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Gala Porras-Kim: The reflection at the threshold of a categorical division Opening Celebration

Party Thurs., Feb. 27, 6 p.m.
When
Thurs., Feb. 27, 2025, 6–8 p.m.
Where
Forum Gallery
Tickets
Free, no museum admission needed

Join us for the opening of Forum 90 with artist Gala Porras-Kim. In dialogue with curators at Carnegie Museum of Art over the past two years, Porras-Kim has been trawling the museum’s database to better understand its holdings. Porras-Kim questions the conceptual frameworks and individual subjectivities that go into presenting and understanding an object as a work of art.

A toast to the artist will take place at 6:30 p.m. in Café Carnegie.

Support

Gala Porras-Kim: The reflection at the threshold of a categorical division Opening Celebration is supported by The Heinz Awards program of the Heinz Family Foundation.

Gala Porras-Kim, 202 mineral objects at Carnegie Museum of Art or at Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 2025, Courtesy of the artist and Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles; photo: Paul Salveson.
Gala Porras-Kim, 202 mineral objects at Carnegie Museum of Art or at Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 2025, Courtesy of the artist and Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles; photo: Paul Salveson.

Related Exhibition

an artwork
Feb. 28–July 27, 2025

Systems of categorization and inevitable mislabels, material preservation and eventual degradation, and an impulse to record in the face of inherent forgetfulness—these contradictions feed Gala Porras-Kim’s (b. 1984, Bogotá, Colombia) interest in museums and their practices.