Vera Petukhova

Rip Space is a Los Angeles–based curatorial platform and project space co-founded in 2024 by curator Vera Petukhova. The platform supports future-oriented artistic practices and emergent paradigms across contemporary art, media, design, technology, and sensory and spatial …

A public conversation with the artists of time is a flat circle, co-hosted by bitforms gallery and Rip Space and moderated by Vera Petukhova, expanding on the exhibition’s themes and participating artists’ practices.

The exhibition brings together work by Erick Antonio Benitez, Ricardo Cabret, Lou Fauroux, and Umber Majeed in the consideration of how contemporary mythology is constructed, circulated, and transformed across digital images, networked systems, and cultural exchange. At its core,…

Hosted at Wilshire Online in collaboration with SUPERCOLLIDER this exhibition explores the psychic, cultural, and infrastructural conditions of life lived through platforms and computational systems. Borrowing its title from the chorus of Evanescence’s 2003 anthem “Bring Me to …

Marking the first in a series of joint projects between Rip Space and bitforms gallery, Continuum features artwork by Daniel Canogar, Nat Decker, Aurora Mititelu, Casey Reas, and Sarah Rothberg. The exhibition is structured as a constellation of discrete environments. Five …

EARTHBOUND: Speculating the World, Worldbuilding the Present Presented in collaboration with Spectra Studio, Earthbound was a symposium of talks, music, and artist performances taking place during LA Art Week 2026, positioning worldbuilding from speculative practice to material …

Feature essay examining the growing use of scent in contemporary art through the practices of Emily Endo, Se Young Au, Sarana Mehra, and others. The text proposes a “post-immersive” turn away from spectacle, visual excess, and attention capture toward slower, embodied forms of experience rooted in scent, memory, atmosphere, and somatic perception.

Part of Earthbound: Speculating the World, Worldbuilding the Present, during Art Week LA 2026

A public dialogue with artist Kira Xonorika on worldbuilding as both an artistic methodology and a way of thinking through futurity. The conversation explored speculative practice, emergent technologies, Indigenous and queer frameworks, and the possibilities of building alternative relations between bodies, machines, and environments. Moving between Xonorika’s practice and broader questions of process and imagination, the dialogue considered how artists can construct futures from within the conditions of the present.

An evening of live, experimental, and in-process work bringing together artists exploring language, code, intimacy, participation, and networked forms of interaction. Chloë Langford (Fantasia Malware) performed a series of sound-poems using voice, code, rhythm, and live looping …

A research and writing residency at High Desert Test Sites focused on developing ideas, research and writing on the “post-immersive turn,” sensory and embodied forms of attention, and an emerging inquiry into precognition, AI, and nonlinear approaches to futurity. The residency expanded my curatorial research into how knowledge might emerge through perception, atmosphere, intuition, and speculative imagination.

The Shape of Time is a sensory installation by Errare Studio exploring ritual, memory, and embodied perception in response to the accelerating rhythms of contemporary life. Working across scent, textiles, sound, digital imagery, and sculptural materials, the exhibition creates a …

A Multi-Artist Vibe Coding Jam Rip Space presented SYNTHESIS ASSEMBLY, an evening of live performance, improvisation, sound, coding, and collaborative AI systems. The program explored hybrid ecologies through encounters between human and machine, organic and synthetic processes, …

Working Knowledge brings together artists who create modes of learning that value applied and local wisdom, including ecological knowledge, activism, sustainable design, and community-driven exchange. Recognizing both the strengths and limitations of institutional education, the …

Presented during LA Art Week 2025, and co-presented by Gray Area. Open World brings together artists using exploratory technologies to tell stories of care, connection, climate futures, and collective survival. The works challenge boundaries between human, non-human, and digital …

Shininho Docking, a solo exhibition by Korean multimedia artist Yaloo, This exhibition offers an immersive exploration of identity, cultural memory, and mythology. Inspired by Yaloo’s grandmother Shininho, reimagined as a K-pop idol and pirate ship captain, Shininho Docking …

Opening alongside the county-wide PST ART initiative, Eco Encoded brings together artists working at the intersection of art, science, and technology. The media-based exhibition transforms Rip Space into an immersive visual and sonic environment where 3D animation, AI, and …

RIB SPACE is a collaboration between Emory Hall and Chris Johst that uses the visual and social language of American BBQ culture to explore masculinity, competition, ritual, and speculative ideas around the future of food. The exhibition brings together real and AI-generated …

Rip Space presented the Los Angeles premiere of Sarah Rothberg’s SUPERPROMPT, a body of work exploring how speech, identity, and communication are mediated through technology. The project unfolds through a series of conversational interfaces: NEW MEETINGS, NEW NEW MEETINGS, …

A day of cyberfeminist-led programming exploring authenticity, online identity, and the performance of self through an artist lecture by Maya Man and an introductory web coding workshop led by Maisa Imamović. The program concluded with a reception and screening of web-based works…

Presented during Frieze Week Los Angeles, VIP RIP brought together moving image, digital work, installation, and sound examining how personal experience is mediated by the constant flow of content, news, images, and information. Casey Kauffmann’s This Is Me BTW If You Even Care …

Futuring showcases the work of 32 artists and collectives that look beyond the present climate moment to imagine alternative futures through radical ecology, worldbuilding, nature-based communication, Indigenous knowledge, and interconnectedness between nature, humanity, and …

Featuring work by Grey Ellis and Leena Joshi, this exhibition seeks to connect the physical body and a notion of a "socioeconomic body" via issues of chronic illness, alienation, gentrification and how these issues function within art spaces more broadly

A performance series presenting new work from six emerging artists and musicians based in New York City. The series offers a space for experimentation through live performances that explore fluid and liminal psychological spaces

E N C O U N T E R S is a stage for the work of four artists whose practices are centered around performance. Angelina Dreem, Richard Kennedy, Whitney Vangrin and, Jaimie Warren perform new works in this exhibition/arena/zone that will be activated through their unique …

A group exhibition at Bed-Stuy's former Pfizer manufacturing factory. The focus of the exhibition was mapping traces of new sensory phenomena and modes of healing enabled by internet culture and digital technologies

A group exhibition at CP Projects Space in Chelsea examining image and language production within mass consumer culture and contemporary information systems. Bringing together text, photography, installation, sound, internet art, and video, the exhibition considered how meaning …

A gallery exhibition at New York's Gramercy Gallery. The works in the exhibition, spanning a vast array of mediums and artistic practices, reflect the different strands of “home,” as defined by geography, built and virtual space, domestic life and memory

Video art showcase at Cairo Art Space in Seattle, WA featuring the work of local emerging media artists

A pop-up exhibition featuring new works by Trevor Brown and Isabel Blue

Monthly curated screening program featuring video, digital art, and experimental film at Seattle's Northwest Film Forum.

A program exploring the tensions and trajectories of video art and experimental film