Exhibition
Saturday
12.09.2026
11:00–22:00
Betonhalle
Betonhalle
Sunday
13.09.2026
11:00–22:00
Betonhalle
Betonhalle
The exhibition brings together artists who explore how media shape the ways we remember. Moving across archives, algorithms, landscapes, games, rituals, and digital networks, the works reveal memory as something continuously produced through the technologies and infrastructures that make the past visible or erase it.
Artists: Charlott Eifler, Clarissa Thieme, Felix Pacholleck, Gabriel Massan, Göksu Kunak, Hussein Shikha, Kostis Stafylakis, Maithu Bùi, Margarete Jahrmann, Qusay Awad, Raisan Hameed, Yara Richter
Memories do not simply preserve and archive the past. They are produced and speak to us through the media that carry them. Images, archives, landscapes, rituals, algorithms, games, and networks do not merely record history. The medium is not a container without agency. Instead, it determines how and what memory becomes visible, how it circulates, how it is perceived and what disappears.
Our exhibition brings together artists who investigate these infrastructures of remembrance. Their work moves between documentary and speculation, digital environments and material traces, exposing memory as something that is constantly translated rather than passively stored. Satellite imagery becomes a witness, algorithms turn into heritage storytellers, woven textiles into digital archives, and game worlds become spaces for negotiating between colonial histories and possible futures.
Rather than asking how the past can be represented, the exhibition asks how digital and analogue technologies in their interplay shape the very conditions of remembering. Yet these media do more than transform memory: they also remind us that relating to the past has always also relied on poetic, embodied and artistic forms of knowledge alongside empirical ones: forms that were frequently dismissed or rendered invisible through the universalising epistemologies of modernity and enlightenment.
The artworks brought together reveal memory to be an active process, haunted by absence, structured by power, and continually rewritten through media. Here, remembrance appears as a living practice that activates new relationships between our bodies and archival databases, evidence and imagination, our personal or intergenerational experiences and collective memories in an interconnected world.