The Moscow-based Garage Museum of Contemporary Art is due to organise its first exhibition in St Petersburg later this month, on a section of New Holland Island that reopens as a public park after a major redevelopment on 27 August. The show will be installed in a temporary exhibition space in the park, alongside other cultural efforts and food stalls.
Experiences of the Imaginary, curated by Andrey Misiano, features works by emerging Russian artists who received supporting grants from the Garage museum. Participants include Nikolai Alexeyev, Aslan Gaisumov, Evgeny Granilshchikov, Ilya Dolgov, Anastasia Kuzmina, Kirill Makarov, Ivan Novikov, Alexandra Sukhareva, and Anna Titova.
In 2010, Millhouse LLC won a bid to restore and renovate New Holland Island and since then has slowly rolled out sections of the park. According to Millhouse, the 27 August opening represents the “first phase of the project” and “includes the landscaping of park areas, featuring temporary pavilions along with a system of engineering solutions and networks necessary for the implementation of the project, as well as the public debut of the first restored building”.
