Konstantin Zmogk Danilov

Konstantin Danilov (also known as Zmogk) is a Moscow-born painter and muralist based in Athens. His practice grew out of early work in 1990s Russian graffiti and later shifted toward studio-based painting, where color and structure became primary tools for exploring internal states shaped by lived experience. His work focuses on boundary conditions: between inner and outer experience, stability and tension, adaptation and loss. Using layered color fields, semi-abstract landscapes, and restrained figurative traces, he examines moments of fragile balance, quiet pressure, and psychological transition over time. A recurring method in his practice is the “active perimeter,” where the edges Konstantin Danilov (also known as Zmogk) is a Moscow-born painter and muralist based in Athens. His practice grew out of early work in 1990s Russian graffiti and later shifted toward studio-based painting, where color and structure became primary tools for exploring internal states shaped by lived experience. His work focuses on boundary conditions: between inner and outer experience, stability and tension, adaptation and loss. Using layered color fields, semi-abstract landscapes, and restrained figurative traces, he examines moments of fragile balance, quiet pressure, and psychological transition over time. A recurring method in his practice is the “active perimeter,” where the edges of the canvas function as an emotional membrane rather than a neutral frame. Color operates not decoratively, but as a carrier of pressure, memory, and slow transformation, inviting a sustained and attentive dialogue with the viewer. Read more

Konstantin Zmogk Danilov EXHIBITIONS

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024
Borderline states, Reloft Art gallery, Moscow, Russia

2020
Spring 2020, Fineart gallery, Moscow, Russia

2019
Flashbacks, Triumph gallery, Moscow, Russia

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024
Emoveo (Fineart gallery, Moscow, Russia)

2022
30-years anniversary, Fineart gallery, Moscow, Russia
True Ли, Ruarts Foundation, Moscow, Russia

2021
Boundless space… the possibilities of Burning Man, Sotheby’s and Burning man Project, NY, 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
Kvadrart, Wallery gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

2016
Wall elements, Neurotitan gallery, Berlin, Germany
City – territory of love, Fineart Gallery, Moscow, Russia

2015
A Major minority, 1AMgallery, San Francisco, USA

2014
Urbanism: city in my head, Museum of Moscow, Russia
The New wave: Uncut, MSK Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Wall elements, RUARTs Gallery, Moscow, Russia

AUCTIONS

2021
Boundless space…the possibilities of Burning Man, Sotheby’s, New York, USA

2014
The 1st Urban contemporary art auction, RuArts gallery x Artmossphere

ART FAIRS
2025
Catalog Art Fair, Moscow, Russia
8th Art Thessaloniki, Greece.

2024
Catalog Art Fair, Moscow, Russia.

2021
Artlife, Manege, Moscow, Russia

2020
DA! Moscow, Moscow, Russia

2020
Cosmoscow, Moscow, Russia

2017
Urban Art Fair Paris, France

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
2023
GLO.ART Residence, Lanaken, Belgium

2011
Montresso Foundation, Marrakesh, Marocco

COLLECTIONS
RuArts Foundation, Montresso Foundation collection, STRAAT Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands.