Rem Koolhaas to Create a New Visual Identity for Moscow’s New Tretyakov Gallery
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OMA will be renovating the largest museum building in Russia, the New Tretyakov Gallery. Led by Rem Koolhaas, the plans reveal creating a new visual identity for the gallery using color and material and establishing a new link to the Moscow River. The gaRem Koolhaas to Create a New Visual Identity for Moscow’s New Tretyakov Gallery
OMA will be renovating the largest museum building in Russia, the New Tretyakov Gallery. Led by Rem Koolhaas, the plans reveal creating a new visual identity for the gallery using color and material and establishing a new link to the Moscow River. The gallery houses the world’s largest and most significant collections of Russian art, including work from Kandinsky, Malevich, Chagall, and Soviet artists such as Vera Mukhina and Aleksandr Deyneka. Designed in 1964 by N.P. Sukoyan and Y.N. Sheverdyaev, the original building has been altered several times over the years making the exhibition spaces fragmented with clusters of support spaces.OMA’s intervention will reorganize the space into four sectors: Art Storage, an Education Center, the Collection, and a Festival Hall. The sectors will be connected via a pedestrian path along the Moscow river. Cutouts in the facade will open up the interiors to the sky and the city.The renovation will focus on enhancing the spatial infrastructure and removing the dysfunctional parts. Rem Koolhas stated: “We also undo the absolute separation between museum and the House of Artist, and remove a number of walls to make the different components more accessible and visible. Because of its size, it is almost impossible to consider it as a homogeneous entity; modern interventions unaffordable in Soviet times, such as escalators, improve circulation and draw together the different autonomous elements of the museum complex,” as noted by ArchDaily. Read more