About
Marat “Morik” Danilyan is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans painting, drawing and large-scale murals. He began working with graffiti in the late 1990s. His early experiments with lettering, spray paint and urban space laid the foundation for a practice that gradually expanded into canvas painting and a broader engagement with materials, surfaces and scale.
His work is rooted in close observation of everyday life. Family routines, encounters with strangers and the ways people inhabit their surroundings provide recurring sources of inspiration. Travel offers further opportunities to observe unfamiliar places and the small gestures, habits and interactions that give them character. Through his own photographs and drawings, Marat gathers a personal archive of images and impressions that often becomes the starting point for his work.
Collage is central to this process. He fragments and rearranges what he has observed, bringing figures, objects and architectural details into new relationships. These compositions become a basis for paintings and murals, where recognisable imagery meets geometric abstraction, expressive marks and layered textures. Rather than documenting a particular moment, his works transform lived experience into open-ended narratives, inviting viewers to make their own connections.
Moving between intimate drawings and architectural surfaces, Marat works with acrylic and oil on canvas, and with both spray paint and brush-applied paint in his murals. Pencil and pen drawing have long been integral to his practice. Alongside his established practice, he is experimenting with ink, exploring its possibilities for line, tone and texture. His growing interest in ceramics extends this material exploration into three dimensions, opening new ways of working with form and surface while painting, drawing and murals remain central to his work.
Marat was born in Novosibirsk, Russia, and is currently based in Prague, Czech Republic.
Murals & Site-Specific Projects
2026
W4 Urban Art Festival
Düsseldorf, Germany
JIDAR
Rabat, Morocco
2025
“Different Evenings: His Night, Her Burden”
Brandts Klædefabrik · Odense, Denmark
Street Art Boulogne-sur-Mer
Boulogne-sur-Mer, France
Risskov
Denmark
2024
“Alfarería de Faro”
Parees Festival · Oviedo, Spain
“Madreña”
Parees Festival · Oviedo, Spain
“Vitality”
17 Walls · Aarhus, Denmark
Festival Asalto
Zaragoza, Spain
Fun Art × Galleri GRISK
Blokhus, Denmark
2023
“Fishermen”
Esbjerg, Denmark
“Waiting for the Bus”
Esbjerg Festuge · Esbjerg, Denmark
“Il Tempo in Posa”
Comiso Arte Pubblica · Comiso, Italy
2022
Private Commission
Pula, Croatia
“Care”
Tales of Golden Apples · Almetyevsk, Russia
“Pleasant Fatigue”
Urban Morphogenesis · Balashikha, Russia
2021
Liebesbier Urban Art Hotel
Interior mural · Bayreuth, Germany
“Tep města”
Městská galerie · Brno, Czech Republic
Aarhus Street Art Festival
Aarhus, Denmark
2020
“Once Upon a Time in Balik Pulau”
Penang International Container Art Festival · Penang, Malaysia
2019
Beantatuz
Tolosa, Spain
Mesto
Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Urvanity
Madrid, Spain
2018
“Vzorový dialog”
Florenc · Prague, Czech Republic
Private Commission
Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic
“Industrialization in Horsens”
Horsens, Denmark
Botwood Fire Department
Botwood, Canada
Kyiv
Ukraine
Makehistory
Samara, Russia
2017
“One Day Collage”
Vancouver Mural Festival · Vancouver, Canada
FestiWall
Ragusa, Italy
Aarhus
Denmark
2016
“My Trip to Denmark”
Aarhus, Denmark
“The Long Game of Chess”
Mural Social Club · Odesa, Ukraine
2015
“Community”
Global Mural Conference · Sherbrooke, Canada
“Artistic Mess”
Miami, USA
“Miracle”
Longhushan Mountains, China
2014
“Cuban Migration”
Miami, USA
“After the Call”
Urban Forms · Łódź, Poland
Solo Exhibitions
2019
“Weak Points”
Ruarts Gallery · Moscow, Russia
Gallery 9B · Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
2016
“Balancing Between”
Ruarts Gallery · Moscow, Russia
Group Exhibitions
2025
“Figurabstra”
Goldshteyn Saatort Gallery · Paris, France
2024
“Cyber Surréalisme”
Goldshteyn Saatort Gallery · Paris, France
2022
“Personal Space”
Ruarts Gallery · Moscow, Russia
2021
“Phoenix Rising”
Mirus Gallery
“TRUE LY”
Ruarts Foundation · Moscow, Russia
“Soft Homeland”
Ruarts Foundation · Moscow, Russia
2020
“Nothing Box”
Basmanny Dvor · Moscow, Russia
2019
“Gravitational Collapse”
Artservatory Center of Contemporary Art · Khabarovsk, Russia
2018
“UN-DERSTAND: The Power of Art as a Social Architect”
Urban Nation · Berlin, Germany
“Next Level”
Montana Gallery Barcelona / UrbanAct · Barcelona, Spain
Artmossphere Street Art Biennale
Winzavod · Moscow, Russia
“Wall Elements 2”
Ruarts Gallery · Moscow, Russia
“Wall Elements”
Manege Central Exhibition Hall · Saint Petersburg, Russia
2015
“Remember Tomorrow”
Street Art Museum · Saint Petersburg, Russia
“Graffuturism 5 Year Anniversary”
886 Geary Gallery · San Francisco, USA
3rd Annual Exhibition
Gauntlet Gallery · San Francisco, USA
“Urban Masters”
Hausammann Gallery · Miami, USA
“Endangered Species”
MYA Gallery · London, United Kingdom
Urban Art Biennale
Völklingen Ironworks · Völklingen, Germany
2014
“Urbanism: City in My Head”
Museum of Moscow / MSK Eastside Gallery · Moscow, Russia
“Tranzit Zone”
PERMM Museum of Contemporary Art · Perm, Russia
“Casus Pacis”
Street Art Museum · Saint Petersburg, Russia
“A Major Minority”
1AM Gallery · San Francisco, USA
“Rule of Three”
Colab Gallery · Weil am Rhein, Germany
“Francis Bacon Tribute”
Intoxicated Demons Gallery · Berlin, Germany
I Artmossphere Street Art Biennale
ARTPLAY · Moscow, Russia
Art Fairs
2017
Cosmoscow
Ruarts Gallery · Moscow, Russia
2016
Stroke Art Fair
Munich, Germany
