09 September–08 December 2023-Ongoing
Program
BAK programming combines the artistic, experiential, theoretical, and political so as to imagine and enact transformative ways, with and through art, of being together otherwise. BAK’s current research trajectory Propositions for Non-Fascist Living (2017–ongoing) is prompted by the dramatic resurfacing and normalization of fascisms, historical and contemporary. BAK organizes exhibitions, lectures, publications, workshops, and composite performative conferences with exhibitionary, discursive, and performative elements.
Calendar
Current & Upcoming
Crowdfunding Campaign
Exhibition
22 September–08 December 2023-Ongoing
Suggestions from the archive
Exhibition
30 March–05 May 2019
The People Are the City
A two-part exhibition by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst at Utrecht City Office and The Utrecht Archives
The People Are the City is a two-part exhibition which takes place in the public areas of the Municipal Offices of the City of Utrecht and at The Utrecht Archives. The exhibition at the Utrecht City Office reflects on the extraordinary coming together of the people of Utrecht in the collective performance What Is the City but the People? on 15 September 2018. The second part of the show, on display at The Utrecht Archives, presents the new work Seven Addresses (2019) by artists’ duo Sander Breure and Witte van Hulzen.
Lecture
12 November 2005
On Documenting (truth and politics)
Lectures by and discussion with Boris Buden, Renzo Martens, and Hito Steyerl.
Public Program
17 April–26 September 2021
Fragments of Repair/Gatherings
A public program realized in the framework of the multi-part project Fragments of Repair
Fragments of Repair/Gatherings involves an online/offline series of lectures, conversations, screenings, and assembly forums convened by BAK around the theory and practice of repair.
Learning
12 April, 12.00–14 April, 18.00 2023
Czar Kristoff: Be(com)ing A Monument, 2023
Czar activates his learning object, To Destroy Is To Build (2019-2023), with an ongoing inquiry after monuments that bend to the passage of time. Monuments are generally constructed to commemorate a significant event or person. Their presence is also used to navigate a city, a town, a place. Urban monuments reflect how our ancestors used trees, mountains, and rivers as landmarks to remember their way. What would happen if monuments suddenly moved?
