until Thursday December 10 2015

Garage Museum of Contemporary Art
T : +7 (495) 645 05 20
9/32 Krimsky Val st.
119049 Moscow
Russia

Stories of Self-Organized Art Initiatives in Russia: 2000–2015

Since 2000, the Russian art scene has witnessed the rise of artists’ DIY initiatives, including independent non-profit spaces, exhibitions in deserted factories and underground crosswalks, street festivals, internet projects, and apartment shows. Together these reflect the autonomy of emerging generations of artists from both state-run and private institutions.

Open Systems is a live, research-based exhibition that presents over 40 self-organized initiatives, exploring the phenomenon through the perspectives of artists who have pioneered projects over the past 15 years.

Participants include: 11 Rooms Gallery, Samara; 39 Gallery, Moscow; Alexander Povzner's Studio, Moscow; Art Business Consulting Gallery, Moscow; Artists' Private Collections internet project; ArtRaum project, Moscow; ASI (Agency of Singular Investigations), Moscow; Bobby Gallery, St. Petersburg: Brown Stripe Gallery, Moscow; Bystrovka project, Krasnoyarsk; Cheremushki Gallery, Moscow; Elektrozavod Gallery, Moscow; ESCAPE Gallery, Moscow; France Gallery, Moscow; Gallery for One Viewer, Moscow; Gallery of One Work, Samara; Go! Where Do You Go? festival, Moscow; Ice project, Samara; Intimnoe Mesto, St. Petersburg; KISI (Krasnodar Institute for Contemporary Art), Krasnodar; KUBIVA Gallery, Nizhny Tagil; Luch project, Moscow; Luda Gallery, St. Petersburg; MediaImpact: International Festival of Activist Art, Moscow; Nepokorennie open studio, St. Petersburg; NOGA action center, Ekaterinburg; North-7 base, St. Petersburg; exhibition projects at Occupy Abay camp, Moscow; Original typography, Moscow; Parazit Gallery, St. Petersburg; Phantom Exhibition, St. Petersburg; Private Property Gallery, Moscow; Pusto festival, Moscow; Random Gallery, Moscow; Reality Raum Residenz online reality show; Red artist-run space, Moscow; Red Square Gallery, Moscow; Summer Collection festival, Moscow; Supostat internet project; Svetlana Gallery, Moscow; The Kitchen female art workshops, Moscow; Triangle curatorial studio, Moscow; TURNICHKI laboratory for contemporary art, Rostov-on-Don; Universam artist-run art fair, Moscow; VCSI (Voronezh Center for Contemporary Art), Voronezh; White Cube Gallery, Novosibirsk; ZHIR Gallery, Moscow.