Garage - Building and thinking the Soviet city

30/10/2015. Lectures [Moscow] Russia. 10.30.2015 > 31.10.2015
metalocus, CLAUDIA CENDOYA

Today starts a two-day cycle of conferences in the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (Moscow). During this talks, professionals from very diverse fields (historians, cultural theorists, sociologists, communication experts, architects...) will approach the attendees towards the architecture and urbanism of the Soviet modernism.

Park of Memory (Crematorium) by A. Miletskyi, V. Melnichenko and A. Rybachuk. Image courtesy of Garage Museum of Contemporary Art.

Park of Memory (Crematorium) by A. Miletskyi, V. Melnichenko and A. Rybachuk. Image courtesy of Garage Museum of Contemporary Art.

Project for Underground Urbanization of Abovyan Street by S. Kyurkchyan. Image courtesy of Garage Museum of Contemporary Art.

Sketch for Hotel on the Krestovyj Pass by G. Chakhava. Image courtesy of Garage Museum of Contemporary Art.

Spa Pavilion by G. Jabua. Image courtesy of Garage Museum of Contemporary Art.

Sketch of Central Business district in Residential Area by M. Tovmasyan. Image courtesy of Garage Museum of Contemporary Art.

The international conference sessions, with guest speakers from the United States and eight European countries, mark the beginning of a three-year-long exhaustive investigation on the architecture and urbanism of the Soviet modernism led by the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art.

This symposium focuses on the present post-Soviet cities and its coexistence with the remaining Soviet monuments, which have had to adapt their function to the new times. Many of them have, which have managed to survive either physically or as a collective image, can be a helpful addition in overcoming the country's traumatic break-up with its Soviet past and reconnecting with their current culture.

A thorough analysis of the twentieth century Russian architecture needs to take into account the conflict of the moment between the dramatic dreams of the creative sector with their daily reality. To properly analyze the complex social and political connotations of the Soviet Empire, the conferences will cover a wide variety of relevant aspects of the recent Russian past: the aesthetics and style of the Soviet modernism, their ideological prejudices and economic philosophies, their cultural images and social aspects.

CREDITS.-

Conference concept: Georg Schöllhammer.
Garage curators: Katya Inozemtseva and Anastasia Mityushina.
Main academic partner: Institute of Modernism, Moscow.
Research curator: Ruben Arevshatyan.

Location.- West Gallery. Garage Museum of Contemporary Art. 9/32 Krimsky Val st., 119049, Moscow, Russia.
Dates.- The 30th and 31st October 2015.
Entrance fees.- Free entrance.
Reservation.- Prior registration required.