On December 4, a long-awaited cultural space – the House of Culture “GES-2” – opened in the building of the former power plant on Bolotnaya Embankment in Moscow.
Exhibition halls, a library, a cinema, a concert hall, workshops, studios and artist residencies, stores as well as a restaurant and a cafe are open for guests.
Most of the first visitors who came to the House of Culture were foreigners. The opening of the new cultural space was a world event.
The main guests at the opening were Vladimir Putin and Sergey Sobyanin.
What you should definitely pay attention to are the acoustic dome-caps. Despite the size and height of the roof, there are different platforms underneath it, but the sound spreads exclusively within these platforms without affecting others.
The company Kahle Acoustics, which also staged the sound for the new Paris Philharmonic, was responsible for creating such incredible acoustics.
“We see HPP-2 as a cultural institution of a new type that transcends physical space and becomes a friendly and accessible environment. Not a fragment of the landscape, but a part of the city, an active element of its life. That is why we turned to the Italian visionary architect Renzo Piano and his colleagues, who invariably create a free, moving, curiosity-awakening architecture. The architecture of human relationships”, – notes Teresa Mavica, CEO of the V-A-C Foundation.
Artist Ragnar Kjartansson has become a participant in the first season of the HPP-2 exhibitions. He presents a large-scale exhibition of international level “To Moscow! To Moscow! To Moscow!”. The centerpiece of the exhibit is his series of 144 paintings. The series is called “The End of Venice”. It depicts ordinary, eventless and boring life, as well as the hidden emotions of the lyrical hero.
The “HPP-2” exhibitions are divided into seasons. At the moment it’s “Santa Barbara. How not to succumb to colonization?”. The duration of this season is 4 months, the following exhibitions will be exhibited for about half a year. We now know the themes for five seasons.
The second season deals with realism (“Truth: Why Realism?”), the third with gender and stereotypes (“Mother. Why Motherland?”), the fourth with “Space Is Ours,” and the fifth with the fact, in the words of former Apple creative director Jonathan Ive, that the most revolutionary ideas are sometimes stated in a very quiet voice (“Barely audible”).
