GRACE EXHIBITION SPACE for INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART, 501©3 

182 AVENUE C NYC NY 10009 

Announcing Fall 2025 Season:

STARDUST CLUSTER — MEETINGS WITH MEANING

Every other Friday SEPTEMBER 12 - NOVEMBER 21, 2025 

Featuring live new works by Rafael Sanchez, Guerrilla Theater, Jaguar Mary X, Kledia Spiro, Qween Amor, Nima Nikakhlagh, Kalisolaite ‘Uhila and Asia Stewart

Co-Curated by Marita Isobel Solberg and Jill McDermid

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.

Sincerely and with best regards,

Co-Curators, Marita Isobel Solberg and Jill McDermid 

Press Inquiries to Jill McDermid, Artistic Director: jill@graceexhibitionspace.org