Upcoming events
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20 Years of Grace Festival: Night 1
Join us for the opening night of 20 Years of Grace Fest, a reunion of sorts, uniting performance artists whose memorable work has shaped Grace Space over the past twenty years. Night 1 features an evening of performances by Jana Astanov, Jeremy Slater, Stacy Lynn Smith, and Sarah Trouche.
Jana Astanov is an interdisciplinary artist, astrologer, and a co-founder of CREATRIX Magazine, an online platform dedicated to art and spirituality. Her work spans performance, installation, photography, sound, and writing, exploring the body as a site of transmission within a larger cosmic and ecological field. Working through her ongoing practice Artist as Medium, she develops performances that draw on ritual traditions, trance states, astronomy, astrology, and sensory environments to activate collective perception. Astanov’s work engages planetary cycles, and ancestral knowledge systems, bridging ancient cosmologies with contemporary artistic forms. Originally from the Mazurian Lake District in Poland, she is currently based in the Shawangunk Mountains in New York, where her practice remains closely connected to land, sky, and seasonal rhythms.
Jeremy D. Slater is a multidisciplinary artist working in the areas of sound, video, computer art, performance, and installation. Born in Reading, England, Jeremy is a graduate of both SUNY College at Buffalo and the School of Visual Arts, where he earned an MFA in Computer Art. His sound work uses field recordings as a foundation for creating processed drones with guitar, objects, ambient noise, and environmental sound. His performances include live video that is ambient and reactive. His video work includes single- and multi-channel videos for screenings and installations incorporating sound and ephemeral sculpture.
Stacy Lynn Smith is a neurodivergent, Black mixed-race performing artist and improviser, choreographer/director, filmmaker and Green Circle Keeper at Hidden Water, a restorative justice organization by and for those affected by childhood sexual abuse (CSA). Smith’s practice synthesizes various lineages of improvisational forms, somatics, experimental theater and butoh alongside embodied trauma research.
Sarah Trouche is a French-Armenian visual artist working across performance, sculpture, photography, and video. A graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris (2007), she also holds a Master of Fine Arts from ArtCenter College of Design in Los Angeles (2007) and a Master in Performance-Making from Goldsmiths, University of London (2008). Trouche uses her body as a primary medium to address social and political issues, giving voice to marginalized communities and confronting collective trauma. Her performances have taken place around the World. Named Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2019), she founded and directs the Winter Story in the Wild Jungle company and the Perform festival.
20 Years of Grace Festival: Night 2
Celebrate 20 YEARS OF GRACE FEST with a night of boundary-pushing performance art. Crackhead Barney & Rabbistravinsky, Hector Canonge, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, and BRUCE FUCKSTAIN/Travis McCoy Fuller bring raw, urgent works that confront power, identity, and public space.
Crackhead Barney is a NYC based performance artist and ambush interviewer.
Rabbistravinsky is an experimental cellist that makes instruments from found objects.
Hector Canonge is an artist whose projects, exhibitions, and presentations in Visual Arts, Installation Art, Performance Art, Dance, and Social Practice, treat notions of identity, gender roles, migration politics, and ancestral heritage. Through his investigation of somatic expression, he has developed a corporeal theory for the practice of Performance Art presenting it in workshops and conferences around the world. Challenging the white box settings of a gallery or a museum, or intervening directly in public spaces, his performances mediate movement, endurance, and ritualistic processes.
Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow is a Jamaican-American interdisciplinary artist based in NYC. Her work has been presented at venues including 798 Beijing, China, Queens Museum, NY, Royal West Academy of England, The National Gallery of Jamaica, and Bronx Museum, NY. Lyn-Kee-Chow earned an MFA from Hunter College CUNY, NY. She co-authored Living Histories of Sugar in the Caribbean and Scotland: Transnationalisms, Performance and Co-creation, a project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and presented in Kingston, JA, and Greenock and Edinburgh in Scotland (2022).
BRUCE FUCKSTAIN (Travis McCoy Fuller) was born on a small mountain on an island in the Mediterranean Sea. Conceived and manifested as a chopping block composed of wood, metals, stone, and bone to assist in the dedicated and timeless dulling of the sharp blade of the imperial knife.
