At 19, MISHEL BOGEMSKY is doing something most people his age wouldn’t attempt: taking ritual and mythology seriously while building a public identity in the same digital spaces where those things usually get flattened into aesthetic. Known as Мишель Богемский in Russian-language media, he works as an independent creator, ritual practitioner and visual storyteller. That’s a lot of titles for one person, but they point at a single idea. He’s interested in how ancient symbolic systems survive inside modern culture without turning into costume.
The obvious question is whether he’s an influencer who dabbles in the occult or a practitioner who happens to post online. Bogemsky is trying to make that question the wrong one. The collision at the center of his work is the interesting part. Here’s someone raised entirely inside digital culture, fluent in social media the way earlier generations were fluent in television, deciding to spend that fluency on traditions that are thousands of years old.
His interest in ritual, mythology and esoteric practice started young and stayed private for a while before it became public. What pulled him deeper wasn’t just the ritual itself but everything around it. Mythology, religious history, symbolism, architecture, clothing, photography, the whole cultural apparatus that ancient ideas leave behind. Social media became the first place those interests had somewhere to go. He started making content, working with people through his practice and developing a recognizable visual identity under his own name.
At some point he decided he didn’t want ritual to exist in his life as a service or an income stream. Plenty of people build a following around mysticism and stop there. He’s talking about something larger: long-term artistic and cultural projects, research, educational work, physical ritual spaces, visual work and eventually media. The name BOGEMSKY functions less like a brand and more like a container for all of it.
There’s a deliberate contrast running through everything he does. Ritual and social media. Mythology and fashion. Sacred objects and photography. He’s particularly drawn to the Mediterranean world, ancient religion and the relationship between ritual, art and personal identity. Fashion, photography and performance aren’t the point for him. They’re visual languages wrapped around a practice he treats as genuinely serious, not as content designed to perform mystery for an algorithm.
He’s the first to say he’s still early. A lot of this is intention right now, an archive he’s building over years rather than a finished body of work. But the patience is real, and it’s unusual for someone whose entire generation is built for speed. He’s not trying to define himself through one profession or cash the whole thing in at 19.
Which is what makes the ten-year version of Bogemsky the one worth thinking about. Not the influencer, not the occultist, but whatever this becomes if he actually keeps at it. Ask again in a decade.
You can follow his work through MISHEL BOGEMSKY on Instagram, TikTok, a second TikTok, Telegram and Pinterest.
