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Planetary nebulas
27 Feb - 10 Apr 2021 Planetary Nebulas is a solo exhibition by Rostan Tavasiev. The artist worked out the project of eight spectacular unearthly sculptures – planetary nebulas, the layers of thrown off stellar shell, flashing in the light of a dying star. For the first time proposed a plan for the implementation of one... Read more

Things
8 Dec 2020 - 6 Feb 2021 The exhibition Things is a reflection on the phenomenon of collecting, represented on the example of two notable private collections of contemporary Russian art – the one of Denis Khimilyayne and the other one of Sergey Limonov. The exhibition brings together more than 50 artworks of contemporary Russian artists including... Read more

A Trace Left by the Future
21 Mar - 5 Sep 2020 Anna Nova Gallery with support of bitforms gallery is pleased to present A Trace Left by the Future, the first solo exhibition in Russia of the American artist Jonathan Monaghan. Featuring new sculpture, video, print and installation work, Monaghan invites us into a candy-colored, yet unsettling world uncovering fears and... Read more

Laboratorium suggerere
8 Feb - 7 Mar 2020 The interactive installation Laboratorium Suggerere mimics a medical laboratory interior, a walkable space where reality and fantasy come together. Attractive textures, smooth shapes and colors of biomorphic objects may seem fascinating at first, but with a closer look delight might give place to discomfort. Here, 3D-printed body organs, bones, and... Read more

Marchantia Polymorpha: Up Close and Personal
14 Nov 2019 - 25 Jan 2020 Marchantia Polymorpha: Up Close and Personal is Anastasia Potemkina's first show inside the Anna Nova Gallery space. The artist’s new project continues the exploration that she started in the Urban Fauna Laboratory. Once again she turns to the plant kingdom and demonstrates the potential of a brave new non-anthropocentric world.... Read more

Summer camp 07/19
27 Jul - 26 Oct 2019 SUMMER CAMP 07/19 is the second part of the group’s anniversary celebrations, which began with an exhibition in Aslan Chekhoev’s Novy Museum of contemporary art. There is, of course, plenty of fun at Anna Nova, but the desired carelessness has vanished. All forms of leisure found at a summer camp... Read more

A Pack of Malingerers
26 Apr - 13 Jul 2019 A Pack of Malingerers exhibition is a personal project of the artist Alexander Dashevsky, who has been working with Anna Nova gallery for over ten years. The exposition appears to be an ironical biopic about Alexander’s artistic practice. New project A Pack of Malingerers follows the previous series Partial Losses... Read more

"Woodman & Partners" Architecture Bureau, or The Paradise Built by Me
16 Mar - 20 Apr 2019 The exhibition Woodman Architectural Bureau & Partners or Paradise built by Me is the first personal project of Nestor Engelke, a member of the North-7 group. At the exhibition, he introduces himself as Professor Woodman, head of the Woodman & Partners architecture bureau, which specializes in the production of sliver... Read more

Quiet Games
27 Feb - 30 Mar 2019 The Quiet Games exhibition is a personal project of the St. Petersburg artist Irina Drozd, in which she refers to the period of childhood as a special state of human life. In her project Quiet Games Drozd synthesises the realms of childhood and the imagination as well as a basic... Read more

ÁKKTA
10 Nov 2018 - 23 Feb 2019 The ÁKKTA exhibition is the first personal project of the artist Egor Kraft, which brings together his main projects of recent years. The exposition presents projects previously shown on international platforms and as well completely new works from the current art & science research Content Aware Studies. As an artist,... Read more

Ants never sleep
21 Sep - 3 Nov 2018 The exhibition Ants Never Sleep is a personal project of the artist Vlad Kulkov, in which viewers will see a new series of paintings, made in his signature style of biomorphic abstraction. Its peculiarity lies in the fact that on the canvases, by the creative will of the author, not... Read more

Collectors' lounge 1. Future
8 Aug - 1 Sep 2018 The Collectors' Lounge exhibition is a collective project that brings together futuristic objects and paintings on the theme of chaos and apocalypse. Participants of the exhibition: Alexander Dashevskiy, Denis Patrakeev, Vlad Kulkov, Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov, Dmitry Kavarga, Ustina Yakovleva, Maria Agureeva, Alisa Kern, Björn Schulke. The latter are represented on the... Read more

The Stardust project
14 Jun - 31 Aug 2018 The Stardust exhibition is a special pop-up project initiated by the artist Aljoscha and shown as part of the PANSPERMIA exhibition. Project participants: Dmitry Kawarga, Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov, Ustina Yakovleva, Angelika Arendt, Christiane Löhr, Gil & Moti, Lawrence Weiner, Mischa Kuball, Reiner Maria Matysik, Römer + Römer, Simon Vega, Wolf Hamm,... Read more

