Saint Petersburg

Anna Smirnova

Unknown

<div>A rare case of the unity of the authorities with an initiative group of citizens brought the first result - the appearance of "light graffiti" dedicated to the famous writer Fyodor Dostoevsky on the wall of the house in Kuznechny Lane in which he lived.<br>Using the example of Dostoevsky's house, the Committee for Urban Planning and Architecture prepared a concept for the widespread use of light projections on the facades of houses in the historical center of St. Petersburg. Their themes can be different - from portraits of cultural figures to masterpieces of classical fine art and works of contemporary artists.</div>

Dostoevsky

Angel.Lev.Spb

<div><em>"My umbrella`s soaking wet<br>From the handle to the hat,<br>That`s because day after day<br>It protects me from the rain!"<br>N.Radchenko</em></div>

Angel with umbrella

Art Facade

<div>The mural on the area of about 280 square meters was dedicated to the celebration of the city festival of school graduates "Scarlet Sails", which is annually held in St. Petersburg. The project is included in the "Register of Informal Attractions of St. Petersburg" under the name "Assol in St. Petersburg" - the picture includes the image of the Peter and Paul Fortress.<br>Locals believe that if you close your eyes, touch the ship with your hand and ask for success in exams, your wish will come true.</div>

Scarlet sails or Assol in Saint Petersburg

<div><em>«And in spite of everything <br>I `ll keep faith as I did before. <br>If you need me I`ll get through. <br>Even through tightly closed door».</em><br><br></div>

Angel

Susan Cervantes

Luis Cervantes

Carlos Loarca

Nikolai Bogomolov

Svetlana Bogomolova

<div>Probably oldest mural in Saint-Petersburg was created in the summer of 1990 in the framework of the American-Soviet project "All for One Earth".&nbsp;<br>The project took about 2 weeks. Mural was painted with acrylic paint brought from USA and covered with a protective layer of PVA glue. The theme, style and color are reminiscent of traditional Mexican wall paintings.The central figure represents Mother Earth. Right above her head you can see cat with wings, painted by 9 years old Svetlana, daughter of Nikolai Bogomolov.</div>

Water is life

Kirill Vedernikov

<div><br>"The city itself begs for a canvas or a canvas begs for the city"</div>

Don Quixote

Slava Ptrk

<div>From “Childhood in the front of TV set” series".<br><br>This work combines characters from cartoons popular in Ruissa in 1990-s (Darkwing Duck, Duck tales) with the context of a place, where cult movie "Brat" ("Brother") was filmed.<br><br></div>

I am so sorry, my brother

Hoodgraffteam

<div>"Peace! Friendship! Chewing gum!" is created in support of the release of the TV series about life in the 90s wuth the same name.&nbsp;<br>The artists depicted Tamagotchi, Polaroid and VHS cassette - the most coveted objects of the era.</div>

Peace! Friendship! Chewing gum!

trun

Wais

twol

Zomb

Cobr

Petro

Ixel

Space

Koks

Truba

Brow

Maksow

Aurs

Roof169

Dzenik

Pour

Iork

El Paso

<div>One of the oldest murals in Saint-Petersburg was created during the international graffiti forum "Meeting of styles" in 2008 by several artists from different countries.<br>The wall is 37m high and has 10m length: the topic of the painting is cooperation and communication — tree is made of graffiti tags and illustrations.<br>The wall was supposed to be one of the 100 legal walls accessible for street art painters, but project failed and now this is more of the exception.</div>

The Tree

Lu Blue

<div>"So I wanted to create something great in this faceless mask time...<br>Yesenia means clear sky, pursuit of cleansing from troubles, bad weather and adversity, bringing sapphire calm to the city on the Neva river".</div>

Nevsky Symphony - Yesenia

Loshadka_eyes

<div>Images of sad thin horses began to appear on the dull walls of houses on Vasilievsky Island five years ago. This strange horse is special: it is the only one left at the moment. Each one was painted over by the city administration, but this one was protected by locals. You can see "don`t kill me" written on the wall near its head.</div>

