In the Footsteps

Pasha Poshukai

November 7 — December 5, 2025
Gallery "Triumph"

The exhibition will feature new paintings and graphic works by the artist. Pasha began his creative journey as a graffiti and street artist, gradually transitioning to painting, drawing, and object-based works.

The Triumph Gallery presents the exhibition Following in the Footsteps by Krasnoyarsk-based artist Pasha Poshukai. The show will feature new paintings and graphic works. Pasha began his artistic journey as a graffiti and street artist, gradually transitioning to painting, drawing, and object-based works. It was through his urban interventions that he received his pseudonym, which in a southern dialect means "to search." Across all his projects, Pasha captures everyday life in its layered complexity—from celebration to melancholy.

Time to Go Home
2025
Canvas, oil
120×160 cm

The Triumph Gallery presents the exhibition Following in the Footsteps by Krasnoyarsk-based artist Pasha Poshukai. The show will feature new paintings and graphic works. Pasha began his artistic journey as a graffiti and street artist, gradually transitioning to painting, drawing, and object-based works. It was through his urban interventions that he received his pseudonym, which in a southern dialect means "to search." Across all his projects, Pasha captures everyday life in its layered complexity—from celebration to melancholy.

Positioned within the current trend of revisiting imagery and narratives from the 2000s, Pasha constructs a personal yet widely recognizable mythology. The series of canvases unfolds like a spatial photo album of a faceless hero of the era, whose youth took place in the early 2000s. The artist invites viewers to trace the footsteps of a time marked by a mix of freedom, unruliness, economic growth, and polyphonic ringtones. His works evoke a chain of memories: a home with a lace doily, a LEGO collection, walks on the outskirts of the city. The wall color—Russian Green from the architectural palette Aeterna by Manders—echoes the theme of the exhibition.

"The millennium drew a sharp line between eras, and this was evident in everything: in loud advertising, in clothing, in this unfamiliar freedom that people had not yet learned how to wear. Films, music, technology… Within a hundred meters of a street, you could encounter emos, punks, gopniks, and well-dressed adults. Our uniform was protest, and with our entire appearance we were shouting: we are the new. When I look at young people today, I recognize that same fire. And it brings a sense of lightness. Our uniqueness has not disappeared—it has simply been passed on, taking on a new form. That’s how it should be," comments Pasha Poshukai on his view of the era. Poshukai’s black-and-white graphics form part of the installation Computer Club, created in collaboration with the Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines.

Curator: Kristina Romanova