DiDi Gallery and Chisla Sportzal present a solo exhibition by Viktor Remishevsky.

Viktor Remishevsky (born 1957) is a contemporary St Petersburg artist working in painting, graphic art, objects, artists’ books, readymades and installation.

His visual language expresses a view of the world in which history, philosophy and religion form a whole. He draws on meanings inherited from the past, transforming and combining them in unexpected ways.

Plus brings together works on paper, an installation and paintings from several series, including Babylon, Birds and Numbers, and The Terrestrial Echo of Solar Storms. Counting is a recurring theme. In a photographic installation, Remishevsky draws numerals with fire and captures their fleeting shapes in long exposures. Projected on the wall, the photographs form a digital clock that tells the time.

Remishevsky has an eye for what happens to an old object as time works on it. A buckled rail, rusting steel boxes and shovels, Soviet fluorescent tubes — the range of found objects he brings to his installations seems inexhaustible. He also etches, chases and polishes metal, treats surfaces and ages wood himself. He goes to all this trouble to persuade us that he had no hand in the work, leaving the credit to an artist he considers more accomplished than himself — Time.

Exhibition dates: 28 August – 11 November 2026

Address: Chisla Sportzal, 10/2B Barochnaya Street, St Petersburg

Visiting hours: Open to gym guests and visitors to Chisla Café.