Portrait 23: Return of Romi Studio – Unknown Entry Point Opens July 3 in Greenpoint

Back from orbit: Romi Studio returns with Unknown Entry Point, a group exhibition opening next week at the Bellslip Gallery in partnership with Brookfield Properties.

Jun 26, 2025

Dear friends,

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Romi Studio is a curatorial platform for experimental exhibitions and interdisciplinary projects, founded by Romina Jiménez Álvarez. If you’re receiving this email for the first time: welcome. If you’ve been here before: thank you for your support—through noise and silence.

Romi Studio returns—after a long, quiet orbit—with Unknown Entry Point, a group exhibition on view from July 3 to August 31, 2025, at the Bellslip Gallery in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. This exhibition marks Romi Studio’s return to public programming and continues our commitment to presenting experimental exhibitions in collaboration with interdisciplinary artists. Romi Studio, ever-nomadic and ever-collaborative, emerges again not with answers, but with a deepened commitment to the question.

Image: Margrethe Aanestad, *Another Eternity I*, 2021, Brass, 3.9 x 6.9 x 12 in. Courtesy of the Artist.

Presented in partnership with Brookfield Properties, and the kind collaboration of Joe Virella, Unknown Entry Point will open with a reception on Thursday, July 3, from 6 to 9 PM. Curated by Romina Jiménez Álvarez, the exhibition brings together seven multidisciplinary artists—Margrethe Aanestad, María Gracia Donoso, Felipe Fredes, Natsumi Goldfish, Katie Hubbell, Kelly Olshan, and Paul Tucci—each navigating the unstable threshold between physical, digital, and conceptual space. These artists challenge the porous categories that define painting, sculpture, and experience in contemporary art.

Image: The Bellslip Gallery of Greenpoint Landing, Brookfield Properties. Photography by Anita Ng.

Installed within a waterfront residential building, the exhibition inhabits a space that mirrors our contemporary condition—eyes flickering between screens and surroundings, bodies navigating increasingly “phygital” terrains. It draws on cultural theorist Shumon Basar’s notion of the 2.5th dimension—an indeterminate zone between the digital and the physical, between visual interface and embodied experience. Here, the 2.5th dimension is not metaphor but condition: a threshold where mediation and immediacy co-exist. Unknown Entry Point engages this dimension on two levels—first, through the perceptual state of the viewer, suspended between the digital world in their hand and the physical world around them; and second, through the artworks themselves, which extend off the walls, blur across media, and resist instant legibility. Meaning emerges not through recognition, but through friction, tension, and spatial interference.

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The Bellslip Gallery: 1 Bell Slip, Brooklyn, NY 11222

Opening Reception: Thursday, July 3, 6–9 PM

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After a two-year partnership, Artsy will once again serve as the digital partner for Romi Studio, starting with Unknown Entry Point. Check out a preview of the exhibition now online at Artsy.net.

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Unknown Entry Point is free and open to the public. We look forward to welcoming you into the 2.5th dimension.

Warmly,