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Samuel Brzeski (b.1988, London) is an artist, writer and publisher currently based between Bergen, Norway and Maastricht, Netherlands.
Samuel works with language as raw material—moulding, stretching and transforming texts on screens, on the page and within speech sound. He is particularly interested in how the use of both language and voice are instrumental in the formation of subjectivity. There is a social significance in speech acts, and his work examines the specifics of these sounds and the social conditions that create them. At the heart of his work is a playful and performative use of voice; voice as carrier of rhythm, of vibration, of emotion; voice as the centre of the human self-experience of presence.
Language itself is an unstable medium, in a constant state of redefinition by its users. This process has been intensified with the advent of digital culture—in the speed of information and the proliferation of signs. By focusing on specific instances of linguistic delirium, Samuel seeks to trigger moments of reflection and self-implication in the age of the divided and immediate self. He breaks language open in vocal performances and sound installations where speech meets noise, and through distorted typographical experiments that blur text and image. Sometimes his works make more sound than sense.
Attempting to capture the ephemerality of sound in printed form, Samuel runs Vibrational Semantics, publishing graphic scores, artist books and interdisciplinary texts from creative practitioners who also work with the sonics of voice and the plasticity of language. He has been writer in residence with Contemporary Art Stavanger and Lydgalleriet, and was an associate artist with Lydgalleriet 2020-24. Samuel studied Literature at University of Sheffield, Fine Art at Bergen Art Academy, and took part in the Mountain School of Arts (LA) and Maumaus Independent Study Program (Lisbon).
In 2025, Samuel is a participant in the Jan van Eyck Post-Academic Research Residency in Maastricht.
SELECTED CV.
CURRENT.
2025 Jan van Eyck Academie Fellowship, year long residency, Maastricht, NL
SOLO EXHIBITIONS.
2025 Infernal Monologue, Kunsthall 3,14, Bergen, NO
2025 Mortal Combat, Northing / Bergen International Literature Festival (in collaboration with Kunsthall 3,14), Bergen, NO
2024 Tips of the sung, Pachinko, Oslo, NO
2023 The burly word catches the erm, Lydgalleriet, Bergen, NO
2023 Push on. Shuffle up. Hang tough. Bærum Kunsthall, Bærum, NO
2022 Blake fruid, bb15 Space for Contemporary Art, Linz, AT
2022 Just be glad it’s not you, Østre, Bergen, NO
2022 Performance anxiety, Babel Visningrom / Meta.morf Biennial for Art and Technology, Trondheim, NO
2022 Polar inertia, Galleri BOX, Gothenburg, SE
2021 into wanderer lonely, Studio 17, Stavanger, NO
2021 Spirit of the depths, Galleri KRAFT, Bergen, NO
2021 Death Rattle (collaboration with Kim Hankyul), USF Visningsrommet, Bergen, NO
2020 Time Crisis Conference (collaboration with Robin Everett) Isotop, Bergen, NO
2019 Great socks, bad vibes (collaboration with Laurie Lax), Rom 61, Bergen, NO
2018 Words which touch each other in strange places (collaboration with Laurie Lax), Joy Forum, Bergen, NO
2018 The density of bone in my brow, Galleri Kronborg, Bergen, NO
2018 Within our own skins, Rom 8, Bergen, NO
2017 Wait, Galerie 207, Prague, CZ
2017 Walking Hitting Dragging Singing Walking Holding, Galleri Fisk, Bergen, NO
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS.
2024 Høstutstillingen, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO
2024 NADA Miami, Bas Fisher Invitational/ Hordaland Kunstsenter, Miami, US
2023 Deconstruction: Ruins in reverse, Pfizer building, New York, US
2023 Booked, MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre, Helsinki, FI
2022 Jeg kaller det kunst, The Norwegian National Museum, Oslo, NO
2022 As Below, So Above, Haugesund Billedgalleri, Haugesund, NO
2022 Inversia festival, Murmansk Regional Art Museum, Murmansk, RU
2021 Fremtidens Levninger, KORO public art commission, Sofienbergparken, Oslo, NO
2021 LOOPING, Chao Art Centre, Beijing, CN
2019 Actually the Dead Are Not Dead, Bergen Assembly, NO
2019 Nice questionFridaymilk / Lofoten International Art Festival, WWW
2019 Rewired, Digital Narrative Networks Conference, University of Bergen, NO
2019 Very Large WorksThe Wrong Biennial 2019, online exhibition, WWW
2019 You live here long enough everything becomes a story, Tag Team, Bergen, NO
2019 Radio Space, Borealis Festival for experimental music, Bergen, NO
2018 Friday the 13th, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, NO
2018 Utspill, Kunsthall 3,14, Bergen, NO
2017 Constellations, Lumen Studios, London, UK
2017 Ultimo Scenario, Haukeland Barneklinikken, Bergen, NO
SELECTED PERFORMANCES.
