Lace Grace Revolt
Exhibition dates: 14–20 May 2025
Venue: Alanya Kültür Merkezi, Alanya/Antalya, Türkiye
Lace Grace Revolt is the foundation’s inaugural exhibition, marking the beginning of its public program and establishing the institution’s early artistic direction. The project brings together contemporary artists whose practices explore new forms of visibility, materiality, and cultural dialogue.
Venue: Alanya Kültür Merkezi, Alanya/Antalya, Türkiye
Lace Grace Revolt is the foundation’s inaugural exhibition, marking the beginning of its public program and establishing the institution’s early artistic direction. The project brings together contemporary artists whose practices explore new forms of visibility, materiality, and cultural dialogue.
Curatorial text
The Alan Nekhay Foundation presents Lace Grace Revolt — the inaugural public statement of a new institution committed to supporting, commissioning, and advancing contemporary artistic practices while critically reimagining equality, sustainability, and representation.
This group exhibition brings together works by women artists from Russia whose practices enter into dialogue with questions of visibility, power, and self-identification. Drawn from the foundation’s collection, the project foregrounds artistic positions that challenge existing hierarchies and modes of perception.
The exhibition title unfolds across three interconnected notions that illuminate core aspects of the female experience:
Lace — the weaving of meanings, structures, and conceptual relations.
Grace — the refined plasticity of gesture and the depth of nonverbal resonance.
Revolt — resistance to exclusion and the articulation of new subjectivities.
Developed and first presented in Turkey, the project opens broader avenues for intercultural exchange and proposes new frameworks for positioning contemporary Russian art within global conversations.
At its center, the exhibition revisits femininity, the body, materiality, and post-Soviet identity through an intersectional lens that considers the layered influences of gender, class, and cultural background.
The spatial design employs textiles: light, mobile fabrics create permeable thresholds between sections. Pink — traditionally associated with patriarchal clichés — is reframed as a color of radical tenderness, affective strength, and resistance to erasure.
This group exhibition brings together works by women artists from Russia whose practices enter into dialogue with questions of visibility, power, and self-identification. Drawn from the foundation’s collection, the project foregrounds artistic positions that challenge existing hierarchies and modes of perception.
The exhibition title unfolds across three interconnected notions that illuminate core aspects of the female experience:
Lace — the weaving of meanings, structures, and conceptual relations.
Grace — the refined plasticity of gesture and the depth of nonverbal resonance.
Revolt — resistance to exclusion and the articulation of new subjectivities.
Developed and first presented in Turkey, the project opens broader avenues for intercultural exchange and proposes new frameworks for positioning contemporary Russian art within global conversations.
At its center, the exhibition revisits femininity, the body, materiality, and post-Soviet identity through an intersectional lens that considers the layered influences of gender, class, and cultural background.
The spatial design employs textiles: light, mobile fabrics create permeable thresholds between sections. Pink — traditionally associated with patriarchal clichés — is reframed as a color of radical tenderness, affective strength, and resistance to erasure.
Irina Netbai
Curator
List of artists
The exhibition features works by:
Alexandra Azovtseva, Alina Glazoun, Alisa Gorshenina, Alisa Gvozdeva, Katia Lyubavskaya,
Malyshki 18:22, Maria Koroleva, Masha Egorova, Nadezhda Likhogrud, Olya Avstreyh,
Polina Myer, Polina Osipova, Taus Makhacheva, Zhenya Vlasova.
Alexandra Azovtseva, Alina Glazoun, Alisa Gorshenina, Alisa Gvozdeva, Katia Lyubavskaya,
Malyshki 18:22, Maria Koroleva, Masha Egorova, Nadezhda Likhogrud, Olya Avstreyh,
Polina Myer, Polina Osipova, Taus Makhacheva, Zhenya Vlasova.
Installation Views
Opening Highlights
Behind the Scenes
A brief look at the installation and opening of Lace Grace Revolt.
Acknowledgments
The Alan Nekhay Foundation remains committed to fostering open dialogue and supporting meaningful artistic practices across cultural contexts. Lace Grace Revolt marks an important step in this ongoing work, reinforcing the foundation’s dedication to creating spaces where contemporary artists, new ideas, and diverse perspectives can be seen, shared, and understood.
We extend our sincere gratitude to the participating artists, to our local partners and community in Turkey, and to all supporters whose contributions made this exhibition possible.
We extend our sincere gratitude to the participating artists, to our local partners and community in Turkey, and to all supporters whose contributions made this exhibition possible.