The exhibition «Personal Choice: Collectors’ selections from their own collections» organized by Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture offered a glimpse into the mind of today’s art collector in Russia.

The Poet Lev Rubinstein (from the Moscow Metro named after Lenin series), 1987
Collection of Igor Markin

Slogan (“Long Live the Bad of Today for the Good of Tomorrow”), 2010
Collection of Vladimir Smirnov

Untitled, 2010
Collection of Dmitry Aksenov

The Feast of Trimalchio, 2009
Collection of Len Blavatnik

Oleg Kulik
Cosmonaut (from the Museum installation), 2003
Collection of Ekaterina and Vladimir Semenikhin

Showdown at House of Blue Leaves (from the Dolce Revolution series), 2005
Collection of Olga Slutsker
Visitors will see more than twenty important works from private collections of the country’s most prominent collectors



The exhibition space was designed to recall to an art storage facility. The works are hung on metal mesh constructions, similar to the moveable structures used in museum and gallery storage rooms.


