Exhibitions in GARAGE: February 2017


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Dear Friends,

In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, there’s a new kind of revolution taking place at Garage in 2017. Artists are taking center stage—more than 100 of them—not only through presenting works that engage audiences in the social, cultural, and political questions that are pertinent to our time, but through curating shows, developing new research into little known phenomena arising in Russia, writing books, and making new works specifically for the Museum site.

On February 13, with one month to go before the opening, we announced the much-anticipated list of sixty-eight artists who will take part in the first Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art (scroll down to see the list). As the largest-ever survey of current art practice from across Russia, this project represents the newest development in an extensive program that Garage is undertaking to build stronger infrastructure for contemporary Russian art.

Over the last year, a curatorial team of six has visited forty-two Russian cities and towns that have vibrant creative environments, from the Pacific to the Arctic oceans, crossing eleven time zones, in climates that range from the subtropical to subarctic. Having met with more than 200 artists and artists’ groups during their research trips, the curators identified seven “vectors”  through which the current art life of the country can be broadly understood.

In anticipation of the Triennial opening, Garage has launched a bilingual web-based directory of contemporary Russian artists and local art scenes, which is the first iteration of a multi-phase research project into the country’s art scene. It will continue to be updated with information in the coming weeks, months, and eventually years in anticipation of future Triennials.

Staying with the Russian focus, earlier this month we also opened Toward the Source, a first-of-a-kind exhibition project involving five Russian artists—Olga Chernysheva, Vyacheslav Kuritsyn, Vladimir Logutov, Andrei Monastyrsky, Kirill Savchenkov—who have each conducted research in the Museum’s Archive Collection with a view to making a new work in response to their discoveries.

If you are planning to visit our spring season’s openings, please get in touch with us at rsvp@garagemca.org, so we can provide you with all necessary information in advance of your trip.

Please scroll down for more details on what is happening at Garage this month.

All the best,

Kate Fowle
Garage Chief Curator

 

GARAGE EXHIBITIONS


Opening night of Toward the Source exhibition, Garage Museum, February 1, 2017, © Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

TOWARD THE SOURCE: OLGA CHERNYSHEVA, VYACHESLAV KURITSYN, VLADIMIR LOGUTOV, ANDREI MONASTYRSKY, KIRILL SAVCHENKOV
February 1–April 23, 2017

The exhibition is the first initiative at Garage to invite artists to conduct research in Garage Archive Collection and make a new work—or a new interpretation of the archive materials—in response to what they have found. Five intergenerational practitioners with varying creative interests have each spent eight months exploring a collection from Garage Archive Collection that they found compelling, which in turn has led to further research that both expands and deepens the specificities of each particular item under scrutiny.

 


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ANNOUNCING THE LIST OF ARTISTS FOR GARAGE TRIENNIAL OF RUSSIAN CONTEMPORARY ART
February 1–April 23, 2017

Last Monday Garage announced the much-anticipated list of artists participating in the first Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art. Opening on March 10, this exhibition will include sixty-eight contemporary practitioners from every corner of the vast country.

 

ARTIST LIST:

Agency of Singular Investigations (Stanislav Shuripa, Anna Titova), Danil Akimov, Pavel Aksenov, Victor Alimpiev, Evgeny Antufiev, Vladimir Arkhipov, Alexander Bayun-Gnutov, BlueSoup group, Anastasia Bogomolova, Dmitry Bulatov, Chto Delat, Ilya Dolgov, Aslan Gaisumov, Kirill Garshin, Genda Fluid (Antonina Baever), Gentle Women group, Micro-art-group Gorod Ustinov, Evgeny Granilshchikov, Alexey Iorsh, Evgeny Ivanov, Anna Kabisova and Evgeny Ivanov, Murad Khalilov, Anfim Khanykov, Ilgizar Khasanov, Kirill Lebedev (Kto), Victoria Lomasko, Artem Loskutov, Kirill Makarov, Taus Makhacheva, Alexander Matveev, Roman Mokrov, Andrei Monastyrsky, Damir Muratov, Nadenka creative association, Mayana Nasybullova, Katrin Nenasheva, Ivan Novikov, Anatoly Osmolovsky, Nikolai Panafidin, Alexandra Paperno, Anna Parkina, Pavel Pepperstein, Sasha Pirogova, Anastasia Potemkina, Sergey Poteryaev, Alexander Povzner, Dmitri Prigov, Vladimir Seleznyov, Alexander Shishkin-Hokusai, Sveta Shuvaeva, Shvemy sewing cooperative, Elena Slobtseva, Mikhail Smaglyuk, Albert Soldatov, Olga Subbotina and Mikhail Pavlukevich, Alexandra Sukhareva, Andrey Syailev, TOY, Zaurbek Tsugaev, Udmurt, Urbanfeminism, Dimitri Venkov, Where Dogs Run, Alisa Yoffe, Anton Zabrodin, Zip group, ZLYE art group, and 33+1.

