Gala Porras-Kim
Applied Arts Pavilion, a special project of La Biennale di Venezia and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Arsenale, Sale d’Armi, Venice
Through November 22, 2026

Congratulations to Gala Porras-Kim who has been invited to the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia In Minor Keys by Koyo Kouoh.⁠ Gala Porras-Kim’s work will be on view at the Applied Arts Pavilion, a special project of La Biennale di Venezia and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.⁠

As written by co-curator Gabe Beckhurst Feijoo, Porras-Kim’s project brings together drawings, sculptures and video that reflect her ongoing engagement with frameworks of conservation and the processes by which museum practitioners shape the meaning and function of heritage objects in both destructive and generative ways.

Gala Porras-Kim
The Motion of an Alluvial Record
Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín
September 9, 2026–March 28, 2027

The exhibition brings together a selection of recent projects that explore how museums, archives, and power structures shape the narratives constructed around cultural objects. Through a critical approach to the institutional logics that determine what is preserved, how preserved materials are interpreted, and how museographic narratives are developed and legitimized, the exhibition examines the mechanisms through which cultural meaning is produced and sustained. This is the first institutional exhibition in Colombia by Gala Porras-Kim, curated by Natalia Valencia.

Gala Porras-Kim
A Recollection Returns with a Soft Touch
Museo della Civiltà Romana, Rome
Ongoing

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.

10 Years LA!
May 15–August 15, 2026
Los Angeles

Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to present 10 Years LA!, an exhibition celebrating the gallery’s decade-long presence in Los Angeles. Since opening its doors in February 2016, the gallery has featured solo and group exhibitions debuting new works by its iconic LA-based artists as well as major installations by artists from around the world, often bringing their work to the city for the very first time. Illustrating this expansive approach, 10 Years LA! fills not only the 10,000 square feet of the gallery at 5900 Wilshire Boulevard with works by a wide cross-section of Sprüth Magers artists, but also extends to the former Sizzler restaurant at 6145 Wilshire with an installation focusing on film and video.

10 Years LA! features the work of, among others, Kenneth Anger, Richard Artschwager, John Baldessari, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Gretchen Bender, Cao Fei, George Condo, Hanne Darboven, Thomas Demand, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Thea Djordjadze, Lucy Dodd, Peter Fischli David Weiss, Sylvie Fleury, Cyprien Gaillard, Gilbert & George, Andreas Gursky, Nancy Holt, Jenny Holzer, Gary Hume, Anne Imhof, Robert Irwin, Arthur Jafa, Craig Kauffman, Karen Kilimnik, Joseph Kosuth, Barbara Kruger, David Lamelas, Louise Lawler, Mire Lee, Anthony McCall, Robert Morris, Reinhard Mucha, Senga Nengudi, David Ostrowski, Otto Piene, Michail Pirgelis, Gala Porras-Kim, Stephen Prina, Jon Rafman, Bridget Riley, Pamela Rosenkranz, Sterling Ruby, Ed Ruscha, Analia Saban, David Salle, Thomas Scheibitz, Andreas Schulze, Cindy Sherman, Stephen Shore, Martine Syms, Ryan Trecartin, Rosemarie Trockel, Nora Turato, Kaari Upson, Kara Walker, John Waters, Andro Wekua, and Andrea Zittel.

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.