A Norwegian citizen has filed a lawsuit in opposition to MoMA PS1 alleging negligent supervision and oversight after she was injured on-site within the museum’s screening room in 2022. The grievance outlines that Andrea Kroksnes suffered from lasting medical issues and financial loss as a consequence of a wall-mounted panel that fell and struck her, inflicting an acute concussion.
Case paperwork reveal that Kroksnes is pursuing financial damages exceeding $150,000 in addition to coated authorized prices, curiosity, and additional reduction as decided by the court docket.
In response to the grievance, Kroksnes visited the museum in Queens on October 29, 2022, to see Palestinian artist Jumana Manna’s mid-career survey Break, Take, Erase, Tally. Whereas seated within the museum’s screening room, a “large, heavy wall-mounted panel” affixed to the wall straight behind the couch was dislodged and fell onto her. Kroksnes’s authorized staff on the New York legislation agency Kreindler & Kreindler LLP instructed Hyperallergic that she was struck by an acoustics panel and never an art work or a part of an set up.
MoMA PS1 didn’t reply to Hyperallergic’s requests for remark.
Set up view of Jumana Manna’s Break, Take, Erase, Tally at MoMA PS1 in 2022 (picture Hakim Bishara/Hyperallergic)
The grievance alleges that Kroksnes sustained an acute concussion “as a direct and proximate result of the panel’s detachment and impact,” and later developed power post-concussion syndrome, “resulting in ongoing physical, cognitive, and emotional damages.”
Kroksnes and her attorneys have accused MoMA PS1 of failing to correctly safe the panel to the wall and to observe the premises for security dangers or faulty circumstances, stating that the museum ought to have identified that the piece of apparatus was positioned in an space that “visitors would rest, lean, or make contact with.”
The swimsuit outlines that Kroksnes’s concussion resulted in “extreme pain,” that she was “severely” and “permanently injured” as a result of panel’s detachment, and that she has “suffered economic loss” on account of earlier and present medical bills that can proceed to incur sooner or later. Along with being “deprived of her enjoyment of life, pursuits, and interests,” because the grievance states, it was confirmed that the lasting signs have additionally impacted her potential to carry out her job.
Hyperallergic has tried to contact Kroksnes for remark.
