Abcdanke, Beat.c, Gena Zhuk, Qjay

Abcdanke, Beat.c, Gena Zhuk and Lyokha Qjay at the Teplolux exhibition

Works by Abcdanke, Beat.c, Gena Zhuk and Lyokha Qjay are on view at Teplolux, a large group exhibition bringing together more than 50 artists. The project took place in an abandoned unfinished building on Leninsky Prospekt in Moscow: the artists occupied its underground car park and over two months transformed it, turning the concrete walls into a large-scale art environment.

Teplolux is a non-profit initiative that brought together artists from the street and independent scene. Paintings, graphics and wall works filled the abandoned interior, forming a lively, multi-layered exhibition.

Other participants include: 0331С, 404, Andrey Surich, baneror, Vitaly Senov, Danila Vibrov, Druzya Iisusa Khrista, K.L.O.N., Klever, Lordaden, Lya, Maria Pinus 000aaa999, Matorina & Co, OLEG., Olechka, Polina Gisich, Sasha Soyfer, Seryoga Tushila, Sonya Kudeeva, T4 Mikha and T4 Metr, Timur Kadrov (Kvadrat), chelovek, bernard, bomgist, Brẽwėr, Dask(NëK), Deg, Dima Gred, Dioni, eeio, Effekt, enta, etolayetdinozavr, Frouone, Fuck, Giwe, httparkour, Humor, Kandy87, NOSTRESS, olegchedia (tbk), priso, qx, Tchertogov, Tour (atc), toy dealer, UK11.5, Vernite Musique, VIO, wastek_word, yob.

About the artists

Abcdanke

Lives and works in Moscow

Daniil Abcdanke is an artist who began his practice in street art in 2008. Today his visual language is a finely balanced synthesis of graffiti, painting and experimental visual forms. Drawing inspiration from nature, travel, music and the urban environment, he creates works in which real landscapes are transformed into abstract visual images. His canvases are rich in colour, texture and detail, and their narrative…

Beat.c

1996, Gus-Khrustalny. Lives and works in Moscow

Andrey Beat.c is an artist working at the intersection of street art, illustration, mosaic and sculpture. Born in Gus-Khrustalny, he has loved drawing since childhood, and in the late 2000s he found his way into graffiti, which remains an important part of his artistic language to this day. Since the early 2010s Andrey has been actively exploring different media, combining the practice of a street artist with…

Gena Zhuk

1996, Moscow. Lives and works in Moscow

Gena Zhuk is an artist who has built his own visual language where irony meets strict compositional discipline. His painting is a flat surface filled with air and inner tension, where simplicity of form is the main tool. Gena captures states in which time seems to stop and the line between reality and its symbolic reflection fades. Having started with graffiti on the street in 2009, Zhuk has focused on studio work…

Qjay

1997, Tyumen. Lives and works in Moscow

Lyokha Qjay's practice combines the language of comics, graffiti and post-internet aesthetics in a piercingly sincere and precisely built visual narrative about everyday life. Qjay started with street walls and zines, gradually building his own system of images and stories in which the absurd borders on despair and social satire is inseparable from personal candour. His alter ego, a cartoon monkey, becomes a chorus…