20th Anniversary Party
We’re turning 20. Let’s party!
Join us for an evening to celebrate all things GES with old friends, drinks, and refreshments. Featuring a performance by Marni Kotak & Ajax and music by Pinc Louds.
Traveling Artists in Times of War
“Traveling Artists in Times of War” is an evening of sound and performance art that asks how artists can, in Howard Zinn’s terms, transcend the madness of the present while assuming their responsibilities as human beings. This program features performances by Keiko Uenishi (Japan/USA) Katherine Liberovskaya (Canada/USA), Hraïr Hratchian (Armenia/Quebec), Gabrielle Couillard, Zazalie Z. (Québec), and Soledad Coyoli (Quebec/Mexico). It is guest curated by Éric Letourneau, and co-presented by GES, Hexagram and the Laboratoire Musiques Cachées (Montréal), the evening proposes performance as a way to reimagine listening, vulnerability, and solidarity in a time of war.
artist bios:
Keiko Uenishi is a sound art-i-vist and socio-environmental composer, and a core member of SHARE.nyc since 2001. She is known for works that emerge from experiments in restructuring and examining relationships through aural memory and perception within sociological, cultural, and psychological contexts. Her ongoing research project, Partitions: Dividers, Connectors, Gray-zones, Neighbours in Aural Space, explores a “para-sphere” in which auditory stimuli slip across perceptual boundaries, destabilizing relationships, memory, spatial recognition, and time. Her works include Car décalé (légèrement), SOUNDLEAK: TheROOM (Simulation of Neighbours), and a performative interpretation of Christian Marclay’s object score Sixty-Four Bells and a Bow. She co-created, with Katherine Liberovskaya, the install-action project LandFilles. The feedback unit Emí no Izu was initiated by Darryl Montgomery Hell with Uenishi in 2021. She is developing a new collaboration with sculptor Manon Wada, debuting in 2026. Uenishi’s work has been presented at the Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA PS1, Dia:Beacon, Lincoln Center, Eyebeam, Skolska28, Museu de Serralves, ICA London, Tate Britain, and Taipei Artist Village. Her collaborators include Ricardo Arias, Klaus Filip, Miguel Frasconi, Richard Garet, HC Gilje, Darryl Montgomery Hell, Toshio Kajiwara, Takehisa Kosugi, Katherine Liberovskaya, Christian Marclay, Kaffe Matthews, Ikue Mori, Kurt Ralske, and Manon Wada.
Soledad Coyoli is a singer and composer who grew up surrounded by the surrealist paintings of Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo, her grandmother’s sculptures, the figures of La Malinche and La Llorona, the spare parts of her uncle’s robots, and the sacred music her father listened to. Her sound work draws inspiration from the tradition of Mexican song and explores encounters between different voices, languages, cultures, and technologies, as well as Náhuatl identity roots (her name means “little bell” in Náhuatl). Her music, recipient of the UNESCO-Aschberg award in 2014, has been presented in some of Mexico’s most important cultural institutions, such as the MUAC (University Museum of Contemporary Art), the Franz Mayer Museum, and the Digital Culture Center in Mexico City. Since arriving in Tiohtiá:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal, her work has taken a new direction: the voice and the body as unique, singular, and unrepeatable territories, but also as fluid, mysterious, mutable, and collaborative materials. Soledad explores hybrid musical and bodily territories in search of a root—an identity—a nepantla, a Náhuatl word meaning “the land in between,” which she can call “home.”
Katherine Liberovskaya is a Canadian intermedia artist based in New York. Involved in experimental video since the 1980s, she has produced numerous single-channel video works, video installations, video performances, and creations in other media, presented worldwide. Since 2001, her work has focused primarily on the intersection of moving image and sound/music, in various ephemeral or fixed forms (projections, installations, performances). She collaborates with numerous composers and sound artists in improvised concerts combining video and sound, where her live visuals aim to create a kind of “music” for the eyes. For over 22 years, she has collaborated on numerous projects with her partner, composer and intermedia artist Phill Niblock, around live performances, videos, and installations. Other regular collaborators include Keiko Uenishi, Laura Ortman, Shelley Hirsch, Katie Porter, Dafna Naphtali, Barbara Held, Mia Zabelka, Al Margolis (IF, BWANA), David Watson, among many others. In addition to her artistic practice, she is also a curator of events dedicated to experimental video/film, music/sound, and audiovisual performance. Since 2005, she has organized the annual Screen Compositions evenings at Experimental Intermedia (EI) in New York, and since 2006, the OptoSonic Tea salons—initially in New York, then in various nomadic venues across North America and Europe, as well as online during the Covid pandemic. In 2014, she completed a practice-based doctorate entitled Improvisatory Live Visuals: Playing Images Like a Musical Instrument at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). She is currently the Artistic Director of Experimental Intermedia NYC.
