Past
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THE SEVENTH HEAVEN
DMITRY MARKOV 16 Aug - 27 Oct 2024 Anna Nova Gallery of Contemporary Art presents Dmitry Markov’s solo project THE SEVENTH HEAVEN. This is the first exhibition of this photographer after his departure from life in February 2024. In 2 levels of the Gallery, 60 works that the author created in 2014 through 2023 will be displayed. Dmitry... Read more -
OPEN STORAGE
6 Jun - 28 Jul 2024 Come to Anna Nova Gallery to see the works by contemporary artists in the open storage format till July 28. Most of them, including the ones by Andrey Kuzkin, Alexandra Gart, Petr Dyakov, Uldus Bakhtiozina, Fedor Hiroshige, and Denis Patrakeev will be showcased for the first time ever. Traditionally, storage... Read more -
Surprise Container
Anna Andrzhievskaya 15 Mar - 26 May 2024 Surprise Container is a mystical fantasy about the downfall of the Machismo world. In this minimalistic exposition that is a simulation of a science lab the artist showcases her works in different genres and techniques she’s created this year after moving to Barcelona. According to Anna, a capsule discovered in... Read more -
Foxfire
Fedor Hiroshige 23 Dec 2023 - 3 Mar 2024 Anna Nova Gallery presents Fedor Hiroshige's personal exhibition 'Foxfire' — a journey through the worlds of the author's mythology where national and oriental cultures are intertwined. The image of fire in this journey illuminates the path of the heroes and becomes the main guide between dimensions. The title of the... Read more
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live forget live forget
Andrey Kuzkin 14 Oct - 10 Dec 2023 'live forget live forget' — a reflection on life and death, memory and oblivion. The artist is interested in contradictory semantic attitudes and internal conflict where a person finds himself nowadays. The exposition consists of two artistic statements — the project 'I am still alive' and the large-scale installation 'The... Read more -
'Do not look at me like that curator'
curator: Ilya Kronchev-Ivanov 8 - 28 Sep 2023 From September 8 to 28, an experimental research exhibition 'don't look at me like that curator' curated by Ilya Kronchev-Ivanov and supported by Nova Art contest will take place in the Anna Nova Gallery . The project explores relationship models between artists and curators, and also examines the phenomenon of... Read more -
Protected Zone
Piotr Diakov 15 Jun - 27 Aug 2023 Piotr Diakov works mainly with sculpture, where he uses his handprints. The artist is literally groping to find a new way of dialogue with the viewer and his past, analyzing personal traumatic experience. In the new project Diakov refers to the image of the reserve — a specially protected zone... Read more -
Volny Park. Zhukovsky Terminal
ANYA AND VITALIK CHEREPANOV 24 Mar - 27 May 2023 'Volny Park. Zhukovsky Terminal' — Anya and Vitalik Cherepanov's experiment on creating an exhibition without authors' physical presence. It includes archival works and immersive video installations, based on recordings from the city's security systems. Exploring the phenomenon of ubiquitous surveillance, the artists reflect on the possible ways of interaction in... Read more
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Monument of Remembrance
MAYANA NASYBULLOVA 23 Dec 2022 - 12 Mar 2023 Monument of Remembrance — is a solo exhibition by Mayana Nasybullova. The artist continues the exploration of the issues concerning the representation of traumatic experiences and historical memory. The narrative of the project is based around the central piece — Monument of Remembrance — Mayana rethinks the heritage of Soviet... Read more -
Anna Nova Gallery is closed 29.09 — 05.12.22
Olga and Oleg Tatarintsev 29 Sep - 5 Dec 2022 Read more -
INNER LANDSCAPE MEMBRANES
DMITRY KAWARGA 15 Jun - 18 Sep 2022 Inner Landscape Membranes — is a solo exhibition by Dmitry Kawarga, a well-known Moscow-based artist. For a long time, Dmitry has been referring to the topics of apocalypse and wreckage of the world — as if foreboding the on-coming changes. Today, when the very concept of global order is collapsing,... Read more -
THE STORYTELLER
Ustina Yakovleva, Sylvia Javén 9 Mar - 5 Jun 2022 Anna Nova Gallery is pleased to present The Storyteller – a project by artists duo, Russian Ustina Yakovleva and Finnish Sylvia Javén, who contemplate psychogeography of the Nordic lands and explore borderline states. Divided geographically, with Ustina residing in Russia and Silvia in Finland, the artists first met on Kotlin... Read more
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The peace is too fragile
Marya Dmitrieva 9 Mar - 5 Jun 2022 СOLLECTORS LOUNGE: paintings, collage, watercolor on paper Read more -
Spider's Web Forest
Alexandra Gart 24 Dec 2021 - 21 Feb 2022 'Spider’s Web Forest' by Alexandra Gart continues her serial reflection over the Anthropocene era. The exhibition is located at two levels, being a grand installation that features metal structures, fluid resin, graphics on rice paper rolls and 12 meters long matte pergamin along with audio light boxes. Alexandra’s works invite... Read more -
TRANSFORMATION AS A FORM OF RESISTANCE
HAIM SOKOL 9 Oct - 13 Dec 2021 Anna Nova Gallery and Third Place creative space are pleased to present a solo exhibition by Haim Sokol – Transformation as a Form of Resistance. The exhibition will be held at two venues simultaneously: in the Gallery and in the former Lopukhins-Naryshkins mansion, where Third Place space is located. This... Read more -
The moth and the bat flying to the light
Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov 2 Jul - 14 Aug 2021 Anna Nova Gallery presents another solo project by Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov – 'The Moth and the Bat Flying to the Light'. The artist explores the subject of the “foreign” and the friend/foe limits. He is concerned to know how these statuses come to be in the society – both in terms... Read more
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Dimension Range
::vtol:: 30 Apr - 12 Jun 2021 Dimension Range is the first solo project by ::vtol:: (aka artist Dmitry Morozov) in St. Petersburg, showcasing the imaginative and research exercises of the artist in the recent years. Dimension Range – this word play appeared while the artist was looking for the most comprehensive and poetic way to describe... Read more -
Planetary nebulas
