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The Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow’s new contemporary art space, opened in September last year with a major exhibition by Russia’s leading artists, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov.
The Garage is an Iris Art Foundation project, established by Daria Zhukova in 2008. It is a unique non-profit venture aimed at the promotion and development of contemporary art and culture in Russia. The center is housed in one of Russia’s architectural masterpieces, the former Bakhmetevsky Bus Garage, designed in 1926 by the architect Konstantin Melnikov. It is one of the largest exhibition venues in the city.
The building includes a large café, cinema and specialised bookshop with a library and member’s room due to open in 2009, transforming GCCC Moscow into much more than just a gallery space, and into a compulsory destination for Russia’s growing art community.