Garage Archive Collection and RAAN

Contacts

For enquiries about the archive: research@garagemca.org

How to access material from Garage Archive Collection

Garage Archive Collection catalogue on the RAAN website

VISIT THE ARCHIVE

Garage Archive Collection aims to provide an academic platform for the study of Soviet and Russian contemporary art.

It is the largest collection of materials on Soviet and Russian contemporary art in the world and contains documents from various galleries, museums, and artist-led organizations and archives of artists, curators, and collectors. The media archive is of particular importance. It comprises over 10,000 audio and video recordings, including footage of exhibitions, actions, performances, and interviews.

Since the first archive was transferred to Garage in 2012, the collection has continued to expand thanks to new donations and acquisitions. In 2018, the St. Petersburg branch of the Garage Archive Collection was launched. It holds local archives.

You can see digitized materials on the Russian Art Archive Network (RAAN) site.

You can access the materials in person by completing an application form on the Museum site.

For tours of Garage Archive Collection or to apply for an internship, please contact us:

Garage Archive Commissions

Garage Archive Commissions is an artist engagement program based on the project Toward the Source. In 2016, several Russian artists were invited to conduct research in Garage Archive Collection, resulting in an exhibition of new work displayed at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art. The Garage Archive Commission also involves the creation of new works based on immersion in Garage Archive materials, such as diaries, sketches, and correspondence.

The project aims to enable artists to analyze the life and practice of their predecessors and compare life and work today and in previous decades, as well as to identify new lines of inheritance and generational conflict in Russian art.

The results of this work will be presented in the Skylight Gallery at Garage.