Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

BEK announces a funded three months residency for Autumn 2026
Deadline: 15 February 2026, selected artists will be notified in March 2026
Residency period: 3 months, mid-August until mid-November 2026 (with flexible starting date, if need be)

A diverse community of contemporary artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers have been working in BEK’s studios in 2025, exploring sound, image, performance, and technology. Their practices traverse landscapes both real and imagined, blending critical inquiry with experimental approaches to perception, identity, and society.

We look back on 2025 with gratitude for the strong community around BEK: the artists, collaborators and audiences who together have shaped a rich and dynamic year of artistic production. We are proud of the breadth of activities and the quality of the projects realised, ranging from experimental workshop series and cross-disciplinary presentations to public events and professional conversations.

After insightful and inspiring days during BEK’s 2025 symposium – The Only Lasting Truth is Change: Voice, Seed, Brutality – BEK’s staff – Maya Økland, Åse Løvgren, Morten Norbye Halvorsen, Kaeto Sweeney, Arild Thomassen, Martha Lucia Stoveland and Siren Løkaas – would like to extend a warm thank you to: The artists, researchers and thinkers who were part of the…

Detailed programme for BEKs symposium The Only Lasting Truth is Change 2025.

Monday Lectures at the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen is pleased to invite you all to the public lecture “Moving Images — of, from and to Palestine” by artist Shuruq Harb.