Hraïr Hratchian has pursued work that intersects music, performance art, and experimental film since 1995. A founding member of the Montreal rock band De la Caucase (1998–2008), he served as both singer and duduk player, and with the group produced the album La mort cruelle de Marcel Léart. He also founded the group La Désunion (2010–2013), known for its sound improvisations. As a guest duduk player, he collaborated with the German group Einstürzende Neubauten on the piece Armenia during concerts in 2004, 2005, and 2011. He has also participated in various projects and tours with Sam Shalabi, the Canadian group Esmerine, and Jerusalem In My Heart. Since 2014, he has been performing live and creating experimental films in Canada, the United States, and abroad.
Gabrielle Couillard earned a bachelor’s degree in Theatre Studies at UQAM and explored the world of live performance, both in sound and production, with a particular interest in designing soundscapes that evoke spaces and memorable emotions. She is currently pursuing a research-creation master’s in experimental media, weaving together various creative experiences and audio techniques—including poetry, field recording, and chain sound transformations—to create small, abstract sonic universes. She is especially interested in issues related to sound spatialization and immersivity, from both a technical and creative perspective. She explores the relationship between the body and space through sound, drawing from her own experience of living with a disability (Dispositif Espace-Corps, UQAM, 2022–2023). Since 2019, she has incorporated telematic sound improvisation into her practice, collaborating with artists from Colombia (Festival internacional de la imagen, 2020 and 2021), Toronto (Exit Points series, produced by Michael Palumbo), and Montreal (including the Live Drone series with Kasey Pocius, a weekly webcast that ran for a year during the pandemic).
Zazalie Zaz (Nathalie Dion) has been actively participating in cultural life for 40 years. She manipulates image, sound, and words through voice, video, music, poetry, web art, and printmaking, remaining active across all spheres of creation—both in contemporary and experimental music and in visual and media arts. A grant recipient from the Quebec and Canada Arts Councils and the SOCAN Grant in Toronto, she presents her musical and video works as a singer and performer at various festivals and artist-run centers, both in Canada and abroad. Her works Viva Voce Viva Voz!, Sacred Spirit, and Zig Zag Z. have been shown in Spain at the TEA Contemporary Art Museum (Tenerife), Festival Espacio Enter (Tenerife, Canary Islands), Festival Digital Media and Festival Observatori (Valencia), and LEM Festival (Barcelona). In Italy, her works have appeared at Festival Interazioni (Cagliari, Sardinia). In Canada, she has performed at Naisa Sound Play Festival (Toronto), LABO (Toronto), Factory Art Media Center (Hamilton), Centre d’Artiste Vaste & Vague (Carleton), FIMU (Trois-Rivières), SHARE at Easter Bloc, Festival HTMLLES, and Festival Voix D’Amériques (Montreal). She collaborates as a singer on the Yodel in Hi Fi project, produced by Darren Copeland and Bart Plantenga, broadcast on Radio Naisa (Toronto) and Radio Wave Farm in Acra (New York), during the Deep Wireless Festival in Toronto, and included on the compilation album Yodel OH No Yo! Wreck This Mess (Amsterdam). As a writer and performer, she has been part of the musical groups Nitroglycérine and Pois Z’ont Rouges, touring in various festivals, including Festival de l’Humour (Brussels, Belgium), Montréal Musiques Actuelles, and the Festival de Musiciennes Innovatrices.