Panspermia
14 Jun - 31 Aug 2018 Exhibition Panspermia is an art project of the German artist Aljoscha. The name of the project suggests some universal questions. How did life start on Earth? Was it absolute abiogenesis? Or did we and every carbon-based life form we know originate from the collision of some external organic molecules? What... Read more

Temporal Touch
12 May - 6 Jun 2018 Temporal Touch is a personal project of Ustina Yakovleva. The artist's special myth-making, woven from memory and chaos, transformed and reworked with the help of various media, is an attempt to return the viewer to mythological consciousness in our pragmatic digital age. By combining painting, graphics and objects created by... Read more

It’s possible to imagine what will remain after
28 Apr - 2 Jun 2018 The exhibition It's possible to imagine what will remain after is a personal project of the artist Maria Agureeva, who began her career in St. Petersburg at the end of the 2000s, and now is successfully working in Moscow, dedicated to the problem of body and materiality, both as a... Read more

Museum of Poisons
16 Mar - 21 Apr 2018 The exhibitions Museum of Poisons is a pesonal project of Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov connecting archeology, biology, and art. Through the use of visual elements of poisonous animals and plants, the artist has formed a peculiar museum of poisons and antidotes, illness protecting amulets and artefacts of the medieval antidote industry. Moreover,... Read more

Our coming was expected on earth
8 Feb - 10 Mar 2018 The project Our comming was expected on earth is a total installation by the artist Haim Sokol, dedicated to the understanding of the concepts of earth and land. In his project Haim Sokol yet again goes over Walter Benjamin’s Theses on the Philosophy of History and borrows his phrase without... Read more

Voice Cooling Tests
8 Dec 2017 - 27 Jan 2018 The exhibition “Voice Cooling Tests” is a personal project of Alisa Kern, winner of the VI Young Artists Contest “New Projects for the ANNA NOVA Gallery”. 'Voice Cooling Tests' is an artistic research project. At the exhibition visitors will get an insight into the results of the research of voice... Read more

THE CIRCUS 17
7 - 25 Nov 2017 The exhibition 'Circus 17' is a personal project of the artist Uldus Bakhtiozina, in which she examines the revolution in a new way as a performance of the circus of the early 20th century, in which the characters — actors in the arena — are a collective metaphorical image of... Read more

World in Flux
29 Sep - 2 Dec 2017 The exhibition 'World in Flux' is a personal project of the artist Denis Patrakeev, in which the synthesis of science and poetry is embodied through the abstract hero Stihiaved (element expert). This hero lives in an era of metamodernism, neo-romanticism, hesitation and contradiction. Creating his own mythologeme, Patrakeev constructs an... Read more

Group Exhibition of Robert Longo’s studio assistants “Common Ground”
23 Jun - 2 Sep 2017 The Common Ground Project is a group exhibition about the artistic infrastructure that has developed in New York over the past several decades and the role of the artist's assistant - a figure who returned to art in the 1960s. In the last ten years, artist’s assistants have once again... Read more

Conjured Life
17 May - 17 Jun 2017 The 'Conjured Life' exhibition is a personal project of the artist Uldus Bakhtiozina, in which she explores the form of escapism through art. As conceived by the artist, this kind of disappearance is a 'Conjured Life' that helps to exist in our reality, and it is a great force that... Read more

A drop of Creacin
3 Mar - 22 Apr 2017 The exhibition 'A drop of Creacin' is a personal project of the artist Rostan Tavasiev, in which he continues to develop his own mythology, and also conceptualizes the neologism 'creacin' - a substance that is the strongest stimulator of creativity. 'A drop of Creacin' is the first fantastic series about... Read more

Razzle Dazzle / What am I still waiting for
23 Dec 2016 - 18 Feb 2017 The exhibition 'Razzle-Dazzle' is a personal project of the artist Stas Bags, created together with the group of artists 'Videokaffe'. The term Razzle-Dazzle means noise that distracts from the main thing. Initially, the word denoted the military camouflage of naval ships during the First World War. The striking abstract pattern... Read more

Petr Shvetsov
25 Nov - 17 Dec 2016 The exhibition 'Petr Shvetsov' is a personal project of the artist Petr Shvetsov, in which he, rejecting the curatorial conceptual pathos, simply exhibits his works made in the genre of landscape. In his new project for Anna Nova gallery he returns to graphics since quite a long time.Some of the... Read more

