Garage Museum of Contemporary Art and Odnoklassniki social network launch online tours

Garage and Odniklassniki team up and launch weekly online tours offering unique summer shows experience.

Every Wednesday, from June 12 to July 12, at 6 pm sharp, Garage tour guides will go live offering tours across the current shows. Online tours will be accessible in Garage group on Odnoklassniki social network.

The first tour on June 21 will showcase David Adjaye:Form, Heft, Material, the first exhibition of world-renowned architect Sir David Adjaye. Viewers will get an insight into the global architect’s unique approach and see over twenty examples of his built works, including the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, as well as witness the outcome of a new research initiative, developed in collaboration with MARCH Architecture School in Moscow centered on the fourteen capitals of the former Soviet Republics, twelve key Russian industrial cities and his outstanding African research.

June 28 will be the tour day for the first solo exhibition of Raymond Pettibon in Russia showcasing around 400 works by the artist who has been key to the American art scene since the 1990s. The show—curated by Massimiliano Gioni and Gary Carrion-Murayari from the New Museum in New York—brings together drawings, fliers, zines, album art and materials from Pettibon’s personal archive. Pettibon is famous for combining in his works drawings and texts linking various cultural phenomena from cinema and literature to cartoons and TV.

July 5 will be dedicated to Congo Art Works: Popular Painting a survey of Congolese art over the last fifty years, developed by the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA), Tervuren in collaboration with BOZAR, Brussels. The exhibition seeks to challenge the established way of looking at African peoples as “underdeveloped” or “uncivilized”. Paintings by prominent Congolese artists are presented not as exotic objects, but as depictions of everyday reality which aim to make sense of the country’s present and its history.

In order to connect the exhibition and its exploration of colonialism and the post-colonial condition to the Russian context, Garage has developed a show within a show, which examines the art of Chukotka, a region in the Far East of the country that became part of the Soviet Union in 1920.

To reveal the life and work under censorship of the two famous Soviet poets Igor Kholin and Genrikh Sapgir, users should watch the July 12 tour around Kholin and Sapgir. Manuscripts, a show offering fresh insight into the work of two pioneers of Soviet nonconformist literature. Kholin and Sapgir met in 1952 and became close allies. Both were members of the first postwar unofficial community of artists and poets, known as the Lianozovo group, and pupils of its leader, artist Evgeny Kropivnitsky. They worked alongside some of the key names in Russian postwar art, including Oskar Rabin, Lydia Masterkova, and Vladimir Nemukhin. Bohemians of the 1960s and 1970s, their avant-garde poetry was unpublishable until the advent of perestroika. They were heroes of the literary underground, pioneers of samizdat. At the heart of the exhibition are manuscripts and samizdat publications donated by artist Viktor Pivovarov, some signed by the authors and many including previously unpublished poems. These are exhibited alongside Pivovarov’s illustrations for Kholin and Sapgir’s unpublished works, and his sketches for the album Kholin and Sapgir Triumphant. The exhibition also features typewritten texts from the archives of Leonid Talochkin and Igor Makarevich, as well as photographic portraits of the poets by one of the chroniclers of the Moscow underground scene of the 1960s and 1970s, Igor Palmin.

Garage Online tours are both desktop and mobile accessible via Odnoklassniki mobile version or ОK app for iOS and Android.

The tours continue the practice launched this May when Odnoklassniki broadcast tours around the first Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art.