MARS - the center of contemporary art in the heart of Moscow

Anyone who is used to the idea that the museum and gallery is a boring institution with caretaker grandmothers where nothing happens will be useful to visit MARS. For almost 30 years, getting bored here is very difficult.

What else is MARS in the center of Moscow?

Let's reveal the intrigue: MARS is the center of contemporary art. However, the modern center has a long history. This is the oldest non-state gallery in Moscow specializing in contemporary art. At that time, the organization was the only one in the entire USSR. As time passed, and the gallery turned into a creative laboratory. Now, an educational center operates on the basis of MARS. The doors of the museum are always open for new and unusual projects. And for those who have an original idea, and who do not know how to implement it, MARS, the center of contemporary art, will also help. At the moment, in the center are 3,000 works of Russian art of the late 20th century.

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Fashionable word "multimedia" means the combination of various audiovisual technologies in a single space and the possibility of direct interaction with them. Of course, art quickly adopted the achievements of technology. It is on multimedia projects that the center specializes. The viewer does not just walk along the walls and looks at the exhibition, yawning into the fist, but he himself becomes a part and co-author of objects of art. Such contact with living art can not remain indifferent.

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MARSian exhibitions

If you expect an unforgettable experience from going to the gallery, then you should definitely go to the MARS Center for Contemporary Art. The exhibition here, even the smallest, is always an event. In the spring of 2016, Metaforms opened, in which modern artists and illustrators Misha Most, Nootk, Pokar Lampas, Alexey Kio and many others took part. Here you could walk in two spaces at once: the real site of MARS and virtual reality, wearing special glasses. Artists were given the opportunity to draw not only on a two-dimensional surface, but also in volumetric space, and not limited to the laws of physics. Graffiti, paintings and installations, large-scale sculptures appeared in the halls. The exhibition will be open all summer 2016.

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In addition to exhibitions, MARS hosts shows and presentations, master classes, art courses, and creative evenings. On the ground floor, in the space “Faithful Companion of Mars”, you can have a bite to eat while watching a modern short film. The most unusual and modern events in the life of culture is the MARS Center for Contemporary Art. Reviews about the gallery are very controversial, but this is not surprising. Avant-garde art would cease to be avant-garde if everyone understood and loved it.

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MARS Music

MARS, a center for contemporary art, specializes not only in visual art. Here are the performances of the most relevant groups and artists. But thanks to the gallery’s tendency towards the synthesis of arts, all of them are accompanied by an interesting design, so there’s not only something to listen to, but also something to see. For example, a joint performance by the musician BRINSTAAR and Kira Weinstein was accompanied by a laser show performed by the video artist Kirill Rave. Light rays were refracted in crystal objects from the Soviet service. Another team - KYMATIC - performed with the program “Graphic scores”, created in conjunction with the center’s audiovisual laboratory. The musical scores were projected onto three screens and “swam” to the beat with the music. In June 2016, MARS, a center for contemporary art, hosts two artists. This is Pierre Bastien and Ishome.

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MARS Center for Contemporary Art: how to get, ticket price, opening hours

MARS was lost in Moscow lanes. You can get to it from three metro stations: Trubnoy, Sukharevskaya or Tsvetnoy Boulevard. Travel time is about five minutes. The address of the center is Pushkarev Lane, Building 5.

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Ticket prices start at 350 r. for preferential categories of visitors. Students will also be able to pass at a discount - for 450 r. The price of a full ticket is 550 p. You can buy family tickets for two adults and one or two children, they will cost 1300 and 1500 rubles. respectively. But the most interesting is the annual subscription, which give the right to unlimited visits to exhibitions. A full subscription costs 2,900, and a student one - only 2,000 rubles. Concert prices start at 400 r. You can get to MARS on any day of the week except Monday, it works from 12 to 22 hours.


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