Open Portfolio Review for Emerging Artists

At the seventh session of the programme, emerging artists will present their work for review by guest curators of GES-2 House of Culture.

The session will be conducted in English without interpretation.

To present your portfolio, please apply through the open call.

Art historian Dmitry Belkin and critic Francesco Bonami will highlight the key strengths of the works, pose questions to the artists, share their professional perspectives, and help outline directions for further development.

Photo: Anna Zavozyaeva

Observers are welcome to join the session: curators, critics, art historians, and anyone with an interest. This is an opportunity to see how artists shape their projects, what questions emerge in the course of discussion, and how professional dialogue around the work unfolds.

Experts

Dmitry Belkin is an art historian, and a curator of exhibition projects at GES-2 House of Culture. He has curated exhibitions at the Narkomfin House, the Metenkov House Photography Museum (Yekaterinburg), the Sinara Art and GROUND Solyanka galleries, PA Gallery, and Korney Gallery.

Francesco Bonami is an art critic and the artistic director of the BY ART MATTERS contemporary art museum (Hangzhou, China). He has curated over a hundred exhibitions, among them TRUCE: Echoes of Art in an Age of Endless Conclusions (2nd SITE Sante Fe Biennale, 1997); Unfinished History (Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, 1998); Manifesta 3 (Ljubljana, 2000); the 50th Venice Biennale, Dreams and Conflict: The Dictatorship of the Viewer (Venice, 2003); Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist’s Eye (Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, 2005); Italics (Palazzo Grassi, Venice, 2008); the 75th Whitney Biennial of American Art (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2010); Modernikon. Contemporary Art from Russia (Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, 2010); Square and Space. From Malevich to GES-2 (GES-2 House of Culture, Moscow, 2024). Bonami is also the author of a number of books, including Si crede Picasso: Come distinguere un vero artista contemporaneo da uno che non lo è? (He believes himself to be Picasso: how to distinguish who is a true contemporary artist from who isn’t?, 2010), Lo potevo fare anch’io (I can do the same, 2007, Russian edition: V–A–C Press, 2017), Bello, sembra un quadro. Controstoria dell’arte (Pretty as a picture. Counterhistory of art, 2022).