Bourgeois Bohemians | BOBO
Bobo is an author-driven restaurant that approaches food as a form of art.
Brothers Artyom and Alexey Grebenshchikov have created a space where each dish becomes the result of creative and intellectual exploration, transforming into an independent cultural event of St. Petersburg.
Brothers Artyom and Alexey Grebenshchikov have created a space where each dish becomes the result of creative and intellectual exploration, transforming into an independent cultural event of St. Petersburg.
The restaurant opened in 2018 and over the years has become a destination for those who appreciate gastronomy and the creative culture of St. Petersburg. For many years we have been guided by a single idea — to connect the past and the present in a way that allows taste to evoke emotion.
We are fascinated by the moment when familiar flavors suddenly take on a new voice: when you eat a dish you think you know, yet sense something different, something deeper within it.
Artyom and Alexey Grebenshchikov envisioned BOBO as a space outside the mass-market format — a place where they could cook what resonates with them personally.
The brothers' background includes internships at colleges in England, Australia, Finland, and France. This experience shaped the principles that matter most to them: attention to detail and the pursuit of pure, balanced flavor. It is this combination that defines BOBO’s cuisine today.
We are fascinated by the moment when familiar flavors suddenly take on a new voice: when you eat a dish you think you know, yet sense something different, something deeper within it.
Artyom and Alexey Grebenshchikov envisioned BOBO as a space outside the mass-market format — a place where they could cook what resonates with them personally.
The brothers' background includes internships at colleges in England, Australia, Finland, and France. This experience shaped the principles that matter most to them: attention to detail and the pursuit of pure, balanced flavor. It is this combination that defines BOBO’s cuisine today.
Artyom Grebenshchikov, chef
Alexey Grebenshchikov, pastry chef
Set menus are the signature of the restaurant
From the very first day, the restaurant has followed two directions: set menus and Á la carte (French for "according to the menu").
The tasting sets are the restaurant’s signature offering and are updated twice a year — spring-summer and autumn-winter. Each set is created in collaboration with artists and made using regional delicacies from across Russia.
The tasting sets are the restaurant’s signature offering and are updated twice a year — spring-summer and autumn-winter. Each set is created in collaboration with artists and made using regional delicacies from across Russia.
Event Digest
We keep our finger on the pulse of St. Petersburg’s cultural scene and publish a curated digest for our guests in collaboration with Shilo magazine.
MARINA GISICH PROJECTS
Maxim Ima
“Defense of
a Development Project”
May 23 — July 19
Maxim Ima’s project is structured as a multilayered study of the influence of environment on a person — from personal experience to artistic practice.
Street art, as a living and human-centered form, enters into dialogue with the city, while the gallery space fixes and structures the statement.
In the "white cube," the artist creates a model of the city — enclosed, oversaturated, and pushed to its limit.
Street art, as a living and human-centered form, enters into dialogue with the city, while the gallery space fixes and structures the statement.
In the "white cube," the artist creates a model of the city — enclosed, oversaturated, and pushed to its limit.
Fontanka River Embankment, 121
MYTH GALLERY
Group
Exhibition Project
“Focus: Performance”
May 29 — July 19
The exhibition curator, Anna Zavediy, turns to performance as a medium of the absolute present in order to speak about the instability of the moment and "quiet forgetting" — a state of unreliability in which any event is called into question: "did it happen or did it not?"
The exhibition will include 8 performances featuring artists who work with the body, voice, movement, ritual, landscape, collective action, and the boundary between personal and shared experience.
The exhibition will include 8 performances featuring artists who work with the body, voice, movement, ritual, landscape, collective action, and the boundary between personal and shared experience.
Chaikovskogo, 61
PROSTRANSTVO A
Evgenia Tut, “White Spots”
May 29 — June 20
The exhibition explores the right to opacity — to an experience that does not need to be fixed, transmitted, or archived. Here, the "white spot" is understood not as a lack of knowledge, but as the right to partial invisibility, silence, pause, sleep, and an experience that cannot be fully recorded.
Landscape and bed, mountain and room — the artist equates them as spaces of the same kind: places where a person exits the mode of productivity.
Landscape and bed, mountain and room — the artist equates them as spaces of the same kind: places where a person exits the mode of productivity.
Kamennoostrovsky Ave., 13/2, Apt. 14
EGGZ GALLERY
“Series: Shibari”
Art collective Nepokorennye
May 22 — June 22
"Series: Shibari" is an artistic statement about the state of the contemporary person, immersed in an endless flow of screen images.
Here, shibari appears not as an aesthetic of the body, but as a metaphor for connectedness, restriction, and voluntary immobility.
Here, shibari appears not as an aesthetic of the body, but as a metaphor for connectedness, restriction, and voluntary immobility.
Galernaya, 19
MARINA GISICH GALLERY
Vitaly Pushnitsky
“Earth”
June 11 — September 10
Within this project, Pushnitsky turns to sculpture for the first time and begins working with ceramics.
