Garage Museum of Contemporary Art announces the winners of GARAGE.txt grant program

For the past two years, Garage has been supporting authors who write about art and culture in the Russian language. Winners receive grants to finish their research as well as an opportunity to publish their studies as part of the Garage.txt series.

Garage’s grant commission have studied all applications and selected the winners who will receive support in 2018: these are curator Alisa Savitskaya and artist Atyom Filatov from Nizhny Novgorod with their project A Brief History of Street Art in Nizhny Novgorod and art historian Irina Gorlova with her collection of essays Vladimir Salnikov. Possible Configurations of Art.

In 2017 Garage received over seventy applications from theorists from across Russia and the CIS, with studies on a wide range of topics relating to contemporary art, regional or world culture, urbanism, street art, mass culture, and philosophy.