Rostan Tavasiev 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
Group exhibition 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
Jonathan Monaghan 21 Mar - 5 Sep 2020 A Trace Left by the Future is the first solo show in Russia of American artist Jonathan Monaghan. Initiated by Anna Barinova and realised in collaboration with bitforms gallery (New York), the exhibition features new sculptures, prints, and video installation. Monaghan invites us into a candy-colored, yet unsettling world uncovering... Read more
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Laboratorium suggerere
Valeria Abendroth 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
Anastasia Potemkina 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
North-7 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
Alexander Dashevskiy 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
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"Woodman & Partners" Architecture Bureau, or The Paradise Built by Me
Nestor Engelke 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
Irina Drozd 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
Egor Kraft 10 Nov 2018 - 23 Feb 2019 ÁKKTA, Egor Kraft’s largest-ever presented solo show, brings together the artist's key projects of recent years, previously shown at various international art institutions. Kraft’s ongoing research “Content Aware Studies” is the central focus of the exhibition. Egor Kraft’s multidisciplinary practice has incorporated AI, video art, and interventions, as well as... Read more -
Ants never sleep
Vlad Kulkov 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
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Collectors lounge 1. Future
Group exhibition 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
Group exhibition 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
Aljoscha 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
USTINA YAKOVLEVA 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
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It’s possible to imagine what will remain after
Maria Agureeva 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
Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov 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
Haim Sokol 8 Feb - 10 Mar 2018 Our Coming was Expected on Earth is a total installation by 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 beginning or end... Read more -
Voice Cooling Tests
Alice Kern 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
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THE CIRCUS 17
Uldus Bakhtiozina 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
Denis Patrakeev 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”
Group exhibition 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
Uldus Bakhtiozina 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
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A drop of Creacin
Rostan Tavasiev 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
Stas Bags 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
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"
Pavel Brat 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
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Lotophagie / Lotus-eaters
Aljoscha 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
Vlad Kulkov 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
Alexander Dashevskiy 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
Yuri Alexandrov 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
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pas tout
Ilya Grishaev 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
Group exhibition 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
Anatoly Belkin 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
Group exhibition 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
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Russ Land
Uldus Bakhtiozina 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
Irina Drozd 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
Irina Drozd 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
Igor Shuklin 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
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The Battle of People against Artefacts
Yuri Alexandrov 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
David Ter-Oganyan 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
Denis Patrakeev 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
Ivan Plusch 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
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A few words about civility
Anastasia Potemkina 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
Vlad Kulkov, Marya Dmitrieva 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
Group exhibition 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
Haim Sokol 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
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The leningrad school
Yuri Alexandrov 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
Petr Shvetsov 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
Maxim Svishev 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
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
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Desperate romantics
Uldus Bakhtiozina 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
Ilya Seletsky 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
Alexander Dashevskiy 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
Rostan Tavasiev 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
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Like that
Konstantin Simun, Kirill Khrustalev 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
Denis Patrakeev 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
Yuri Alexandrov, Ivan Goldenshluger, Konstantin Molosh 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
Ivan Plusch 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
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Crash
Stas Bugs 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
Oleg Maslov 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
Ahn Jun, Lim Woo Jae 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
Group "Soap" (Semen Motolyanets, Dmitry Petuhov) 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