PANEL DISCUSSION: Traveling Artists in Times of War
Prior to the 8pm performance program, Grace Exhibition Space will host a 5 PM round table with the artists—Keiko Uenishi, Katherine Liberovskaya, Hraïr Hratchian, Gabrielle Couillard, Zazalie Z., and Soledad Coyoli— on art and mobility in the current U.S. political climate. Discussion is moderated by curator Éric Letourneau and co-presented by GES, Hexagram and the Laboratoire Musiques Cachées (Montréal). Stick around afterwards to watch the artists perform at 8pm!
FREE
SEASON FINALE - STARDUST CLUSTERS: MEETINGS WITH MEANING
Live: PREACH R. SUN - ASIA STEWART - ARTEMIS BEASTS
Livestream: KATARINA SKÅR LISA - KALISOLAITE 'UHILA
7:30 - 10:00 PM $10
Preach R. Sun will begin performing outdoors at 6:00 pm
PREACH R. SUN i am.
ASIA STEWART is a performance artist whose conceptual work centers her body as a living archive. Many of her performances unfold as social experiments that negotiate terms of agency and power with audiences. Stewart’s performances have been supported by organizations that include The Bronx Museum, The Shed, Franklin Furnace, A.I.R. Gallery, Silver Art Projects, Marc Straus Gallery, Marble House Project, GALLIM, The Watermill Center, and the Brooklyn Arts Council.
Stewart routinely questions how live art can be documented and represented across multiple mediums. Her photographs and videos have been exhibited at venues across the United States, including the Mercury Store, Untitled Space, NARS Foundation, Goodyear Arts, A.I.R. Gallery, Kellen Gallery, and Anthology Film Archives. Her first series of prints is also held in the permanent collection of the Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC.
Be part of the conversation.
ARTEMIS BEASTS
By placing our self-made animal masks on our human heads and industrial sculptures on our female bodies, we become anthropomorphic beings - half humans, half animals. With altered vision, lack of air, and restricted movement, we imagine how it is to be in the place of another.
KATARINA SKÅR LISA [Norway/Sápmi - Sámi]
Katarina Skår Lisa is an educated choreographer, dancer and teacher who through artworks conveys the relationship between poetry, art, and nature.
She lives in Nesodden, a half-island outside Oslo, but frequently she is finding her “home” in the very north of Norway, in Varjjat / Varanger in the Sami area of Finnmark.
Here she makes relational inquiries towards the land and to her Sea Sami family heritage that she carries through her father’s roots.
In her recent project ‘Gift of Stone’, she explored what ‘ good relations ‘ means to and with landscapes and intangible cultural heritages, seen from an indigenous worldview. She aims to broaden perspectives and knowledge about Sea Sami culture by investigating what a Sea Sami artistic language could be today.
KALISOLAITE 'UHILA [New Zealand/Aotearoa - Māori]
Kalisolaite ‘Uhila was born in Tonga and lives and works in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. Amongst his awards, exhibitions, national and international residencies, most notable is being nominated as a finalist for New Zealand’s highest art award, the Walters Prize. This recognition, affirms Kalisolaite is one of New Zealand’s most renowned performance artists.
Bio Link: https://michaellett.com/artist/kalisolaite-uhila/
FALL 2025 SEASON: STARDUST CLUSTERS - MEETINGS WITH MEANING Curated by Marita Isobel Solberg [Norway] and Jill McDermid [NYC]
Grace Exhibition Space will revolve around the loss of the third wall, an imaginary boundary, allowing the artists and the audience-participants to create a direct dialogue between one another. We will be questioning the boundaries that separate us, how the natural world has no walls, while many of the societies that man has created are limiting. Building societies that are collaborative, but include destruction and violence, while emulating a cohesive order andbalance. We are encouraging sharing communities that help one another through music, listening, healing, feeding and giving.
GRACE EXHIBITION SPACE opened in 2006 as a home for International Performance Art. GES has hosted hundreds of performance artists, participating in multiple international festivals and art fairs. Our hope is to create the appropriate environment and means for collaborative research between the multicultural neighborhoods of metropolitan New York. We work to establish an environment that promotes our mission, as we seek to bring together local and international artists who will be interested in open exploration and collaboration with the members of our community.
