Casus Pacis ( Повод к миру Motive for Peace ) was the first exhibition to be held at the Street Art Museum in St. Petersburg. Sixty artists from Russia, Ukraine, and other countries presented their work at an operational factory, where street artists have spent two years creating murals on the walls of the workshops. The exhibition was originally dedicated to the centenary of the First World War, but the present day, namely the events taking place in Ukraine, was later intentionally brought to the fore.The exhibition was integrated into the industrial landscape of the working Laminated Plastics Factory (SLOPLAST): the ruins of abandoned workshops, the industrial spaces between them, and even a smokestack, unused since its construction in the 1990s. The redevelopment of the site was carried out by the architectural firm Les.Participants include not just artists who work primarily on the streets, but also painters and graphic artists trying their hand at the medium for the first time.
Casus Belli (2012/2012) by Pasha 183. Moscow, RussiaStreet Art Museum
War, 2014 (2014/2014) by Escif. SpainStreet Art Museum
Vova. 2014 (2014/2014) by Zbiok. Warsaw, PolandStreet Art Museum
Zbiok has created a massive mural in his trademark style. The composition is constructed as a collage with a surreal, fragmentary depiction of people and understated pastel tones.
Peace and love through self- development matryoshka doll by Viktoria Mavi, Kaliningrad, RussiaStreet Art Museum
Homeless man's house. 2014 (2014/2014) by Pavel Suslov. Zukovsky, RussiaStreet Art Museum
Homeless Man’s Houseis a series of large canvases connected to form a single voluminous structure, inside which the artist lives.
One second before the onset of place. 2014 (2014/2014) by Kirill Shamanov. St. Petersburg, RussiaStreet Art Museum
Kirill Shamanov presented an installation depicting a missile suspended in a special frame. “Like Damien Hirst’s legendary shark, the aerial bomb appears to hover in the air one second before it hits the ground”
A globe made of barbed wire containing a
stuffed dove symbolizes the cage imprisoning
the world on the eve of war. Marked on the
globe in different colours are the borders
of various countries in 1914, on the eve
of the World War One.
My blood is your wine - a Russian Ukrainian cocktail.2014 (2014/2014) by Tajiks - Art. St. Petersburg, RussiaStreet Art Museum
This time, Tajiks-Art made several litres of Extractum Hominus out of Russian and Ukrainian blood they collected from volunteer donors for money.
lingering comfort. 2014 (2014/2014) by Pavel Zyumkin. Moscow, RussiaStreet Art Museum
With several flags of carpet mounted in Moscow
and Kiev, the artist attempts to show city
residents that the street is a home, and not
simply a place to dwell for a certain period,
or an obstacle course to negotiate on the way
from bed to work.
Razzle Dazzle. 2014 (2014/2014) by Pasha Wais. St. Petersburg, RussiaStreet Art Museum
Pasha has created a piece based on the motif of dazzle camouflage, which was used by the British Admiralty in the early twentieth century.
Humanism. 2014 (2014/2014) by Vladimir Vorotnev. Kiev, UkraineStreet Art Museum
Flames and ashes. 2014 (2014/2014) by Zigendemonic. Kiev - Lviv, UkraineStreet Art Museum
The only right answer (2014/2014) by Pasha Bumazhniy. St. Petersburg, RussiaStreet Art Museum
Doves. 2014 (2014/2014) by Komanda TOY. Nizhny Novgorod, RussiaStreet Art Museum
Ideology. 2014 by Roma Kreemos. Moscow, RussiaStreet Art Museum
Be friends again (2014/2014) by 665 Group of street artists form ZaporozhyeStreet Art Museum
Indifferent equilibrium, 2014 by Aleksey Kislov, Sebastopol, CrimeaStreet Art Museum
Death: a reason for peace by Pasha Bumazhniy. St. Petersburg, RussiaStreet Art Museum
