Nadezhda Opalinskaya

<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

Yav Art Group

<div>Artists turn the building into an interface with a low charge icon, as if the phone of collective patience is discharged or the hero of a computer game runs out of strength. Only we do not seem to be in a computer game.</div>

Patience

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

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

Maestro Jackie

<div>Two paramedics - a doctor and a nurse - stopped for a smoke break. They risked their lives to save patients, and one was called up. The doctor gives his cigarette to his partner with the words: "smoke it, I have to go."<br><br>Art is dedicated to doctors who died from coronavirus.</div>

Smoke it, I have to go

<div>Some colourful images and words "Ty bulochka" (You are honeybun) on the wall.&nbsp;</div>

You are honeybun

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

HoodGrafTeam

<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 camera and VHS cassette - the most coveted objects of the era.</div>

"Peace! Friendship! Chewing gum!"-2

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

Vladimir Anosov

Anastasya Averina

AntonTutRyadom

<div>In the Primorsky Victory Park, four buildings were painted by street artists, volunteers of Gazprom Neft and students of the Anton is Here Center - the first center for systemic support of people with autism in Russia.&nbsp;<br><br>Drawings, texts and apt sayings of the students of the Center on the walls are shown without editing - as they are: "Everybody has a right to resemble him\herself", "Reality consists of magic and bricks", "I am in love. Is it scary?"</div>

Anton Tut Ryadom (Anton is right here)

Denis Dendy

<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>In the courtyards of the House of Benoit they shot a movie ("Captain Volkonogov escaped") and painted the walls and garages with awesome street art inspired by Russian avant-garde artists:&nbsp; Filonov, Petrov-Vodkin, Malevich etc.&nbsp;<br><br></div>

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

<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

FI2K

<div>Art in stencil technique under the bridge - 6x4 m. Stencils cut manually, work took 4 hours.<br><br><br></div>

Horse and dog

Mia Palanik

Mike Hyper

<div>First work by artists from Tver in Saint Petersburg.<br><br></div>

What are you thinking about right now?

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

Kris_K50

Nina Totmyanina

Tema Onoha

<div>Hall of fame near Begovaya metro station.</div>

Begovaya hall of fame

Pavel Mokich

<div>"We know for sure that Johann Bach never lived in these houses. But you don't know anything about those who live here now".</div>

Johann Sebastian Bach

<div>One of the busiest halls of fame close to city center near abandoned Palace of Culture: art changes very fast.</div>

Hall of fame near Obvodniy Kanal 

E.Dvornikov

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

Moomin Vlada

Art_Dudareva

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

Hall of fame near MC Kvadrat

Urbanfresco

Next.door.art

<div>A joint work of artists Oleg Lukyanov @urbanfresco and Nicole @ next.door.art is located on one of the walls near the Georgian diner EZO on the territory of Berthold Centre.<br>&nbsp;<br>To decorate the wall, Nicole created a picture based on the "Feast" by Niko Pirosmani, and Oleg applied it to the wall.</div>

Feast

Telezh

Van Gee

Olya Maznya

Hoodgraffteam

Uzhve

<div>Murals with characters from cult soviet movies in art cluster near the movie studio Lenfilm.<br>As of september not available to public, but can be seen from a distance.</div>

Kino Corner 

Sacha Blot

<div>"The tradition of wearing masks among the peoples of Indonesia goes back to beliefs about the connection with the world of higher powers. By hiding their human essence, people established a connection with the world of spirits and gods, on which their well-being depended.&nbsp;<br>I was inspired by these motives when creating a work, combining wooden masks, elements of flora and fauna of those exotic places and my characters.&nbsp;<br>For me, the concept of "Culture Bearers" has a broader meaning than is commonly thought. A culture carrier is not only one who was born in a certain place and absorbed its customs and way of life from childhood. But the one who fell in love with the country he visited, studied, imbued with the atmosphere and its mood, became a part of it. In the future, such people will broadcast the culture of the country they love to the whole world through traditional cuisine, art and dance".<br><br>Art can be seen on the territory of Loft Project "Etazhi" working 9AM-11PM.&nbsp;</div>

Culture bearers

Stanislav Dange

trun

Milkowhite

Boogie

<div>Place of the the biggest festival of hip-hop culture in St. Petersburg V1 Battle. Normally closed, except for the festival, now you can acess it through Tsunami bar.</div>

V1 Battle wall

Kislow

Petro

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"

Gager_One

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

33 plus 1

<div>The painting about the victory over Napoleon did not appear by chance: nearby is the building of the former Engineering and Artillery School of the Nobility, where famous military lider Kutuzov studied. The work was done by artists from the group "33 + 1". There is a themed playground under the wall of the house - for example, you can swing on a cannon.&nbsp;</div>

200 years of victory over Napoleon

<div>Hall of fame wall with art by different authors.<br><br></div>

Uliana Poloz

<div>Part of the Outingsprojectspb by Uliana Poloz: she creates drawings with reproductions of classic paintings on the walls in St. Petersburg courtyards and streets.<br>Ulyana wanted to give new life to paintings that are hidden in the depositories of museums around the world and are not available to the general public. She finds reproductions of canvases in good quality, prints them at home, then glues them ion the walls: first, she treats the surface with a special compound, and then varnishes it to protect the drawing from moisture and damage.</div>

