BEK Forum is a production platform for art and scholarship, with a focus on project-based collaboration with artists and imaginative forms of exhibition and performance. The conceptual origin of BEK, short for Büro für experimentelle Kunst, is a tension between the production and administration of artistic experiments. BEK is committed to the full cycle of producing, documenting, and studying experimental forms of visual art, performance, and music.

BEK also runs From the morning desk, a publication for today’s friends and tomorrow’s enthusiasts. It intends to return the Büro’s machinery to its origin as a writing desk, where fresh thoughts gather like morning dew. The desk reads and writes from today, not as this or that. It works against the illusion of clarity, acknowledging that collective work over time sediments and unsettles the relevance of a work of art or a piece of writing. A loose companion to BEK’s program, this publication collects valuable, often fleeting traces of thought that may reveal themselves as history. Thematic threads only become more visible in the future—in this case, in the biannual volume and, one hopes, a time frame beyond BEK’s current form.

BEK was founded by Li Yizhuo in early 2025, reflecting her interests and commitments as an art historian, curator, and collector. Before moving to Vienna in 2021, Li has experience in directing nonprofit art organization and managing projects at art gallery and private collection in New York, Boston, and Beijing.

Program partner: Musiklabor Klassik

Visual branding: Andrea Ricciarini