St. Petersburg | Culture & Events | March Exhibitions

12/03 - Love Life Music

Parisian photographer Alexandra Kremer-Khomasuridze has been travelling around the world with some of the best known musicians and conductors. No she’s not some classical music groupie. She is in fact one of the worlds best portraitists. During her tours she took hundreds of photos of some of the world’s most famous musicians in full flight both on and off the stage. Great maestros that you can see in the exhibition include Yuri Temirkanov, Valery Gergiev, Gidon Kremer, Denis Matsuev, Yo-Yo Ma and many more. [...]

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Grand Philharmonic Hall (GPH), Ul. Mikhailovskaya 2

tel. (+7) 812 710 40 85


Metro station:

Nevsky pr.

20/12 - 15/03 Russian Hollywood

Lights, camera, action! Paris based fashion historian Alexander Vasileev brings more of his unique collection of vintage film photography to St Petersburg this month. After a successful visit earlier this year (focusing on Russian Hollywood sirens), the emphasis this time is on Russian involvement in Hollywood between the 1920s and 1960s. Film stills from classic films such as Dr Zhivago and Anna Karenina as well as portraits of Russian stars of the silver screen ooze glamour and romance. [...]

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Rosfoto, Ul. Bolshaya Morskaya 35,

tel. (+7) 812 314 12 14


Metro station:

Nevsky pr.

Through 12/03 R-walls poster series

ROJO is an achingly hip Spanish magazine that supports some of the most innovative and colourful graphic artists working today. This small exhibition will show selected works of the artists who took part in the magazine’s poster series project. The large works on display are by turns psychedelic and utilitarian, childish and comedic featuring everything from print and collage to paint and sketch. [...]

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Gallery 100, Ligovsky pr. 39

tel. (+7) 812 275 93 63


Metro station:

Pl. Vostanniya

Through 14/03 Petr Shvetsov

Local modern artist Peter Shvetsov is concerned with all things dark and murky – death, fears, shadows and decay. This exhibition explores the theme of the marsh. St. Petersburg itself of course is built on a marsh and Shvetov’s brutal, chaotic pictures depict what it once may have looked like. His seemingly wet canvases drip darkness and mould and portrays effectively the endless gloom of the average swamp. [...]

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Anna Nova Gallery, Ul. Zhukovskova 28

tel. (+7) 812 275 97 62


Metro station:

Mayakovskaya

Through 19/03 The Institute of the New Man

More a project than an exhibition, the institute of the new man is a newly formed art group that wants to facilitate dialogue between new local artists and their more established counterparts. The institute plans to screen films, hold concerts and organise meetings with art theorists. On Saturdays new pictures will be chosen for display with more famous local artists such as Gennady Zubkov and Vladimir Kustov giving way for unknown new artists. [...]

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Loft Project Etagi, Ligovsky pr. 74,

tel. (+7) 812 611 01 66


Metro station:

Ligovsky pr.

Through 20/03 Nepal Land of temples and Mountains

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Museum of the history of Religion, Ul. Pochtamskaya 14

tel. (+7) 812 571 04 95


Metro station:

Nevsky pr.

Through 29/03 Italy 1946 - 2006

This exhibition has been put together as a love poem to contemporary Italy. Covering all aspects of Italian life through the past 60 years, these photographs represent those iconic images that one can’t help but remember. There are adverts for Benetton, playful classical renaissance inspired photographs, images of rural life reminiscent of the Godfather, shots of Italian sportsmen and of course plenty of versions of la bella donna. [...]

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Rosfoto, Ul. Bolshaya Morskaya 35

tel. (+7) 812 314 12 14


Metro station:

Nevsky pr.

Through mid-March The Makovskys

The Makovsky’s were an artistic Russian family very much in business at the end of the 19^th Century. Yegor the head of the family went on to found the Moscow art school while his children all went on to pick up the brush with varying success. Their paintings give a vital view on life in Russia in the 19^th Century. Their subjects range from rural idylls to battle fields, aristocrats, social injustice and simple everyday life. [...]

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Russian Museum , Benois Wing


Metro station:

Nevsky pr.