This year October 20   GALLERY OF PUPPETS Varvara Skripkina   turned 18!

The date is special - coming of age :)!  In 2003 - the first and still permanent Gallery in the city!

Varvara Skripkina, owner of the first DOLL GALLERY in St. Petersburg. 

Always be nice to everyone! Suddenly it's an angel in disguise!

I understood the meaning of this phrase when in 2003 I opened the first and only art gallery of designer dolls in St. Petersburg. Yes, yes first! Although at the end of the 90s, a private Doll Museum has already opened in our city, thereby declaring that the author's doll exists!

But the puppeteers still remained somehow restless ... just like that, without some kind of general exhibition organized by the authors themselves, the galleries did not take dolls, considering it not art, but something frivolous ... So a doll jumped out of you (although I don't like this name, but already used to it) but there is nowhere to go with her ...

I am well aware of WHAT Gallery means for the city and people. Although I'm not really promoting it, the fact that it still exists speaks for itself.

It was in those years that I realized that it was mine!

Everything I love came together in this new art form.

Here I can do everything, about everything, I can express my fantasies with any material that comes to hand. Even sometimes with sound. Kesha, who hangs in our Gallery under the ceiling with a sign - "Attention - I can scream!" Yelling !!!

After opening a museum and acquiring several of my works, my faith in myself grew stronger. Belief that dolls are needed not only "for me and my mother", but also for spectators, buyers, artists ...

And nowhere to go, what to do ?! And so, looking at my throwing, my loving father offered to play the role of a patron (well, he is a creative person with me and has a healthy adventurism). He suggested looking for a small room for such an exhibition platform - not a basement - and no more than 50 meters. And in the end - 150 m, a basement in the very center of St. Petersburg, at the zero kilometer! In general, tell how I have been looking for premises, artists, renovations for two years ... This is a long and separate story ...

And now there is such a moment in time and space that I would like to designate this date, time, place ... No, not a "point"! And my favorite ellipsis ...

So the facts. HYear 2021:

-Varvara Skripkina (50 years old) - mother, wife, three times grandmother, artist, puppeteer, hereditary philanthropist, collector, gallery owner, well, human signs of a general nature ...
-Golubev Leonid Leonidovich (80 years old) - a philanthropist who believed in the art of dolls, the father of Varvara Skripkina.

Varvara Skripkina - mother, wife, three times grandmother, artist, puppeteer, hereditary philanthropist, collector, gallery owner, with human characteristics of a general character ...

This year, on October 20, the PUPPET GALLERY celebrated its 18th anniversary - the Adult Art Gallery. Now you can show off and be proud of her. This is the First and Only, the largest, in fact, existing creative platform.

And the last, for today, fact!

There is a place in St. Petersburg where you can come alive! With a doll! To the doll! For a doll! See, talk, listen, think, feel sad, love, LIVE! And then also leave with YOUR personal opinion about everything!

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Ever since 18 years ago, I started meeting a lot of new people every day, the phrase: “Always be nice to everyone! You never know who will come to you! What if it turns out to be an angel in disguise! " - for me, not just words, but an indisputable fact and a guide to action ...

                                                                                                                                                                                                    Varvara Skripkina.

Come to us! We are always waiting for you! We are always glad to see you!

GALLERY OF PUPPETS Varvara Skripkina & VAVA