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.
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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.
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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…
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As part of our remote residency programme BEK Off-Centred, we have been collaborating with Ramallah-based artist Dakn. Together with Another Sky Festival, we have commissioned a new sound piece from Dakn – داكنْ Heart Gate’ – which had its world premiere on 21 September 2024 at Cafe OTO in London.
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The Only Lasting Truth is Change is a symposium investigating how artistic practice and its methodologies are constantly changing in response to the shifting political, technological and ecological landscapes we live in. For the 2023 edition, the symposium engages notions of Hallucinating, Computing and Collapsing to examine how different perceptions of reality arise and collide in our steadily more automated world. With…
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The BEK team will be taking time off in July; we’re back in the house on 1 August. We wish you a restful summer. Meanwhile, save the date for the BEK summer party 18 August – we hope to see you there!
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If you are working on an art project involving sound or moving image, you are welcome to apply for a studio residency at BEK lasting 2–6 weeks. The application deadline is 28 May 2023. The open call applies to residencies in the period of 7 August–17 December 2023. You can apply for a residency in our sound studio or video…
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This statement of support was collectively written and signed by cultural workers and cultural organisations in Bergen and Norway. The text and the initiative belong to the community. The statement was signed by 250 cultural workers and 40 culture organisations before being published at change.org/PapillonBergen. As independent cultural workers and art organisations in Bergen and Norway, we express our public…
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BEK is looking for a new Information Manager in a 50% position. Application deadline: 12 April 2023.Please find the full announcement text in Norwegian here. Photos: Thor Brødreskift (1, 2, 4), Synne Sofi Bårdsdatter Bønes (3).
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BEK is thrilled to be part of the new project of Re-Imagine Europe, a collaboration of fourteen interdisciplinary arts organisations across Europe. The network has received support from the Creative Europe programme for the project New Perspectives for Action, starting in February 2023. New Perspectives for Action is a four-year transnational co-creation and circulation project by Re-Imagine Europe, and builds…
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