EVCFE / "...And the Word was made flesh"
23 Sep - 12 Nov 2016 Exhibition EVCFE / '...And the Word was made flesh ...' is a personal project by the artist Pavel Brat, in which the viewer finds himself in an art laboratory for transforming the inanimate into living, reminiscent of traditional alchemical practices. In his previous works the artist experimented with collages; he... Read more

Lotophagie / Lotus-eaters
1 Jul - 3 Sep 2016 The exhibition 'Lotophagie' is a personal project of the German artist of Ukrainian origin Aljoscha, who develops the author's direction in art called 'bioism' or 'biofuturism'. All his works are based on the creation of art that expresses the visual possibilities of synthetic biology and, since recently, bioethical abolitionism. In... Read more

Steambaroque / The soaring baroque
19 May - 19 Jun 2016 The exhibition 'Steambaroque / Soaring Baroque' is a collective project of artists Vlad Kulkov (painting), Dmitry Zhukov (art metal) and Dmitry Anikin (sound). The project was shown in the Great Exhibition Hall of the Konushenny Building of the Central Park of Culture and Recreation of S. M. Kirov. The name... Read more

The Fallen and the dropped out
22 Apr - 23 Jun 2016 Exhibition 'The Fallen and the dropped out' - a personal project of the artist Alexander Dashevskiy. The project's preparation has taken two years and it continues the line started by the artist in the previous project 'Partial losses'. Alexander Dashevskiy explores the resources of painting, assuming that the state of... Read more

Three Exhibitions
31 Mar - 16 Apr 2016 'Three Exhibitions' is a personal project of the artist Yuri Alexandrov, in which he makes up two more companions, but he is the sole author of all works. The project includes three exhibitions: 1. Exhibition of Jury Alexandrov is called 'Untitled': the paintings, comprising the exhibition do not have names,... Read more

pas tout
4 - 26 Mar 2016 'Pas Tout' is the exhibition of Ilya Grishaev - the winner of the V Competition of young artists “Projects for Anna Nova Gallery”. Ilya Grishaev’s personal project is an event, the process of creation of a new visual language, graphical writing and a relation between space and the viewer. The... Read more

We must cultivate our garden
27 Nov - 26 Dec 2015 Anna Nova Art Gallery, one of the leading Russian contemporary art galleris located in Saint-Petersburg, celebrated its 10th anniversary in October of 2015. It is a long time for contemporary art in Russia. Over the years the gallery has developped a range of artists who advanced a lot, not without... Read more

In her own right, amongst her own people
9 Oct - 14 Nov 2015 “In her own right, amongst her own people” is a personal project of one of the most famous artists of St. Petersburg, Anatoly Belkin. On two floors of the Anna Nova gallery will be presented black and white photographs, which tell the viewer about one day in the life of... Read more

Small Forms
18 Sep - 1 Oct 2015 Contemporary art gallery Anna Nova is pleased to present a new exhibition project - 'Small forms'. The space of the gallery will become a sort of showroom, where the small format works of the gallery artists will be presented - graphics, photographs, watercolors and pastels on paper. These works are... Read more

Russ Land
28 May - 29 Aug 2015 'Russ Land' is a personal photo exhibition of russian artist Uldus Bakhtiozina. The series is based on the dark and wild side of Russian fairy tales, tightly bound with pagan culture and religious beliefs of ancient Slavs. Relying on the studies of the fairy tales origin, the background of their... Read more

Hunger
6 Apr - 15 May 2015 “Hunger” is an exhibition of Irina’s graphical works in a studio of Zhilin brothers that was held within the framework of a parallel programm for Irina Drozrd project in Anna Nova gallery. Irina is young but already well-known design-architects. There will be presented small ironic graphical works, depicting surreal stories... Read more

I know what you did when you were thirteen
4 Apr - 16 May 2015 'Exhibition tells us about childhood memories, first love and the first strong ‘adult’ emotions. The second floor of the gallery is turned into a porch of a typical block of flats in the dormitory suburbs; there are portraits of its inhabitants on the walls... The artist looks into the hidden... Read more

Transitions 0.10
27 Feb - 28 Mar 2015 Anna Nova Gallery presents a personal exhibition of a young artist Igor Shuklin ‘Transitions 0.10’ . This project expresses the artist’s thoughts about the continuation of Russian avant gard’s traditions and reconsiders the idea of exhibitional space in whole. “The central image of the exhibitional space is the recollection of... Read more

The Battle of People against Artefacts
17 - 21 Feb 2015 'Graphic series is not a very popular genre, and, to be honest, it tends to be rather boring. It’s hardly possible to combine thoughtful examination of eighty sequential pictures with reading eighty inscriptions and at the same time trying to understand how they relate to one another. And would it... Read more

