Memory
Thread
Memory is one of BEK's threads, the questions worked on across exhibitions, texts, and programs rather than inside any single one. The work gathered here does not treat recollection as a record. A memory is rebuilt each time it returns, and it returns changed by distance, migration, and the material it is asked to become.
Is memory for keeping the past, or for making futures?
If every recall alters what it retrieves, is rewriting one's past a betrayal, or a form of repair?
A cloud forgets nothing. Is a record that cannot forget still a memory?
Every "post-" defines now by then. Can a present understand itself without pointing back?
When a private memory is painted, archived, and exhibited, whose does it become?
Exhibition · 29 May – 25 July 2026 · curated by Nick Koenigsknecht
Channatip Chanvipava: Parallel Worlds
Painting, installation, and video, in which memory is continuously reassembled. Chanvipava's first solo exhibition in Austria.
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parallel-worlds.openforum.info
Online archive · with Nick Koenigsknecht
Open Forum
The exhibition's online archive, open past the closing date.
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Journal · essays & field notes
From the Morning Desk
Essays and field notes filed under the thread, among them the two essays written for Parallel Worlds.
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Programs · at Schleifmühlgasse 6
Openings & gatherings
Openings, the Sommerfest, and other gatherings around the thread. Dates on the calendar.
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Open Forum
An online archive made with curator Nick Koenigsknecht for Parallel Worlds, holding documents, texts, and references past the run of the exhibition.
Texts filed under Memory.
- Niente, or painting from memory — Yizhuo LiEssay · From the Morning Desk
- Parallel Worlds — Nick KoenigsknechtCuratorial essay · From the Morning Desk
- Further documents and referencesOpen Forum archive
The thread continues.
New projects will be developed under this thread and read against those before them.
Proposals are read with interest, particularly in literature and music; the thread favors work already underway that a production platform can bring to full form.