Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

Each year, more than 40 local and international artists visit BEK for work residencies in our sound and video studios and electronics lab. Practising artists are also a part of our organisation, and we run workshops where creative practitioners from Norway and the world learn new skills and exchange ideas. Please join us at Landmark, Bergen Kunsthall, Sunday 20 February…

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In collaboration with Illuminating the Non-Representable at KMD, BEK presents a public lecture by Susan Schuppli as a part of BEK Opening Week 2022. In her lecture, Schuppli will highlight new work which combines scientific and artistic approaches to climate change. Monday February 2119:00 Auditorium Knut Knaus, KMD, Møllendalsveien 61Free and open for all!The lecture will also be streamed on…

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We glide into the new year with our 2022 Opening Week and invite everyone to an open house at BEK! Join us for workshops, screenings, talks, and concerts – or just for a walk through our spaces, studios and labs and a friendly chat. You can see and hear works in progress by some of the artists working with BEK,…

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We´re happy to welcome Dianne Murphy, who will be staying with us in a traineeship until the middle of March. She wants to experience how an organisation working with art and technology is organised and run, as well as share her own skills and knowledge. Murphy graduated in 2020 with an honours BA in Fine Art from Dún Laoghaire Institute…

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Working with his invented instruments, Paris-based electroacoustic composer and performer Benjamin Thigpen will be in a studio residency at BEK from 10–22 Jan 2022.  Objects such as knives, baking dishes, paper clips, and saws often figure in Thigpen´s instruments, which are built around piezo contact microphones, inductors used as magnetic field microphones, small exciters for mechanical feedback, larger coils for…

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Our studios and spaces are open for short term project residencies at BEK. If you are working on an art project involving sound, moving image or electronics you are welcome to apply for a residency in our studios for a period of 2-4 weeks. Application deadline: 15 January 2022. The residencies are open to professional artists and we prioritise projects…

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This week, HC Gilje is in our video studio working on a project for The North Norwegian Art Centre (NNKS). Gilje has been involved with the coastal fishing community in Vardø and 3D scanned their fishing equipment and sheds. He is now making a 3D work, based on the material, to be presented in Vardø 17–20 February 2022. See the…

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The symposium The Only Lasting Truth is Change brought together artists and scholars from several continents to examine what an artwork can be and what an artwork can do in a world that cannot and should not return to ‘normal’ post-pandemic. We are happy to share some glimpses of the events 19–20 November. Pictured: Tenthaus – Lucia Pietroiusti – Maria Rusinovskaya of…

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The Only Lasting Truth is Change is an extended symposium investigating future configurations of art, technology, nature and power. Collecting all the symposium threads and projects on 19–20 November, BEK invites you to an intensive two-day programme of discussions and performances, radio broadcasts and screenings, recipes and diagrams. With contributions by Anna L. Tsing, Lucia Pietroiusti, Stephanie Dinkins, Mark Fell…

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For the symposium The Only Lasting Truth is Change, artist Jackie Karuti has developed a new weather instrument — a part of How Clouds are Formed (2019–), a developing body of work assembled in many parts and across different locations using objects, spare parts and movements. It is presented with video and a set of mechanical actions, where a motor…

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