Stardust Clusters: Nima Nikakhlagh
Nima Nikakhlagh in performance / Friday, November 7, 2025 7:00-9:30PM $10
Stardust Clusters: Jaguar Mary X, Kledia Spiro, Qween Amor
STARDUST CLUSTERS: MEETINGS WITH MEANING
new live works by Jaguar Mary X, Kledia Spiro, Qween Amor
Gathering forces, gathering knowledge, gathering wisdom, gathering hearts. Grace Exhibition Space now starts a series of local, national and international performance art evenings, dinners and talks delving into questions and reflections on our connections with Nature. In this can be culture, agriculture, embodied culture, connection to animals, plants, trees, bodies and the likes. Humans are part of the deep collaboration, but we have a long tradition of abusing, consuming and ruining our connection. How can we connect through our human way of living today? What changes can we make? What life rituals could be different? We gather performance artists with different backgrounds, a mix of indigenous, native, nature people and city dwellers, reflecting on their connection and belonging to the natural world, land and to each other.
The goal is to create soulful and self-searching performance art that blows our minds, conversations that can trigger our inner marrow and meetings that are deep and meaningful. Our mode of communication is Performance Art, a form that is in movement, space and time, that can involve all art forms, including actions and everyday objects, sharing complicated and deep thoughts and ideas.
We will revolve around the loss of the third wall, an imaginary boundary, allowing the artists and the audience-participants to create a direct dialogue between one another. We will be questioning the boundaries that separate us, how the natural world has no walls, while many of the societies that man has created are limiting. Building societies that are collaborative, but include destruction and violence, while emulating a cohesive order and balance. We are encouraging sharing communities that help one another through music, listening, healing, feeding and giving.
Grace Exhibition Space opened in 2006 as a home for International Performance Art. GES has hosted numerous performance artists, participating in multiple international festivals and art fairs. Our hope is to create the appropriate environment and means for collaborative research between the multicultural neighborhoods of metropolitan New York. We work to establish an environment that promotes our mission, as we seek to bring together local and international artists who will be interested in open exploration and collaboration with the members of our community.
Stardust Clusters: Guerrilla Theater
Guerrilla Theater is a collective of experimental performance artists and musicians based in NYC. They mostly do ecstatic multi-media improvised group performances in the streets of New York. They support independence from all oppression and a freedom to pursue self expression. They create public disturbances in order to wake up the sleeping giant. Public performance is a way to reach the masses and disrupt the status quo and losing barrier between artist audience. They practice improvised non-hierarchical collective action in the public space in the hopes that people will be inspired to create a new culture. One that embraces the chaos of humanity giving everybody the freedom to participate and express in whatever creative way they can imagine.
Stardust Clusters: Rafael Sanchez
NTU the Stage, Part III: Dream Seance for Universal Love
On Friday, September 26, 2025, from 7 to 10 PM, Rafael Sanchez will complete a polyptych performance ritual to honor the timeless connection between the breath, the body, and the cosmos. Each thirty-minute action will invite the audience to enhance their awareness of their sensual/spiritual connection to nature through breathwork, movement, and communal gestures that channel a gratitude and grace that live inside all sentient beings.
Here’s the rundown:
7:00-7:30— “Coltrane Coldtrance (Happy 99th Birthday, John Coltrane)”
7:30-8:00— “Vagus Nerve Stimulation Ritual #3”
8:00-8:30— “‘Tone, Bone, [Drone]’ (Happy Belated Birthday Arthur Russell)”
8:30-9:00— “Lace Me in Water and Light (Agape Seance #1)”
9:00-9:30— “Peace and Love, Yana Evans (A Belated Birthday Performance for Ayana Evans)”
9:30-10:00— “Do the Intergalactic Thing (Cosmic Dance Party)”
RAFAEL SANCHEZ
“Art enters into the person and the person enters into the work of art, no?”