Jhffddfhuddfgdfffy
19 Dec 2014 - 14 Feb 2015 Contemporary art gallery Anna Nova presents the first solo exhibition of Moscow artist David Ter-Oganyan in St. Petersburg. Provocative title is fully consistent with the main message of the project. This kind of title was made possible after the advent of computers, when it became necessary to quickly name the... Read more

Mustard seed
30 Oct - 12 Dec 2014 Anna Nova gallery presents Denis Patrakeev’s second personal exhibition. The project is a result of two years of creation and is a total installation, which includes graphics, video, objects and documentation from the artist's research when trying to investigate his role as an artist and a creator. There is also... Read more

Inside rooms
17 Sep - 19 Oct 2014 The new project by Ivan Plusch is dedicated to the issue of immortality of body and soul. The moving bodies are executed in a manner of 'leaking painting', typical of the artist. They long for permanency, are willing to become eternal mechanisms with easily exchangeable details. The invisible souls demand... Read more

A few words about civility
25 Jul - 7 Sep 2014 Anastasia Potemkina studies the liberating practices of daily life. She is interested in a way of subverting the course of nature and destroying the repressive component of ordinary routine by means of elementary common rituals. She shows how human behavior based on fears andcomplexes is imposed by patriarchal cultural codes... Read more

ZOAS records
20 Jun - 10 Sep 2014 In the new joint exhibition the artists Vlad Kulkov and Maria Dmitrieva used aspecific form of representation which expressed itself in the form of the reconstruction of the experimental office of a record company called ZOAS records. The Zoas are the four “living” creatures, first mentioned in the Revelation of... Read more

Storage conditions
26 May - 7 Jul 2014 Artists: Sergei Bugaev Africa, Ilya Gaponov, Stas Bags, Vladimir Kozin, Timur Novikov, Semyon Motolyanets, Alekseĭ Mikheev, Andrei Pozhidaev, Vitaliĭ Pushnitskiĭ, Veronica Rudyeva - Ryazantseva, Andreĭ Rudiev, Ludmila Sokolova Vitalievna, Oleg Trufanov, Petr Shvetsov, Natalia Fedorova, Olga & Alexander Florensky, James Kerr. The main idea of the exhibition is the interaction... Read more

About history
28 Mar - 3 May 2014 The traces of past, which Sokol has made important in his works, are the traces left by official history. A diversity of opinions on history appears in petty, unremarkable details — some sketches, thrown away photo albums... The graphical sheets from the series ‘Red scrolls’ are covered with a palimpsest... Read more

The leningrad school
6 Mar - 8 May 2014 In giving the exhibition this name and attributing part of the work to fictional authors Alexandrov is completely serious: he creates the very school that is needed. In fact, as an artist he stands alone, because he has no followers in St. Petersburg art and the tradition of comics, in... Read more

New paintings
22 Feb - 15 Mar 2014 Contemporary painting is usually characterized by dysgraphia. There must be something that prevents us from apprehension, the picture shouldn’t be self-identical. It is important for the artist to knock together the hand-made part of his work with an impersonal, often mechanical kind of power. Only after this does the sculptural... Read more

Insectum
25 Jan - 16 Feb 2014 Sound: Andrey Svibovich Once we get into the dark hall of the gallery we are surrounded by an annoying buzz; it feels disturbing in this empty space. Insects are swarming around regal animals, who are helpless to resist their power. A tiny buzzing speck is not dangerous until there are... Read more

TO DRAW / Group exhibition
1 Nov - 28 Dec 2013 Curated by Katya Shadkovska Artists: Ivan Brazhkin, Alexandra Galkina, Zofia Gramz, Zuzanna Janin, Magdalena Karpińska, Róża Litwa, Viktoria Lomasko, Jacek Malinowski, Robert Macheyuk, Tomasz Mróz, Anton NIkolaev, Anna Panek, Anastasia Potemkina, Igor Shuklin, Sveta Shuvaeva, Konrad Smoleński, Avdey Ter-Oganyan, David Ter-Oganyan In the exhibition 'To Draw' the graphic styles of... Read more

Desperate romantics
27 Sep - 26 Oct 2013 The series Desperate romantics is about young Russian romantics and their imaginary and rather infantile world, imbued with a strong illusion of their own importance. The visual images are inspired by the works of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood — the revolutionaries of the Victorian epoch, with their intentional ornamentality and veracity... Read more

Present indefinite
29 Jun - 18 Sep 2013 At the end of June in the frames of action «Contemporary Art Night» Anna Nova gallery will present personal project by young artist Ilya Seletsky from Saint-Petersburg «Present Indefinite». The artist was chosen by gallery among many applications for 4th Young Artists Competition «New Projects for Anna Nova». «A man... Read more