Horsey

Nadezhda Opalinskaya

Polina Okean

FI2K

Mikhail Uteev

Artem Cowy

Pasha Jerkoff

Camil

Anton Aist

Ivan Maximov

Azat Nurgaleev

Kashak.Official

<div>Made for VK Fest, these works found temporal home in a typical courtyard and can be seen through grills.</div>

VK Fest x Arton 

33 plus 1

<div>The area of ​​the “City” painting is about thousand square meters.&nbsp;<br>The idea is to find a compromise between the style of graffiti and the classic architecture. The composition of the painting defines the place for graffiti in the architectonics of firewalls so that the graffiti becomes part of the composition, it ceases to be an act of vandalism.</div>

The City

Yav Art Group

<div>The work was created specifically for the short non-commercial film "Fish", which will become a part of "The Foolish" film almanac directed by Sofia Kapilevich.&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>"Fish" is a story about the life of a painter from housing and communal services changed by an encounter with the works of a street artist.</div>

Namalevich

<pre>"Finally, I used elements of the Mesopotamian art, which I have adored for a long time. Sumerian character design and mythical animals are so cool. Part of the wall was left untouched - crumbling plaster blended well with the art. The gable roof is the main reason why I decided to paint mural this big - the shape of the wall is beautiful. I hope the employees of the Baltic Shipyard, who go to work at 5:30 in the morning (!!!), will find it more pleasant to walk along this one-way curved street now".</pre><div><br></div>

Untitled

HoodGrafTeam

<div>Zina Portnova was a schoolgirl from Leningrad. She is remembered as a Soviet underground fighter, partisan, member of the underground organization Young Avengers. She died after a month of torture when she was only 17.<br><br>Art by Hoodgraff is meant to remind of the courage of people.</div>

Zina Portnova

Gager_One

Tema Onoha

Alexandr Volanski

Ztwins

Enote art

Henok

Today crew

Drummm

<div>Ironically nicknamed "Canary Island" is a home for many artworks on the wasteland near the waterfront.&nbsp;</div>

Kanonersky island hall of fame

Misha Vert

<div>Art can be seen on the territory of Loft Project "Etazhi" working 9AM-11PM.&nbsp;</div>

The best time for new beginnings is now

Buscador_Solo

Steklotour

Kirill Bengo

Stas Bags

Anna Bronza

Moomi Vlada

Artos_is_here

<div>Works by various street artists in the Garden of Vera Slutskaya are dedicated to famous soviet musician Oleg Karavaichuk, who lived in this neighborhood,&nbsp;and are united by the topic of music.<br><br></div>

World of sound

Denis Dendy

<div>Smart man (as in "intelligent" and as in "well dressed") with an owl in his brain :)<br>Look for it near the Theatre Studio Obraz.</div>

Dandy Owl

<div>Sunny morning, cup of coffee.
<br>If you want, instead of cream
<br>I will add a spoon of happy
<br>And a pinch of sweetest dream.
<br>I will add all my emotions.
<br>If you want, I'll never stop.
<br>I will give you my devotion
<br>With this humble little cup.<br><br>O.Kozlovskaya (translated by Anna Smirnova)</div>

Cup of coffee

Kislow

Roman Muratkin

Vasily LST

Rustam Qbic

Anatoly Akue

Adno

Slak

<div>The monotonous landscape of the high rise buildings was diluted with huge murals. One of the walls was devoted to abstract geometry and painted by the modern followers of Suprematism Aesthetic group (Petro from the city of Zhukovsky and Slak from the city of Beloozersky). Two more walls work as a diptych based on "Alice Through the Looking Glass" - it`s a collaboration of artists Alexei Kanunnikov aka Kislow from Sevastopol and Roman Muratkin from the Moscow Region. Together, the two facades make up the story of a girl who looked behind the wall of her apartment and found herself in an unusual and fascinating fantasy world, where an ordinary residential quarter looks like a table set for tea drinking. The latest murals have a theme of travel and discovery and are painted by Irkutsk artist Vasya LST and Rustam QBic.<br><br>The project was implemented by SC "Oykumena" and the Institute for Street Art Research, curator - Albina Motor.</div>

