Garage Museum of Contemporary Art: December’s news

Dear Friends,

As 2017 comes to an end, December’s newsletter reflects on the year and looks forward to the next, which will be Garage 10th anniversary!

To launch the “ten years young” celebrations in 2018, Urs Fischer has transformed Garage logo with his characteristic sleight of hand that always seriously hits the nail on the head, as you can see above.

But before we light the birthday candles, 2017 can also be celebrated for some landmark achievements, including the first Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art and the parallel expansion of Garage regional program: building networks with colleagues and presenting Garage touring exhibitions in places as far afield as Arkhangelsk, Saratov, St. Petersburg, and Yekaterinburg, as well in Astana, Kazakhstan.

Meanwhile in Moscow we had record attendance, with more than 700,000 visitors, who not only visited 12 exhibitions throughout the year, but also participated in 2,810 public program events, including 148 film screenings; 9 Mosaic Music concerts; 51 public talks; and 706 guided tours—132 of which were for visitors with disabilities.

All this programming is fueled by the artists we work with—who offer the inspiration and diverse insights that make Garage a place where art, people, and ideas create history—so what better way to end the year than by saying a big thank you to all the artists and artist’s collectives that made 2017 memorable:

David Adjaye, Olga Chernysheva, Paul Granjon, Hackteria, Irina Korina, Vyacheslav Kuritsyn, Vladimir Logutov, Andrei Monastyrsky, Takashi Murakami, Raymond Pettibon, Anastasia Potemkina, Ugo Rondinone, Kirill Savchenkov, Where Dogs Run, and Adam Zaretsky;

Field Research artists: Sammy Baloji, Council (Tarek Atoui and Alison O’Daniel), Chto Delat, Mariam Ghani, Dmitry Gutov and David Riff, Alexandra Sukhareva;

as well as Triennial artists: 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, Alexey Chebykin, 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.

For a sneak peek into Garage exhibitions in 2018 scroll down, or visit our website for details on what we still have in store for 2017.

On behalf of all the team at Garage, I wish you a happy, healthy, and peaceful holiday season.

All the best,

Kate Fowle
Garage Chief Curator

 

SPRING

Viacheslav Koleichuk and Mir group, Atom (1967), kinetic installation, Kurchatov Square, Moscow Viacheslav Koleichuk Archive

2018 year opens with Bidding for Glasnost: Sotheby's 1988 Auction in Moscow, marking the 30th anniversary of the event which became the most famous disruption of the local art scene in the Soviet era.

Then, The Other Transatlantic—an exhibition of Kinetic and Op Art from 1950s-1970s— presents more than forty artists from Eastern Europe and Latin America, offering a new context for the Russian kinetic artists who are largely overlooked. The show includes the reconstruction of a thirteen-meter-high kinetic work by Viacheslav Koleichuk (pictured above>) in Garage Square, originally commissioned by the Institute of Nuclear Energy in 1967.

Reflecting on the Soviet experience of 1968—of which we celebrate the 50th anniversary in 2018—If our soup can could speak: Mikhail Lifshitz and the Soviet Sixties will unearth the vexed relations between progressive art and politics.

And for something completely different, Andro Wekua will have his first show in Russia, presenting a new immersive installation.

 

Sotheby's auction sale Russian Avant-Garde and Soviet Contemporary Art at Sovincentr, Moscow, July 7, 1988, Photo: Sergey Borisov, © Sergey Borisov

Dmitry Gutov, Lifshitz Institute, installation view at the 9th Shanghai biennial, 2012

Wojciech Fangor, M41, 1969, oil, canvas, 204 x 204 x 5 cm, Courtesy Zwierciadło Foundation

Andro Wekua, Pink Wave Hunter, 2011, Installation view, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Photo: Nils Klinger, Courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels, © Andro Wekua

WITHIN / Infinite Ear, Sound Massage by Thierry Madiot, Bergen Assembly, Sentralbadet, Bergen, 2016, Photo: Thor Brødreskif

 

SUMMER

Juergen Teller, Student house No.3, Munich, Germany, 2014, © 2014 Juergen Teller. All rights reserved

With the World Cup opening in Russia on June 14, Moscow will be engulfed with a football fever that even Garage cannot escape: World-renowned artist and fashion photographer, Juergen Teller, is curating a show about the people and obsessions that give the sport its inimitable charm.

For those who will need some respite from the game, the summer season will also transport you to other imaginaries, with Infinite Ear (pictured above)—an exhibition of hearing situations developed by Tarek Atoui and Council, which follows a year-long research project with representatives of the deaf community in Moscow—and Give Me the Complaints Book! which will transform part of the Museum back into the former Soviet modernist café that was the original function of the building when it was built in 1968.

 

Juergen Teller, Student house No.3, Munich, Germany, 2014, © 2014 Juergen Teller. All rights reserved

 

FALL

Marcel Broodthaers, Parle Ecrit Copie, 1972–1973, (Talks, Writes, Copies), Three typewriters, letterpress on canvas, 34 × 31.5 × 38 cm (each), © Estate Marcel Broodthaers

In the fall, Garage will present the first retrospective of Marcel Broodthaers in Russia. Developed specifically for the Museum, the exhibition will reveal how Broodthaers’ use of language and unique take on institutional critique led to a cult following among Russian artists; Anri Sala and Damian Ortega will develop new works for Garage Atrium and Square respectively; Fabric of Felicity, will present artists who work with clothes and textiles outside the context of fashion; and Designing Life: The Internationalist Architect will trace the complex relationship between the Bauhaus and the Soviet Union, focusing on several graduate students who followed the second Bauhaus director to the Soviet Union in 1930.

 

Goldin+Senneby, Standard Length of a Miracle, process map, 2016, Illustration: Johan Hjerpe

Members of the Hannes Meyer group in Moscow (Lusja Petrowskaja, Konrad Püschel, Tibor Weiner), 1932, 29,6 x 21,0 cm, Unknown photographer, Silver gelatine print, mounted on paper, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation

Anri Sala The Last Resort, 2017. 42-channel sound installation including 38 altered snare drums, loudspeaker parts, snare stands, drumsticks, soundtrack and 4 speakers, Duration: 58 min 28 sec, Dimensions: 8.5 m in diameter Courtesy: Marian Goodman Gallery Esther Schipper, Berlin Photos: Peter Greig

Marcel Broodthaers, Magnifique Peinture, c.1963–1964, (Magnificent Painting), Paint rollers, paint brush, plastic sphere and plaster on sponges mounted on panel, 61.8 × 96 cm, Private collection, © Estate Marcel Broodthaers

Damian Ortega, Controller of the Universe, 2007, Installation view at MoMA PS1, Long Island, New York, 2008, Courtesy of the artist and MoMA PS1, Long Island, New York