Partial losses
17 May - 20 Jun 2013 In his new project ‘Partial losses’ Dashevsky transforms constructivist principles. The pictures are created by animating certain elements and creating a particular rhythm.These elements are fragments of a picture, as though cut from it, and they are turned into three-dimensional objects. The images are tautological. There is a post box,... Read more

it's complicated
14 Mar - 30 Apr 2013 Rostan Tavasiev in this new project makes a transition to virtual reality. We are asked to imagine that the motionless, speechless works of art are actually living entities with a very intense inner life ordinarily concealed from spectators... The exhibits anxiously await the closing date of their exhibition and obsess... Read more

Like that
1 - 9 Mar 2013 Both artists Konstantin Simun and Kirill Khrustalev preach about love for simple things, the observation of which can lead to remarkable discoveries... Both Simun and Khrustalyov approach their subjectwith humour. This comes out in the witty juxtapositions of objects and names andthe paradoxical association of objects that are entirely alien... Read more

Reconstructor
22 Dec 2012 - 9 Feb 2013 The overarching idea of the project is related to notions of the living and the dead. The triptych,according to the author’s conception, is ‘dead’ painting, it’s a detached registration of things, whereas the multitude of tiny canvases within distinct lines and spots forming a vague picture is ‘living’ painting. The... Read more

Mania grandiosa
7 - 16 Dec 2012 Mania Grandiosa is the diagnosis and the name of the three Leningrad art school alumni exhibition – U.Alexandrov, I. Goldenshluger and K.Molosh. The authors suggest that grandiosity is not about a large scale, Vychetich and Cereteli were hopelessly diminishing in size while their creations were growing bigger. The figure of... Read more

Proces of passing 3
2 Nov - 1 Dec 2012 Ivan Plusch traditionally deploys the art of painting to express existential maxims. His art is about the course of time, although he doesn’t make video because it’s impossible to make an endless film. There need to be characters, plot, metaphors and summarizing images. That’s why Plusch prefers more abstract and... Read more

Crash
25 Sep - 26 Oct 2012 In the begining of a new season the Anna Nova gallery presents a second personal exhibition of a young Saint Petersburg artist Stas Bugs. According to the author’s design, the minimum information is given about the exhibition. he project ‘Collapse’ is very personal and any comment is superfluous. The project... Read more

Pool
10 - 20 Aug 2012 Scenic design by Oleg Maslov 'Pool' was implemented by the author in the late 2000s and is represented in the gallery as part of the group exhibition 'Heaven and Earth' dedicated to the 5 th anniversary of the gallery. Read more

Young korean artist
28 - 30 Jun 2012 Anna Nova Gallery together with Keumsan Gallery, which is one of the leading korean galleries, presents paired exhibition of young artists Ahn Jun and Lim Woo Jae that are known to be the leading korean photographs of the new age that have already achieved a success on the western as... Read more

Rejection
11 May - 9 Jun 2012 Group 'Soap' (Semen Motolyanets, Dmitry Petuhov), laureates of All-Russian Contemporary Art Competition 'Innovation' 2009, participants of Ural Industrial Biennale and exhibition 'Russian Povera' in Milan, are well-known in Saint-Petersburg. Artists haven't had any personal exhibition yet. All state institutions are usually afraid of any contacts with representatives of Action Art... Read more

Spinning powers of imprudence
23 Mar - 30 Apr 2012 ... In these pictures we see, described on many levels of course, the creation of the world from a blanksheet - it is the long movement of a mythological serpent-ancestor forming circular shapes and leaving traces from their retraction. It is as if Vlad Kulkov (it is both funny and... Read more

Scripture
2 - 10 Mar 2012 Yuri Alexandrov tries to do the impossible: to turn the image into a word and the word into an image without the need for the tricks of calligraphy, Apollinaires calligrammes, Bruner’s Picto-poetry or Magritte’s ‘carriers of words’exhausted long ago.' Alexandrov’s words do not depict what they say, they do duplicate... Read more

Ambivalence
28 Jan - 26 Feb 2012 Of course, this is not a documentary film. It’s a performance; the guest workers are happy to perform the role that the artist has created for them, and get paid some token amount for it, I guess. But awareness of this only confuses us more; for in everyday life, do... Read more

Another dimension
15 Dec 2011 - 16 Jan 2012 Drozd’s optics are seeped in a murky sunless light andall that remains of the arch of the General Staff Building or the soaring space of Kazan Cathedral are contours and deep shadows. This hazy veil is the dust of archives, the ashes of empires and other debris and remnants of... Read more

