Konstantin Danilov also known as Zmogk (b. 1979, Moscow) is an artist relocating to Athens, Greece 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. Now, he associates himself with Color Field painting. He also makes prints and drawings.
His artistic practice is centered on boundary states: between the internal and the external, the personal and the collective, and between human activity and natural processes. These interests are developed through several long-term projects, including Borderline States, Integration, and Limits of Intervention. Rather than open conflict, Danilov focuses on subtle tensions and threshold moments, where systems appear stable while already being close to change.
Color in his work serves both structural and emotional functions, shaping perception and revealing suppressed or background states. A key element of his practice is the “active perimeter” – painting on the sides of the canvas. This approach extends the work beyond its frontal plane and activates peripheral vision. Visually, his works combine abstraction, figurative hints, and semi-abstract landscapes, using color, surface, and material to explore instability, pressure, and unclear boundaries. Alongside painting, he occasionally works with ceramic and sculptural forms.
Konstantin has held three solo exhibitions in Moscow and participated in various group exhibitions and art fairs in Europe, USA and Russia, including projects with the Moscow Museum of Modern Art and Burning Man x Sotheby’s exhibition and auction in New York.
His works are included in institutional and private collections such as STRAAT Museum in Amsterdam, RuArts Foundation and Montresso Foundation.
He has also taken part in the Glo’Art residency program in Lanaken, Belgium
SOLO EXHIBITONS
2024 Borderline States, Reloft Art, Moscow, Russia
2020 Spring 2020, Fineart gallery, Moscow, Russia
2019 Flashbacks, Triumph gallery, Moscow, Russia
SELECTED ROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Time symbols, Fineart gallery, Moscow, Russia
2024. Emoveo, Fineart gallery, Moscow, Russia
2022 True Ли, Ruarts Foundation, Moscow, Russia
2021 Boundless space… the possibilities of Burning Man, Sotheby’s and Burning man Project, New York, USA
2020 10 anniversary, Mathgoth gallery, Paris, France
2018 Other Shores, Manege, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Apologia for delusions, Moscow Museum of modern art, Russia
2017 Enter the history, Moscow Museum, Moscow, Russia
2016 Wall elements, Neurotitan gallery, Berlin, Germany
2015 City - territory of love, Fineart Gallery, Moscow, Russia
A Major minority, 1AMgallery, San Francisco, USA
2014 Urbanism: city in my head, Museum of Moscow, Moscow, Russia
Wall elements, RUARTs Gallery, Moscow, Russia
SELECTED ART FAIRS
2025 8th Art Thessaloniki, Greece. Fineart gallery, Booth 3
Catalog, ReLot Art booth 1.8 , Moscow, Russia
2024 Catalog, ReLot Art booth 1.8 , Moscow, Russia
Art Russia, Moscow, Russia
2023 Affordable Art Fair Amsterdam, Netherlands. Glo.Art gallery booth
2021 Artlife, Manege, Moscow, Russia
2020 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
2011. Jardin Rouge, Morocco
COLLECTIONS
STRAAT Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
RuArts Foundation (Mariana Sardarova collection)
Montresso Foundation collection
STREET ART EVENTS
2025 Romanian streetart, Bucharest, Romania
2024 Memorandum, Ufa, Russia
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
2025 «Vozduh» project, The First Biennial of Environmental Art, Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia.
2017 Paris Urban Art Fair, NUNC! Gallery booth, Paris, France
2014 Artmosphere street art biennale, Moscow, Russia