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: Ilmira Bolotyan
Manager: Alexandra Kuznetsova

Artist Residencies

February 2023 - May 2023:

September 2022 – January 2023:

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

September 2021 — March 2022:

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

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)

August—November 2020:

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

November 2019 — January 2020:

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

May—July 2019:

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

April—August 2022:

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

April—June 2021:

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

December 2020 — January 2021:

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

August—October 2019:

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

January—April 2019:

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

Studios

February 2023 - May 2023:

September 2022 – January 2023:

  • Kirill Gluschenko
  • Ksenia Nechay and Viktoriya Chupakhina
  • Oleg Baranov
  • Vera Barkalova
  • Evgeny Antufiev
  • Ulyana Podkorytova
  • Ivan Novikov
  • Stasya Grishina and Anton Andrienko
  • Aleksey Shchigalev
  • Elena Anosova
  • Daria Setevinets
  • Polina Rukavichkina
  • Sergey Rozhin
  • Alexander Yazov

March—May 2022:

  • Evgeny Antufiev
  • Oleg Baranov
  • Vera Barkalova
  • Kirill Gluschenko
  • Daria Iuriichuk
  • Ivan Novikov
  • Ulyana Podkorytova
  • Slezki (Tears) group (Ksenia Nechay and Viktoriya Chupakhina)
  • Nastia Volynova

November 2021—February 2022:

  • Marina Androsovich
  • Alina Belishkina
  • Xenia Benivolski
  • Kirill Gluschenko
  • Daria Iuriichuk
  • Marina Maraeva
  • Slezki (Tears) group (Ksenia Nechay and Viktoriya Chupakhina)
  • Nikolay Smirnov
  • Nastia Volynova

August—December 2020:

  • Petr Bystrov
  • Lyokha Garikovich
  • Svetlana Hollis
  • Zina Isupova
  • Anastasia Keineahnung
  • Anton Kushaev
  • Albina Mokhryakova
  • Sasha Moroz
  • Dmitry ::vtol:: Morozov
  • Alexander Obrazumov
  • Masha Obukhova
  • Mitya Pakhomov
  • Karina Sadreeva-Nurieva
  • Rina Volnykh
  • Keito Yamaguchi

July 2019 — January 2020:

  • Adil Aliev
  • Pyotr Bystrov
  • Misha Bury
  • Evgeny Granilshchikov
  • Zina Isupova
  • Anton Kushaev
  • Andrey Kuzkin
  • Maria Obukhova
  • Mika Plutitskaya
  • Ulyana Podkorytova
  • Natalia Romanova
  • Andrey Slashilin
  • Asya Zaslavskaya

June—August 2022:

  • Elena Anosova
  • Evgeny Antufiev
  • Oleg Baranov
  • Vera Barkalova
  • Kirill Gluschenko
  • Stasya Grishina and Anton Andrienko
  • Daria Iuriichuk
  • Ivan Novikov
  • Ulyana Podkorytova
  • Aleksey Shchigalev
  • Slezki group (Ksenia Nechay and Viktoriya Chupakhina)
  • Nastia Volynova

September—October 2021:

  • Marina Androsovich
  • Alina Belishkina
  • Xenia Benivolski
  • Vadim Hokhryakov
  • Daria Iuriichuk
  • Marina Maraeva
  • Claudia Piepenbrock and Andre Sassenroth
  • Slezki (Tears) group (Ksenia Nechay and Viktoriya Chupakhina)
  • Nikolay Smirnov
  • Nastia Volynova
  • Ekaterina Yakovleva
  • Syanda Yaptik

January—June 2021:

  • eeefff group (Dzina Zhuk and Nicolay Spesivtsev)
  • Ted Kokorev
  • Lera Kononchuk
  • Ira Konyukhova
  • Alena Levina
  • Elena Revunova
  • Karina Sadreeva-Nurieva
  • Alisa Smorodina
  • Pauł Sochacki
  • Nikita Spiridonov
  • Natalia Tikhonova
  • Rina Volnykh
  • Ystalost

February—July 2020:

  • Pyotr Bystrov
  • Lekha Garikovich
  • Zina Isupova
  • Anastasia Keineahnung
  • Anton Kushaev
  • Albina Mokhryakova
  • Sasha Moroz
  • Dmitry Morozov aka ::vtol::
  • Alexander Obrazumov
  • Maria Obukhova
  • Mitya Pakhomov
  • Karina Sadreeva-Nurieva
  • Rina Volnykh

January—June 2019:

  • Chingiz Aydarov
  • Zina Isupova
  • Nastya Kuzmina
  • Dasha Kuznetsova
  • Vlad Mikhel
  • Roman Mokrov
  • Ekaterina Muromtseva
  • Mayana Nasybullova
  • Anastasia Potemkina
  • Haim Sokol
  • Albert Soldatov
  • Anton Zabrodin
  • Ganna Zubkova
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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 and Anca Rujoiu.

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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