In 2018, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art celebrates its 10th anniversary. To mark this important date, we have organized a wide range of events: a special program of exhibitions that demonstrates the diversity of the Museum’s activities, congratulations from artists and our friends, and, of course, a party to which you are all invited.
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Collection
Exhibitions
Education Program
Library
Grants
Partners and Patrons
Publishing
Music
Movies
Garage Live
Off-Site Projects
Membership
Museum
Professional training
Triennial
Family Days
Architecture
Inclusive Program
Art Experiment
Collection
Established in 2012, Garage Archive Collections is the largest public resource in the world that documents Soviet and Russian postwar art. It comprises almost 30 individual archives that contain over 400,000 items in total and is the catalyst for many international research initiatives at the Museum.
Collection
Established in 2012, Garage Archive Collections is the largest public resource in the world that documents Soviet and Russian postwar art. It comprises almost 30 individual archives that contain over 400,000 items in total and is the catalyst for many international research initiatives at the Museum.
Exhibitions and commissions
Presenting up to twelve shows a year Garage Exhibitions bring diverse worldviews to Moscow by introducing major international artists to local publics for the first time and placing contemporary Russian art in an international context.
Education Program
Garage Education is currently the largest pedagogical initiative in a cultural institution in Russia. Daily activities for children and adults take place throughout the Museum and in Garage Education Center.
Library
Established in 2014, Garage Library is the largest specialized public library in the country so far, dedicated to the art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Its collection currently comprises around 25,000 items, including monographs by leading art scholars, exhibition catalogues, books on artists, journals on contemporary art and architecture, and publications on the theory of culture, as well as rare antiquarian Russian editions.
Grants
Garage Grant Program was launched in 2012 to create a system of support for emerging artists. It has since evolved to provide assistance to a range of cultural workers in contemporary art. Currently the only initiative of its kind in the country, each grant seeks applications through an open call, with awardees selected by an expert jury.
Partners and Patrons
Supporting the development of contemporary art and culture since opening, Garage has always been open to collaborations that allow it to develop new exhibitions and research, education, and publishing projects. Thanks to our Partners, Patrons, Donors, and Members, Garage continues to introduce and develop new programs and initiatives.
Publishing
Launched in 2008, Garage Publishing began with the production of cataloguesand exhibition guides, and has subsequently expanded to include a wide range of publications in Russian and English on art, architecture, Russian art history, and culture. To date more than 190 books have been published, all of which are sold through Garage Bookshop and online, as well as through international distributors.
Mosaic Music
Mosaic Music, which launched in 2016, is a series of live performances by Russian and international musicians who have changed our understanding of contemporaneity through sound.
Garage Screen
Garage Screen began in 2012 as a year-round program of film and video in Garage Auditorium and has now expanded to include a three-month season of films in a purpose-built outdoor cinema in Garage Square. Visitors are invited to enjoy festival premieres, experimental movies, cinematic classics, and debuts by prominent directors.
Garage Live
Garage Live is a program of dance, performance, music, and physical theater that permeates all spaces of the Museum and its surroundings. Conceived to challenge visitors’ expectations of duration and spontaneity, and to encourage knowledge through experience, the program is multidisciplinary, erasing traditional genre boundaries.
Off-Site Projects
Garage has developed a number of outreach projects that introduce new audiences to contemporary art practices and build long-term networks between the Museum and cultural institutions in the region and overseas.
Membership
The Museum launched GARAGE card, its membership program, in 2010. It gives cardholders a year of free, priority entry to exhibitions, invitations to exclusive members’ events, and discounts in Garage Bookshop and Garage Café.
Museum
Seven days a week, from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., Garage is open to visitors. Come and drink a passion fruit lemonade after a walk in Gorky Park, check out the latest art magazines and new artist-designed gifts in the Bookshop, dance at a concert, watch the latest films, enjoy the sunset while finding out about contemporary art, or spend time at a masterclass with your family.
Professional training
A major focus of the Museum’s educational mission is Garage Training, which supports the development of knowledge and expertise in emerging generations of art lovers in Russia. Garage Teens Team is an annual program for fifteen- to eighteen-year-olds, launched in 2013. In 2018, Garage began a program of cooperation with the Higher School of Economics offering training in contemporary art and exhibition practices.
Triennial
For the inaugural Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art in 2017, over 60 artists living in more than 40 cities—from the Baltic Sea to the Pacific Ocean—revealed the scope of art practice in the country today.
Family Days
Family Days are a great opportunity for children and adults to have fun and learn in the Museum. The weekend program includes workshops, sketching tours, and special offers on children’s books at Garage Bookshop.
