Events at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (Moscow) in October 2016
Dear Friends,
Late last month saw the long-awaited openings of three exhibitions—NSK: FROMKAPITALTO CAPITAL, Proof: Francisco Goya, Sergei Eisenstein, Robert Longo, and Yin Xiuzhen. Slow Release, as well as the unveiling of the commission by Boris Matrosov on the Museum roof. In the opening weekend alone, Garage welcomed more than 6,000 visitors, and the four projects have thus far garnered some great reviews from both local and international press.
This fall also started on a high note at Garage with the inauguration of Mosaic Music, a new program of music events featuring live performances by popular Russian and international musicians. After only six weeks Garage has already earned the title of one of the most popular music destinations on the Moscow city map. Following concerts by Julianna Barwick, Moon Hooch and Lianne La Havas, the next to come are M83, a French electronic music band, and LP, a well-known American singer and songwriter. To find out more about how to attend Mosaic Music concerts as well as a host of other events, lectures, and screenings, please visit our website.
As October began in full force, we selected the winners of the 2017 Garage Grant program, who have been awarded a monthly stipend to support their practice for the next year. Selected by a jury consisting of Russian museum and gallery directors and curators from an open call, the artists are Antonina Baever, Artem Filatov, Olga Kroytor, Taus Makhacheva, Ivan Novikov, Sasha Pirogova, Mikhail Zaikanov. For the first time we have also awarded Grants focused on supporting work that exists at the intersection of art and technology, which went to Natalya Egorova, Sergey Kasich, Ippolit Markelov and the art group “18 Apples”. More news on these artists in the coming months as they embark on their award year.
For further information about the Grant Program and details of the jury members, please see our website.
Scroll down for more information on what’s in store this month at Garage.
All the best,
Kate Fowle
Garage Chief Curator
GARAGE ATRIUM COMMISSIONS
30 September, 2016 – 5 February, 2017
“Garage opened the season with perfectly designed and balanced series of shows as usual being top of the class, it ticked every important box of its activity: presented contemporary art in all its types and kinds as well as geographic and time diversity.” Оlga Kabanova, Vedomosti newspaper on 3 October 2016.
GARAGE EXHIBITIONS
PROOF: FRANCISCO GOYA, SERGEI EISENSTEIN, ROBERT LONGO
30 September, 2016 – 5 February, 2017
“Proof is designed all around artists from different countries and époques. Spain’s Goya is represented by his etchings, Russia’s Eisenstein—sketches and movie images and America’s Longo—by charcoal drawings. The main factor uniting so different artistic worlds is not even the monochrome of the works (which is the first obvious thing) but the expression sometimes on the verge of aggression radiating from most of them. Initiating a cross dialogue with his genius predecessors, our contemporary Robert Longo is not trying to compete with them but makes an attempt to generalize and reflect on the endless history of violence. His at first sight contemplative works get a new meaning if we know their background. Thus, a US soldier walking along the highway is back from Iraq having left war and maybe crime behind.” Sergei Uvarov, Izvestia newspaper on 5 October 2016.
30 September – 9 December, 2016
Produced in conjunction with the first major museum exhibition devoted to the Slovenian art collective Neue Slowenische Kunst—NSK: FROM KAPITAL TO CAPITAL—currently on show at Garage, this English language book combines primary documents, period artifacts, critical essays, and contextual notes, critically documenting NSK’s collective practice during the final decade of Yugoslavia.
Edited by Zdenka Badovinac, Eda Čufer, and Anthony Gardner and published by Moderna galerija and MIT Press, the book includes contributions by Inke Arns, Barbara Borčič, Eda Čufer, Mladen Dolar, Goran Đorđević, Anthony Gardner, Boris Groys, Marina Gržinić, Chrissie Iles, Lev Kreft, Dejan Kršić, Tomaž Mastnak, Rastko Močnik, Alexei Monroe, Daniel Ricardo Quiles, Catherine Wood, Alexei Yurchak, Slavoj Žižek and others.
It is designed by New Collectivism, the graphic design section of NSK and the cover of each individual copy of the book is printed with a custom detail—no two covers are exactly the same.
The book is available to purchase at the Garage bookstore as well as the MIT press website.
GARAGE PUBLIC PROGRAM: REPORT
The first meeting in the Artists for children cycle was part of the Public Program accompanying the exhibition NSK: From Kapital to Capital. Members of the NSK art collective, Miran Mohar, Dušan Mandič and Borut Vogelnik described how they initiated and developed the NSK State in Time—a fictional state without territory bringing together people from various regions who share love for art and the aim to create freely.
Inspired by ideas of the NSK state, the children discussed what their own imaginary states could be like and what laws they could have. The practical part of the day included designing original passports and flags for their imaginary states.
LECTURE BY MARK HARRIS. IMAGE IMMINENT
30 September – 9 December, 2016
During his public lecture at Garage on October 13, Mark Harris, Associate Professor of Fine Art at Kingston University, discussed the traits and characteristics of drawing, etching, and filmmaking, and how these three mediums appear to correlate and connect to each other in the exhibition Proof. The discussion was centered on the development of the artistic mediums and techniques that the three artists involved in the exhibition employ in their respective works; the nature of technical reproduction and its complexities related to authenticity and originality.
On November 19 the Public Program Image as Power will continue with Kate Fowle, Chief Curator of Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, and Robert Longo in conversation.
MOSCOW: SOVIET MODERNIST ARCHITECTURE 1955–1991. A GUIDEBOOK
The first guidebook to Soviet Modernist architecture in Moscow.
Architectural historians Anna Bronovitskaya and Nikolai Malinin have compiled the first ever guidebook featuring almost 100 Soviet Modernist buildings, ranging from the naive modernism of the Khrushchev period to the postmodernism of the 1980s. The book includes iconic Moscow buildings such as the Pioneer Palace, the Ostankino TV Tower, and the Rossiya Cinema, as well as lesser-known buildings such as the museum of the Moskvich Automobile Plant. The book is published with the support of the Aksenov Family Foundation. The book is available to purchase at the Garage bookstore.
GARAGE AT THE FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR
Garage publications were featured on the Russian national stand at Frankfurt Book Fair, the world's largest event for publishing and bookselling professionals. Two new publications were of particular interest to visitors: Access Moscow: The Art Life of a City Revealed 1990–2000 and Moscow: Soviet Modernist Architecture 1955–1991. A Guidebook (published in Russian).
As part of the Russian program of public talks, Vadim Zakharov discussed his practice as an artist, archivist, publisher and collector with Garage Chief Editor Ruth Addison.
Photo: © Garage Museum of Contemporary Art; Image: NSK: From Kapital to Capital book cover, Photo: Matija Pavlovec © Garage Museum of Contemporary Art; Photo: Dmitry Shumov, © Garage Museum of Contemporary Art; Photo: Maksim Orlov, © Garage Museum of Contemporary Art; Photo: © Garage Museum of Contemporary Art; Photo: Ruth Addison, Garage's chief editor, and Vadim Zakharov in conversation at the Frankfurt Book Fair, October, 2016 Photo: Danila Stratovich
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