Residential Complex "Graffiti"

<div>This animal is aardvark, but passers-by сalled it by many names! A dinosaur, kangaroo, and a giant jerboa, and a herbosaur and an anteater, of course. The only person who recognized an aardvark was a tourist from Australia =)&nbsp;</div>

Aardvark

<div>Decorative mural with a portrait of a famous Nobel prize on literature nominee – russian writer/poetess Anna Akhmatova.&nbsp;<br>Author unknown.<br>The walls of the arch leading to the museum from the Liteyniy prospect‘s side of the yard are used as a public graffiti space whereas every modern writer can leave a message or a poem. When there is too much graffiti the walls are usually photographed by the museum’s workers and buffed for new letters.</div>

Anna Akhmatova 

<div>Work can be found just outside of the beautiful Vitebsky train station - it is highly recommended to see it inside.<br><br></div>

Agressive Tranquility

<div>Part of the project "Colours of Saint-Petersburg".</div>

<div>On the mural you can see characters from the cartoon about nice and intelligent cat named Leopold with motto "Let`s leave and peace" and his frenemies, impudent and brash mouses.<br><br></div>

Let`s live in peace

Pixelarka

<div>Tiny pixel mirror near subway station to stop and reflect.</div>

Pieces of you

Moomin Vlada

Art_Dudareva

<div>3 works on legal wall by 3 female artists.</div>

Hall of fame near MC Kvadrat

E.Dvornikov

Victor Splash

<div>Cubes creating the illusion of volume appeared on the front facade of the main building of the loft project "Etazhi" in September 2019. The artist Victor Splash has used this visual image in his works before, but the idea of ​​a chaotic composition came to him after another visit to the iconic St. Petersburg site. On 7,000 square meters of the former bakery, today more than two hundred residents coexist, including shops, cafes, bars, exhibition spaces, a coworking space and a hostel. The coexistence of different projects contributing to the emergence of new ideas and their synergy inevitably leaves an impression of disorder and confusion. These specific features, defined by the artist as the "spirit of Shanghai", became the starting point when developing the concept of decorating one of the central walls of the spacious courtyard.&nbsp;<br>⠀&nbsp;<br>The surface chosen by the artist is a narrow (up to 3 meters wide) strip to the full height of a five-storey building. The limiting elements dictated the approach to the creation of the work: it had to "not only fit well into the volume, but also brazenly" stick out ". The artist calls the technique in which the composition is made 3D-cubism. The reference to the modernist movement, whose name is inextricably linked with the name of Pablo Picasso, does not bother him. Rather, on the contrary: the emerging link seems logical, since the author's search is directly related to the rethinking of the legacy of modernism.&nbsp;<br>⠀&nbsp;<br>Art can be seen on the territory of Loft Project "Etazhi" working 9AM-11PM.&nbsp;</div>

3D facade

7aur

<pre>Corgis and greyhounds on the dog playground. 
Locals praised artists and regularly asked to add a husky, a dachshund, a shiba-inu, a pug and dozens of other breeds that they walked past the painting.</pre><div><br></div>

Dog playground

Pavel Shugurov

<div>Angel appeared on the eve of May 9, after a competition held by the district oficials. The authors are artists from the creative workshop "33 + 1". Pavel Shugurov says: "We have prepared about ten sketches, understanding the request and knowing the taste of the organizers. The most passable won".<br><br></div>

