15th ANNIVERSARY & EXHIBITION of Grace Exhibition Space 2006-present
Fri, September 17, 2021 – Sat, May 22
Friday: 9:00 -11:00 pm
Suggested Donation $20 please offer what you can
Celebrating 15 Years of Presenting Performance Art in New York City – and celebrating the very long history of Performance Art!
Artifacts, Images, Videos & more
Opening Friday, September 17 at 9:00 pm
GRACE EXHIBITION SPACE for INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART 2006 – 2020
From September 17 through May 2022 Grace Exhibition Space for International Performance Art, opened in 2006, will be unveiling and exhibiting their collection of artifacts created from past performances across the last 14 years. Grace Exhibition Space will be an installation remembering/recounting/reusing artifacts, images, videos, memories and dialogues in recognizing our past.
Grace Exhibition Space was incorporated as a 501(c)3 non-profit in 2013, proving to be a challenge in navigating a corporation within the networking community of performance art. In September 2018, Grace Exhibition Space moved, from 840 Broadway in Brooklyn, to 182 Avenue C/Loisaida.
We have operated as a community of performance artists and spaces that include the art community of Bushwick, Brooklyn and the performance art spaces Glasshouse, Panoply Performance Lab and IV Soldiers, as well as the Maximum Perception and BIPAF Festivals.
Grace Exhibition Space will create a participatory exhibition-building performance, involving expanding communities of viewers and participants. Objects will be brought out into the light for the first time since the performance art piece when they were created. Objectification, history and memory will be on exhibit as well as we contemplate the history of performance art in Brooklyn, and in the long history of performance in the East Village.
GES History: Opened in 2006 by friends and performance artists Jill McDermid and Melissa Lockwood, Grace Exhibition Space has been devoted exclusively to Performance Art. We offer an opportunity to experience visceral and challenging works by the current generation of international performance artists, whether emerging, mid-career or established. Our events are presented on the floor, not on a stage, dissolving the boundary between artist and viewer. This is how performance art is meant to be experienced, and our mission is the glorification of performance art.
GRACE EXHIBITION SPACE
182 AVENUE C NEW YORK, NY 10009
