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Garage is launching a series of summer workshops for children and adults, where participants will learn how artists engage with everyday life in its various manifestations—be it a breakfast dish, brushing teeth, or the sound of typing on a laptop keyboard.
Each workshop includes an introductory part and a practical session: the group will analyze examples from contemporary art and create a work based on their own personal experience.
Free admission with advance registration.
Keeping a diary helps to record events and reflect on personal experience. During the session participants will learn how artists work with diaries, both creating their own and using found ones. The practical part will involve designing the first spread of participants’ own diaries, which they will take home with them.
About the teacher
Lesha Geld is an artist, illustrator, and educator. He works with hand-drawn graphics and sculpture. He leads workshops on architectural sketching at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art and drawing classes at the Shchusev State Museum of Architecture studios, and is studying illustration at the British Higher School of Art and Design (Moscow). He has participated in exhibitions at Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art, including a—s—t—r—a open vol.5 (a—s—t—r—a gallery, 2024), Still New Year. Still Adults (11.12 gallery, 2024), and How Am I? How Are You? (U Contemporary, 2024).
During the workshop, the group will learn about the profession of food stylist and discover how artists explore the theme of food and use it as a medium for creating artworks. Each participant will create a personal sculpture depicting their favorite dish using inedible materials.
About the teacher
Katya Ivashchenko is a chef, pastry chef, and food stylist. She specializes in working with food as a set designer, creating visual concepts for photo and video shoots. She is the author of three cookbooks: What’s for Breakfast?, What’s for Dinner?, and What’s for Dessert?
Registration will open on July 14.
Mundane sounds—the grinding and squeaking of an elevator, the creak of a door, the tapping of laptop keys—often go unnoticed. During the workshop, participants will learn how contemporary artists work with sound and will try to recall the sounds they encounter every day. They will then take part in a jam session where different people’s experiences of the everyday will intertwine.
About the teacher
Sasha Pozharskaya is an art historian, musician, editor at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, and curator of the Pushkinsky.Yu youth program.
Registration will open on July 21.
During the workshop, participants will learn how artists explore everyday life and routine, and how such actions as brushing teeth, walking the dog, or chatting in a messenger app can become the foundation of an artistic statement. During the practical part they will experiment with transforming everyday actions into short performances.
About the teacher
Anastasia Antipova is a contemporary artist and graduate of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2022). She has participated in group exhibitions at the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art (2022, 2023) and ART4 (2022, 2024). Her solo projects include A Sense of Elbow (Sistema Gallery, 2023) and Myself, in the Corner, Taking a Shower in Front of Everyone (Fabula Gallery, 2024). She also participated in Cosmoscow Contemporary Art Fair (2024).
Registration will open on July 28.
