AUDITORIUM MOSCOW

"Auditorium Moscow" is the first project at the historical location of the Belie Palaty, a 17th century townhouse located at the very beginning of the city's so-called Golden Mile. This neighborhood has undergone a fundamental gentrification over the last ten years, but the building's gates have been closed for the last 20 years. On its steps, there is an improvised memorial for human right lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova who were assassinated by neo-Nazis here on January 19 th 2009. On the house across the street, a memorial plaque notes that this was the seat of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, whose head Solomon Mikhoels was killed in 1948. A monument to Friedrich Engels sadly peers over to the reconstruction of Christ the Savior Church, where the Palace of the Soviets was never realized. This is an intriguing location that will continue to host projects dedicated to contemporary art in its urban surrounding... The project Auditorium Moscow was..