Garage Studios

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119 Prospekt Mira, Bldg. 317, 129223 Moscow

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

Garage Studios and Artist Residencies comprise 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 an Extension.

From the launch of the Studios in 2019 until 2021, participants were selected by the Museum’s curatorial council. Fourteen studios intended for Moscow-based artists were provided for six months. Four studios were allocated for artist residencies and could be used for up to three months by artists from the Russian regions and abroad.

Since July 2021, the program has changed. The increase in the duration of the program and in the amount of support available are based on the belief that this new format will have a greater impact on both the trajectory of residents’ artistic careers and their creative practices. Garage announced an open call resulting in the selection of twelve participants for Garage Studios’ yearlong program, which includes meetings with tutors and guest contributors. Tutors for the inaugural residency year are the art group Raqs Media Collective, curator Zdenka Badovinac, and artist Cécile B. Evans.

The program aims to create a platform for work, communication, and knowledge exchange between artists from Moscow, the Russian regions, and abroad.

Garage Studios Team

Manager: Ksenia Lipinskaya

Curatorial council: Valentin Diaconov, Evgeny Gusyatinsky, Katya Inozemtseva, Snezhana Krasteva, Andrey Misiano, Anastasia Mityushina, Sasha Obukhova, Iaroslav Volovod.

Artist Residencies

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)

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—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

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

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

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

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

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.