DREAMS FLEE WITH THE PASSING NIGHT

On December 19, of 2025, Lev Povzner’s second solo exhibition, “Where Night Goes, There Comes Dreams,” opened at Alina Pinsky.

Lev Povzner (b. 1939) is a Moscow-based artist whose creative method combines irony, mythological thinking, and elements of the surreal. Povzner explores the nature of illusion and absurdity, dissecting the structure and composition of a painting and transforming the image into a multilayered visual riddle. He describes himself as a carnival artist and an eccentric.
Rooted in Soviet underground culture, Povzner develops a postmodernist language in which images from mass culture, folklore, and collective memory are deconstructed and reinterpreted, becoming part of his personal myth. His technique of "polymorphism"—the coexistence of hidden figures and entities on different levels of perception—refers to the allegories of the Northern Renaissance and the artistic strategies of 20th-century surrealism, while remaining fundamentally individual.