Mural with a walled up doorway. Chisinau, street art 2023

Murals. Янина болдырева Yanina Boldyreva

Time for support. Chisinau, street art 2023.

The mural is dedicated to Moldova’s support for Ukrainian refugees, good neighborliness, finding a new home, the hot Moldovan sun and mamalyga. Thanks for helping to organize it to Katya, Irina Sytnik, Anastasia Leanka and her pet Leo

Small mural in an abandoned theater, Chisinau, street art, 2023

The painting is dedicated to all who have lost and cannot yet find their home

“Vine”, Chisinau, public art 2023

The mural figuratively tells the story of the families of the city of Durlesti, the grapevine symbolizes the vital forces and resistance to the course of history.

Mural with tulips, Yerevan, street art 2023.

Tulips are an ancient Armenian symbol of peace and unity, the painting is dedicated to the joint construction of a common social future.

The hut was abandoned, but not uninhabited; Sergo lived there, and he had a positive attitude towards the mural on the walls of his squatted house.

Two murals with lotuses, Vladivostok, public art 2021

Both works are dedicated to the local context, a lake with lotuses and other amusing sights of the area. The murals are opposite each other.

Mural for the coffee shop “Skuratov”, public art, Novosibirsk, 2022

“Somewhere, but not here”, Novosibirsk, public art, 2021.

The mural made specifically for the curatorial project “Trepang Syndrome” by Alexander Nikolsky, as part of the 48 hours festival. The painting was combined with prints of my works from the “Somewhere, but not here” series, printed on a banner mesh and placed on the streets of the city.

Ice drift. The mural was created jointly with Zosya Leutina. Public art, Novosibirsk, 2021.

The mural is located next to the river near Rechport. Metaphorically the ice drift embodies the destruction ore update of the social structure, and at the same time refers to the expression “the ice has broken”, this is what they say when changes in society are inevitable.

Thanks to the volunteers who took part in the work: Maria Gnuchevskaya, Yulia Levykina, Anna, Vladimir Zhulanov.

The Island, (Access to water), 2021

Public art installation. Concrete boxes, acrylic painting, sand, beach debris, sound from a speaker. More photos by the project on this page.

The residents of Fabrichnaya Street are cut off from the water by the River Port. In order to return historical access to water to the people living here, I created out a total installation, cleared old unfinished garages of garbage, filled them with sand, made a mural and brought a speaker from which the sounds of the river, splashing water and cries of seagulls were heard. This place has becomes a symbolic connection between the townspeople and the river.

The total installation was made as part of the 48 Hours festival, with the support of the Goethe Institute.

Thanks to volunteers Maxim, Zhenya and Lera, Masha and Natasha

Picking flowers, Novosibirsk, street-art, July 2021

Birch people, street-art, Novosibirsk 2021

Painting of the pile field for my “Birch People” project. Old dilapidated piles, on which nothing is built, symbolically grow together with birches, one of the symbols of Russian patriotism in pop culture, at the same time the installation refers to the word “skrepy” (bonds), which is part of the rhetoric of propaganda of traditional patriarchal culture in modern Russia. You can be understood “the bonds” as the foundations or principles on which society should rely.

More about the Birch People project on this page.

Volunteers Yuri Tarshetsky, Pavel Yutyaev, Valeria Yakovleva, Anastasia Rozonova, Nikita, Liza Pichugina, Mikhail Siplakov, Alexander Mamrtysh and Efim, Vadim, Irina, Artem took part in the creation of the installation.

Mural with skulls and head of greek goddess, for “Graphit nauki” festival, public art 2021. The work was created jointly with Yuriy Tarshetsky.

The mural was as part of the NSTU Graphite Science Festival 2021. The head of the Greek goddess and the skull in the center are the work of Yuri’s MuralPrinter.

The theme of this year’s festival was Homo Technicus: the man of the future. Man 2.0 The mural was inspired by the technological development of NSTU student Alexander Grif, the CranioCAD program that models individual implants for the skulls of people with injuries. With this program, you can create high-precision individual implants and print them on a 3D metal printer.