— Joseph Beuys
On a Friday in March of 1995 during English class, viscerally enamored with Nine Inch Nails’ “March of the Pigs,” Rafael Sanchez writhed and grunted before his classmates, haranguing the United States for its long history of violence against indigenous and African people. Even then, at 16—without having read Flash of the Spirit or Black Skin White Mask, he understood that art can become a sacred language through which the ancestors commune with the living. He knew, to quote Lyn Hejinian, that “words [were] not equal to the world,” and the medium called performance art could empower him to find a release from this matrix of illusions called reality. Over the last thirty years, his deep reverence for the cosmic, nurturing energy of creative expression has beckoned him to chase MTA and NJ Transit buses bound for Africa, honor the brackish waters of the Hudson River by covering himself in honey and salt, uncontrollably shiver in a bathtub of ice while holding the Cuban flag, and honor the brilliant spirits of Arthur Russell, Audre Lorde, Ghazala Javed, and James Baldwin with simple and cathartic bodily gestures that channel each artist’s ethos. Because of the mimetically wondrous nature of the creative process, Rafael Sanchez believes that his art is solely a reflection of everyone and everything that he has encountered during his 47 years of life. He asks that the audience make a psychoeducational commitment to understanding his work.
Gathering forces, gathering knowledge, gathering wisdom, gathering hearts. Grace Exhibition Space now starts a series of local, national and international performance art evenings, dinners and talks delving into questions and reflections on our connections with Nature. In this can be culture, agriculture, embodied culture, connection to animals, plants, trees, bodies and the likes. Humans are part of the deep collaboration, but we have a long tradition of abusing, consuming and ruining our connection. How can we connect through our human way of living today? What changes can we make? What life rituals could be different? We gather performance artists with different backgrounds, a mix of indigenous, native, nature people and city dwellers, reflecting on their connection and belonging to the natural world, land and to each other.
The goal is to create soulful and self-searching performance art that blows our minds, conversations that can trigger our inner marrow and meetings that are deep and meaningful. Our mode of communication is Performance Art, a form that is in movement, space and time, that can involve all art forms, including actions and everyday objects, sharing complicated and deep thoughts and ideas.
We will revolve around the loss of the third wall, an imaginary boundary, allowing the artists and the audience-participants to create a direct dialogue between one another. We will be questioning the boundaries that separate us, how the natural world has no walls, while many of the societies that man has created are limiting. Building societies that are collaborative, but include destruction and violence, while emulating a cohesive order and balance. We are encouraging sharing communities that help one another through music, listening, healing, feeding and giving.
Grace Exhibition Space opened in 2006 as a home for International Performance Art. GES has hosted numerous performance artists, participating in multiple international festivals and art fairs. Our hope is to create the appropriate environment and means for collaborative research between the multicultural neighborhoods of metropolitan New York. We work to establish an environment that promotes our mission, as we seek to bring together local and international artists who will be interested in open exploration and collaboration with the members of our community.
MEMBERSHIP EVENT
Grace Exhibition Space is thrilled to invite you to a free evening event to celebrate the launch of our FY25 Membership Program! What is this Membership program?? Well, it's for those who want to support GES in special ways! Come find out how you can help us even more, plus you can hear about this year's perks.
Already a Member? That's great! Please come and share with others how you have supported Grace and get to know other members.
GES Members Event
Grace Exhibition Space is thrilled to invite you to a free evening event to celebrate the launch of our FY25 Membership Program! What is this Membership program?? Well, it's for those who want to support GES in special ways! Come find out how you can help us even more, plus you can hear about this year's perks.
Already a Member? That's great! Please come and share with others how you have supported Grace and get to know other members.
Details
Join us on Friday, September 19th, from 6–8 pm for light refreshments, great company, and a chance to connect with fellow performance art enthusiasts.
Highlights of the Evening
– An exceptional interactive musical performance by Ryan Maloney
– An introduction to our upcoming season’s programming from Artistic Director Jill McDermid
– A first look at membership benefits and ways to get involved
Whether you're a longtime supporter or new to our community, we’d love to see you there.
Grace Exhibition Space
182 Avenue C, New York, NY 10009
🕕 September 19, 6-8pm
🎟 Free and open to all
1st Annual Indigenous New York Fashion Week
Inaugural Indigenous New York Fashion Week Produced by Relative Arts Will Reshape Native American Representation in Fashion Lenapehoking (New York, NY)
STARDUST CLUSTERS: MEETINGS WITH MEANING
Jaguar Mary X. Image by Erik McGregor
July 11, 2025
Grace Exhibition Space is pleased to announce the Fall Season Stardust Clusters - Meetings With Meaning
Our schedule begins on SEPTEMBER 12 and continues every other Friday until NOVEMBER 21, 2025.
We open our Fall series with the 1st indigenous New York Fashion Week show from September 12-14 in collaboration with Relative Arts, NYC.
