Radical Stability: Mediation in the Context of Contemporary Cultural Practices

Date:: 10–12 Apr 2026

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Place:: GES-2

Age restrictions: 18+

The second interdisciplinary forum bringing together Russian and international expertise in the field of cultural mediation.

To participate in the forum as a speaker or workshop leader, please submit an application through the open call, which will be announced no later than 26 October. Applications will be accepted from 26 October 2025 to 16 January 2026.

The forum programme will be published on this page no later than 25 February.

What do we imagine the future of mediation to be? What effect can the practice have in social and cultural contexts? What sustainable development strategies can mediation offer in planning visitor experience or contemporary museum education? How is mediation interpreted in academic research?

Illustration: Xenia Annenko

The first forum How to Work Together? Mediation in the Context of Contemporary Cultural Practices focused on issues of building a professional community of mediators, the current state of the practice, and a discussion of tools for creating and conducting different mediation formats.

In April 2026, GES-2 will once again become a platform for dialogue. At the second forum, Radical Stability, we invite participants to discuss the future of mediation, and examine not only its relevant applied aspects, but also hypotheses, predictions, speculations, and experimental approaches.

We propose to study familiar methodologies, values, development strategies and design approaches in the context of cultural institutions, contemporary technologies, and the humanities, and to discuss how mediation is already changing and shaping contemporary culture.

The forum welcomes professionals working in the field of cultural practice: mediators, museum educators, education specialists, curators of exhibitions and public programmes, accessibility and inclusions experts, as well as researchers—sociologists, museologists, and cultural theorists.

Curatorial group
Karina Chernyshova, Maria Galochkina, Sergei Kochkurov, Katerina Lyainen, Darya Malikova, Sonya Mezhericher, Katya Tsyrlina, Ekaterina Voronovich

Consulting group
Alexei Boiko, Alena Melnikova, Polina Sporysheva

Coordinator
Sonya Mezhericher

Producers
Olga Koroleva, Anastasia Kuklina

Design
Masha Vinogradova

Illustrator
Ksenia Annenko

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