MUSEUMS OF SAINT-PETERSBURG

ABOUT

I started the project about museums in 2021. To implement it, I regularly photographed different museums of the city for 3 years as an ordinary visitor. It was very important for me to show what is accessible to everyone's eye and shift attention from the narrative to the birth of new forms and meanings from the ordinary.

The photographs from the series were taken in different museums of the city, but are subordinated to one idea - to show the dialogue between visitors and exhibits. My focus is on the moment when the boundaries between the real and the fictional, the objective and the animate are erased, on the relationship through space and time. In total, the project included photographs taken in 35 museums of the city.

I would like to express my gratitude to the brilliant teacher and photographer Sergei Yakovlevich Maksimishin and the photography school "Tsekh", I can't imagine that I could do this without you!

35 museums:

1. The State Hermitage Museum

2. State Russian Museum

3. Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art

4. Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts

5. Zoological Museum

6. Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences

7. St. Isaac's Cathedral State Museum

8. Grand Maket Rossiya National Show Museum

9. Hygiene Museum of the City Center for Public Health and Medical Prevention

10. Kirov House Museum

11. State Museum of the History of Religion

12. Anna Akhmatova State Literary and Memorial Museum in the Fountain House

13. Museum of Nonconformist Art, Pushkinskaya 10

14.Museum of Avant-Garde Matyushin House

15. Sevkabelport Public Art Space

16. Manege Central Exhibition Hall

17. White Rainbow Gallery of Contemporary Photography

18. Museum of Optical Illusions

19. TITICACA Museum of Records

20. Military History Museum of Artillery, Engineering, and Signal Corps

21. Russian Railways Museum

22. Arctic and Antarctic Museum

23. State Russian Museum. Benois Wingа

24. General Staff Building

25. Peter the Great Botanical Garden

26. St. Petersburg State University Botanical Garden

27. Anikushin Workshop Museum of Urban Sculpture

28. Patriot Military-Patriotic Park Kronstadt

29. Peterhof State Museum-Reserve

30. Fabergé Museum

31. Submarine Museum

32. Artmuza Museum of Contemporary Art

33. Ludwig Museum in the Marble Palace

34. Petrovskaya Water Area

35. Zifergauz Digital Art Gallery

The full version of the project will be released in the format of a photo book. It will include 35 museums presented in about 100 photographs.