The information about the sale of the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art is not true, the press office of businessman Roman Abramovich, the owner of the institution, told TASS. They added that the museum is operating normally.
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On September 23, Ksenia Korobeinikova, an art critic and author of the telegram channel “ku-ku”, wrote that negotiations on the sale of “Garage” are “in full swing.”
Korobeinikova described the denial of information by Abramovich’s press office as “expected”: “This businessman conducts his business in complete silence. When searches were carried out in Garage, they were also initially denied and then confirmed. There is only one tactic,” the art critic said.
Korobeynikova added that negotiations on the sale of Garage had been held “at least twice.” Moreover, according to her, the museum is being sold for $55 million, while since 2022 “about $10 million has been spent on it annually.”
“The drain may have been necessary to raise the price and get additional potential buyers who appeared after the news and about whom I will tell you. Or to put pressure on the seller and speed up the deal,” the art critic wrote.
Abramovich and his ex-wife Daria Zhukova founded Garage in 2008. In February 2022, the museum suspended exhibition activities due to the outbreak of military operations in Ukraine.
In April 2024, the institution was searched with the participation of FSB officers as part of a criminal case against artist Pyotr Verzilov*.
Since August 30, the museum has been running the project “Open Storage. Prologue”, which is Garage’s own collection of contemporary art.
In September, activists came to the institution, outraged by the lack of an exhibition on the military operation in Ukraine.
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