Grants

The regular programme of the GES-2 House of Culture for supporting Russian artists, curators and researchers working in the field of visual culture.

Photo: Gleb Leonov

The GES-2 grant programme was launched in the autumn of 2022, with the goal of helping to realize ongoing artistic, curatorial or research projects or develop new ones. A total of 13 grants for artists are allocated for artists, 10 for researchers and 7 for curators (this ratio may change by decision of the jury depending on applications received).

Grants for artists place no restrictions on topics, method or selection of medium. Criteria for inclusion in the programme are a convincing artistic idea and a clear concept of work on the project and expenditure (funds may be spent on workshop rental, materials and trips, or on freeing up time budgets needed for work on the project or projects).

Grants for curators place no restrictions on candidates in selecting topics or methods, or project participants. Selection criteria are a convincing curatorial idea and a clear concept of the work process and expenditure. Funds may be spent on gathering artistic or archive materials, services for translation or transcription of audio and video files, and also on trips or freeing up time budgets needed for work on the project or projects.

Grants for researchers are assigned for researchers of Soviet and post-Soviet visual culture. Funds may be spent on trips, payment for editing and proof-reading services, collecting archive materials, translating or transcribing audio and video files, and also freeing up time budgets needed for working on the project or projects.

Grants are awarded in an open competition. The jury comprised of participants of the V–A–C team is looking for projects with unique artistic vision, geographical and media diversity, and relevance of topics and artistic material. Additionally, the jury focuses on originality of approach, form and methods of work for curator grants, and on relevance, scientific depth, sophistication of projects and originality of methods for researcher grants.

The third grant period will run from 1 October to 31 December 2023. The open call for grants extends from 1 to 31 July 2023.

The second grant period runs from 1 June to 31 August 2023.

In April 2023, the jury examined over 140 applications from artists, over 20 applications from researchers and 20 applications from curators. Grants were received by:

Artists

Alexei Buldakov, Kirill Glushchenko, Darya Orlova, Yana Osman and Anton Khamchishkin, Olga Pegova, Fyodor Telkov

Researchers

Alina Belishkina, Maria Vyatchina, Maria Gureva, Yozhi Stolet

Curators

Georgey Yelaev, Olga Kardashova, Anna Legotina, Nikita Slavich, HUB Kostroma (Naya Bespalova, Margarita Yevtyukova, Marusya Sokolnikova)

We also extended grants for the following participants of the first period:

Artists

Alexandra Abakshina, Elena Anosova, Alina Desyatnichenko, Igor Yelukov, Alina and Artyom Kiselyov, Yulia Levin, Malyshki 18:22, Elena Skripkina

Researchers

Ramina Abilova, Semyon Dymshits, Andrei Yefits, Ekaterina Ivanova and Anastasia Kotyleva, Anastasia Indrikova and Ilyas Khadzhi, Maxim Miroshnichenko

The first grant period ran from 1 December 2022 to 28 February 2023.

In October 2022 the jury examined over 300 applications from artists and over 100 applications from researchers. Grants were received by:

Artists

Alexandra Abakshina, Elena Anosova, Pavel Arsenev, Yana Vasilieva, Rina Volnykh, Mari Gelman, Alina Desyatnichenko, Igor Yelukov, Alina and Artyom Kiselyov, Yulia Levin, Malyshki 18:22, Alyona Papina, Elena Skripkina

Researchers

Ramina Abilova, Semyon Dymshits, Andrei Yefits, Ekaterina Ivanova and Anastasia Kotyleva, Anastasia Indrikova, Lika Kareva and Anna Soz, Maxim Miroshnichenko