A large-scale exhibition at the Manege tells the story of multiple members of the Benois artistic dynasty, though the central figure of the project is Alexander Nikolaevich Benois, with the key themes of his work — theatre and ballet. An important part of the narrative is the artist’s native city, St. Petersburg, whose presence can be traced in the color of the floors, the exhibition architecture, and, of course, in the artworks themselves. This exhibition-attraction offers an ideal way to spend time while the city remains half-asleep.

1 St. Isaac’s Square

Participants of international biennales and exhibitions, Tatyana Badanina and Vladimir Nasedkin rarely work as a duo — their artistic approaches differ significantly. Badanina creates fragile, floating objects and installations, while Nasedkin explores industrial landscapes of ports and factories, reducing them to schematic forms. The exhibition Observers highlights this contrast and presents a conditional dialogue between "sky" and "earth," inviting viewers to trace how the very idea of observation has transformed over the centuries — from the benevolent gaze of a guardian angel to the total digital surveillance system surrounding us today.

4a Barochnaya St.

Just before the January holidays, an exhibition about childhood opened — one in which children are both the subject of artistic attention and active participants. Children’s reflections and emotional experiences form one of the exhibition’s central themes. The show is divided into seven thematic sections spread across two floors. It brings together works by classical and contemporary artists, as well as objects made of imperial porcelain and items from private collections.

5/1 Millionnaya St.

From the very beginning of his artistic career, the artist has been marked by decisiveness — which explains his bold departure from conventional painting toward a total painterly installation using rags. The rough texture of the fabric forms a flat relief, while the suffocating smell of paint, hitting the viewer from the first steps, becomes an artistic gesture within the context of the exhibition. Fedorichev quite literally unfolds a panorama of a completed hunt.

61 Tchaikovsky St.

A Room and a Half continues its series of festive events celebrating the museum’s fifth anniversary. The collaboration brings together cultural venues and presents an installation in the form of a glowing moon. The artist accompanies the project with poetic texts written in free verse. These are complemented by a sound composition created by resident composers of the Radio House and musicAeterna — Alexey Retinsky and Andreas Mustukis — at A Room and a Half. The installation at the Radio House can be experienced during scheduled events and concerts.

14 Korolenko St. / 62 Nevsky Prospekt

Known for her objects and installations made from resin and family archives, the artist turns in her new project to "urban archaeology," working with found objects. From these materials, she has created ceramic frames and icon covers that sharpen the focus on personal and collective memory, trauma, and the nature of artistic expression — granting everyday objects a sense of sacredness.

9 Masterskaya St.

"The Garden Against the City" is the third chapter of a unique project revisiting the history and archives of the gallery, titled "The River of Time Cannot Bear Ice." Developed and reassembled throughout the year, the project brings together works by more than 30 artists represented by Marina Gisich Gallery.
Curator Alexander Dashevsky assembled the artists' works around several narrative lines ("The Teacher, the Double, the Monkey," "This Is My Dacha!", "The Garden Against the City") to transform the exhibition space into a hybrid vault-theater-storage room, where artworks exchange glances with viewers and with one another, reflecting on the gallery’s 25th anniversary and the shifts in tastes, paradigms, generations, and cultural reference points over the past quarter-century.

Fontanka River Embankment, 121,
Projects Space

The first collaborative project by Alexander Shabaev and Alevtina Salenko unfolds through a sequence of tactile, textured, and fragmented images, immersing the viewer in an alchemical workshop where the artists attempt to tame the raw spontaneity of the material — only to claim their own right to define the “conditions of visibility” around it.

Marata St., 52

musicAeterna Dance presents the performative almanac "The Lover." On December 16 and 17, the premiere of the first performance in the cycle will take place — a project that will continue into 2026 and become one of the central themes of the troupe’s artistic research.
The core theme of the almanac is intimacy: the process of its creation and destruction, and the experience of merging with another as a means of understanding oneself.
"The Lover" is not a specific character but a state — a mode of transformation, an attempt to transcend one’s own boundaries. Each performance in the almanac is a standalone meditation on this theme.

Nevsky Ave., 62

The Joseph Brodsky Apartment Museum has opened the first solo exhibition of Oleg Kudryashov, curated by architect Alexander Brodsky.
The exposition features more than two hundred of the artist’s graphic works, as well as a reconstruction of his studio — complete with zinc plates, needles, saws, pencils, and the etching press on which his unique large-format prints were created.

Korolenko St., 14

The exhibition illustrates how different generations of 20th-century masters used lithography to explore form, color, and symbol — creating a dialogue between Europe and America, between refined modernism and the ironic boldness of pop art.
The project features lithographs by Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Alexander Calder, and others.

Galernaya St., 19

Anna Nova Gallery presents MIST, a project by Evgeny Granilshchikov curated by art historian and critic Viktor Miziano. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in St. Petersburg.
MIST brings together series of photographic and graphic works, as well as installations and video art.
In his works, Granilshchikov rethinks familiar oppositions and contrasts. The focus shifts away from "black" and "white" toward the rich variety of half-tones that exist between them.

Zhukovskogo St., 28