B-Open at BEK: Yasemin Orhan and Dorota Dziong
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Welcome to BEK during B-open! Artists Yasemin Orhan and Dorota Dziong, currently in residence with us, will showcase their working processes in BEKs studio.
Saturday
September 20. 12:00 – 17:00
BEK, C. Sundts gate 55, floor 9.
Free entry and open for all.
The artists are two of recipients of this year’s MA Graduate Studio Residency Award from BEK. In collaboration with KMD/UiB, we offer residencies to recent graduates from the Art Academy. Yasemin Orhan mixes words, media, and techniques, collects stories, draws wordplay, and works with friends. Dorota Dziong works with painting, animation, and installation, exploring human needs for physical shelter and storage through absurd narratives.
Yasemin Orhan
Yasemin is an independent filmmaker and animator. Her practice is rooted in crafting stories, acting out characters and making objects come to life. Combining a touch of wizardry and (very) forgiving mechanical work, stop-motion allows her to explore tactility and performance making it the ideal medium for making allusions to intimate moments from everyday life. She holds a master’s from Art Academy in Bergen and currently is based between Istanbul and Bergen, working as a freelance artist.
Dorota Dziong
Dorota is a Polish-Canadian artist based in Bergen, Norway, having completed the MFA program at KMD at University of Bergen. Her multidisciplinary work spans painting, photography, video, animation, and site-responsive installation. Recent work explores the intrinsic human need for containment—both physical shelter for our bodies and containers for the things we collect. Dorota investigates the meaning of objects and how we assign them different types of values and she explores real, imaginary, and metaphorical spaces. She’s drawn to the absurd—shaped during formative years under autocratic rule, where daily life felt surreal.
Accessibility
BEK’s space unfortunately is not wheelchair accessible. Please send us an email at bek@bek.no if you’re using a wheelchair, and we’ll do our best to facilitate your needs. Our space has all gender toilet facilities. Service dogs are welcome. We also provide the option of a quiet room.
Images: 1) Still from The Zit by Yasemin Orhan 2) Still from Rest by Dorota Dziong