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Selected Works
From the Berlin Wall murals to the political portraits, the Gospel Project and the Artist’s Diary. The selection is expanded continuously.
“My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love”
The Brotherly Kiss
1990 · East Side Gallery, Berlin
Vrubel’s most famous work: Brezhnev and Honecker in the socialist fraternal kiss, painted on the Berlin Wall in 1990 and repainted by the artist in 2009.
Berlin Wall fresco
Thank You, Andrei Sakharov
1990 · approx. 7.5 × 3.6 m
A monochrome fresco on the East Side Gallery showing the death mask of physicist and human-rights laureate Andrei Sakharov, with the inscription “Danke, Andrej Sacharow.”
“Putiniana” project
Putin the Judoist
2001
From the “Putiniana” series — a media image of the president in a pop-art idiom, continuing the artist’s calendar “Twelve Moods of the President.”
“Gray Exhibition” project
Vika and Marlon Brando
early 1990s
An interpretation of the Marlon Brando cinematic myth in the visual language of late-Soviet Moscow. The original was sold at Sotheby’s; exhibited in Moscow, 1992.
“Gospel Project” series
“The Angel, entering to Her, said: Rejoice…”
1993–2000
Large “media frescoes” that place contemporary news imagery beneath quotations from the Gospel, joining eternal text to modern crisis.
“Artist’s Diary” series
Pioneer
1996
From the “Artist’s Diary,” Vrubel’s visual chronicle in which media figures and events become a record of his inner world.
“Gospel Project” series
“…they said to Peter: You are also one of them”
1993–2000
Part of the Gospel cycle of “media monumentalism.” Shown at Perm (2009) and later moved to Bonn, Germany (2018).
“Artist’s Diary” series
Man
1996
From the “Artist’s Diary” — a monumental portrait juxtaposing eternal meaning with the specific events of the artist’s time.
“Putiniana” / “12 Moods of the President”
V. V. Putin in a Tan Coat
2001
One of the works from the “Putiniana” project that grew into “12 Moods of the President,” widely discussed in Russian and international media.