2025 We Do the Reading Voices, de Fabriek, Eindhoven, NL
2025 The dictionary and the scream, Jan van Eyck Academie, part of Situated Institutions, Relational Practices, Liminal Studios, Maastricht, NL
2025 How to live on twenty-four hours a day, Bergen International Literature Festival Bergen (in collaboration with Kunsthall 3,14), Bergen, NO
2025 Tips of the Sung, Well Read, Lisbon, PT
2024 Tips of the Sung, Northing, Bergen, NO
2025 Burly words, Pachinko, Oslo, NO
2023 How to live on twenty-four hours a day, Bergen Assembly / B Open, Bergen, NO
2022 How to live on twenty-four hours a day, European Poetry festival, ICKLECTIK, London, UK
2021 In fact, the dead are dead. Fremtidens Levninger , Deichman Grünerløkka, Oslo, NO
2021 Yep, that’s the mood, Bergen Centre for Electronic Art/Østre, as part of The Only Lasting Truth is Change, Bergen, NO
2019 As ghosts speak..., Actually the Dead Are Not Dead, Bergen Assembly, Bergen, NO
2019 Protest of the physical, solo performance event, Galleri Slakt, Bergen, NO
2019 The Heights, Performance Art Bergen Festival, Bergen, NO
2019 Until my tongue stiffens, collaboration with Kim Hankyul, Lydgalleriet, Bergen, NO
2018 Miserable, Waiting for the Sun performance festival, Black Box Theatre, Oslo, NO
2018 I can fix this, Å Rydde Opp i Gamle Synder performance festival, Kunsthall 3.14, Bergen, NO
2018 Things seem paler, performance lecture, Bergen Art Academy, NO
2017 Saying things, Performance Art Bergen Festival, Bergen, NO
2017 Miserable, Galleri Bokboden, Bergen, NO
RESIDENCIES & FELLOWSHIPS.
2025 (in progress) Jan van Eyck Academie, year long residency and fellowship, Maastricht, NL
2020-24 Associate artist, Lydgalleriet, Bergen, NO
2024 Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts Studio residency, Bergen, NO
2023 Bas Fisher Invitational, Miami, US
2023 The Listening Academy, Berlin, DE
2023 Atelier Nord Studio Residency, Oslo, NO
2023 Bergen i Berlin, Berlin, DE
2022 CAS Art Writing Residency, Contemporary Art Stavanger, NO
2022 Creative Europe Oscillations project, bb15 Space for Contemporary Art, Linz, AT
2022 Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts Studio Residency, Bergen, NO
2022 Lademoen Residency, Trondheim, NO
2021 Skaftfell Centre for Visual Art Residency t, Seyðisfjörður, IS
2020 Lydgalleriet writer in residence
, Lydgalleriet, Bergen, NO
2019 USF Verftet Research Residency, USF Verftet, NO
2016 Mustarinda Residency, Hyrynsalmi, FI
2015 Lumen Studio Residency,, Atina, IT
2015 Lichtenberg Studios
, Berlin, DE
EDUCATION AND ACADEMIC POSITIONS.
2024 Maumaus Independent Study Program, Maumaus, Lisbon, PT
2021 Research Assistant, Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies, University of Bergen, NO
2018-20 Research Assistant in New Media, Bergen Art Academy, NO
2019 The Mountain School of Arts, Los Angeles, US
2016-18 MA Fine Art, Bergen Art Academy, NO
2006-09 BA English LiteratureUniversity of Sheffield, UK
PUBLICATIONS & TEXTS.
2025 Pleasure, artist book, Vibrational Semantics Press, Bergen, NO
2025 Infernal Appendix, artist book, Vibrational Semantics Press, Bergen, NO
2025 Infernal Monologue: A Reader, artist book, Vibrational Semantics Press, Bergen, NO
2024 Tips of the Sung, collection of interdisciplinary texts, Lydgalleriet/ Vibrational Semantics, Bergen, NO
2024 Anthology for Listening, contributor to anthology, Bureau for Listening, Copenhagen, DK
2023 Some statements on liveness, inscription, voice...commissioned text, Contemporary Art Stavanger, NO
2022 More sound than sense, commissioned text, Contemporary Art Stavanger, NO
2022 Well begun is half done, commissioned text, Contemporary Art Stavanger, NO
2022 The Block, essay, SPAM press, Glasgow, UK
2022 Every dream feeds my nights, commissioned text, Contemporary Art Stavanger, NO
2021 G U E S T magazine, contributor to poetry periodical, Above / Ground Press, Ottawa, CA
2021 PROUST CRISIS, artist book (with Robin Everett), TEXSTpress, Bergen, NO
2021 into wanderer lonely artist book, TEXSTpress, Bergen, NO
2021 I’m perfecting my body...poetry pamphlet, TEXSTpress, Bergen, NO
2021 PHYSICAL, artist book, TEXSTpress, Bergen, NO
2021 MISERABLE, artist book, TEXSTpress, Bergen, NO
2021 Black Hole Melodic/ Black Hole Melancholic, commissioned text, Contemporary Art Stavanger, NO
2020 The Block, commissioned interdisciplinary text, Lydgalleriet, NO
2020 Oration on Rhythm, commissioned interdisciplinary text in four parts, Lydgalleriet, NO
2020 Frequency Sweeps, commissioned interdisciplinary text, Lydgalleriet, NO
2020 Sonorous Figures, commissioned interdisciplinary text, Lydgalleriet, NO
2020 CSLSGSMM, commissioned interdisciplinary text, Lydgalleriet, NO
2020 Olternotives, commissioned interdisciplinary text, Lydgalleriet, NO
2020 Lydgalleriet: A Retrospective, editor and contributor, Lydgalleriet, Bergen, NO
2020 Emergency Index Volume 9, contributor to annual volume on performance practice, Ugly Duckling Press, New York, US
2020 Apprentice Poetry Anthology, contributor, SPAM press, Glasgow, UK
2019 I laugh while crying. And I barely cry., poetry pamphlet, TEXSTpress, Bergen, NO
2019 speakerspeaker two: collectivity, contributor, Bergen, NO
2019 The density of bone in my browartist book, TEXSTpress, Bergen, NO
2018 TEXST #2, editor and contributor, TEXSTpress, Bergen, NO
2017 Vooks are Stupid!, collaborative publication as TEXST, TEXSTpress, Bergen, NO
2017 TEXST #1, contributor, TEXSTpress, Bergen, NO
2015 The Materiality of Ruinresidency publication, Lichtenberg Studios, Berlin, DE