The Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, also referred to simply as ''The Garage Museum'', is a privately funded art gallery in

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. It was founded by

Dasha Zhukova Darya "Dasha" Alexandrovna Zhukova (russian: Дарья "Даша" Александровна Жукова; born 8 June 1981) is a Russian-American art collector, businesswoman, magazine editor, and socialite. She is the founder of the Garage M ...

and

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as the ''Garage Center for Contemporary Culture'' in 2008 and was renamed on 1 May 2014. Since June 2015, it has been housed in a building designed by the Dutch architect

Rem Koolhaas Remment Lucas Koolhaas (; born 17 November 1944) is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. He is often cited as a re ...

."Dasha Zhukova's New Garage Museum Delivers Social Engagement But No Politics"
Artnet. Retrieved 11 June 2015. As well as providing permanent collections and changing exhibitions, the museum also operates as a research centre. It has archives relating to Russian contemporary art from the 1950s. It also runs educational programmes and publishes material relating to current developments in Russian and international art and culture.Garage Museum. About Us.
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History

When the museum opened in June 2008, it was housed in Moscow's former

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, designed in 1926 by the Constructivist architect

Konstantin Melnikov Konstantin Stepanovich Melnikov (Russian: Константин Степанович Мельников; – November 28, 1974) was a Russian architect and painter. His architectural work, compressed into a single decade (1923–33), placed ...

, hence the museum's name. Dasha Zhukova was the first director of museum. The British singer

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gave a private performance at the official opening. In 2009 it was the main venue for the Third

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of Contemporary Art, curated by

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. During the Biennale, over 100,000 people a month visited the Garage Museum. In 2012, the museum relocated to a temporary pavilion designed by architect

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in Gorky Park before moving to its permanent home on 12 June 2015. The museum's new headquarters was originally a modernist building built in 1968 as the ''Vremena Goda'' (English:''Seasons of the Year''), a

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restaurant. It was redesigned by Rem Koolhaas specifically for the Garage Museum. Zhukova, who was formerly editor-in-chief of the fashion magazine '' Pop'', founded ''

Garage Magazine ''Garage'' is a biannual publication dedicated to contemporary art and fashion. It was founded by Dasha Zhukova in 2011. Its name comes from the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow, which Zhukova opened in 2008. A Russian-language editio ...

'', an art and fashion magazine in August 2011. The museum was awarded the

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’s Commendation for their contributions to promotion of Japanese Culture in Russia on December 1, 2020.

Collections and exhibitions

Although the museum mainly focuses on Russian modern and contemporary art from the 1950s onward, it has also held exhibitions on international artists such as

Mark Rothko Mark Rothko (), born Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz (russian: Ма́ркус Я́ковлевич Ротко́вич, link=no, lv, Markuss Rotkovičs, link=no; name not Anglicized until 1940; September 25, 1903 – February 25, 1970), was a Latv ...

Anthony Gormley Sir Antony Mark David Gormley (born 30 August 1950) is a British sculptor. His works include the ''Angel of the North'', a public sculpture in Gateshead in the north of England, commissioned in 1994 and erected in February 1998; ''Another Pl ...

Cindy Sherman Cynthia Morris Sherman (born January 19, 1954) is an American artist whose work consists primarily of photographic self-portraits, depicting herself in many different contexts and as various imagined characters. Her breakthrough work is often co ...

Jeff Koons Jeffrey Lynn Koons (; born January 21, 1955) is an American artist recognized for his work dealing with popular culture and his sculptures depicting everyday objects, including balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror- finish su ...

, and

Takashi Murakami is a Japanese contemporary artist. He works in fine arts media (such as painting and sculpture) as well as commercial (such as fashion, merchandise, and animation) and is known for blurring the line between high and low arts as well as co ae ...

. In 2018, the museum was the venue for ''bauhaus imaginista. Moving Away: The Internationalist Architect'', which explored the work of a group of Bauhaus trained German architects,

Konrad Püschel Friedrich Konrad Püschel (12 April 1907 – 20 January 1997) was a German architect, town planner and university professor who was educated at the Bauhaus design school. He worked in East Germany, the Soviet Union and North Korea.Stolzenau, ...

, and

Lotte Stam-Beese Charlotte Ida Anna "Lotte" Stam-Beese (28 January 1903 – 18 November 1988) was a German-Dutch architect, photographer and urban planner who helped with the reconstruction of Rotterdam after World War II. Biography Beese was born in Reisicht ...

, who along with their former teacher,

Hannes Meyer Hans Emil "Hannes" Meyer (18 November 1889 – 19 July 1954) was a Swiss architect and second director of the Bauhaus Dessau from 1928 to 1930. Early life Meyer was born in Basel, Switzerland, trained as a mason, and practiced as an architect i ...

, worked in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s. Bauhaus Imaginista ran a series of exhibitions around the world to commemorate the 2019 centenary of the founding of the Bauhaus.Bauhaus Imaginista
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References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Garage Museum of Contemporary Art Art museums and galleries in Moscow Contemporary art galleries in Russia Museums established in 2008 2008 establishments in Russia Rem Koolhaas buildings Roman Abramovich