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

Everyone who is accustomed to the idea that a museum and a gallery is a boring institution with grandmothers, caretakers, where nothing happens, it will be useful to visit MARS. For almost 30 years, it's very difficult to get bored here.

What else for MARS in the center of Moscow?

We will reveal the intrigue: MARS is the center of contemporary art. However, the modern center has a long history. It is the oldest non-governmental gallery in Moscow, specializing in contemporary art. At that time, the organization was the only one in the whole USSR. As time went by, the gallery became a creative laboratory. Now the educational center operates on the basis of MARS. The doors of the museum are always open for new unusual projects. And 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 3000 works of Russian art of the late twentieth century.

The 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 and the center specializes. The viewer does not just walk along the walls and looks at the exhibition, yawning into a fist, and he himself becomes a part and co-author of art objects. Such contact with the living art can not leave indifferent.

MARSIAN exhibitions

If you are waiting for an unforgettable experience from a trip to the gallery - you are definitely in the center of contemporary art of MARS. The exhibition here, even the smallest - is always an event. In the spring of 2016 Metaforms was opened, in which contemporary artists and illustrators - Misha Most, Nootk, Pokar Lampas, Alexey Kio and many others took part. Here you could walk at once through two spaces: the real MARS site and virtual reality, wearing special glasses. Artists were able to draw not only on a two-dimensional surface, but also in a three-dimensional space, and not limited to the laws of physics. In the halls there were graffiti, paintings and installations, large-scale sculptures. The exhibition will be open all summer of 2016.

In addition to exhibitions, in MARS there are demonstrations and presentations, master classes, art courses, creative evenings. On the ground floor, in the space of "The faithful companion of Mars", you can have a snack while watching a modern short film. The most unusual and modern events in the life of culture are the center of contemporary art of MARS. Reviews about the gallery are very controversial, but it's not surprising. Avant-garde art would cease to be avant-garde, if everyone understood and loved it.

Music by MARS

MARS, the center of contemporary art, specializes not only in visual art. Here are the speeches of the most relevant groups and performers. But thanks to the gallery's tendency to synthesize the arts, all of them are accompanied by an interesting design, so there is not only what to listen to, but also what to look at. For example, the joint performance of 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 score", created in conjunction with the audiovisual laboratory of the center. The scores of the works were projected onto three screens and "floated" in time with the music. In June 2016, MARS, the center of contemporary art, accepts two performers. This is Pierre Bastien and Ishome.

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

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

The prices for tickets start from 350 r. For preferential categories of visitors. Students will also be able to pass with a discount - for 450 rubles. The price of the full ticket is 550 rubles. 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 gives the right to unlimited visits to exhibitions. The full subscription costs 2900, and the student's subscription costs only 2000 rubles. Prices for concerts start from 400 r. In MARS you can get on any day of the week except Monday, it works from 12 to 22 hours.