Pensive by John Everett Millais

Misha Vert

Victor Splash

7aur

Roze

Egorshen

Anton Aist

Polina Okean

neals

Mark Sochnyy

ATASrueest.07

<pre>During celebration of Misha Vert`s birthday green was chosen as the main color and 13 cool artists brought their work into a single canvas.</pre>

Green

<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

Kirill Vedernikov

<div>"I almost always find it very difficult to say what my work is about. I think this is related to the fact that a lot of time passes from the initial idea to the moment of its full implementation. This time is an act of embodiment of a plan, always filled with internal dialogue, emotions and experiences. It is not so much you create a work as it creates you. You never know the result, it is a living process. Sometimes the title comes only at the very end, when the image already begins to breathe and speak for itself." Kirill Vedernikov</div>

Woman from Babylon

<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

Vladimir Abikh

<div>Part of the "City subtitles" project.&nbsp;<br><br>"In street art, working with the existing context is of particular importance to me, I regard the city as a media. This is an attempt to reveal the potential of space, to turn it into a scene of a non-existent film, to erase the border between the tangible and the imaginary".</div>

Time passes

<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

Ollyweisfish

Duke1

Xu Urbex

<div>One day local of Rzhevka district saw street artists working under the bridge, became acquainted and told them about long-standing dream of people living there to decorate the boring concrete fence of the Karatovsky passage to the park.<br>And they readily agreed. Locals wanted to see bright colours and characters, who can be popular wity kids, so colourful dreamlands with cats and dinosaurs appeared there to bring joy to one of the oldest neighbourhoods of Saint Petersburg.<br>This is a rare positive example of street art supported by locals.</div>

Karatovsky road hall of fame

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

Pixelarka

VandaLizy

<div>Tiny pixel dinosaur and caveman made of clay.</div>

Primeval

<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

Oleg Lukianov

<div>Urban fresco is a print technology which allows to transfer paints to any surface of any size.<br>Illustration to Dante`s "Divine Comedy" by Gustav Dore can be found right before lutheran church Annekirche.</div>

Divine Comedy

<div>It is easy to see artist`s subject ans source of inspiration walking around prouly in this quiet city yard.</div>

Saint Petersburg`s Pigeon

Hood graff

<div>Artists say: "Do you really need any comments?"<br>Dinosaur with a pipe and a suit is inspired by Saint-Petersburg Chief Architect who tends to favor past history and ignore present reality.</div>

Overstay

<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

<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!

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>The artists of the Yav art group have prepared a new art object on Borovaya Street in honor of International Women's Day. The portraits of Cleopatra, Queen of England and Ireland, Elizabeth I, and the Russian Empress Catherine II appeared on the firewall of the house.<br>&nbsp;<br>“The idea came up when we saw the wall. Plaster crumbled there, leaving the silhouettes of three women in historic costumes", - said the leader of the art group Anastasia Vladychkina.&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>In total, artists spent about eight hours creating this mural not counting the time it took to prepare the sketches and layout.&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>“The administration of the Central District has promised to paint over the illegal artwork. But, I think, it will not happen for a long time - this is the facade, utilities need to order a lift. You can't paint over the work with a roller - the plaster is crumbling, you need a spray gun with a generator, so you need time, workers and money ”Anastasia said.</div>

Female Power

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

Pieces of you

Gregory Rayons

<div>"This work was supported by the administration of the Etazhi project. There was complete freedom on the topic, the sketch was done quite quickly, it was immediately approved. Especially for this project, I prepared a stencil with an eye, which means - "I am an artist, I see it this way." Subsequently, the stencil began to multiply along the streets of the city".<br><br>Art can be seen on the territory of Loft Project "Etazhi" working 9AM-11PM.&nbsp;</div>

K-50

Octopus

Girl with a Kitten by Lucian Freud

Viktoria Veisbrut

<div>The mural "Horseman" personifies the contemporary Russian artist who, having absorbed the experience of foreign artists of the last decades, today stands on the way of opening himself to other countries. It is an allusion to Peter I establishing connection to Europe and author's alter ego.</div>

Horseman

<div>Uppsala circus is engaged in the social adaptation of street children and teens and children with special needs using the method of circus pedagogy.<br>Its` tent depicts "hooligan days and nighs", painted by street artist Sacha Blot.<br><br>Classes are conducted by professional circus trainers, choreographers and directors. Every year try-outs are held in crisis centers and, as a result, 50 children get into circus. For 21 year of its existence Uppsala Circus has made more than 500 tours in Europe.</div><div><br></div>

Juggling stars

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>

Fiery

<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

The best time for new beginnings is now

<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

<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

The Knight

Mikhail Uteev

Artem Cowy

Pasha Jerkoff

Camil

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

Artworks in Saint Petersburg