E.Razumny for Vedomosti

The Garage Center for Contemporary Art, now a museum, is living out its final months in a paper building. Work on the ultra-modern Seasons pavilion is to be completed by the summer of 2015. Garage Director Daria Zhukova, along with the new building's architect Rem Koolhaas and the museum's chief curator Kate Fowle, told the press about plans for the coming year - but mainly about what a museum without a collection will look like, but with a variety of entertainment and educational programs and a transparent building with retractable window-plates that overlook the garden, glow at night and let in light during the day.

The building will open in June with five exhibitions at once, which will demonstrate the exhibition possibilities of the space: Kate Fowle did not reveal all the plans, but in 2015 they will definitely show a large-scale exhibition of the grandmother of belated surrealism and patroness of giant spiders Louise Bourgeois and a project by Rikrit Tirivaniya, an author whose fame was born in the 1990s, when he came up with the idea of organizing joint meals with viewers in galleries, becoming a star of the so-called aesthetics of interaction.

As before, in its main exhibition program, Garage relies on surefire names and attracting viewers through spectacular art - or drawing idle viewers strolling through the park into entertaining activities. As for Shigeru Ban's temporary paper pavilion, it will cease to exist, but before that, a final project will open there, the details of which are also not being disclosed, and before that, in October, a research exhibition, "100 Years of Russian Performance," based largely on materials from the Garage archive. It was the archive, which was created in the late 1980s by art historian Sasha Obukhova, who was friends with many conceptualists and actionists, that seemed to have become almost a lifesaver for Garage during its formation as a serious institution. From a small unit, the archive (it became part of the Garage a couple of years ago) has grown into the idea of a full-fledged public art library (it will open in the winter): according to curator Fowle, this archive is the museum’s collection.

Garage announced plans for the year