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

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

Yellow Brick Road
2023 Material
Ceramics

This installation explores the concept of collective gardens, drawing on both personal memories and fictional narratives. The artist’s family had a collective garden in the village of Rastinėnai, which became a space imbued with childhood experiences, including family gatherings, the social changes following the collapse of the Soviet Union, and vivid everyday observations.

The work also references a childhood book about Ela and her dog Toto, highlighting parallels between the Soviet Ela and the Western Dorothy. Both characters are removed from their gardens and set on a journey along a yellow brick road—a path that ultimately leads nowhere, reflecting the tension between imagination and reality.