The special project Fragile Layer brings together four initiatives by leading Nizhny Novgorod galleries at the Russian Museum of Photography. The program is complemented by the exhibition Fog at Studio Tikhaya.
Studio Tikhaya presents Fog, the first studio-based project by the anonymous street-art duo Lovemarket, known for their large-scale monochrome murals in urban and industrial settings. The exhibition explores nature as memory. Through sculptures and installations, the artists combine nostalgic childhood imagery with references to natural disasters. The main display is presented at Studio Tikhaya and is accompanied by a small intervention within the Fragile Layer project. Visits to the exhibition are available through guided tours by prior registration on the studio’s website.

At the Usadba space (21 Bolshaya Pecherskaya Street) of the Russian Museum of Photography, visitors can see the joint Fragile Layer project by Terminal A, FUTURO, Gallery 9B, and Studio Tikhaya.

The Center for Contemporary Art Terminal A presents Maksim Trulov’s solo exhibition City of Oblivion. The title refers to an imaginary city invented by the artist — a timeless, quiet, slightly uncanny place where reality merges with fantasy. Its architecture and landscape bear traces of industrial decline, abandoned consumption, and rituals that have lost their meaning.
The exhibition includes paintings, drawings, sculptures, and objects from the artist’s studio. Everyday fragments create a sense of presence, allowing visitors to experience the artist’s world beyond individual works. The project revolves around a central question: is it possible to build without destroying? The figures in Trulov’s works search for balance between the urban and the natural, attempting to restore a lost connection.

The exhibition is accompanied by an installation made from studio materials, recreating the imagined life of one of the inhabitants of the “City of Oblivion.”

FUTURO Gallery presents Ivan Shelobolin’s eight-channel audio installation Phonophobia, dedicated to the problem of urban noise pollution. The aesthetic exploration of noise in art is closely linked to the experimental genre of noise music, which employs harsh, industrial, and sometimes physically uncomfortable sounds.
This work invites reflection on what noise pollution is, how it affects us, and what role it plays in urban life. Its source material is the soundscape of Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Street in Nizhny Novgorod: traffic, overlapping music from bars and cafés, street performers, construction noise, loud conversations, and shouts. Together, these elements form a dense acoustic environment that shapes the city and influences its ecological balance.
The sound material was provided by Ilya Benton, photographer, musician, and author of the ASMR walking channel An Exciting Journey.

Gallery 9B presents the group exhibition Palace of Precious Polymers, featuring works by Nizhny Novgorod artists Natasha Korets, Yuri Otinov, Syoma Bomse, Evsti Bomse, and Yulia Ivanova. The exhibition addresses ecological issues, focusing on resource consumption through ironic and critical narratives in painting and graphic art, as well as through ethical recycling practices.
Yuri Otinov continues developing his distinctive punk universe using organic and found materials. His anthropomorphic masks often absorb and animate small objects — badges, beads, pieces of wood, seeds, and peels.
Punk aesthetics also shape the work of Syoma Bomse, who frequently experiments with improvised techniques and found materials. In Natasha Korets’s tapestry Mountain Peak, fabrics and threads previously used by other artists are deliberately incorporated, emphasizing careful resource use within the textile community.
Evsti Bomse reflects on contemporary economic, social, cultural, and ecological crises, calling for humanity to acknowledge its responsibility for environmental destruction. Yulia Ivanova’s immersive installation Anabiosis, inspired by frogs as a biological species, reinterprets their symbolic meaning within a dedicated space.
Studio Tikhaya also presents a graphic series by Lovemarket dedicated to hurricanes. Each seemingly abstract image is based on satellite photographs of real natural disasters.
Since the nineteenth century, major storms have been given human names — a tradition still used today in weather forecasts and public communication. The exhibition features “portraits” of Hilary, Laura, and Allen, among the most devastating natural disasters of recent decades.

Artists: Evsti Bomse, Syoma Bomse, Yulia Ivanova, Natasha Korets, Lovemarket crew, Yury Otinov, Ivan Sery, Ivan Shelobolin, Maksim Trulov