Videobrasil. Fields of Resonance

The international partnership between the cultural association Videobrasil and GES-2 continues, with the House of Culture taking part in a major video art exhibition in Brazil.

GES-2’s collaboration with Brazil began back in 2024 with the exhibition Videobrasil. Needs No Translation at the House of Culture. A retrospective look at four decades of video art and performance from the Global South traced the development of the medium across different ideological, social, and economic contexts.

Photo: Daniil Annenkov

By creating a dialogue between artists from different generations, separated by 12,000 kilometres, we were able to generate greater interest in video art and explore it from different perspectives. For me, therefore, continuing our collaboration with Videobrasil is an opportunity to further explore and communicate the place of video art within contemporary culture. The unique work undertaken by our colleagues at the Videobrasil Association and GES-2 curators brings other countries of the Global South into the dialogue we initiated in Moscow.

— Artem Bondarevskiy, General Director of GES-2 House of Culture and V–A–C Foundation

This research continues with the exhibition Campos de ressonância (“Fields of Resonance”). Where the first iteration of the project brought artists into dialogue in Moscow, the conversation now moves to São Paulo. Alongside the Videobrasil collection, the exhibition features video works from the 1970s held by the Museum of Contemporary Art at the University of São Paulo (MAC USP). Works by Viktor Alimpiev, Lyudmila Gorlova, Diana Kapizova, Elena Kovylina, Mikhail Maksimov, Andrei Monastyrski, Timur Novikov, Gia Rigvava, Igor Samolet, and Sergei Shutov will be shown here for the first time.

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Curators
Dmitry Belkin, Alessandra Bergamaschi, Eloisa Espada, Esther Hamburger, Solange Oliveira Farkas, André Pitol, Andrei Vasilenko