Soviet Underground Rock Legend Kicks off TurnPark's 10th Season

TurnPark Art Space has always operated at its own frequency. Tucked into the former limestone and marble quarry at 2 Moscow Road in West Stockbridge, the 16-acre park founded in 2017 by collectors Katya Brezgunova and Igor Gomberg has spent a decade building something that resists easy categorization: part sculpture garden, part performance venue, part totally convincing existential argument in support of saturating your life with art. This season, marking its 10th anniversary, the park opens May 17 with the most expansive program in its history.

The centerpiece of the new season is physically commanding. 4 the 5th (of Beethoven), a massive aluminum sculpture by the late American minimalist Charles Ginnever, has been installed in TurnPark's Big Meadow. Ginnever, who died in 2019 at 88, was one of the defining large-scale sculptors of the 20th century, a peer of Mark di Suvero and Tony Smith whose work is held by the Metropolitan Museum, Storm King Art Center, the Hirshhorn, and the Seattle Art Museum, among others. 

The season's overarching theme is “Mythographies,” a concept the park defines as myth not as settled story but as an active, unstable force, continually remade through the act of creating and viewing. Four artists anchor the program across the full arc of the season.

An exhibition of paintings of Boris Grebenshchikov, a legendary figure in Russian rock music and a defining voice of the Soviet underground, opens May 17 within the Gate House Gallery, continuing through June 18. Dima Gomberg's “On the Road Home” also opens May 17 in the Garage Gallery, running through July 31. Later in the season, Ginnever's own “Hellenic Series 1974–1978” will be mounted in the Gate House, and Dutch artist (and Dutchess County resident) Marieken Cochius's “Welded Drawings” opens August 7 in the Garage Gallery. Both run through the October 31 close of the season.

A Rare Concert from a Soviet Era Rock Legend

On Saturday, May 16, the night before the public opening, Grebenshchikov will give an acoustic concert in the TurnPark Amphitheater—one of just four US appearances he is making in 2026. The concert includes a preview of “Portal.” Tickets are limited and the grounds will be closed to all but concert ticket holders that evening.

The Summer Festival, scheduled for June 13 under the theme of myth, brings its own cast of meaningful living artists like frequent TurnPark collaborator Uta Bekaia, the twin Kif-Kif Sisters from Montreal, and Chingiz Dub. Jaanika Peerna's Icedial, a multi-sensory work addressing time and climate change, will be on view, along with Legend of Lemons, an interactive storytelling piece inspired by Pablo Neruda that invites guests to join two yellow characters in transforming a lemon into a cosmic object. Festival tickets are on sale now and will increase in price after the end of this month.

Later highlights include a public reading on Independence Day in partnership with the West Stockbridge Historical Society, the local premiere of “The Magnificent Ms. Pham” from puppeteer Tommy Nguyen and director Doug Fitch on July 31 through August 2, and the return of the Fairy House Festival on October 10.

After the opening the park is open daily from 10am to 5pm, May through October, closed Tuesdays. Admission is $14 for adults; $10 for seniors and students; and $7 for EBT and WIC cardholders under the Mass Cultural Card to Culture program. Children 12 and under and West Stockbridge residents are free. Concert and festival tickets require separate purchase at turnpark.com.