Moscow’s Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, one of many largest museums of its variety in Russia, named Daria Kotova as its new director, efficient instantly, on Thursday.
Kotova is a longtime staffer at Storage, having began there in 2010 when she graduated from Moscow State College’s Journalism College. She began within the museum’s public relations division and served for a few years as the top of growth, advertising and marketing, and promoting. Since 2021, Kotova has served as director of the Storage Endowment Fund, which totals slightly more than $8 million, in accordance with its web site.
In a press launch, the museum stated Kotova was concerned within the first and second Storage Triennial of Russian Up to date Artwork in 2017 and 2020 respectively, amongst different tasks.
“I wish to thank the Museum’s founders for his or her belief in me,” Kotova stated in a press assertion. “Throughout this new stage within the historical past of Storage I’m positive that my colleagues and I’ll proceed to construct Storage as a residing, dynamic museum.”
Kotova replaces Anton Belov, who has led the museum since 2010.
Daria Kotova
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Storage has had a tumultuous current historical past. The museum was based in 2008 by collectors Dasha Zhukova and Roman Abramovich, who had been married on the time. It moved into its everlasting location in Gorky Park in 2015. In 2021 the museum announced that it could considerably develop, renovating the park’s Hexagon Pavilion in order that it might host exhibitions there.
Only a yr later, shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine, the museum paused its exhibition program, calling the warfare a “human and political tragedy.” Final yr, with the exhibition undertaking nonetheless paused, the museum was reportedly searched by local police. A neighborhood information channel stated that the search was in reference to LGBTQ+ literature housed on the establishment.
The museum has continued to host movie screenings and different occasions usually. The announcement of Kotova’s appointment didn’t point out when exhibitions would begin once more.
