VSEVOLOD KOVALEVSKIJ.Biography 
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Margins and Miracles
Goodbye Gestures
Yellow Brick Road
What Leaks Through
Refresh Rate
After Affect
Hardly Beating Hearts

Vsevolod Kovalevskij (also known as Seva) is an artist and curator born in Vilnius, living between Lithuania and Norway. His work encompasses moving images, installations, textiles, photography, and performed spaces. His practice explores identity, memory, secrecy, and the shifting boundaries between public and private space. He holds an MFA from the Vilnius Academy of Arts and MA degrees from both the Tromsø Academy of Contemporary Art and Goldsmiths, University of London. He also participated in the Rupert educational programme. His work has been exhibited at the National Gallery of Art, the Contemporary Art Centre, Vartai Gallery, Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo, Tromsø Kunstforening, and other institutions internationally, and is included in public collections including Videokunstarkivet at the Nasjonalmuseet in Norway.

Kovalevskij is a founding member of the Young Poor Artists collective, directed the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association project spaces Malonioji 6 and Sodų 4 in Vilnius, and founded the nomadic art initiative InTheCloset, operating between Norway and Lithuania. Deeply engaged in institutional advocacy across both regional contexts, he has served on the boards of the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association, the Norwegian Curators’ Association, and the Norwegian Association of Art Societies.

v.kovalevskis@gmail.com
Instagram: @seva_kova;  @InTheClosetspc

Margins & Miracles 2026 Material
Pen on paper, digital print

Drawing on his personal archive, fragmented memories, and images that have circulated in the media, Vsevolod Seva Kovalevskij reveals the gap between the lived reality of queer people, institutional memory, and mediated truth. Queer existence is inseparable from the city’s public spaces — places where visibility can mean both community and danger.

A monumental comic-like drawing leads us through the streets of Vilnius, London, and Oslo. The first Lithuanian Baltic Pride march in 2010, confrontations within the LGBTQIA+ community during London Pride in 2018, and the shootings in Oslo in 2022 — events personally experienced by the artist — are woven into a graphic narrative about living under constantly shifting conditions of insecurity. The declarative protest signs, silent politicians, and the artist’s “off-screen” voice captured in the drawing return to view what usually remains outside the boundaries of the official narrative.

The comic-book aesthetic points to traditions of queer self-publishing, alternative archives, and autobiographical storytelling — accessible, less institutionally controlled forms of media that have been important to artists and activists. One of the exhibition’s striking elements is Kovalevskij’s gesture of reclaiming the pink triangle. Once a symbol of violence and stigma, used in Nazi concentration camps to mark homosexual men, it is transformed here into a platform for queer voices, where being together and resting become forms of resistance.

“Margins. Miracles.” draws the viewer into a non-chronological encounter with fear, trauma, solidarity, and the refusal to remain silent — all on a deeply human scale.x