikola-Lenivets Art Park and participated in the festival Here and Now. In 2021, he created a mural on the administrative complex of the Museum of Moscow. In 2023, Luka presented two solo exhibitions: Phantom Memories at Ruarts Gallery (Moscow) and Side View at Gallery 9B (Nizhny Novgorod). That same year, the Ruarts booth at Cosmoscow, featuring works by Luka and Grisha, was recognized as the best booth of the year. In 2024, the exhibition platform Larets in Suzdal, in collaboration with Ruarts Foundation, presented his solo show Anemoia, followed in 2025 by the solo exhibition Void and Coziness at Substantia Gallery.
Solo exhibitions
Void and Coziness, Substantia Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Anemoia. The exhibition platform Larets, together with the Ruarts Foundation for the Promotion of Contemporary Art, Suzdal, Russia
Side View. 9B Gallery, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Phantom memories. Ruarts Gallery, Moscow
Entrance #5. Ruarts Gallery, Moscow, Russia
‘Being Here’, Wunderkammern Gallery, Rome, Italy
Group exhibitions
Synergy of Assemblage. Project 'Materials of Creativity', Gallery Vykhino, Moscow, Russia
Printing Society. Multimedia Center of the Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
5 Angles. The Ruarts Foundation, Moscow, Russia
Public Art. Group exhibition dedicated to contemporary Russian public art. The exhibition is held as part of Berlin Arts Week. Russian House, Berlin, Germany
My Choice. Contemporary Art from the Andrey Cheglakov Collection, Andrey Cheglakov Foundation, Moscow, Russia
Autoportraits. A collective exhibition at the art space and workshop of 10.203, Eastcable, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Rules of the Game: How Sport Shaped Culture. Moscow State Exhibition Hall 'New Manege', Moscow, Russia
Meetings, Substantia Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Whisper of Lines, Noise of Colour, The Ruarts Gallery, Moscow, Russia
13, group exhibition featuring works by 13 ‘street wave’ artists of the Ruarts Gallery, Street Art Storage (SAKh), St. Petersburg, Russia
The Starlings Have Arrived, ARTMAG Gallery at the Winzavod Contemporary Art Center, Moscow, Russia
In the mood for Love. The Ruarts Gallery, Moscow, Russia
SRA Archive. Remontage, Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
1st Biennale of Visual Arts "The Art of Seeing the Avant-Garde." Serpukhov Museum of History and Art, Serpukhov, Russia
…Nadtsatogo Makabrya, the art space of the White Alleys Park Hotel, Moscow, Russia
Mayakovsky. Tribute, Library of V.V. Mayakovsky (Center of art and music), St. Petersburg, Russia
Street Art of the Capital, Museum Center Peace Square, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
From the archive. Community print & gallery workshop, Yekaterinburg, Russia
New Now, Ruarts Foundation, Moscow, Russia
Presnya: Exhibition of My Memory. The Zotov Center, Moscow, Russia
Secrets of the bitter house. Exhibition-intervention, a joint project between Gorky+ and GROUND Solyanka, abandoned building No. 38, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Personal space. Ruarts Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Section. Ruarts Foundation, Moscow, Russia
"Public Art". Art in the Urban Space. Gallery "Belyaevo", Moscow, Russia
TRUE LY. Ruarts Foundation, Moscow, Russia
Soft Homeland. Ruarts Foundation, Moscow, Russia
rePlasic. Electromuseum, Moscow, Russia
Timeout. Gamma Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Nothing box. Basmanyy dvor, Moscow, Russia
The 8th Moscow International Biennale of Contemporary Art. The Main Project “Orienteering And Positioning”, The New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Recycle or die. GUM-Red-Line Gallery, Moscow, Russia
