COURTESY OMA.EU
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow announced today that it will be organize the first triennial dedicated to contemporary Russian art. The event will open March 10, 2017, at Garage.
The triennial will be run by Kate Fowle, Garage’s chief curator. Fowle is overseeing a team of curators–Katya Inozemtseva, Snejana Krasteva, Andrey Misiano, and Sasha Obukhova–who have visited more than 40 Russian cities looking for participants.
A press statement from the museum notes the triennial’s date as “launching during the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution,” adding, “Just as the Revolution encouraged Russia’s first avant-garde, Garage hopes to spur the next.”
In other news, Urs Fischer is opening a show at Garage on Friday.