BEK welcomes sound artist pantea for a three-day Tuning Machine workshop exploring listening as a way of relating to environments, communities, and more-than-human worlds.
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Join for an open and informal TouchDesigner roundtable in Bergen with Martha Steinmetz.
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BEK will be closed for summer holidays throughout July, while a handful of artists continue working in our studios behind the scenes. We wish all our collaborators, friends and visitors a wonderful summer and look forward to welcoming you back in August.
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BEK is proud to announce the recipients of the 2026 MA Graduate Studio Residency Award. Through a collaboration between BEK and the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design (KMD) at the University of Bergen (UiB), we offer studio residencies to recent graduates from the Art Academy.
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This compendium of Pilot Studies gathers sixteen written contributions from the partner organisations of Re-Imagine Europe: New Perspectives for Action as a reflection on the four-year project. The studies take many forms – essays, interviews, survey outcomes and glossaries – reflecting the range of working methods and experiments across the consortium. Together, they serve as a collection of models, guides, or tools for current and future generations of cultural institutions and collectives, artists and other contributors. They are grouped thematically into five clusters.
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This text emerges from BEKs symposium The Only Lasting Truth is Change: Voice, Seed, Brutality (21–23 November 2025, Bergen), and reflects the collaborative project Gneiss by Touki and Rehana Zaman. Developed as part of an ongoing film project commissioned by BEK, the work brings together sound, moving image, and discussion in response to the question: What is change?
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We are resharing a selection of podcasts from Radio Web MACBA co-produces with BEK, originally produced as part of the Son[i]a series, featuring artists who participated in BEK’s symposium programme in Bergen in 2025: Ameneh Solati, Rehana Zaman and Carol Stampone. These conversations extend themes explored during the symposium, including collective practices, ecological thinking, and situated forms of knowledge.
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Thank you to everyone who joined us for “Archival Intelligence: Epistemic Shifts from Sound to Listening”, an evening of performances presented as part of the MSCA Postdoctoral Project Connecting Resonances, organised by project leader Budhaditya Chattopadhyay.
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Join us at BEK on 30 May for Once in a Blue Moon, a celebration of the rare Blue Moon of May 2026.
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As part of the third and final seminar from the MSCA Postdoctoral Project Connecting Resonances, organised by project leader Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, there will be an evening of performances at BEK.
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