Exhibitions

First-hand Art. The Collector's View: Looking back and Forward

13 Nov 2020 - 27 Jan 2021 This year, the OVCHARENKO Gallery celebrates its thirtieth anniversary. It is a grand and joyful celebration, not only because it, in fact, aligns with the anniversary of our new state, born in the struggles of perestroika, but also because the Gallery survived the hardships of our modern history and remained... Read more

Nestor Engelke

Pavilion for clumsy reading 10 Aug - 16 Oct 2020 Nestor Engelke is a member of North 7 art-group. North 7 is a unique example of non-programme creative work, that unites free individuals who are alien to any manifestos. The members of North 7 are mockingbirds-Tricksters. Inheriting the practices of the avant-garde, they subvert high style, mix different media, sweep... Read more

Victor Alimpiev, Sergey Pakhomov

Alimpiev — Pakhom 7 Jul - 2 Aug 2020 It’s difficult to imagine artists more different than Pakhom and Alimpiev. The art of the former gave him a reputation as a radical fool, of the latter as a sensual perfectionist. In OVCHARENKO, Alimpiev's graphics with its elegance of crystalline figures are reflected in Pakhom’s response drawings made with pig's... Read more

Mikhail Dolyanovsky

Rat house 3 Mar - 11 Apr 2020 In Mikhail Dolyanovsky’s new series everything that happens on the canvases is intentionally left ambiguous and, according to the artist, 'the characters are quite abstract, it is something averaged, a channeling off society'. Narrativity is inherent in the very nature of the medium of painting, which will always be a... Read more

Alexander Tsikarishvili

Funny Soil Frutti Land 3 Dec 2019 - 29 Feb 2020 OVCHARENKO is delighted to present a new solo exhibition of the founder of art group North-7 - Alexander Tsikarishvili: Funny Soil Frutti Land. The whole gang is here: Fanny Tutti and Mario Montes, Elio Oytisika and Jack Smith, Carmen Miranda and Slave Izaura, Busby Berkeley and folk geniuses-visionaries Nikolai Sutyagin... Read more