Twilight state
18 Nov - 12 Dec 2011 Biology, the shameful flip side of a spiritual being, fascinates Shvetsov with its inescapable unsightliness and inevitability; and there may be some parallels with necro-romantic thanatology and the ‘screwyou’ contemptuous curiosity of the Necrorealists to the same theme. However, they were more fascinated by death, by its stupidity and simultaneous... Read more

Venus. Skank. Mona Lisa
25 Sep - 20 Oct 2011 For Vladimir Yacobchuk some inscriptions on a street wall in Saint-Petersburg became a reason to reflect on the fate of works of art in History. The anonymous author, working in street art style, reported that “Venus is a skank” and «Mona Lisa is sh...t». The artist couldn't simply walk past... Read more

Remains
16 Jun - 20 Jul 2011 Remains consists of some works and ideas from the performance ‘Everything lies ahead!’ (15th March 2011), when Andrey Kuzkin sealed all his works, personal things and the contents of his studio in steel boxes. Over the years Kuzkin's romantic nihilism has been moving closer and closer to that moment —... Read more

Empty place
20 May - 11 Jun 2011 “Empty space' is the author herself reading somnambulistic poetry... where the text is read out by a beguiling voice, and then comes out as black lines on white coats hanging from the ceiling. Or it is anyone of us; empty space describes those moments of introspection, when an attempt to... Read more

Spaceport
14 Apr 2011 - 7 May 2014 A well-known rocket-slide, welded from iron rods, which until recently used to be an omnipresent attribute of children playgrounds, quite miraculously made it to the Moon. Now this beautiful island, embodying the last Soviet generation’s dream of cosmic adventures, lies alone in an alien desert. A miracle happened, but people... Read more

Severstal
5 Mar - 6 May 2011 ...The artist exploits more convincingly the story of the submarine, in his opinion, in referring to claustrophobia and suffocation. Metal hearts beat in rubber sheathes; and some person with his neck turned at 180 degrees, for some reason is sitting in a bathtub as a black liquid rises higher and... Read more

Screens
22 Jan - 19 Feb 2011 A picture can't be a window to reality or to other worlds, not to the artist's emotional experience, nor to some concealed meaning. It doesn't hide something in its depth, in an illusory third dimension. On the contrary it hides and seals, becoming a shutter on an opened window, becoming... Read more

French Touch - Touche Americaine
21 Dec 2010 - 15 Jan 2011 The term The French Touch - 'French Touch' - taken to mean the influence of French culture in the world, but he got on the spread of English - the language of international communication. Created by analogy French expression La Touche Americaine - 'American touch' - describes the process that... Read more

Painting from My Travels, 2005–2010
26 Nov - 9 Dec 2010 During recent years I have travelled a lot and practically in every trip I painted pictures. It was partly connected with “The Society of Drawing and Painting Enthusiasts”, founded in 2004. This Society has set itself the task of the revival and advocacy of painting and drawing from life, which... Read more

Parthenon
17 Sep - 9 Oct 2010 Painter, author of objects and installations, organizer of the shares, historian and theorist of contemporary art, and finally, the comic book writer with more than 30 years of experience. His works are in the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery in Kolodzei Art Fund and Highland Park (United States), as... Read more

Chain of connections
21 May - 12 Jun 2010 Kraevskaya’s principle position in her investigation into the aesthetics of kitsch is non-judgmental, indeed she accepts it and readily operates in this ‘terribly tasteless’ genre. The artists and art historians that study mass culture and maintain a safe critical distance from it are a dime a dozen. Artists that are... Read more

Myopia
16 Apr - 15 May 2010 Haim Sokol looks at things around him, finding in them the signs and symbols that bear witness to the unnoticed creativity of the times. In fact, he works with the emptiness created by time constantly trying to delineate its boundaries through its discarded remnants. They are run through with grey... Read more

Lost worlds. Restoration
19 Feb - 10 Mar 2010 Vladimir Kukuruza’s lens captures the most mysterious and striking spaces of St Petersburg – New Holland, The Kirov Stadium and the defunct but still standing ruins of the “Red Triangle” factory... Saving this disappearing world, Kukuruza discovers subjects and meanings wrought from our reality and fixes them to his photographs.... Read more

Tiles
22 Jan - 13 Feb 2010 The artist talks about some kind of Martian creatures that roam among us. Maybe it is so. However the exhibition as a whole says quite the contrary: the study of materials, which Petr Shvetsov has immersed himself in here, examines the ability of ordinary material and material overloaded with negative... Read more

