Industrial street art park

The OMK Vyksa Steel Works Industrial Street Art Park is a project aimed at developing industrial spaces through art. We invite Russian contemporary artists who are interested in industrial themes to participate.

The walls of three workshops are currently decorated with murals by famous artists – Alexei Luka, Misha Most, and Eric Bulatov.

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The walls of three workshops are currently decorated with murals by famous artists – Alexei Luka, Misha Most, and Eric Bulatov.

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This is a project inside the factory, for factory workers. We are creating it in close cooperation with them. It fills the space of the plant with new meaning, helps employees to take a different look at everyday life, to feel the scale and significance of their everyday work. For the artists, it is a unique experience of working in an industrial context.

Olga Pogasova

Project Curator

Vyksa 10,000

The work covers the façade of the Mill-5000 complex at the Vyksa Steel Works. The artist completed the painting in 45 days with 5 assistants, allowing breaks for rainy weather, and presented it to the public as part of the Art-Ovrag festival.

Misha Most

mural artist

10,800 m2

area

2017

created

Misha Most’s project was chosen during the Vyksa 10,000 open competition, which was judged by prominent artists, designers and architects. The organisers of the competition received 260 applications. Sketches came from 34 countries, including Russia, Japan, Australia, and the countries of Latin and Central America.

According to the expert opinion of the “Atmossphere” association, the project’s organisers and specialists in street art, Misha Most’s work is today the world’s largest monumental mural which is the creation of a single artist.

Detail

Alexey Luka’s work is on the facade of one of the workshops of the Vyksa Steel Works. The main idea of the mural is to show what is usually hidden from the eyes of visitors. At first glance, this abstract work has a plot: the life of a workshop with ‘portraits’ of the items that are produced there.

The opening of the mural was accompanied by an exhibition of the workshop's products. It was organised on the personal initiative of the workers in a matter of days, to show the connection between the image on the facade and the life of the employees.

Alexey Luka

mural artist

2,500 m2

area

2019

created

Luka’s murals, based on his architectural education and his own studies of the texture and geometry of urban spaces, refrain from scandalously breaking into at familiar landscape, instead organically integrating into the visual image of the city, taking its architecture and colours into account.

Alexey's color does not interrupt the form, but reveals it still better, emphasising the texture of the wall’s materials. The artist's work becomes a natural part of the urban landscape, but gives the viewer a new reading, presenting it as a kind of puzzle that must be deciphered and put together.

Stop - Go, and Barn in Normandy

A painting by Eric Bulatov was created on the wall of a pipe shop where we produce large-diameter pipes for gas and oil pipelines.

The mural combined the signs of two important paintings by Eric: the relatively recent "Barn in Normandy" (2011) and the painting "Stop - Go" that celebrated its 45th anniversary in 2021.

Eric Bulatov

mural artist

2,500 m2

area

2020

created

Both paintings represent the maximum contrast: in one instance a spatial contrast (stop - go, statics and dynamics), and in the other, the contrast of light and darkness.

“I want to show that these concepts do not have to negate one another, but on the contrary, can cooperate, forming a kind of unity.”

Artists

Misha Most

Alexey Luka

Eric Bulatov

Olga Pogasova — curator of the Industrial Street Art Park

Born in Moscow. In 2018, she received a Masters Degree in Culture, Criticism, and Curating from Central Saint Martins (London, UK). Prior to that, she graduated from the Russian State University for the Humanities with a degree in the history of foreign art, and from the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia with a degree in finance and credit.

She began her career in the financial department of an investment company. She has been working in the field of contemporary art since 2008. Curator and producer of cultural projects in Russia, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, the USA, Austria, India.

From 2013 to 2016 she was director of the Ground Peschanaya gallery in Moscow. Since 2017, the founder and curator of the Red Door non-profit art space in London. From 2018 to 2019, director of the Moscow City Museum.

Since 2019, curator of the Industrial Street Art Park at OMK’s Vyksa Steel Works.

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