This season we will also be featuring live new works by Rafael Sanchez, Nima Nikakhlagh, Kalan Sherrad, Koyoltzintli, Jaguar Mary X and Asia Stewart as well as reknowned international artists who are still to be confirmed.
By gathering forces, gathering knowledge, gathering wisdom, gathering hearts, Grace Exhibition Space starts a series of local, national and international performance art evenings and talks delving into questions and reflections on our connections with Nature. In these expositions can be culture, agriculture, embodied culture, connection to animals, plants, trees, bodies and the likes. Humans are part of the deep collaboration, but we have a long tradition of abusing, consuming and ruining our connection. How can we connect through our human way of living today? What changes can we make? What life rituals could be different? We gather performance artists with different backgrounds, a mix of indigenous, native, nature people and city dwellers, reflecting on their connection and belonging to the natural world, land and to each other.
The goal is to create soulful and self-searching performance art that blows our minds, conversations that can trigger our inner marrow and meetings that are deep and meaningful. Our mode of communication is Performance Art, a form that is in movement, space and time, that can involve all art forms, including actions and everyday objects, sharing complicated and deep thoughts and ideas.
We will revolve around the loss of the third wall, an imaginary boundary, allowing the artists and the audience-participants to create a direct dialogue between one another. We will be questioning the boundaries that separate us, how the natural world has no walls, while many of the societies that man has created are limiting. Building societies that are collaborative, but include destruction and violence, while emulating a cohesive order and balance. We are encouraging sharing communities that help one another through music, listening, healing, feeding and giving.
Grace Exhibition Space opened in 2006 as a home for International Performance Art. GES has hosted hundreds of performance artists, participating in multiple international festivals and art fairs. Our hope is to create the appropriate environment and means for collaborative research between the multicultural neighborhoods of metropolitan New York. We work to establish an environment that promotes our mission, as we seek to bring together local and international artists who will be interested in open exploration and collaboration with the members of our community.
GES looks forward to your interest in our 2025 Fall Season and our follow-up with more details.
Sincerely and with best regards,
Marita Isobel Solberg (Sami), Jill McDermid and the Boards of GES
//PIXELMOUTH presents: The Enfleshment
One night only: a fusion of music, performance art, and installations woven together through narrative.
Travestis del Infierno
PachaQueer presents “Travestis Del Infierno” at GES
Presented in collaboration with the Leslie Lohman Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Arts Exchange.
GES Spring Season
The 18th GES Spring Season - Closing Night
Preach R. Sun
Joseph Ravens
Meadow L’Elle
Cities Unexpected Field
Miao Jiaxin
Doors at 7:00 for members, 7:30 for the general public
GES Spring Season
The 18th GES Spring Season - Night Five
Featuring Performances By:
Neuroflora
Straw Pipes
Cass Yao x Qiujiang Levi Lu
Doors at 7:00 for members, 7:30 for the general public
GES Spring Season
The 18th GES Spring Season - Night Four
Featuring Performances By:
Alex Romania X Stacy Lynn Smith
Mangodog
AMYGDALA
Doors at 7:00 for members, 7:30 for the general public
Member’S Event! The VR archive for performance art
Performance art is ephemeral. To preserve it and make it accessible to a wide audience, we have documented performance art in Virtual Reality from 2016 to 2025. With VR headsets, anyone can now (re)experience the works as if they were there in person.
The VR Archive has visited festivals from Canada to Cameroon, as a pocketsized performance art festival for an international performance art audience. We have also created new recordings at many of the festivals we visited. The archive contains around 100 international works.
At Grace, April 18th, we are looking forward to presenting 8 artists with new works.
GES Spring Season
The 18th GES Spring Season - Night Three
Featuring Performances By:
Smiling Beth
Erica Enriquez
Stuart B Meyers
Danny Tantrum
Doors at 7:00 for members, 7:30 for the general public
GES Spring Season
The 18th GES Spring Season - Night Two
Featuring Performances By:
Bri Frei
SIELU MA
Yasunao Tone
Doors at 7:00 for members, 7:30 for the general public
GES Spring Season
The 18th GES Spring Season - Opening Night
Featuring performances by
GOOD.W.Y.N.