New paintings from Two Highways cycle
27 Nov - 26 Dec 2009 Boris Koshelokhov's creativity is a freakish mix, on the one hand of the archaic and rapid motion, and on the other, of ultramodernity and statics. It is as in a fairy tale when the magic subject transports the hero to the other end of the world, or in science fiction... Read more

Swimming Pool
16 Oct - 21 Nov 2009 Works with nature as abstract studies, what more could the viewer wish for? From their perspective in the real world, the viewer has to find some constant, and an affirmation of their own existence in these canvases. Addressing “the recent past” in his stark figurative, abstract canvas-formulas, Dashevsky aspires to... Read more

Attack into ornaments
15 May - 13 Jun 2009 At the exhibition of famous Saint-Petersburg painter Victor Kuznetsov (Gipper Pupper) we collide with the subject absurdity arising on a joint of two picturesque cycles, two independent motives: military pilots and ornaments. Big-nosed pilots, whose faces are reminiscent of comedy doll characters of Turkish theatre, grinning through overstrain orient themselves... Read more

Daria Buiun and Dmitry Stepanov. Defects
20 Mar - 11 Apr 2009 The audiovisual installation by Daria Buiun and Dmitry Stepanov deals with how the mass media — radio, newspapers, newsreels and TV, influence public consciousness. Manipulations of collective reason and the unconscious always attract artists witha conceptually-critical orientation to expose censorship. Buiun and Stepanov in this respect make an interesting choice:... Read more

Bogs
6 Feb - 14 Mar 2009 Petr Shvetsov presents his research into the frontiers of painting on the example of one apparently very simple theme — a landscape with a bog. The texture of the painting undergoes an analysis of its ability to convey the depth of a waterlogged quagmire in which opinions andideas get bogged... Read more

Once more about love
26 Dec 2008 - 31 Jan 2009 In the later works of Maslov various genres coexist; sensitivity (sensibilité), the sexual frenzy of Rococo and 'Vosmiklassnitsa' by Tsoi; 'Breakfast on the Grass', pastoralsand formations, Korzhev, 'Cargo 200'; the gallant Crébillon fils Choderlos de Laclosand Levitan, Bilibin, Leningrad Region. 'Recomposition' a full array of techniques and forms! It is... Read more

That which surrounds us
28 Nov - 20 Dec 2008 Oleg Zayka's painting always was and continues to be about everything that surrounds us. In the poor and hungry 1980s he painted 'portraits' of such essentials as toilet paper, or tins of condensed milk, or the most democratic Soviet snack tinned salad made of sea kale. In 1990, during the... Read more

Our Mashas
30 May - 21 Jun 2008 The name of Maxim Svishёv's video installation “Our Mashas” makes a gentle nod to the laughter and gaiety of the popular TV show 'Our Russia'. The Mashas, which Maxim Svishёv has created using animation and displayed on two large screens in adjacent halls of the Anna Nova gallery shares a... Read more

Two Highways
11 Apr - 17 May 2008 Koshelokhov has never parted with ‘Two Highways, which has given birth to new images for more than one decade. He depicts a global wave of morphological mutation moving across the world in endless time and space. We see the ancient inhabitants of the oceans, we swim out onto the land... Read more

Modern Art of Chukotka
23 Feb - 29 Mar 2008 The author has a very respectful, Levi-Strausstype attitude to small northern peoples. But to this is added an anecdotal layer, though one not remotely taken from the false perspective of national make-up, as in many of these Chukotkan jokes (which in any case could be applied to any national type).... Read more

Diebenkorn in Pulkovo
25 Jan - 16 Feb 2008 Alexander Dashevsky has favourite artist - american Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993). In the beginning of 1950s Dibenkorn arrived in New Mexico. There he was amazed by the deserted landscapes of southern surburbs of the USA, and, incorporating these strange terrestrial reliefs, Diebenkorn created his abstract sculpture. His landscapes are half aerial... Read more

Cheerful Friends
9 Nov - 15 Dec 2007 Pop art painting was the hit of Russian art of the noughties and played an equal part in the consumer boom, as is evidenced by the artistic careers of the Moscow duo Vinogradov-Dubossarsky. The accent in Maslov’s painting however is not on the packaged gloss of pop art but on... Read more

Living and Dead
5 Oct - 3 Nov 2007 The large painting by Petr Shvetsov 'Night Watch', which opens the exhibition is not are make, nor a replica, nor a parody of Rembrandt or the movie of the same name. It is based on the story of another famous work of the Dutchschool of painting — the punishment of... Read more

Panorama. Fragments
15 Jun - 14 Jul 2007 Olga Chernyshova shows only a part of her wide art series ‘’Panorama’’ at the third personal exhibition in St. Petersburg. The artist started to work with this series of pictures in 2004. It is dedicated to a Soviet movie house called ‘’Round Panorama’’ that was opened at the exhibition of... Read more

