Gost
| Edition | Original Art |
|---|---|
| Sujet | Narrative Art |
| Technique | Painting |
| Height | 100 cm |
| Width | 70 cm |
| Length/Depth | 3 cm |
Title: Gost
Artist: Viktoria Ovsepian
Year: 2025
Technique: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 70 × 100 × 2 cm
Signature: Signed on the reverse
Description:
With *Gost*, Viktoria Ovsepian refers to the Soviet term GOST (Gossudarstvenny Standart, Russian: Государственный Стандарт) – the official state standard that, for decades, regulated materials, form, behaviour and even thought. The work is a multi-layered exploration of these standardisations, particularly their influence on the Soviet education system.
At the centre of the diptych stands a girl in a brown school uniform – an image reminiscent of archive photographs from Soviet classrooms. She holds an oversized newspaper in front of her, almost as big as she is herself. This oversized format playfully subverts the state-mandated dimensions, thus becoming the image’s quiet irony: the newspaper, a vehicle for information and ideology, here contradicts the ‘standard’ – it becomes an overwhelming burden, an over-staged spectacle, a critical metaphor.
Viktoria Ovsepian
Viktoria Ovsepian has received several scholarships and awards, including a residency at the Magyar Képzőművészeti Egyetem (MKE) in Budapest (2021–2022), the EU4ART programme for artistic research (2022–2023) and the YETI Dresden Young Talent Award for Education and Technology (2025).
Artist Statement:
In her artistic practice, she explores the tension between reality and surreality. Drawing on memories, she develops works centred on their emotional core. She translates inner states – the invisible realm between seeing and feeling – into a visual language that is both subjective and universally accessible. Her works allow the viewer to experience how memories live on in the consciousness not only as images, but above all as feelings.
She has
presented her work in solo exhibitions, including at Kunstraum GEH8, Dresden (DESIRABLE TIMES, 2020), at the Magyar Képzőművészeti Egyetem, Budapest (NATURAL PROCESSES, 2021), at Galerie Mojavari, Berlin (O.T., 2022), at the Kunstgeheuse Gallery (momenta, 2023), at the Historical Collections in Bad Gottleuba-Berggießhübel (Zwischen Mit und Dir, 2023), at Spring Art Berlin (Garten, 2024) and at the 4h-art Artists’ Gallery in Hanover (Angst und Wut, 2025).
Her works have also been featured in numerous group exhibitions and auctions, including ‘Jahresgaben 2025/2026’, Kunstverein Mannheim / Ludwigshafen (opening: Friday, 5 December 2025, 7 pm), and the auction in aid of UNICEF (11 October–14 November 2025), Site Specific, Margit körút 25, Budapest (2022), Abgefahren, Verkehrsmuseum Dresden (2018), annual exhibitions and interventions at the HfBK Dresden (2018), *Über das Jucken*, Alte Feuerwache Loschwitz (2019), *BOARDING SPACES*, Labortheater Dresden – performance (2020), as well as at auctions and exhibitions organised by Sparkasse Dresden (2020, 2024), as part of NEUBAU – Zeitgemäßer Kunst Dresden (2021) and at the INDA Galeria, Budapest (2021). Her diploma and final-year exhibitions at the HfBK Dresden, as well as the Winter Salon of the Kunstverein Meißen (2023), round off her exhibition experience.
Upcoming events
:
- Experimental painting workshop & artist talk, Café Alex, Dresden, 19 December 2025 / 4.00 pm
- ; Experimental painting workshop & artist talk, Café Elbsalon, Dresden, 15 January 2026 / 7.00 pm
