Tales of the Golden Apples

Format: public art program
Service: conducting pre-project research, creating public art objects, developing content for educational programs, organizing public events
Location: Almetyevsk, Russia
Dates: 2017 – ongoing
Customer: PJSC Tatneft

Visit the project website: almetpublic.art
«Tales of the Golden Apples» is a five-year public art program. It represents an epic about the history of the oil producing region and its residents, which was illustrated on the walls and streets of the city and united by a single route. Thanks to the efforts of project organisers and participants, Almetyevsk has received more than 30 art objects. The team has particularly chosen the artists from all over the world, including Valencia, Berlin, Kiev and Ryazan.The stories illustrated by the artists were collected in Almetyevsky district or represent fragments of the general cultural and historical heritage of Tatarstan.The project is based on a cultural study dedicated to the traditions, values and aesthetics of the region ethnic groups of this region.

Within 5 years of this public-art program we have hold more than 75 various events: lectures, master classes, guide trainings, excursions, a street theatre, a bicycle fest and a tea party with artists. All these events united more than thousand people.

The project is being implemented on the initiative of Tatneft.
Functional art object «Giant»
Andrey Lublinsky (Saint Petersburg), 2023

The apple of my eye

Joint project of local communities, Nuvo Buro and Samokat.

Format: Series of murals
Service: conducting pre-project research, creating public art objects, organizing public events
Place: Vologda, Yaroslavl and Ivanovo, Russia
Dates: 2023
Customer: OOO Smart Retail

Project website: mural.samokat.ru
The apple of my eye – a series of murals about urban identity created by Nuvo Buro and Samokat together with the residents of three Russian cities. The theme of hospitality integrates the image of heartfelt communication that reveals local symbols and images that are important to people and that shape spatial aesthetics through conversations about values.

Artist and illustrator Natasha Pastukhova travels through Russian cities and, together with residents, creates monumental murals, like a craftswoman weaving a canvas from the stories she hears together with a team of folklorists and anthropologists, all while exploring the city.

The project is an analytical study of the context of place and a series of murals that appear in the urban environment. Visually it is a form of contemporary art (public art) that is created together with local residents through participatory practices.

Public art project for T-bank
Format: a series of multi-format public art objects in the urban environment – installations, assemblage, murals, ceramic bas-reliefs, artwork on public transport and advertising media

Service: creating public art objects as part of T-Bank's rebranding campaign, public event management

Date: 2024

Place: Arkhangelsk, Murmansk, Petrozavodsk, Tula, Ryazan, Kaluga, Nizhny Novgorod, Saratov, Samara, Ekaterinburg, Ufa, Perm, Chelyabinsk, Norilsk

Customer: «JSC TBank»
Partnership project of Nuvo Buro Group and T-bank was implemented in 14 Russian cities. Over the course of three months, Russian street artists created multi-format artworks exploring problems of transformation, evolution and development.

Atypical approach to advertising integration is a significant feature of this project. Artists talk about the brand name change while staying true to their unique style.

Nuvo Buro Group abandoned the idea of using exclusively monumental paintings in the project in favor of different formats specific to a particular region. The artists, in their turn, emphasized the local identity and place context, which determined the choice of surfaces, genres and artworks’ content.