Victory Angel

<div>Four walls around kindergarten were inspired by famous russian children`s book. Central wall is "Alphabet" with different animals representing letters. There are several smaller murals around - "Numbers", "Colours", "Poems".</div><div>Mural was supported by <strong>AkzoNobel.</strong></div>

For children about animals

<div>A team of artists in St. Petersburg restored graffiti depicting Sergei Bodrov Jr. as the hero of the films "Brother" and "Brother-2" Danila Bagrov after it was vandalised and painted over.</div>

Sergei Bodrov

Artichoke

<div>"When people ask what is painted here, I answer honestly: bird-girl-statue. You can search for hidden meaning if you want, I do not. Meaning limits art, I think with visuals, not words".</div>

Bird-Girl-Statue

<div>Mural on the territory of the luxurious residential complex: obviously blank wall was to boring to look at. If you do not live there, you can only see it through the bars.</div>

Urbanfresco

Oleg Lukianov

Andrey Sikorski

<div>What's happening? Has world gone mad? Where to buy masks and buckwheat? How to survive? And .... maybe we should drink some absinthe?&nbsp;<br>What do you think, what russian poet Anna Akhmatova as seen by Nathan Altman and Absinthe Lover by Pablo Picasso would talk about today in quarantine? The artistic fantasy of the author of the collage Andrei Sikorsky performed by Oleg Lukyanov is their joint decoration in the garden of the Fountain House, where Anna Akhmatova`s Museum can be visited.<br>On the walls in the courtyard you can also find lots of poerty, written or remembered by visitors.</div>

Anna Akhmatova meets Absinthe Lover

<div>In a small courtyard on Pionerskaya st. you can wee large pre-revolutionary photos on the wall and an excerpt from Anna Akhmatova's poem about Petersburg:&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>"But we will never trade the magnificent&nbsp;<br>granite city of glory and trouble,&nbsp;<br>shining ice of wide rivers,&nbsp;<br>sunless gloomy gardens&nbsp;<br>and the voice of the Muse&nbsp;<br>barely audible .. "</div>

Family album

Alexey KIO

Dyoma21

Ilya Grishaev

Andrey berger

Sofia Kolovskaya

Theo Georgiev

Artem Stefanov

<div>Murals in public cultural and business space Sevcable Port were created during festival Present Perfect. Works were based on the sound wave and marine theme.</div><ul><li>"Immersion", a double portrait of a young man, as he is dissolving into a fragmented mirror surface, was made by Dyoma21.</li><li>Alexey Kio created a large-scale abstraction from multi-colored geometric shapes.</li><li>Andrey Berger`s work is distinguished by monochrome lines escaping from a two-dimensional space.</li><li>Artem Stefanov specializes in large-scale outdoor work with pronounced optical effects.</li></ul><div><br></div><div>Later duo ZTWINS prepared an abstract geometric image that interacts with realistic imagery. The main theme of their work is industrial aesthetics that interact with the local environment.&nbsp;<br>For the Finland Day festival, illustrators Sofia Kolovskaya and Teo Georgiev created the mural Spirit of Finland, which celebrates the connection between Finnish nature and the energy of a dynamic modern city.<br><br><br></div>

Street Art in Sevcable Port

NASIMO

<div>Mural painted in Design District DAA to celebrate its transition from a nuclear equipment factory into center for design, art and culture. Artist from Bulgaria utilized the power of art to spread love and peace worldwide,</div>

Love and Peace

<div>The portrait of Peter The Great was made to celebrate city`s 316th birthday.<br><br>The drawing is done in black and white. The portrait of Peter I is about three meters high. The image itself is very familiar to Petersburgers from historical books, and many from textbooks on local history.&nbsp;</div>

To the founder from descendants

<div>Street Art Museum is a unique territory of art combining a gallery space, street culture and functioning Laminated Plastics Factory. The Museum was founded in 2012 after a graffiti party held in one of the abandoned factory’s workshops. Today the territory is divided into two zones — permanent exhibition at the functioning production area of the Factory that houses the collection of murals made by modern street artists and a public space where temporary exhibitions are held and various events take place. The permanent collection includes around 50 works by contemporary artists, which can be seen as a part of an excursion around the factory territory and premises.</div>

