Vecher Gallery

Qjay

Qjay's work at the Transcription exhibition at the TAPAN Museum

A triptych by Qjay is on view at Transcription, an exhibition at the TAPAN Museum that brings together twelve artists of different generations from Armenia, Russia, Egypt, Italy and France. The exhibition is curated by Sergey Khachaturov.

Выставка «Транскрипция» в музее ТАПАН
© TAPAN Museum

The project turns to the legacy of the Silver Age, treating it not as a closed historical period but as a living artistic language that still resonates and finds new readings in contemporary art.

At the centre of the exhibition is a rethinking of the ideas, images and symbols that shaped the aesthetics of the Silver Age. Each participant offers their own "transcription" of this legacy, translating it into the language of contemporary art, personal experience and today's visual culture.

19 September – 11 October 2026

About the artist

Qjay

Qjay

1997, Tyumen. Lives and works in Moscow

Lyokha Qjay's practice combines the language of comics, graffiti and post-internet aesthetics in a piercingly sincere and precisely built visual narrative about everyday life. Qjay started with street walls and zines, gradually building his own system of images and stories in which the absurd borders on despair and social satire is inseparable from personal candour. His alter ego, a cartoon monkey, becomes a chorus…

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