Pink Tacos
Crackhead Barney x Rabbistravinksy
The Sirens Are Calling - Project 2025
The Sirens are Calling is a 25-hour community action and education marathon focused on Project 2025.
The reading will go on for 25 hours, broken up into 1-2 hour sessions covering specific sections of the 900+ pages of the plan.
//PIXELMOUTH SHARE.nyc Takeover
SHARE.nyc returns to takeover the Cult of Consumption //PIXELMOUTH residency!
CENTRAL Performance Festival - curated by Pancho López
Performances by Susanna Gonzalez-Revilla, Illimani De Los Andes, Milko Delgado, and Alicia Grullón.
CENTRAL Performance Festival - September, October, November 2024 - presented at Grace Exhibition Space, a space for creative experimentation that has been dedicated to performance for more than a decade. In this festival, attendees will be able to see twenty performances and works by artists who work from immateriality and the creation of ephemeral experiences from the body; exploring themes such as violence, migration, diaspora, the abuse of power, identity and other problems intrinsic to the human being.
Curated by the Mexican artist Pancho Lopez, this festival seeks to build a bridge between the Central American region, some Caribbean islands and one of the most important global stages in the world in terms of art and culture: New York City.
CENTRAL Performance Festival - curated by Pancho López
Performances by Manuel Tzoc, Elia Arce, Vanessa Hernández Gracia, and Nicolas Dumit Estévez.
CENTRAL Performance Festival - September, October, November 2024 - presented at Grace Exhibition Space, a space for creative experimentation that has been dedicated to performance for more than a decade. In this festival, attendees will be able to see twenty performances and works by artists who work from immateriality and the creation of ephemeral experiences from the body; exploring themes such as violence, migration, diaspora, the abuse of power, identity and other problems intrinsic to the human being.
Curated by the Mexican artist Pancho Lopez, this festival seeks to build a bridge between the Central American region, some Caribbean islands and one of the most important global stages in the world in terms of art and culture: New York City.
CENTRAL Performance Festival - Curated by Pancho López
Performances by Alejandro De La Guerra, Crack Rodríguez, Valeria Cobos, and Natalia Domínguez.
CENTRAL Performance Festival - September, October, November 2024 - presented at Grace Exhibition Space, a space for creative experimentation that has been dedicated to performance for more than a decade. In this festival, attendees will be able to see twenty performances and works by artists who work from immateriality and the creation of ephemeral experiences from the body; exploring themes such as violence, migration, diaspora, the abuse of power, identity and other problems intrinsic to the human being.
Curated by the Mexican artist Pancho Lopez, this festival seeks to build a bridge between the Central American region, some Caribbean islands and one of the most important global stages in the world in terms of art and culture: New York City.
CENTRAL Performance Festival - CURATED by Pancho López
Performances by Blanca Van Hoorde, Kevin Quiles Bonilla, Pável Aguilar, and Paulina Velázquez Solís.
CENTRAL Performance Festival - September, October, November 2024 - presented at Grace Exhibition Space, a space for creative experimentation that has been dedicated to performance for more than a decade. In this festival, attendees will be able to see twenty performances and works by artists who work from immateriality and the creation of ephemeral experiences from the body; exploring themes such as violence, migration, diaspora, the abuse of power, identity and other problems intrinsic to the human being.
Curated by the Mexican artist Pancho Lopez, this festival seeks to build a bridge between the Central American region, some Caribbean islands and one of the most important global stages in the world in terms of art and culture: New York City.
CENTRAL Performance Festival - CURATED by Pancho López
Performances by Leonardo González, Marton Robinson, Humberto Vélez, and Carlos Manuel Rivera.
CENTRAL Performance Festival - September, October, November 2024 - presented at Grace Exhibition Space, a space for creative experimentation that has been dedicated to performance for more than a decade. In this festival, attendees will be able to see twenty performances and works by artists who work from immateriality and the creation of ephemeral experiences from the body; exploring themes such as violence, migration, diaspora, the abuse of power, identity and other problems intrinsic to the human being.
Curated by the Mexican artist Pancho Lopez, this festival seeks to build a bridge between the Central American region, some Caribbean islands and one of the most important global stages in the world in terms of art and culture: New York City.