Douglas Gordon at the Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture, Moscow
Nov 22nd 2008
on view November 22, 2008 through March 22, 2009.
The Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Moscow (GCCC) will present its first off-site project with a giant video installation on the top of Moscow's Mosenergo building opposite the Kremlin, which will be launched on Saturday, 22 November 2008 at 20:00.
The video installation, "Moscow on the Move" will showcase works by leading Russian and international artists 24 hours a day on one of Moscow's largest plasma screens. Featured artists include AES+F, Artavazd Peleshan, Doug Aitken, Fischli & Weiss, Douglas Gordon, Sarah Morris, Pipilotti Rist, Cao Fei, Yang FuDong, Philippe Parreno, Agnes Varda and Bill Viola. The works will be seen not just by passers-by and cars in traffic but also from buildings across the city.
The project is presented in collaboration with London's Serpentine Gallery and is curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-director of Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects at the Serpentine.
The Garage Center for Contemporary Culture (GCCC Moscow) Moscow's newest arts center opened in September this year with a major exhibition by Russia's leading artists, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov. GCCC is a unique non-profit venture aimed at the promotion and development of contemporary art and culture in Russia. It is housed in one of Russia's architectural masterpieces, the former Bakhmetevsky Bus Garage, designed in 1926 by the architect Konstantin Melnikov. With a floor space of 8,500 sq m, GCCC Moscow boasts the largest, fully flexible exhibition venue in the city. The project was founded by Dasha Zhukova and coordinated by Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst.
The project is being presented off-site while the Garage is closed for preparatory work in connection with its next exhibition which will feature a selection of works from the François Pinault Collection opening in February 2009.
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Timings: 24 hours
VISITOR INFORMATION
The Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture (Off-site)
Mosenergo, on Raushskaya Naberejnaya, d. 10
115035 Moscow
RUSSIA
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