Artists for Children

The series continues with a workshop delivered by the Chinese artist Yin Xiuzhen, whose main building material is clothing. This choice refers to her childhood memories about mother—a worker at a garment fabric in China—as well as to her associations with the generation of people for whom clothing meant something precious. Yin began utilizing clothes in 1995 when she created a series of installations focusing on the themes of memory, contemporary life and individual experience, and their mutual interrelations. During the workshop, children aged 7+, accompanied by parents and directed by the artist, will be offered to construct an ideal city whose parts could be executed from everyday objects and those prepared by the organizers. The result could by anything: architectural structures, cars, trees, or even fantastical things.

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The inventor of hippodian writing, Rostan Tavasiev is famous for his installations of soft toys.

In this meeting, he invites children to dream about parallel worlds and space-time portals, think of how artists convey their ideas to the viewer and translate 2-dimensional images into installations.

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A veteran of contemporary art, Boris Matrosov was a member of the group World Champions in the 1980s. Most of his works are not known to many, but visitors will have a chance to see his most recent piece produced for Garage Square Commissions (on show at Garage until March 5, 2017) and learn more about the artist’s ideas on the use of text in art and readymades.

The meeting with Boris Matrosov is a special event for teenagers.

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A recipient of the Garage Grant program in support of young artists, Ivan Novikov works with living plants to explore the relationship between art and nature. In this workshop he invites children to make textural images from natural materials.

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In March, we invite our younger visitors to a meeting with Russian Artist Irina Korina, whose installation The Tail Wags the Comet will be on show in the museum as the fourth Garage Atrium commission. Irina Korina’s works exploring the nature of time and space have been featured in many international shows and have received a number of prestigious awards. During the meeting, she will tell the kids about her new installation, answer their questions, talk about her favourite materials to work with, and invite children to turn Garage Atrium into a labyrinth of imaginary spaces.

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The April meeting is part of the public program for Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art and is devoted to the work of Dagestani artist Taus Makhacheva. One of the key themes in her practice is memory and tradition. In this workshop, the artist will talk about inspiration and help kids reanimate everyday objects by turning them into puppets. Together with Taus Makhacheva, the children will think of a story for each character and present their puppets to each other.

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The last Artists for Children meeting of the season is part of the public program for Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art and introduces young visitors to the work of ZIP group from Krasnodar, who are featured in the Common Language section of the exhibition. Communication with the spectator, and the role of the audience in art are among the key themes in the group’s practice.

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The audience of a workshop conducted by Carlos Noronha Feio, a Portuguese artist, will not only learn about unusual currencies and their application ways, but also produce a sort of “currency of affect” suitable for emotions and feelings exchange. Currency’s value and mission can be defined individually.

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During the meeting with Russian artist Nastya Kuzmina, participants will discuss the mundane and why we should pay attention to it—and make original coub videos.

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