Therefore, it is logical that the MuralPrinter robot for printing on building facades, created by Yuri Tarshetsky, took part in this painting. One technology allows us to improve and restore our bodies, the other allows us to talk about it. Just as the program for creating implants completes the missing areas of the skull, we decided to “complete” the sculptural portrait of the Greek goddess, which reached us with one half of the face.

Perhaps one day technology will be able to complete our bodies at any stage of preservation.

Thanks for Daria Seryakova for helping whith work.

“Turning Point”. Mural in Omsk metro crossing*. Public art, 2021

This work was inspired by the photographs of the Frenchman Leon Boulanger, who photographed the construction of the railway in Omsk at the end of the 19th century.

When I saw the pictures, I was struck by the scale and power of the construction. Multi-tiered forests, bridge pylons, fortifying piers are erected on an absolutely flat field, dams are being poured. The photographs show the construction of a section of the Trans-Siberian Railway, overcoming everything in its path.

For me, this road represents the apogee of the Anthropocene, the desire of man to go beyond the boundaries of his capabilities, embrace the whole world, overcome huge distances and connect cities, villages, people, everyone with everyone.

This is about the transition to a new time and about the transition, as the failed opportunities of the Omsk metro itself. Because right now many of us in Russia, or more precisely, in Siberia, feel the missed opportunities, the ineffective policy of the authorities, the difficult period that does not pass, which looks more like cultural and economic stagnation than an upswing.

On the one hand, I want my mural to remind us of the achievements of the past, which we can really be proud of, and at the same time it expresses solidarity with local problems and desires, which can be more clearly articulated when there is something nearby to push off from, in this case, it is the collective feat of people during the construction of the railway.

*Omsk metro crossing is a mothballed metro station, a monument to a non-existent metro that was promised to be built in Omsk for a long time, but construction was postponed for decades and, as a result, the station was mothballed, and the crossing is used just as an underground crossing for crossing the ground road.

Mural next to Gagarin Square, dedicated to Otto Lilienthal. Public art, Novosibirsk, 2021

Otto Lilienthal is a pioneer of aviation, or the first test pilot in history. For me, Lilienthal is a clear example of the embodiment of the most romantic human dream of flight with the help of mind and will.

Thanks to Svetlana Solovieva, Natalia Shibanova and Daria Seryakova, who participated in the creation of the mural.

Mural “Cycle”, public art project, Novosibirsk, 2019

The cycle of lives and deaths that never stops.

Dedicated to my mother who passed away in April 2019

“Private soldier”, 2019, Novosibirsk, as part of the “Okraseno” festival

Lately, the Victory day of May 9 has become almost religious in Russia. A day when every family mourns the dead and honors the victors. But every time on May 9, we parade weapons in all the squares, endlessly say “we can do it again”, stick slogans “to Berlin” on our cars. At the same time, we encourage our citizens to participate in military conflicts outside the country in every possible way.

And millions of people who died in the Great Patriotic War still rest unknown in the forests, swamps and fields of the former USSR and Europe.
Not all of them even have mass graves.

I would like this head in birch bandages to remind everyone who says that they “can do it again” about the fate of most people during any war, which would most likely await those speaking in the event of a repeat. War is an unknown death for any players.

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Mural in abandoned barracks of the Ministry of Defense as part of the Teplushka project, which includes an art book with photographs and drawings, an exhibition that presents the book itself, video art, and installations. Novosibirsk, 2019.
More about project on this page
Thank for Yuoriy Tarshetsky for helping with organization of work.

“Twilight” The mural was made together with Zosya Leutina. As part of the Okraseno festival, Novosibirsk 2018.

The red birds in the painting can also be interpreted as anxiety (troubled times). Birds in folklore are often harbingers of some changes. In this case, they reflect an anxious premonition of a great war. While people are busy with simple actions, everyday life, they build something, or disassemble, or maybe just play.

Landscape inserts, blue spots similar to clouds are a symbol of the fact that there is an indestructible constancy in the world that does not depend on today’s time and human actions.

organization by festival “Okraseno”
Volunteers who helped with the work: Ilya Kuznetsov, Dmitry Naumov, Daria Merkulova, Olga Serova, Viktor Zhukov, Igor Mikhailov, Nina Rogozhina, Alexander Maslov, Svetlana Solovieva, Daria Seryakova, Konstantin Eremenko

“Student repairing power transmission lines”, NSTU 2018. Public art commissioned by the NSTU institute.

