Nina Vitanova-Vlakhova “Aliens”
After Barbarella, the title character of Roger Vadim’s 1968 movie played by Jane Fonda, embarked on a space trip to find and stop the evil scientist Durand-Durand and particularly after she knocked out the Excessive Sex Machine, glamour, irony and eroticism conquered science fiction. Continue reading
Sami Hyrskylahti “PU-ERH”
Sami Hyrskylahti journalist, photographer, artist, producer, dj “I took my first ever photos in Russia inside Kremlin. The occasion was pressconference of presidents Jeltsin and Clinton at 9th of May 1995 at the celebration of 50 years of Victory. I was attending those historic moments as young journalist from Helsinki University student newspaper. Continue reading
The presentation of the book “Timur. Lying only truth” written by Ekaterina Andreyeva. Continue reading
MARINA FEDOROVA “To Live in Paris”
The happy word ‘Paris’ often goes together with two other – namely, ‘desire’ and ‘to live’. There is a famous line by Vladimir Mayakovsky: I would like to live and die in Paris, if there hadn’t been such city as Moscow, which we unconsciously tend to read as ‘to live and live in Paris’. Continue reading
Ronnie Wood “Rock Star and Painter”
“Compton Cassey Gallery”, in the United Kingdom and «D137 Gallery» are proud to present Ronnie Wood’s first personal exhibition in Russia on July 27th, the day before the highly anticipated Rolling Stones concert in St. Petersburg. Ronnie Wood (born.1947), musician, artist, art lover. Continue reading
Andrey Khlobystin “Dzen-dendizm”
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“Every picture tells a story” Artemy Troitsky’s collection Apart from showing a 
wonderful collection of contemporary art (which includes works by I. Kabakov, S. Gundlach, T. Nazarenko, T. Novikov, E. Logan, A. Vinogradov and V. Dubosarsky, V. Monroe, A. Bartenev and others) and bringing its renowned owner to St Petersburg, this exhibition is meant to launch a new project and to start a series of events focused on the noble and fascinating business of contemporary art collecting. Continue reading
The Moscow’s Government, the Committee of Culture, “MOSCOW HOUSE of PHOTOgraphy”, D137 GALLERY presents: Natasha Vasilieva-Hull “PHOTOKINO”(www.seagullpublishing.co.uk) Within the limits of Moscow International festival “Fashion and Style in photo – 2007 ” . “Club on Brestskaya” Curator: Artemy Troitsky
Yegor Ostrov : Sign and image
Yegor Ostrov belongs to the rare artists who invented their own artistic device and distinctive technique – the thing hardly possible in contemporary art but truly necessary for any artist. Ostrov couples figurative image and abstraction by masking figurative compositions with the grid. In 1994, Timur Novikov, the founder of the New Academy of Fine Arts, ironically Continue reading