16 January - 08 February 2026
Al Jazeera Al Hamra Village
Ras Al Khaimah, UAE
Kirill Svityashuk
artist / designer / illustrator
Art festival
RAK Art
2026

Blue Cow Skeleton (The Blue Cow) / 2025
Mixed media
Milk cartons / polyethylene (trash bags) / foam / metal wire / wood / synthetic fiber
275 × 120 × 80 cm

The cow — an animal long regarded as a source of food, milk, and leather — is transformed into a metaphor for packaging...
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1986 y. r.
Member of The Public Creative Regional Organization «The Saint-Petersburg Union of Designers»

Graduated from St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (now Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University) with a specialisation in electrical and electronic apparatus engineering

Since high school he has been interested in graffiti and street art culture and later his long professional occupation with graffiti (since 2000) pushed him towards contemporary art. Prize-winner and participant of various all-Russian and international graffiti festivals, such as Write4gold, Meeting of styles, Snickers Urbania and others. He has been published in Urban Roots N°5.

From 2005 to 2008 he worked with CONVERSE RUSSIA as a graphic designer.

In 2007 he was one of the creators of the first original collection of converse handmade sneakers as a designer/artist.

In 2009 he created an online gallery and news resource of contemporary art BONPATE.RU.
In 2010 he organized the first and the only plenary among graffiti and street art artists of Russia in St. Petersburg, where artists worked on canvases. Subsequently he organised 2 exhibitions of these and other works of graffiti and  streetart artists of Russia. (Graffiti as Art).

In 2012 he organized his own studio of commercial design of spaces, branding and branding, interior design and graphic design VSEVDECOR working all over Russia, where he himself participates in projects as an artist, illustrator and designer, as well as other young and active graffiti artists and designers.

Within the framework of work in the VSEVDEKOR studio he developed and realized successful projects for such companies as: BOSCH, NOKIAN TYRES, MERCEDES BENZ, VOLKSWAGEN, SIEMENS, HOLSTEN, DECATHLON, TERRANOVA, ALFABANK, FORA BANK, MULTICARTA, STD PETROVICH and others.

Also works can be found in various public spaces (restaurants, cafes, shops, clubs, etc.). Today the company continues to be engaged in this direction.

In 2019 he developed his own technique of creating art works -crumplism (crumplism from the English word crumple -crumple), where the main element of the technique is the crumpling of paper, its spray painting in a crumpled state and further unfolding and fixation.
She is constantly searching for new forms of visual fine art, therefore among the works there are also copies in other techniques.

The works are in private collections.
Exhibitions / Actions
2025
People Are Flowers
(July 24 – Aug 13)
Group Exhibition
IZZI ROOM
St.Petersburg, Russia
2025
Shades of the Soul
(July 12 – Aug 1)
Group Exhibition
YEMAA Artspace
Atyrau, Kazakhstan
2025
Port Art Fair
(May 15 – May 18)
Fair, Stand SETKA
Sevcable Port
St.Petersburg, Russia
2025
Spring Expression
(Apr 11 – Apr 17)
Group Exhibition
Art Maison Gallery
Moscow, Russia
2025
FeroExpo (Feb 6 – Apr 6)
Exhibition-Sale
Feromon Restaurant & Lounge Bar Network
St.Petersburg, Russia
2025
City Art Festival of Artists (ongoing)
Group Exhibition
Loft Project Etazhi
St.Petersburg, Russia
2024−2025
Art Svalka
(Dec 27, 2024 — Jan 10, 2025)
Group Exhibition
Artsvalka Space
Bryansk, Russia
2024
Russian Art Week (6-12 дек)
XXXVI International Exhibition-Competition of Contemporary Art (Group Exhibition)
Art Commune Gallery
Moscow, Russia
2024
Convergence Points
(Oct 31 – Nov 25)
All-Russian Public Art Project
Artwork “Dobrodomik”
St.Petersburg, Russia
2024
We–Russia (Nov 3–9)
All-Russian Art Competition (Group Exhibition)
Art Kommuna Gallery
Moscow, Russia
2024
The Crumpling Process (June 28)
Performance at the exhibition-forum “Russia”
VDNH, Pavilion “Russia”
VDNH Moscow, Russia
2010
Graffiti as Art / Bonpate
Planar and Group Exhibition
(acted as an artist and curator)
photo studio, 5th floor
St.Petersburg, Russia
2006
Streetart closed air
Street exhibition
MART gallery
St.Petersburg, Russia
2025
Walk with a Cow (Aug 3)
Street Performance
streets: Liteyny–Nevsky–Karavannaya–Belinskogo
St.Petersburg, Russia
2025
By Simple Words
(Nov 20 - Dec 20)
Group Exhibition
IZZI ROOM
St.Petersburg, Russia
2026
RAK ART
(Jan 16 - Feb 8)
Art Festival
Al Jazeera Al Hamra
Ras Al Khaimah, UAE
2026
ERARTA PRIZE 2026
(Feb 6 – Jun 7)
Annual Contemporary Art Award
ERARTA MUSEUM
Saint Petersburg, Russia
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