Exhibitions in GARAGE: December 2016

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Dear Friends,

As the season of merriment draws near, the last newsletter of 2016 celebrates a few highlights of 2016 at Garage and brings news of a travel grant for curators:

• Record attendance! Over 600,000 people visited since January and between them had the opportunity to see 15 exhibitions, join in 2,536 educational events, attend 462 tours, 60 film screenings on Garage Rooftop and see 24 building-wide performances.

• Garage Inclusive Program launched, following a pilot program in 2015, making the museum the first in the country to focus on visitors with disabilities. 1,419 people took part in workshops and projects, including the development of an exhibition entitled
Co–Thinkers and the creation of the first Russian Sign Language (RSL) dictionary of contemporary art terminology.

• Garage International Publications Program launched with two titles that focus on new histories of Russian contemporary art, drawing from Garage Archive (Exhibit Russia: The New International Decade 1986–1996; Access Moscow: The Art Life of a City Revealed 1990–2000), and two monographs related to Garage Atrium Commissions series (Eric Bulatov; Rashid Johnson). For more information on the books and how to purchase them visit artbook.com or amazon.com.

• Garage Archive Collection and Library expanded. The Archive acquired nine new collections, including Viktor Pivovarov and Viktor Misiano’s collections, and the Library grew six-fold to accommodate the 400+ visitors every month.

Meanwhile, Garage team is busy preparing for the highlight of 2017—the First Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art—offering insight into the diversity of social tendencies that constitute the art scene across the country. For the inaugural edition, the Museum is offering Curatorial Travel Grants for people who would like to learn more about Russian contemporary art. Open to curators from anywhere in the world, of all ages, the grant covers return airfare and accommodation for four days in Moscow during the Triennial. For an application form please send an email to travelgrants@garagemca.org. Submission deadline for applications: January 15, 2017.

Scroll down for more on what's in store this month and on behalf of us all at Garage, here’s wishing you a happy and healthy holiday season, and peaceful New Year.

All the best,

Kate Fowle
Garage Chief Curator

 

GARAGE EXHIBITIONS

Yvan Pestalozzi, Lozziwurm, 1972, 2013 Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 2013 Courtesy Carnegie Museum of Art

ART EXPERIMENT. THE PLAYGROUND PROJECT: FROM NEW YORK TO MOSCOW

December 24, 2016–January 10, 2017

This year, Garage's annual project Art Experiment will feature the fascinating but often overlooked history of playgrounds from the beginning of the twentieth century. It will become a place where children (and inner children) can run, jump, climb, and unleash their imagination. Adults will get an opportunity to find out more about interconnection between playgrounds as architectural forms and the social and economic history of the last century.

The project is organized in cooperation with Kunsthalle Zurich.
Сurated by Gabriela Burkhalter with Anastasia Mityushina, Garage Public Program Curator.

 

GARAGE PUBLIC PROGRAM

Photo: Anton Donikov © Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

MUSEUM GUIDES TRAINING COURSE FOR THE DEAF

November 1, 2016–October 31, 2017

Garage Museum of Contemporary Art makes it possible for deaf people to use their own language when talking about art. In 2016, the inclusive department launched a training course for deaf exhibition guides. The ten participants vary in age and are from differing social and cultural backgrounds, but all use RSL as their first language. The yearlong course, offering an in-depth study of contemporary art and an introduction to museum work, is tailored for deaf students, taking the differences in perception into account. The course, created in collaboration with other Moscow art institutions, will prepare competent guides to run sign language tours in art museums.

 

GARAGE ARCHIVE AND LIBRARY

Vitaly Statsinsky, Vera Esayan, and Sergey Esayan. Moscow, 1976, Photo: Igor Palmin. Garage Archive Collection

IGOR PALMIN’S ARCHIVE BECOMES PART OF GARAGE ARCHIVE COLLECTION

Photographer Igor Palmin has donated over three hundred items from his photoshoots to Garage Archive, which reflect the artistic life of the 1960s–1980s. As a close friend of many of the underground artists, he was able to capture moments from their everyday lives: inside their studios, installing exhibitions, and gatherings with each other. Palmin’s photographs provide us with the atmosphere of the era, and at the same time, each image is an independent artwork.

This archive compliments several other important documentary photo and video archives from the 1960s to the late 1980s from George Kiesewalter, Vadim Zakharov, and Igor Makarevich, all acquired in 2015-2016.

 

Ice project, Samara, February 16, 2014, Photo and courtesy: Konstantin Zatsepin

OPEN SYSTEMS EXHIBITION OPENS IN SAMARA'S VICTORIA ART GALLERY

December 16, 2016–January 20, 2017

Over the last fifteen years, Russia has been home to many DIY artists' initiatives—among them Internet projects, street festivals, and apartment exhibitions—which reflect the independence and ingenuity of the current generation of artists. Open Systems, a live, research-based exhibition that pays homage to this self-organization movement was initiated by Garage in December 2015. In 2016, the exhibition has been shown in three Russian regions—in Yekaterinburg, Krasnodar, and Krasnoyarsk. On December 16, Open Systems will open at Victoria Art Gallery in Samara. It will be shown alongside Self-Insufficiency, an exhibition curated by Samara-based artist Anastasia Albokrinova, which will offer a local focus and allow for a better understanding of the Samara art scene.

The project will continue to develop in 2017 and an on-line catalogue will be produced.