Founded by Dasha Zhukova in 2008, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture is
a major non-profit international project based in Moscow, dedicated to
exploring and developing contemporary culture. Garage aims to bring important
international modern and contemporary art and culture to Moscow, to raise the
profile of Russian contemporary culture and to encourage a new generation of
Russian artists. These aims are explored through a series of exhibitions,
ranging from major surveys of important collections to single-artist
retrospectives and surveys and group exhibitions. Garage also hosts a strong
program of special events including talks, film screenings, workshops,
performances and creative activities for children and young people.
Garage recently relocated from the Bakhmetevsky Bus Garage to a new site in
Gorky Park, Moscow, which is currently being developed by Rem Koolhaas’s OMA to
be opened in 2013. In the meantime, the first phase of its program in the park
will launch in summer 2012 in a temporary pavilion designed by the Japanese
architect Shigeru Ban. In the longer term, Garage plans to develop an 8,500
square meter hexagonal pavilion in the park. This historic 1920s structure,
which consists of six sections built around a central courtyard, was first
constructed to house the first All-Union Agricultural Exhibition, but it later
became a pre-war exhibition space for soviet artists. The development will
become one of the most important non-profit international contemporary art
sites in Moscow, with international standard gallery facilities and areas
dedicated to education and learning.
