Ways of Knowing
Group Exhibition
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Through September 7, 2025

Spanning drawing, photography, film, and installation, Ways of Knowing charts some of the most profound ways that today’s artists engage with information and research. Most works are being shown in the United States for the first time. Together, they invite us to reconsider the complexities of knowledge, identity, and culture.

Gala Porras-Kim
A Recollection Returns with a Soft Touch
Museo della Civiltà Romana, Rome
Through October 1, 2025

A Recollection Returns with a Soft Touch is a new installation by multidisciplinary artist Gala Porras-Kim, with which she concludes her two-year research career as a Research Fellow at the Museo delle Civiltà and Artist in Residence at the MAO Museum of Oriental Art in Turin. The audio-video installation returns us to the intimate relationship between the objects in the collections and the people who care for them daily in the museum.

Gala Porras-Kim
The Motion of an Alluvial Record
Kunsthalle Bern
September 12–November 9, 2025

Kunsthalle Bern will present the extensive installation The Motion of an Alluvial Record by Gala Porras-Kim. The work consists of an “atmospheric pavilion” in which climatic conditions with high humidity and heat are recreated in a controlled manner. The installation turns conventional museum climate concepts upside down by not striving for a controlled dry environment, but actively transforming it into a tropical, “wet archive” in which the material remains alive and museum sterility is questioned.

Diary of Flowers: Artists and their Worlds
Group Exhibition
Museum of Contemporary Art – MOCA, Los Angeles
Through September 20, 2026

This exhibition brings together over 80 artworks from MOCA’s renowned collection, demonstrating how artists create their own worlds through their art-building networks, circles, and mythologies. Embracing the boundaries between the personal and the social, public and private lives, as well as emotional and psychological states, works in the show privilege sites of creativity and the place of the imagination to conjure new worlds and possibilities. Friendship, love, and intimacy become important starting points for artistic expression.

Gala Porras-Kim
The categorical bind
June 4–July 26, 2025
London

Gala Porras-Kim’s research-driven practice examines how our understanding of cultural artefacts is shaped by the museological and modern epistemological conventions that dictate their collection, taxonomy, preservation and display. Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to present a solo exhibition featuring new and recent works by the artist on the occasion of London Gallery Weekend. Both visually striking and thought-provoking, Porras-Kim’s drawings, paper marbling works and sculpture explore the transformation—and possibly emancipation—of objects throughout time.

territory
Mire Lee, Liu Yujia, Gala Porras-Kim, Tan Jing, Zhang Ruyi
April 27–July 27, 2024
Berlin

On the occasion of Gallery Weekend Berlin 2024, Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to present territory, a group show of works by Mire Lee, Liu Yujia, Gala Porras-Kim, Tan Jing, and Zhang Ruyi, curated by Shi-ne Oh. It will be Sprüth Magers’ first group exhibition focusing exclusively on female Asian artists. The title, territory, naturally associated with aggressive political policies and behaviours, questions the vast definitions of borders and boundaries and how they both limit and liberate our transgressive desires on physical as well as psychological terrain.

The five artists will transform all of the gallery’s spaces, premiering works that examine the bounds of the body, disgust and morality, and the restraints of language, history and memory. Diverse in media and approach, the artworks on view employ unpredictable materials to engage and challenge viewers’ senses.