The idea of the mural is the connection between history and modernity in energy. The basis is a historical photograph from the NSTU Department of Energy, — a student on one of the first Novosibirsk power transmission lines. Thanks to Zosya Leutina and Katya for helping to create the mural.

“Paleogenetics”, public art, Novosibirsk Akademgorodok, 2017

This mural made by me and volunteers based on my sketch as part of the first festival of scientific street art, “Graphite of Science” The project “Graphit Nauki” reflects the specifics of the Novosibirsk Akademgorodok — the scientific community.

Paleogenetics is one of the leading areas of scientific activity in the Akademgorodok. The painting symbolically shows the migration routes of ancient people, their habitats, phylogenetic tree diagrams, in the center is a portrait of an ancient man in the image of an artist and creator of the modern anthropogenic world.

The mural is about travel, the development of mankind, and overcoming difficulties. The color scheme and the nature of the spots refer to the Russian avant-garde, which, combined with petroglyphs, builds a single integral cultural space of the modern and ancient. In general, the painting is about the fact that the development of culture is in the character of human nature itself, and it cannot be stopped.

Thanks for volunteers who took part in work of the mural, including adults of different professions and children. Eva Kaseke, Anastasia Seretkina, Apollinaria Kugrashova with her brother Semyon, Anya Arestova, Masha Dubinina, Dmitri Chubarov, Tatyana Maksimova, Anna Gulyaeva, Nadya Maksina, Daniela Wertheim, Vera Pokrovskaya, Alya Gnuchevskaya, Maria Smolkina, Maria Gnuchevskaya, Seryozha Vasilets, Dmitry Shwartz, and Denis Krotov (special thanks) Irina Korotaeva, Svetlana Sekacheva, Marina Burkova (special thanks) Lida and Alexander Anton Kabakov and Irina Kabakova, Alisa Pinus and Natalia Pinus, Pavel Borodin, Marianna Beznosova, Oleg Baturin Marina Zhuravleva, Elena Muchnaya, Nikolay Muchnoy, Alexandra Blagovidova Evdokia Kuzneuova, Anastasia Mikhailova, Maryana Skudneva, Anna Maslova, Yulia Grebeneva, Maria Berkaeva Tatiana Ya and Arseniy Yaroshchuk, Zakhar Poltorak, Arina Kovalskaya, Polina Shipitsina, Gosha Shevchuk, Timur Chekurdaev, Vladimir Zhulanov, Youri Tarzecki, Yakov Zhulanov, Yulia Chernaya, Alexey Orlenko, Mikhail Gerashchenko, Denis Vasilevsky, Vadim Isypov, Elena Kondratieva, Ilya Kigel, Katya and Ilona Pechkovsky.

Site-specific public art project “Garage sale” Novosibirsk Akademgorodok 2016, together with Zosya Leutina.

The history of the painting begins with the neighboring wall, on which for a long time in the Soviet years it was written “tourists — go!!” In 2005, musician Artem Azarskov added the syllable “fu” at the beginning of the inscription and it turned out “Futurists- go! “
What added to the comicality of the situation was the fact that the garage belongs to the Avantgarde cooperative, which rhymes with futurists.

Years later, an anonymous team of artists made a mural on the wall with a quote from Italian futurism. Zosya and I made a paired wall and used the same technique as the artists on the previous painting, that is, we took the content of the wall itself (the inscription “Garage sale”, features of the structure and location), and turned all this into a single field for an artistic game with a dialogue about auto repairmen, garages, Russian avant-garde, historical continuity.

Site-specific public art project “Electric Train” Novosibirsk, 2016

The mural is on the retaining wall next to a railway station. More than 40 volunteers took part in the painting.

The mural’s plot is based on the contrast between the inner world of people and the harsh reality outside the windows of a commuter train.

Mural “World Tree” in Tomsk on Gogol Street. Public art, 2013.

The image of the world tree is created based on Ukrainian folk embroidery, as a tribute to the works of Nikolay Gogol, a Ukrainian writer who lived in St. Petersburg and dedicated many works to his folk.

The mural was made as part of the art group Lyudisten Thanks to Ekaterina Kirsanova for organizing the work.