Carnegie International Returns With Events ‘Across Pittsburgh’s Cultural Landscape’
The quadrennial exhibition is the longest-running international art show.
CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART | PHOTO BY TOM LITTLE / COURTESY CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART
The Carnegie Museum of Art is less than a month away from the opening of the 59th Carnegie International, and it is already planning a wide range of events across Pittsburgh’s cultural landscape.
Established in 1896, the Carnegie International is the longest-running exhibition of international art in North America. Organized every four years by the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Carnegie International is a “dynamic curatorial platform that surveys how art and artists respond to the critical questions of our time,” a press release reads.
“Titled ‘If the word we,’ the 59th Carnegie International considers the first-person plural as an open and evolving proposition — one shaped by listening, translation, and transformation — bringing together artistic practices that engage shared experience, circulation and worlds in transition,” reads a post on the Carnegie Museum of Art’s website. “Drawing from a commissioned catalogue essay by writer Haytham el-Wardany, the exhibition approaches ‘we’ not as a unified subject but as a complex and porous position, attentive to contradiction and change.”
The 59th Carnegie International runs May 2 through January 3, 2027. It will bring together new commissions, existing works and projects by 61 artists and collectives, accompanied by a major catalogue and robust public programming through next year.
The museum says the event will take place both inside and outside and at sites across the North Shore, including the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, the Kamin Science Center, the Mattress Factory and the newly reopened Thelma Lovette YMCA.
During its opening weekend, the Carnegie Museum of Art will have extended hours; On May 2, it will open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., and on May 3, it will open from noon to 8 p.m.
Also on May 2, visitors are encouraged to barter with artist Peter Jemison on the museum’s front plaza.
“Our Hodinoshoni ancestors traveled by canoe to Fort Pitt to trade beaver belts for Euro-American manufactured goods,” Jemison says. He invites people to bring an item to barter with his community of artists for unique arts and crafts.
For a full list of public programs, visit the Carnegie International’s page on the Carnegie Museum of Art’s website.
