Published on: 2026-10-09
Source: Moscow Government – Правительства Москвы –
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At the “A3” Gallery, with an all-inclusive ticket, you can visit the exhibitions “Arbat in Faces: Artists,” “Sugar Nastasia,” and “Maria Krasilnikova. Painting”
The exhibition “Arbat in Faces: Artists” reveals the image of Arbat through the work of contemporary authors.
Arbat is not just a street, but a unique phenomenon and a crossroads of eras, where the destinies of artists, poets, musicians, and actors intertwined. For more than 100 years, this place has united the “eternal” and the “momentary,” high art and democratic urban culture.
The project explores the artistic image of the street through the personal perception, temperament, and aesthetics of the authors.
The exhibition is divided into three thematic sections. The “Atmosphere of Arbat” section includes allegorical works conveying the rhythm, sound, and mood of the place: through color, light, composition, and brushstroke texture, the artists reveal the special Arbat aura, where the old and the advanced, intellect and inspiration coexist.
The ‘Topography of Arbat’ section is dedicated to the image of the street as a historical space. The viewer will see not only the well-known landmarks but also the intimate life: the poetry of old alleys and quiet courtyards hidden from tourists. The works convey the cultural values and local color of Arbat.
The “People of Arbat” section features portraits of passersby and everyday scenes. The artists captured those who bring the street to life: street musicians, vendors, spectators at street performances. Each work is a small story about a person whose fate momentarily touched Arbat.
“Sugar Nastya” is a solo exhibition by Sasha Sokolova, consisting of oil paintings and watercolor sheets from different years, united by an attention to “quiet life” — ordinary scenes and places that are increasingly rare in Russia.
The main characters of the artist are a grandmother selling dill and currants by the road, a saleswoman with buckets of wild strawberries, and random passengers at the bus stop. Her works also feature crooked houses, folding chairs, newspapers with displayed goods, faded scarves, and cracks on the facades. Sasha Sokolova portrays the village not as a museum exhibit, but as a living space.
The title refers to the eponymous work and to the image of a woman from a world where a notable event of the day could be the evening commuter train or the appearance of a berry seller. The author’s childhood memories of the dacha serve here not only as a personal theme but also as a means of recognition: the viewer is familiar with the smell of stove smoke, the roughness of the fence, the waiting for rare cars by the road.
Attention to detail is part of the artist’s method: through specific objects and scenes, a portrait of an entire way of life emerges, and the combination of the classical painting school with a personal perspective allows cultural memory to be preserved without a museum distance.
The project “Maria Krasilnikova. Painting” is a solo exhibition of Maria Krasilnikova — a monumental artist, People’s Artist of the Russian Federation, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Arts, and secretary of the Union of Artists of Russia.
At the center of the exhibition is everyday life in its various manifestations: rural and urban living, people, landscapes, and scenes from life.
A special place is occupied by works about village life: peasant women in the field, harvesting, gathering flowers and berries, everyday activities and holidays. In still lifes, the artist turns to the gifts of the garden and vegetable patch — vegetables of central Russia, as well as flowers from her own plot. A separate series is devoted to bouquets on chairs, where the chair becomes the foundation of the composition.
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