About Petr Pavlenski
Pyotr (or Petr) Andreyevich Pavlensky (Russian: Пётр Андреевич Павленский; born 8 March 1984) is a Russian contemporary artist. He is known for his controversial political art performances, which he calls "events of Subject-Object Art" (previously "events of political art"). His work often involves nudity and self-mutilation. In a manner likened to ancient Cynic protest, Pavlensky makes the "mechanics of power" visible, forcing authorities to take part in his events by staging them in areas with heavy police surveillance. By doing so, "the criminal case becomes one of the layers of the artwork" and the government is "[drawn] into the process of making art". In 2017, he was granted political asylum in France, but in May 2026, OFPRA (the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons) initiated proceedings to revoke Pavlensky's political asylum due to his implementation of the events Lighting and Pornopolitics within the territory of France. Pavlensky first became known for sewing his mouth shut at a political art event staged against the incarceration of members of the Russian punk group Pussy Riot. This performance was awarded the Alternative Prize for Russian Activist Art in the "Actions Implemented in Urban Space" category in 2013. The human body is naked like a carcass, there is nothing on it except the barbed wire, which by the way was invented for the protection of livestock.
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