黑料不打烊

Marina Gisich Gallery is celebrating its twentieth anniversary in 2020. Instead of hosting a gala dinner, receiving gifts and listening to refined toasts, the gallery decided to pursue the thorny path of an overly ambitious project: during the month of December, about 30 solo exhibitions will be held in the space on Fontanka 121. You may wonder if this is even feasible. Well, why not?

The idea of such a marathon of projects arose from the assertion that the gallery is, first and foremost, its artists. In this context, a standard group exposition might look like a demonstration of achievements, whereas a holiday 鈥� a birthday 鈥� demands giving everyone the chance to take the floor.

Each day one artist will spend 6 hours in the gallery space. They will keep doing what they normally do: making art, thinking, reading, breathing, writing or sleeping, but most importantly, they will continue to be themselves and face their own challenges, as they do unnoticed every day. From time to time, this invisible work turns into exhibitions or their works go to art fairs and museums. And this wonderful ending always emerges out of ordinary days when the artist is free but not sought after, when the jewel has not yet been discovered, and art is still a mere promise, not a thing.