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
10 February–15 April 2018
Matthijs de Bruijne: Compromiso Político
Also featuring works by Jeremy Deller, Piero Gilardi, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles
Exhibition with works by Matthijs de Bruijne as well as Jeremy Deller, Piero Gilardi, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles. A large part of the exhibition is dedicated to De Bruijne’s cooperation with the Union of Cleaners of the Netherlands Trade Union Confederation (FNV) (2011–ongoing), analyzing ways of bringing together art and social struggles.
Screening and Conversation
12 October 2023, 18.00-21.00
Images of Labor: De/Occupation of Watching
A public program realized in the framework of To Watch the War: The Moving Image Amidst the Invasion of Ukraine (2014–2023)
The experimental film My Favorite Job (2022), by Sahsko Protyah, screened on this occasion, documents the labor and the idle moments of a volunteer group who evacuated residents from the city of Mariupol, besieged by Russian troops, in spring 2022. The film both highlights and examines the transversal struggle that crosses both class and warfare. Any documentation is made under extreme danger of getting killed at the hands of the occupying army, since said photo or video may contain evidence of war crimes. The first-hand videos of mass destructions that appear in the beginning of the film were recorded and carried out of Mariupol at the operators’ own risk.
Performative
29 September 2019, 15.00
Unforgetting
Storytelling performance and conversation, in the context of exhibition project Trainings for the Not-Yet
Public program in the context of project Trainings for the Not-Yet: a storytelling performance by Denise Valentine, followed by a conversation with Denise Valentine and Nancy Jouwe.
Festival
8 March 2020, 13.00-19.30
Mama Cash Feminist Festival at BAK: Collective (Ex)change
Organized in the framework of International Women's Day
BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht is proud to collaborate with Mama Cash for International Women’s Day, Sunday 8 March 2020, as part of Mama Cash Feminist Festival. The full day program Collective (Ex)change consists of a gathering of and for local and international activists and artists who are working to make spaces safer for women-identified and LGBTQIA+ people.
