We are thrilled to welcome Gala Porras-Kim to the gallery and are proud to collaborate on a promising journey.
Gala Porras-Kim (b. 1984, Bogotá) makes work that examines the social and political contexts through which intangible forms—such as sound, language, and history—are shaped within the fields of linguistics, history, and conservation. Her practice considers how institutions structure inherited codes and systems, and, in turn, how objects shape the contexts in which they are placed.
She received an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and an MA in Latin American Studies from UCLA. She was a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University (2019), the artist-in-residence at the Getty Research Institute (2020-22), and is currently a fellow at Museo delle Civiltà in Rome and a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship (2025).
kurimanzutto presents Future Spaces Replicate Earlier Spaces, the first exhibition by Gala Porras-Kim at the gallery in Mexico City. For this project, the artist brings together different bodies of work that examine the relationship between museums and conservation institutions, the objects they shelter, and the contexts from which they were removed. Through processes of reconstruction and resituating, the exhibition considers how institutional frameworks reclassify and redefine these objects, and how their original spatial, material, and temporal conditions might be reestablished.
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