You cannot step into the same river twice
Zeitgenössische Kunst Ausstellung
Verbindung zu esel.at
Everything is in FLUX – the river you step into one moment is not the same river a moment later, because the water has moved on. Heraclitus believed that the universe is constantly changing. Flowing between past and present, erosion and sediment, the exhibition mirrors the restless nature of water itself. The river’s flow and its constant renewal illustrate how stability and change are intertwined. Just as rivers carve landscape, our memories and identities are shaped by the currents of time, leaving traces even as they shift and dissolve. Memory behaves like water – sometimes clear, sometimes murky, sometimes eroding the edges of the past – reminding us who we are, and what we remember is never fixed.
This exhibition unfolds like a river in motion, tracing currents of time, memory and transformation. The river moves, never still, its waters slipping through time like grains of memory. Each moment is fleeting. Yet, in its restless motion, the river holds a quiet continuity, a mirror of life’s own passage – always changing, always the same. Here, in the flux of the river, we are reminded that nothing remains fixed, and that beauty emerges in the transformation.
What is seen and unseen forms a constant tension, driving our body of water forward, turning memory into a collective movement. Beneath the surface of the obvious currents breathe viscosity into the soil, pulling and grounding, a force met by an equal and opposing force that pushes back against the surface. Undercurrents stay invisible to the observer, but redirect or absorb force once entered.
Curators: Danny Nedkova, Pavel Naydenov
Artists and collectives: Collective Laguna, New choir, Patrizia Ferrara, Rayna
Teneva, Brian Lawlor, Frank Daubenfeld, Zhanina Marinova, Silvio Ebner, Gabriela
U. Reyes, Clement Bedel, Punctum Collective, Lena Michalik, Moka Scheung Yan
Wong.