Garage Studios

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119 Prospekt Mira, Bldg. 317, 129223 Moscow

studios@garagemca.org

Garage Studios are open for group visits by appointment.
Please contact us on studios@garagemca.org

Garage Studios comprises 18 separate workspaces, a shared studio, project rooms, and a paint shop. They are located on the territory of VDNKh in a postconstructivist building erected in 1939, which at various times housed the model buildings School for 280 Students and Polyclinic with Extension.

Today, most of the studios are offered to artists for six months, however some studios are available for short-term projects. Residents have access to the Museum’s resources (the library and archive), curatorial and management assistance, and financing for materials.

The program aims to create a platform for work, communication, and knowledge exchange between artists from Moscow, the Russian regions, and abroad. The studios counteract cultural isolation and involve residents in the broader artistic context.

Residents are selected by Garage curators.

Curator: Kristina Dryagina
Manager: Alexandra Hoholeva

Artist Residencies

March 2025 — September 2025:

  • Artyom Lyapin (Irkutsk)
  • Victoria Samokhina and Kamilia Iusupova (Moscow/Bishkek)
  • Zukhra Salakhova (Kazan)
  • Nikolay Alekseev (Voronezh)
  • Serafima Sazhina (Saint Petersburg)

May 2024 — February 2025:

December 2023 — April 2024

June–November 2023:

February–May 2023:

September 2022 — January 2023:

  • Gayane Avetisyan (Yerevan)
  • Anton Zabrodin (Kaliningrad)
  • "Digital object alliance" collective (Anya Leonova and Sasha Puchkova)

April–August 2022:

  • Marina Androsovich (Kaliningrad)
  • Gayane Avetisyan (Yerevan)
  • Arash Azadi (Hamedan)
  • Anton Zabrodin (Kaliningrad)

September 2021 — March 2022:

  • Gayane Avetisyan (Yerevan)
  • Arash Azadi (Hamedan)
  • Medina Bazargali (Almaty)
  • Dima Efremov (Kirov)

April–June 2021:

  • Medina Bazargali (Almaty)
  • Farhad Farzali (Baku)
  • Aigerim Kapar (Almaty)
  • Stas Sharifullin (HMOT) (Moscow)

February–March 2021:

  • Alexandra Abakshina (St. Petersburg)
  • Lera Lerner (St. Petersburg)
  • Elina Petrova (Naberezhnye Chelny)
  • Nikita Seleznev (St. Petersburg)
  • Yozhi Stolet (St. Petersburg)
  • Aliaxey Talstou (Minsk)

December 2020 — January 2021:

  • Irina Butkovskaya (Novosibirsk)
  • Anastasia Kizilova (St. Petersburg)
  • Pavla Markova (Omsk)
  • Anastasia Vepreva (St. Petersburg)

August–November 2020:

  • Shamil Ahmed (Makhachkala)
  • Irina Butkovskaya (Novosibirsk)
  • Pavla Markova (Omsk)
  • Yulia Shafarostova (Krasnodar)
  • Anastasia Vepreva (St. Petersburg)

February–April 2020:

  • Shamil Ahmed (Makhachkala)
  • Irina Butkovskaya (Novosibirsk)
  • Kristina Gorlanova (Ekaterinburg)
  • Anastasia Vepreva (St. Petersburg)
  • Anton Vinogradov (St. Petersburg)
  • Mitya Zabelin (Kaliningrad)

November 2019 — January 2020:

  • Shamil Ahmed (Makhachkala)
  • Hayden Fowler (Sydney / Berlin)
  • Valentina Petrova (Kiev)
  • Anton Vinogradov (St.Petersburg)

August–October 2019:

  • Anya Kravchenko (St. Petersburg)
  • Zoya Lebedeva (Izhevsk)
  • Zoya Lebedeva (Izhevsk)
  • Anna Meschiari (Vevey, Switzerland/Paris)

May–July 2019:

  • Anna and Vitaly Cherepanov (Nizhny Tagil)
  • Gorod Ustinov Micro-art-group (Izhevsk)
  • Kirill Makarov (St. Petersburg)

January–April 2019:

  • Anna and Vitaly Cherepanov (Nizhny Tagil)
  • Gorod Ustinov Micro-art-group (Izhevsk)
  • Sasha Saltanova (Yekaterinburg)
  • Olga Zhitlina (St. Petersburg)

Studios

March 2025 — September 2025:

May 2024 — February 2025:

  • Alexey Buldakov
  • Nika Chernyaeva
  • Varvara Kuleshova
  • Eldar Ganeyev
  • Kirill Saveliev
  • Galina Andreeva
  • Paweł Sochacki
  • Mariia Fedorova
  • dasha likhaia
  • Alexandra Pavlovskaya
  • Elena Slobtseva
  • Misha Nikatin

December 2023 — April 2024

June–November 2023:

February–May 2023:

September 2022 — January 2023:

June–August 2022:

March–May 2022:

November 2021 — February 2022:

September–October 2021:

January–June 2021:

August–December 2020:

February–July 2020:

July 2019 — January 2020:

January–June 2019:

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The history of the Garage Studios program

Since the program was launched, the Garage Studios team has explored various ways of working with artists, trying to react to external conditions while also considering the needs of residents.

From 2019 to 2020, 14 studios were offered for six months and were intended for artists living in Moscow. Four studios worked as an art residency: artists from Russia’s regions and abroad could use them for up to three months.

In 2020 and 2021, the Garage Studios team experimented with a new approach to selecting artists. A year-long program was developed, which included meetings with invited Russian and international specialists.

In 2022, the aim of Garage Studios changed, with the focus now on support for artists and preserving cultural exchange between members of the art community.

At various times the following people have been Garage Studios curators: Anastasia Chebotareva, Valentin Diaconov, Ivan Isaev, Snezhana Krasteva Anca Rujoiu and Ilmira Bolotyan.

About the building

Garage Studios is located in a pavilion at VDNKh, which was built in 1939 as a model school for 280 students. In the 1950s, it was converted into a polyclinic, to which an extension was added in 1970–1971 that housed an x-ray and diagnostics department. In 2017, the building was transferred to Garage and redesigned by FORM to accommodate artists’ studios and public spaces. As with previous reconstruction projects, Garage aimed to preserve the historical architecture of the pavilion. The large windows of the original school provide ideal lighting conditions for its new purpose.

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