Art shopping in St Petersburg
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Plyos Embassy
Plyos is a town on the Volga River, celebrated as the inspiration for Isaak Levitan, Russia’s greatest landscape artist. This little gallery acts as the town’s unofficial representative in St Petersburg, exhibiting landscape paintings by local and national artists. While the work is not particularly innovative, it is indeed beautiful, capturing the most magnificent moments in the Russian countryside.
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St Petersburg Artist
Dedicated to preserving and promoting the tradition of realist art, this museum and exhibition centre showcases local artists who painted from the 1950s to the 1990s. Most featured artists have been exhibited in venues as famous as the Russian Museum and Moscow’s Tretyakov. The gallery also publishes the magazine St Petersburg Artist and hosts occasional concerts.
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Borey Art Centre
There is never a dull moment at this underground (in both senses of the word) art gallery. In the front room, you’ll see some fairly mainstream stuff for sale, but the back rooms always house creative and cutting-edge exhibitions by local artists. The bookshop is one of the best in town for books on art and architecture.
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Art Re.flex
This contemporary gallery is unique in that it showcases artists of all ages, genres and experience levels. So its exhibitions mix the work of up-and-coming artists with more established masters, including their painting, graphics and sculpture, in an attempt to highlight the most interesting trends in contemporary art.
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Sol-Art
In the sumptuous surroundings of the Museum of Decorative & Applied Arts, this is a great place to buy contemporary local art. Styles include classical realism, avant-garde and everything in between.
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Liberty Art Gallery
Liberty Art Gallery ‘Liberty’ may be an odd name for a gallery specialising in art of the Soviet period, but nonetheless, here it is. Exhibitions highlight art from the 1930s to the 1980s.
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Sekunda
Sekunda – as in ‘second-hand’ – is a small bric-a-brac place where you might find an unusual souvenir, whether an old postcard or a stuffed moose head. Enter through the courtyard.
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