Street Art Museum

Dmitry Petrenko

Fashion abstraction

Valerius

Sergey Varagzin

<div>One of the most famous courtyards in St. Petersburg, partly thanks to the large-scale graffiti "Ruslan and the Head", based on the poem "Ruslan and Lyudmila" by Alexander Pushkin, well known and loved in Russia.<br><br>Three interconnected courtyards house a whole gallery of graffiti, mosaic paintings and sculptures. Their authors are famous painters, sculptors (Valerius Valery Ivanov, Sergey Varagzin) and students of the Stieglitz Art and Industry Academy. Some of the drawings are dedicated to the heroes of Pushkin's fairy tales, some are created in defense of homeless animals, and some advocate for a healthy lifestyle.</div>

Art courtyard

<div><br>A contemporary and spacious hotel in the loft style occupies a historic building at the heart of Saint Petersburg which still retains the character of the Imperial era. The distinctive hotel design is inspired by the Wynwood Art District of Miami.</div><div><br>Collaboration between <strong>Pokras Lampas </strong>and the WYNWOOD design hotel is not accidental:&nbsp; modern musicians and artists from all over the world stay here, fashionable St. Petersburg citizens go for breakfasts or brunches. The main sights of the city, clubs and bars, museums are just nearby. You can see mural from the hotel or The Jungle Café.<br><br><br></div>

WYNWOOD Hotel

<div>"I’ve combined hero of Russian movie “Brat” (brother) with Disney’s Darkwing Duck. And I painted this character near the place where shooting of movie has occured. From “Childhood in the front of TV set” series".</div>

The avenger in black

Pasha Cas and Pavel Mokich

<div>“Mayakovsky Street in St. Petersburg is famous for two addresses: Vladimir Mayakovsky lived here, and Daniil Kharms lived here. The first is the loud voice of the revolution, the favorite of millions and immortalized during his lifetime. And Kharms is misunderstood and almost forgotten. Unpublished, banned, twice placed in a psychiatric hospital and repressed in the first months of the blockade. Mystical, non-structural, tragic in its childishness and majestic in its piercing solitude. "</div>

Daniil Kharms

Burstone Art

Alexey Burstone

<div>District ommunity activists worked with Burstone to clean, prime and design street electric cabinet. To protect the newly-minted art object from printed ads, the cabinet was additionally covered with anti-vandal varnish.<br>Researches show that beautifully designed fences, cabinets and walls do not attract vandals.</div>

Greek warrior and girl with grapes

Turben

<pre>Inside a circular brick building, a former silo, 120 cows are depicted - this is the number of animals on the Benois farm at the beginning of the 20th century.</pre><div><br></div>

120 Moos

iamekaas

Ekatherina Mokhova

<div>"This is a kind of set of images that builds itself up in your head when you think about something you care about."</div>

Remember how it all began

<div>"-The artist's path is sacrifice and faith in good,&nbsp;<br>Make the world a little more beautiful every day.&nbsp;<br>- Don't be smart-ass, everyone has been tired for a long time&nbsp;<br>Over the centuries of searching for all sorts of great ideas.&nbsp;<br>Life is easier! I'd rather go and eat&nbsp;<br>All cool delights instead of abstruse poems".<br><br>Art can be seen on the territory of Loft Project "Etazhi" working 9AM-11PM.&nbsp;</div>

The artist's path

Alexey Barhan

<div>"It rises in the center of St. Petersburg thirty-two meters above the ground, was created in three days exclusively by rollers, finished in a pouring rain on the last Saturday of October".</div><div><br>Art can be seen on the territory of Loft Project "Etazhi" working 9AM-11PM.&nbsp;</div>

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