What Must Stay? examines temporality as both an artistic material and a living condition. The exhibition brings together practices that reflect on transience, on the instability of value, and on the resilience of form and memory. It is not a search for permanence, but an exploration of how change itself defines what endures.
To confront temporality is to acknowledge impermanence as the defining condition of our present. The works here are not bound by medium but by a shared urgency to consider what survives in the circulation of images, objects, and histories. Rather than offering resolution, the exhibition stages temporality as a field of negotiation where the past insists, the present dissolves, and the future remains open.
In this tension between erosion and preservation, temporality reveals its double force: it destroys even as it safeguards. Our memories, meanings, and attachments are shaped by what time takes away and what it leaves behind. What Must Stay? invites us to pause within this fragile balance and to ask: what, ultimately, must remain?
Artists:
Andrea Hackl | Austria
Adem Rusinovci | Kosovo
Anna Silivonchik | Poland
Eliska Lubojatzka | Czech Republic
Eshref Qahili | Kosovo
Katerina Belkina | Germany
Lumturie Krasniqi | Kosovo
Margit C. EGG | Austria
Mia Tesic | Austria
Rozafa Shpuza | Albania
Curated by: Bora Kelmendi Beqiraj
Barabar Centre, Prishtina | 3 November 2025, 18:00
Supported by: Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports of the Republic of Kosovo
In collaboration with: Barabar Centre, Prishtina
Grand Hotel – 4th Floor
Mother Theresa Street
Pristina
Kosovo