During the Riga Days of Culture Festival 1987, Sergey Kuryokhin’s Pop Mekhanika performed with DJ Westbam (West-Berlin). The date was 15 April 1987; the location could not be established.

The same year, Low Spirit (Berlin) released the LP “Pop Mekhanika featuring Westbam. Live at Riga”.

On the back cover of the LP are several pictures taken at the concert (the photographer’s name is not indicated).

The pictures show three paintings taken from Leningrad to complete the stage: “Timur on Horseback” by (E-E) Evgenij Kozlov, a painting by Sergei Bugaev and a third painting, probably a joint work by Andrey Krisanov and some other artists.

Riga, 15 April 1987. Pop Mekhanika featuring Westbam Sergey Kuryokhin, Yury Kasparan and Viktor Tsoy. Left: (E-E) Evgenij Kozlov “Timur on Horseback”, 1985; top: a painting by Sergei Bugaev; right: joint work, probably by Andrey Krisanov

“Timur on Horseback” became the catalogue and poster cover for the New Artists exhibition at the Kulturhuset, Stockholm
DE NYA FRÅN LENINGRAD • Новые художники • The New from Leningrad • Aug 27 - Sept 25, 1988 more >>

Портрет Тимура на Коне / Portrait of Timur on Horseback partial view of (E-E) Evgenij Kozlov's painting from 1985 on the catalogue cover of "De Nya fran Leningrad" (The New from Leningrad), Kulturhuset, Stockholm, 27.8. - 25.9. 1988; graphic design: Slow Fox / Johan von Friedrichs, offset print, 31 x 24 cm, 1988 Size of the painting approximately 290 x 106 cm, gouache or oil on hessian, 1985 more >>		(E-E) Evgenij Kozlov shooting his self-portrait (left) Портрет Георгия Гурьянова / Portrait of Georgy Guryanov 290 x 106 cm, gouache or oil on hessian, 1985 (right) Портрет Тимура на Коне / Portrait of Timur on Horseback 290 x 106 cm, gouache or oil on hessian, 1985 Galaxy Gallery, Kozlov's studio at Peterhof, 1985

“Pop Mekhanika featuring Westbam Live at Riga”, Low Spirit, 1987		“Pop Mekhanika featuring Westbam Live at Riga”, Low Spirit, 1987 Back cover with reproductions of three works by Georgy Guryanov.

Note:

Ksenia Novikova’s chronicle in the New Artists catalogue (Moscow Museum of Modern Art, 2012, p. 276) has the following entry for the year 1987:

April
Riga. Office of Rigas Modes.
The festival Days of Culture – Art Kontakt. The New Artists featured in the festival programme: Oleg Kotelnikov, Ivan Sotnikov, Evgenij Kozlov, Timur Novikov, Sergei “Afrika” Bugaev, Inal Savchenkov.

According to information I recieved from Irena Buzinska (Riga) in early 2021, the New Artists did not exhibit their works at the Office of Rigas Modes, but some Leningrad artists from the older generation of TEII members showed their works at the Railroad Workers’ Palace of Culture.

Possibly, works by all six New Artists mentioned in the chronicle were displayed during the Pop Mekhanika-Westbam concert.