Alexey Begak. Other Shores

With its title referring to Vladimir Nabokov’s novel, the exhibition of works by the Moscow-based artist Alexey Begak in the Erarta Museum takes the viewer on a journey in search of the ideal home.

Begak is not only an artist, but also an architect, designer, and TV host. Although he spends most of the time in Moscow, his life is also closely associated with England, France, and especially Finland, where he has designed and built his own lake house.

At his first exhibition in St. Petersburg, Begak presents 24 of his works created in 2003 through 2020, mostly including European landscapes in the form of “portraits” of stones, houses, gardens or trees.