The image of the pot seems to him most consonant with the stated theme. According to the artist, the value of any vessel lies in its emptiness. We endow pots with function in the same way that we fill our own heads with meanings.
The organic nature of the material — clay — additionally refers to the image of the human being. Thus, sculpture is born from a utilitarian household object.
The image of the pot seems to him most consonant with the stated theme. According to the artist, the value of any vessel lies in its emptiness. We endow pots with function in the same way that we fill our own heads with meanings.
The organic nature of the material — clay — additionally refers to the image of the human being. Thus, sculpture is born from a utilitarian household object.
Fontanka River Embankment, 121
TRETYE MESTO
“Head of a Contemporary”
Artists from the collection of Denis Khimilyaine
April 24 — July 31
The exhibition is based on more than 100 works from a private collection. At the center of the project is not the personality of the collector, nor individual names or artistic movements, but a circle of recurring themes through which representatives of different generations of Russian art interpret reality.
The exhibition invites viewers to look at artistic practices as a way of recording complex experience — historical, social, and personal. The works included in the exhibition are united by an attention to states of anxiety, vulnerability, inner tension, and the attempts of a person to find support in a changing world.
The exhibition invites viewers to look at artistic practices as a way of recording complex experience — historical, social, and personal. The works included in the exhibition are united by an attention to states of anxiety, vulnerability, inner tension, and the attempts of a person to find support in a changing world.
Liteiny Ave., 62
Text by: Sofia Abroskina
CABARET SHUM, NIKOLAY EVDOKIMOV GALLERY
“MIRROR EXHIBITION”
April 8 — July 19
How has the image of the mirror changed in an information-saturated world? Today we reflect ourselves in virtual spaces — social media, likes, and comments — which increasingly influence self-esteem, displacing the understanding of others' subjectivity. In this project, artists and their works act as mirrors reflecting reality, fantasies, and the viewer’s inner experience. Here, viewers encounter not only images but also their own gaze.
Mayakovskogo St., 50
KGALLERY
“A LONG HAPPY LIFE. A TRIBUTE
TO THE SIXTIES”
March 25 — May 10
The first interdisciplinary project by KGallery, dedicated to the late 1950s-1960s and their reinterpretation by contemporary youth. A new generation is rediscovering the "Thaw," sensing an unexpected closeness to it. The exhibition is structured around themes of youth, friendship, and creativity and resonates with the trend of "new sincerity." The space is transformed into a route — from personal space to city streets and key cultural events of the era.
Fontanka River Embankment, 24
DOM RADIO
musicAeterna Dance:
“SHAME” Dance performance
May 16–17, 20:00
A dance performance by musicAeterna Dance — a performative exploration of the phenomenon of shame. The creators remove this feeling from the context of modernity and turn to the Middle Ages as an echo of eternity. The music by composer Kirill Arkhipov incorporates 13th-century Spanish ballads about various reprehensible acts. Whether it is possible to stop the endless wheel of lives filled with shame is for the viewer — the main observer of what unfolds — to decide.
Nevsky Ave., 62
ART TOUR
TO NIZHNY NOVGOROD
FOR THE “CONTOUR” FAIR
May 15–17
A three-day immersion in contemporary art: meetings with artists and gallerists, exploration of the city’s architecture and nature. The program is curated by art consultant and co-producer of Shilo magazine, Sofia Abroskina. It includes the "Contour" fair, a sound installation in a crematorium space, a meditative practice, a Mozart opera at the Pakgauz venues, and more. Details via QR code.
Nizhny Novgorod
NEW STAGE OF THE ALEXANDRINSKY THEATRE
Festival
“ON THE ODD SIDE. NEW XIII”
May 14–17
In mid-May, an interdisciplinary festival will take place to mark the venue’s anniversary (opened on May 15, 2013). The program reflects the directions of the New Stage: experimental music, contemporary dance, biomechanical experiments based on the plays of Anton Chekhov, and more. The key event is a tribute concert to OBERIU, organized together with the OBERIU Museum (May 15). Free admission with registration.
Fontanka River Embankment, 49a
ANNA NOVA GALLERY
ILYA FEDOTOV-FYODOROV
“SECOND SKIN”
April 10 — June 7
Due to a rare kidney disease, Ilya Fedotov-Fyodorov spent his childhood in hospitals, which shaped his perception of the body, fragility, and otherness. The exhibition features sculptures and paintings using fleece and leather as metaphors for the body, memory, and trauma — soft, warm materials of industrial production. The tension between the physical properties of materials and their symbolic meanings forms the core of the project.
Zhukovskogo St., 21
Text by: Angelina Pilipchuk
LLC "BOBO"
INN: 7842142457
OGRN: 1177847338349
INN: 7842142457
OGRN: 1177847338349
St. Petersburg, Vilensky Lane, Building 15
Concierge@bobospb.ru