Museum Buildings
Architecture has always played an important role in the life of Garage, starting with the spaces it inhabits, which have informed the presentation of art and ideas throughout the Museum’s history.
Inclusive Program
The first initiative of its kind in the country, Garage Inclusive Program focuses on disability awareness across all aspects of the Museum’s activities, working to enhance the experiences of deaf and hard of hearing visitors, blind and visually impaired visitors and people with developmental and learning disabilities.
Art Experiment
Each winter, Garage transforms its galleries into an experimental laboratory for art. Visitors of all ages are invited to participate in hands-on experiences with artists, as well as innovative creative collaborations between peers. The themes and concept of Art Experiment change annually.
Leading up to the Museum’s birthday, Russian and international artists who have exhibited at Garage created video messages with their congratulations.
Marina Abramović
The first retrospective exhibition in Russia by Serbian artist Marina Abramović, whose name has long been synonymous with contemporary art, opened at Garage in October 2011. The Artist is Present was preceded by open sessions in which Abramović trained forty-five performers in her signature method of exploring the boundaries and possibilities of the human body. For the next two months, participants reconstructed four important performances by the artist at Garage.
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Shigeru Ban
Rashid Johnson
Takashi Murakami
Dmitry Gutov
The Museum’s summer season projects look back at the past, explore the present, and strive for the future. Garage visitors can explore the world of football with renowned fashion photographer Juergen Teller, find out how people spent their spare time in Moscow in the 1960s, take a new look at sound and hearing, see how 3D printing works, and discover how Museum visitors have changed over the past ten years.
Viacheslav Koleichuk: Atom 1967/2018
06.05–26.08
Next to the Museum building, visitors can see a monumental kinetic sculpture. Over fifty years since it was first seen in Moscow, Garage curators worked with Russian kinetic artist Viacheslav Koleichuk to reconstruct this famous work. The best time to experience Atom 1967/2018, with its playful lighting and laconic sound, is once the sun sets, maybe after a movie evening at Garage Screen.
Infinite Ear
08.06–02.09
Visitors to the unique sound environment of Infinite Ear can hear, feel, understand, imagine, and make sounds using methods they have never come across before. In this project, hearing is not a physical parameter but an artistic quantity. Performer-mediators will help you to understand the exhibition and have a new experience of sound. Their tools include healing herbs, Tarot cards, and pieces of fabrics.
“Dear Visitors…”
08.06–26.08
A performance in the Museum’s Cloakroom, shadow theater, and the story of Garage in numbers and pictures: all these projects are dedicated to the most important participant in any event taking place at Garage, the visitor. Artist Ekaterina Muromtseva, members of Theater of Mutual Operations, and Garage staff produced a detailed analysis of the Museum’s audience and created unusual “portraits” of our visitors. You can find them throughout the Museum.
Juergen Teller: Zittern auf dem Sofa
08.06–19.08
This large-scale autobiographical project by acclaimed German fashion photographer Juergen Teller to mark the FIFA World Cup explores victories and defeats in one of the most popular sports in the world. This exhibition is 18+. Admission only on presentation of ID.
IAM
08.06–26.08
The radically experimental exhibition IAM asks important questions: what is the museum of the future, how might it look, and how can it be transformed from an exhibition space into a place in which events bring together aesthetic, emotional, intellectual, and sensory experiences.
“Did You Have a Good Time?” Vremena Goda Café since 1968
08.06–02.09
Fifty years ago, the Vremena Goda café opened in Gorky Park, in the building where Garage is now located. It quickly became a key Moscow location, not only for jazz concerts and family days out, but also for dates. Throughout the summer visitors can experience the atmosphere of this once fashionable place and compare how people had fun in the 1960s and now.
Handmade Future
08.06–02.09
An interactive installation created by Garage Teens Team together with the Museum’s designers, which shows visitors a museum of the future as imagined by today’s young people.
Together with artists from across the world, Garage has produced a special series of gifts to mark its 10th anniversary. Swiss artist Urs Fischer, who is an old friend of Garage, has created his own version of the Museum’s logo, decorating it with stylized images of animals, birds, plants, and various celebratory symbols. These designs will be available on charm bracelets, T-shirts, and hoodies for adults and children.
All gifts are limited editions and will be available at Garage bookshop and online from June 7.
Almost 4,000 people visit Garage exhibitions free of charge and without the queues, spend their Sunday evenings on Garage Rooftop, are the first to see new season exhibitions, get discounts on cinema and concert tickets and in Garage Café, and enjoy a range of other benefits of GARAGE membership. We’re very happy that the number of cardholders is growing, because thanks to you we can create new projects and explore new formats.
Buy a GARAGE card
It’s not too late to become a member and join our birthday celebration on June 7, exclusively for GARAGE cardholders.