In the main building of the St. Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design, the opening of the traditional annual reporting exhibition of works by the Department of Monumental Art of the Institute of Design and Arts of ²ÝÁñ¶ÌÊÓƵ for the last academic year took place. She combined about 100 works of graduates and students of the department. You can get acquainted with the works until September 29, 2026.
Daria Antipina, head of the department of monumental art at ²ÝÁñ¶ÌÊÓƵ, spoke about the demand for the exhibition:
"When exhibiting their work, students feel a lively response from the audience, they get the opportunity to compare themselves with colleagues. They form their portfolio, feel in demand in the professional community. The department prepares universal specialists who can engage in easel painting, graphics, perform portraits and landscapes, works in various applied techniques. We strive to ensure that the graduation projects of our students are implemented. For example, the work of graduate Marina Belova was created specifically for the design of the fourth floor of the Clothing Engineering School (College) of the University of Industrial Technology and Design."
A special place in the exposition is occupied by diploma projects of graduates of the department - Marina Belova, Yana Boyko, Polina Bolelova, Yan Bunchuzhny and Alexander Prokopenko. The works cover a wide range of topics: the history of fashion in St. Petersburg and the colorful world of the Russian winter holiday, the emergence of a new life and secondary general education, as a condition for the prosperity of science in modern Russia, the traditions of national Korean cuisine. The compositions are made in different techniques of stained glass, mosaics, enamel, sgraffito, tapestry, ceramics.
On the third floor of the university there are paintings and graphic works - portraits, still lifes, plot compositions and plein air landscapes from Veliky Novgorod for junior students.
The experience of presenting the intermediate results of the development of the educational program over the past academic year, including the preparation of diploma projects, is of particular importance in connection with the need to create works in the field of church monumental art, design of public, industrial and residential buildings.
Recall that at the Department of Monumental Art of ²ÝÁñ¶ÌÊÓƵ, training is underway in the following specialties: "Monumental and decorative art (painting)," "Monumental and decorative art (interiors)," "Church-historical painting" and "Easel painting." In addition to basic training, students receive additional qualifications as a stained-glass enamelist, manufacturer of fabric products, ceramist within the walls of the university.