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