Since late 2015 SKLAD has been a safe space for the creative youth, as well as the only place in Abkhazia to engage social, research and critical potential of contemporary art by working with artists and thinkers locally and internationally. All this work has been done in the context of very scarce funding and mistrust towards the unknown from the local public.

Since its beginning, SKLAD's aim has been to critically engage with Abkhazia's historical legacy and think up a way to stir up imaginations about the visions of the future as well as simply to try out cultural practices never previously locally applied.