Exhibitions
Every exhibition at BEK is part of a longer argument. It begins in a thread of ideas we keep returning to, and unfolds across the programme, productions and writing around it.
Elisabeth Kihlström: L'oro del mare (rame)
In ancient burials, cloth pressed against metal survives as an imprint in the corrosion that replaced it. Kihlström works that process deliberately, in hammered copper and silver, alongside a film on the Mediterranean shell whose fiber was once spun into sea silk.
Past
Thread · Memory
29 May – 25 July 2026
Channatip Chanvipava: Parallel Worlds
In his first Austrian solo show, Channatip Chanvipava builds rooms of memory and reflection that quietly disorient, across painting, installation and video.
Thread · Time
Feb – Apr 2026 · Group exhibition
Active Rest. An Exploration of Time
Five artistic positions pursue the perception of time through every sense, from painting to scent.
Thread · Signal
Sep – Nov 2025
Tan Mu: Signal
Most of the world's data travels through cables on the ocean floor. Tan Mu brings that hidden network into view.