NARVAL Narva anti-gloss
RUEN
Pilot number

Expensive looking. Living city. NARVAL is a local satirical magazine about the city, where the yellow facade competes with turquoise water, the receipt looks like a luxury product, and the bag is still the main men's accessory of the season.

24 pages 300 proofs 0 news channel
New section · Exhibitions on NARVAL

Portrait of a CityBy Aleksandr Kljuchenkov

Eighteen photographs. Each one opens full screen.

View the exhibition →
Empty night intersection in front of the Narva Hotel
NARVAL Narva anti-gloss
Covers ↗
Narva, capital of autumn.Time to kick leaves in a dark garden and drink coffee on Town Hall Square.

Fresh

Main material, city occasions and short forms that keep the site alive between paper issues.

Ink illustration: a burgundy Chevrolet Suburban and a white Cadillac Escalade meet on a night street
Cars / cultural codeSuburban, Escalade, federal motorcades, The Sopranos and hip-hop

Escalade or Suburban

How two large SUVs taught the viewer to recognize power even before the door opened.

SuburbanEscaladepop culture
Ink map of spacecraft trajectories between Earth and Mars
Games / spaceTerra Invicta, “Space” and the physics of combat, in which heat is more dangerous than a hole

What space combat will look like

Why a ship can win, use up its speed reserve and remain in the void.

delta-vradiatorssignal delay
Ink illustration: Station Narva as a fork in routes around the city
City / practical routeProgram, tickets, free events and route between the castle, Krenholm, Venice and Ro-Ro

Station Narva: what should you know?

How to collect four festival days without running between stages and not losing the city itself.

Station NarvaprogramSeptember 3–6
Surreal ink illustration: the closed editorial office of a city newspaper, the lines of the latest issue are taking root
Media / urban marketNewspapers, news offices, portals, advertising flows and an international view of the border city

Who tells Narva's story

What remains of the city media market after the closure of the last paid newspaper.

Narvamediaowners
Ink illustration: Station Narva team in the castle
Station Narva / volunteersAnya and Alena - about eight years of volunteering, a car with an open trunk and the invisible work of the festival

Flags will not hang themselves

How volunteers assemble Station Narva before the public arrives and continue working when the public has already left.

Station Narvavolunteerswork from the inside
Six red dots around a black hole in ink editorial technique
Science / early UniverseSix points, more than 40 spectral lines and a black hole heavier than the future galaxy

Little red dots

Webb saw the early growth of black holes - and a new class of objects that does not yet add up to one explanation.

JWSTblack holes600 Ma
Ink illustration of a colonist flying on a Titan on fabric wings
Space / satireAstrophysicists have recognized Titan as the most comfortable place to live. The main thing is not to sneeze

Titan was recognized as the most comfortable area

A satellite of Saturn, where instead of rain there is gasoline, and a person can fly on fabric wings.

TitanSaturnwings
New permanent section

Living classics

Authors are people who write to NARVAL. Personal texts, urban memory and biographies without museum dust.

Ink illustration: Artur Chariton with a child in the interior of an old car
Lelik Ivanov / conversation

Artur Chariton: “I simply found happiness”

The musician and guitarist talks about cassettes for the ego, guitar necks that bend like bananas, and Narva, where you can swim between two fortresses.

Narvamusicmovingconversation
Open text →
New section

Exhibitions at NARVAL

Photography and visual projects that do not need a news occasion, but space for careful viewing.

Silhouette of a human figure on a pedestal near the water
Building demolition: excavator among brick rubble
Figure in red clothes on a checkered floor
Aleksandr Kljuchenkov · 18 photos

Portrait of a city

Narva without the obligation to be a postcard. All original works are available in full screen viewing.

Open exhibition →
All exhibitions →

Where to find it

The pilot must work like a city object: he is picked up, photographed, left on the table and argued nearby.

Bar

Lying at the counter. Read aloud after the second confidence.

Garage

Becomes part of the interior next to the canister and calendar.

Salon

Works instead of a magazine that pretends that everyone is on vacation.

Reception

Helps the queue remember its cultural status.