‘Five Years’, Mini Gallerie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
‘Direction/Instruction’, Paradigm Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
‘Opened Circle’ (with Swiz), Zimmerling and Jungfleisch Gallery, Saarbrucken, Germany
The Street Art Forum. Exhibition "Wall". The Moscow Museum of Modern Art, in collaboration with Ruarts Foundation and the Street Art Research Institute, Moscow, Russia
‘Wall Elements 2’, Manege Central Exhibition Hall, St Petersburg, Russia
‘Wall Elements 2’, Ruarts Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Echoes. Zimmerling and Jungfleisch Gallery, Saarbrucken, Germany
Reset. 9B Galley. Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Offline: III Artmossphere Street Art Biennale, Winzavod, Moscow, Russia
‘Dacha Season’ (with Mikhail Buryj), Ruarts Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Contemporism. The Old Truman Brewery, London, UK
The Nature of Interaction. National Center for Contemporary Art, Saratov, Russia
‘Conflict/Obstruction’, MISP (the Museum of the 20th and 21st Century St Petersburg Art), St Petersburg, Russia
‘Face’, Futuro Gallery, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
‘Project 64’, VDNKh, Moscow, Russia
II Artmossphere Street Art Biennale, Manege Central Exhibition Hall, Moscow, Russia
Altrove Group Show, Altrove Gallery, Catanzaro, Italy
MB6 Project, 6th Marrakech Biennale, Marrakech, Morocco
‘Let Me Be Your Hero’, GHAYA Gallery, Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia
‘Unforeseen Circumstances’, Ruarts Gallery, Moscow, Russia
‘The Long Tomorrow’ (with Dmitry Aske), Pechersky Gallery, Moscow, Russia
‘Late, Still Life’ (with Nelio), Enjoyted Galerie, Lyon, France
‘A Major Minority’, 1AMSF Gallery, San Francisco, USA
I Artmossphere Street Art Biennale, Artplay Design Centre, Moscow, Russia
‘Wall Elements’, Ruarts Gallery, Moscow, Russia
‘Col.la.ge’, Mini Galerie, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
‘Wider than a Postcard’, Breeze Block Gallery, Portland, USA
‘Synthesis & Integration’, Gallery Art.Ru, Moscow, Russia
Famille Recomposée. Galerie Open Space, Paris, France
‘Side B’ (with Natalia Serkova), Fabrika Project, Moscow, Russia
‘Homework’ (with Nootk), Mesto Gallery, Moscow, Russia
PUBLIC ART PROJECTS and FESTIVALS
Mural for the administrative complex of the Museum of Moscow, Russia
Sukhaya Gora winery, Novorossiysk, Russia
‘A Situation of Uncertainty’, MESTO Project, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
‘A Mezzanine House’, festival ‘Archstoyanie 2020’, Nikola-Lenivets art park, Russia
‘I Am at Home’, New Holland Island, St Petersburg, Russia
Oktava Creative Industrial Cluster, Tula, Russia
Premio Antonio Giordano, Urban Art Festival, Santa Croce di Magliano, Italy
VIAVAI Project, Casarano, Italy
FestiWall, Public Art Festival, Ragusa, Italy
Chilím Festival, Astrakhan, Russia
Satka Street Art Fest, Satka, Chelyabinsk Region, Russia
Urvanity Art Fair, Madrid, Spain
Mural, Rummu, Estonia
Stadt Wand Kunst, Mannheim, Germany
Art Walk Saarbrucken, Saarbrucken, Germany
Art festival Artification 2017. Saint Petersburg. Russia
WEAART, Aalborg, Denmark
Altrove Festival, Catanzaro, Italy
SAC Project, Kosice, Slovakia
‘MB6: Street Art’, Marrakesh, Morocco
‘Cibus’ in Fabula Project, Milan, Italy
New City Festival, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Architectural farm. Moscow, Russia
‘Memorie Urbane’, Arce, Italy
‘Memorie Urbane’, Terracina, Italy
Le MUR XIII Project, Paris, France
Mural, Rome, Italy
Street Art Museum, St Petersburg, Russia
LGZ Festival, Moscow, Russia
Art-Ovrag Festival, Vyksa, Russia
Poliniza Festival, Valencia, Spain
16th Line Street Art Festival, Rostov on Don, Russia
