"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