Dasha Zhukova, art collector and socialite, has revealed some of the plans for the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture. Rem Koolhaas, the Pritzker Prize-winning architect, will convert an abandoned Moscow restaurant into the new, highly anticipated art space.
Zhukova founded the project as a contemporary art nonprofit organization there in 2008. This article further explains that “earlier this year, Garage left its base in the Bakhmetevsky Bus Garage for Moscow’s Gorky Park, where the ruined 1960s restaurant” is located.
Koolhaas intends to retain some of the traces of recent Russian history while modernizing the space.
[This entry was drafted with the assistance of Nicole Dornbusch].