Seventeen Dreams of Joseph Stalin. The Palace of Soviets. The contest of projects
27 Apr - 26 May 2007 At the exhibition one can see the coloured lithographies of Mikhail Karasik. They are from the album 'The palace of Soviets'. It was printed in 15 numerated copies. The foundation of the artist’s album were the projects of the contest that took place in 1933. A great number of prominent... Read more

What is happening
13 - 22 Apr 2007 ’What is happening’’ – a painted series created in 2007 by the famous St. Petersburg artist Vladimir Dukhovlinov. 'Abstract works of the artist combine several approaches of depicting a form. First of all, it is a free plastic automatism existing within a definite emotional motive or coming from sub consciousness... Read more

Next!
23 Mar - 7 Apr 2007 Daria Buyun became one of the contest winners of new artistic projects. The contest was held by the gallery ‘’Anna Nova’’ in 2006. ‘’The project of the exhibition comes not only from Daria Buyun herself but from the whole young generation that grew up in postcommunist Russia and started an... Read more

Nine Burning Cars / Neuf Voitures Brulantes
23 Feb - 17 Mar 2007 The exhibition of Professors Group (Masha Zaborovskaya, Andrei Lyublinsky) 'The well-known events that took place in France, served as an impetus for creativity. The dwellers of the immigrant districts in Paris and other cities plunged a well-off country into fear and trembling. The country was on the brink of civil... Read more

The world according to porolon
29 Nov 2006 - 11 Feb 2007 Sergei Shekhovstsov is a remarkable sculptor of nowadays as well as contructivists were at the 1920th. The demostratively set aside old anthropomorphic world when marble, bronze and wooden sculptures had repeated a body, which is the creation of nature or the human-form gods. Modernist sculpture opens the era of iron... Read more

Criticizing Eternity
27 Oct - 24 Nov 2006 Oleg Oskolkov became a winner of the first competition of young artists 'New projects of the Anna Nova Gallery' 'On criticizing eternity, our gaze passes through various thresholds: an epic panorama of the city out of time, which, finding a name loses its pathos, and becomes a document, or, according... Read more

I am naked, but you are not
20 Sep - 22 Oct 2006 In her installation for the gallery ‘’Anna Nova’’ Natalia Pershina-Yakimanskaya sets up a scene in the cafe metaphorically presenting a process of socializing in its modern social standards. ‘The café customers’ are the business suits, which eat midget's skirts, tights, scarves and boots. It becomes tangible that the process of... Read more

Peterhof
16 Jun - 15 Jul 2006 Alexander Kitaev is a brilliant photoartist who has the major standmarks of Saint-Petersburg hand-eye. He has always understood himself as a historical person, which means that he lives and works under the light of history. He is not the mere citizen but the dweller and witness of historical places' life... Read more

Internal Cinema
28 Apr - 10 Jun 2006 In 2001-2006 Vladimir Shinkarev painted 38 pictures about cinema. Like a line of film fragments the pictures encircle the walls of the gallery. They seem to be drawing the silhouette of cinema, that presents the image of the XX century in its best way. Looking at the film clips we... Read more

Natural Histories
24 Mar - 22 Apr 2006 It’s not easy to define what Sergey Denisov makes in his creative activity. He is a hermit creating on the attic of the former St Petersburg tenant house. He combines some strange palimpsests of still nature, he draws his inspiration in the dusty heaps of Rare book shops: engravings, post... Read more

Bird Flu
17 Jan - 26 Feb 2006 Bella Matveyeva’s project “Bird Flu” is an open meditation on the theme of camp. Camp means being carried away by the Pre-Raphaelites, Beardsley, art-deco, Tamara de Lempicka, the film “A Strict Young Man’’, decoration, erotica, film stars of the silent era: Greta Garbo, Marlene Dierich, the novel ‘’À Rebours’’ by... Read more

The head of an Architect
25 Nov 2005 - 6 Jan 2006 He relates to painting with the stylistic flexibility of the graphic artist. For each image of the architect, Shvetsov changed the degree of conditionality. In the portrait of the St. Petersburg Art Nouveau genius Fyodor Lidval, he applied an illustrator’s approach: the head of the architect is much more detailed... Read more

Painting and sculpture
13 Oct - 20 Nov 2005 Тhe pictures and the world of sculptures of Elena Figurina are inhabited by people that, through the artist herself, are in some spiritual and physical relation with eachother. Watching the people meeting in the garden, playing chess, having meal one has the impression that Figurina is depicting a small people... Read more