Cadillac is both a legend and a culture phenomenon. The brand, founded in 1902, is internationally associated with automobiles remarkable for their character. For over a century they have inspired song lyrics, appeared in films, music videos, and even on Salvador Dali’s canvases.
In 2018 the company invited tenders for the first Cadillac House in Russia, which was to become a cultural and creative laboratory located in the Museum Mile. The selective tender candidates were handpicked by the company in collaboration with Alyona Doletskaya, the project curator.
Cadillac is not limited to car production — it also creates culture contexts. By combining the linchpin of automobile industry — the conveyor belt — with the objective to produce modern art, we came up with the Cadillac House ideology, defining it as an ongoing Moscow culture conveyor.
The conveyor belt principle is also the way Cadillac House functions: a variety of objectives are achieved through transformable space.
Two conveyors fitted with ceiling lamps that are used to fix exhibits and equipment are the focal points embracing these changes.
The culture venue in the centre of Moscow is intended to display both cars and modern art hosting fashion shows, concerts, lectures, exhibitions or experimental performances.
This is when the Cadillac House space visible through its large windows merges into the cityscape.
