Published on: 2026-10-09
Source: Moscow Government – Правительства Москвы –
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With a combined ticket at the “A3” gallery, you can visit the exhibitions “Arbat in Faces: Artists” and “Sugar Nastya.”
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 “Arbat Atmosphere” section includes allegorical works that convey 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. Viewers will see not only famous 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 of street performances. Each piece is a small story about a person whose fate briefly intersected with Arbat.
“Sugar Nastya” is a solo exhibition by Sasha Sokolova, consisting of oil paintings and watercolor sheets from various years, united by an attention to “quiet life” — everyday scenes and places that are increasingly rare in Russia.
The main characters of the artist are a grandmother selling dill and currants by the roadside, a saleswoman with buckets of wild strawberries, and random passengers at the bus stop. Her works also feature crooked houses, folding chairs, newspapers spread out with goods, faded headscarves, and cracks on facades. Sasha Sokolova depicts the village not as a museum exhibit but as a living space.
The title refers to a work of the same name and to the image of a woman from a world where a notable event of the day could be the evening electric train or the appearance of a berry vendor. The author’s childhood memories of the dacha here serve 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 anticipation of rare cars on 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 is formed, and the combination of classical painting school with a personal perspective allows cultural memory to be preserved without a museum distance.
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