 

GARAGE ARCHIVE AND LIBRARY


© Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Photo: Egor Slizyak

NEW PUBLIC EVENTS AT GARAGE LIBRARY
February 1–April 23, 2017

This month Garage Library has opened a new season of public programs. Reading Aloud: Russian Poetry of the 1990s and 2000s is a completely new initiative, involving poetry readings dedicated to key phenomena of contemporary Russian poetry of the 1990s and early 2000s. Also starting is a new series of seminars focused on key issues of contemporary art, culture and philosophy. Conducted in the form of a seminar, it is based on the study of the book Art in 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism.

 

GARAGE FIELD RESEARCH


© Garage Museum of Contemporary Art; Vladimir Shukhov. A photo of the Kiyevsky railway station platform at the time of construction. Circa 1914. © The Shukhov Tower Foundation; Susanna Gyulamiryan and Raffie Davtian

SUSANNA GYULAMIRYAN AND RAFFIE DAVTIAN: POLITICAL AND CULTURAL PARADOXES OF VLADIMIR SHUKHOV

At the end of February, Armenian curator Susanna Gyulamiryan and Irano-Armenian artist Raffie Davtian will be visiting Moscow to work on the first stage of Garage’s Field Research project Political and Cultural Paradoxes of Vladimir Shukhov. Exploring the legacy of the great Russian engineer and architect, who revolutionised industrial design, the researchers will meet local experts in Shukhov’s work and the architect’s family, and visit some of the buildings he designed—including the Shukhov Tower, Metropol Hotel and Garage’s former home, Bakhmetyevsky Bus Garage. Along with these surviving structures, the researchers are interested in Shukhov’s projects that have been lost, the traces of which can only be found in several Moscow archives, Shukhov’s family archive, and the Avant-Garde Center in Moscow. 

 

GARAGE PUBLIC PROGRAM


From left to right: Lev Snegirev, Sasha Obukhova and Olga Chernysheva at the public talk The letter as an artifact of modernity, Garage Museum, February 2017, © Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Photo: Anton Donikov

REPORT: PUBLIC TALK. THE LETTER AS AN ARTIFACT OF MODERNITY
February 1–April 23, 2017

On February 9, Olga Chernysheva and Lev Snegirev, two artists featured in the exhibition Toward the Source, met at Garage Auditorium to discuss the role of letters in documenting history. Moderated by Sasha Obukhova, the curator of Garage Archive Collection, their discussion touched upon such questions as how a private story captured on paper can become a living force of our time, and how an archive document can give new artistic meanings to the past. 

Olga Chernysheva selected artist Lev Snegirev’s letters of the 1990s to collector Leonid Talochkin—which are now part of Garage Archive Collection—as the basis for her project for the exhibition Toward the Source, in which she examines letters as the voice of the past and as a zone of alienation and self-isolation for the artist.

 



Opening night of Toward the Source exhibition, Garage Museum, February 1, 2017, © Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

PUBLIC PROGRAM FOR THE EXHIBITION TOWARD THE SOURCE in February
February 1–April 23, 2017

The public program for the exhibition Toward the Source is designed to introduce the audience to the Museum archive as a source and a starting point for artistic explorations. The program includes meetings with artists featured in the exhibitions with simultaneous sign language interpreting, screenings at Garage Auditorium, tours with Garage Teens Team, an inclusive project for people with developmental disabilities, and a debate club for blind, sighted and partially sighted visitors. All events are free, some require registration.

 

GARAGE SQUARE COMMISSIONS


Ugo Rondinone’s workshop in St. Petersburg, January 2017, © Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Photo: Egor Rogalev

COUNTRY-WIDE WORKSHOPS IN ANTICIPATION OF UGO RONDINONE: your age and my age and the age of the rainbow
March 10–May 21, 2017

For his forthcoming project in Garage Square, Ugo Rondinone wanted to work with children from across Russia, who would each draw a rainbow for his large-scale intervention which will appear along the façade of the Museum. To collect the drawings, a series of special workshops for children, aged four to ten were organized in nine different cities across the country, over the period of four months. Garage inclusive program staff visited Ekaterinburg, Ivanovo, Kazan, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Perm, and St. Petersburg, where they ran workshops in local schools and kindergartens for deaf and hearing impaired children, as well as for children with developmental and learning disabilities. During the workshops, the inclusive program team discussed with the children what it means for them to participate in an international art project, the role of a museum in contemporary society, as well as the symbolism of a rainbow, which the artist considers a universal symbol of love, confidence, optimism and the joy of living. Some of the workshops were held in collaboration with Perm Museum of Contemporary art PERMM and Smena Contemporary Culture Center in Kazan.

 

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