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
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Exhibition
22 September–08 December 2023-Ongoing
Suggestions from the archive
Learning
22 April, 11.00–23 April, 17.00 2023
Ultrastudio XXL
Ultrastudio investigates the act of publishing as a technique to build more habitable communities. It is convened by the BookBinding Workshop of Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam (designers Miquel Hervás Gómez and Ott Metusala) together with cultural worker and housing rights advocate Lila Athanasiadou.
Exhibition
09 October–23 December 2011
Spacecraft Icarus 13: Narratives of Progress from Elsewhere
tentoonstelling samengesteld door Cosmin Costinas
De tentoonstelling Spacecraft Icarus 13: Narratives of Progress from Elsewhere presenteert een aantal artistieke stellingnamen van kunstenaars van verschillende generaties die reflecteren op alternatieve visies op de toekomst en modellen voor politieke en culturele verandering die verschenen zijn in reactie op de nieuwe omstandigheden van het tijdperk na de Koude Oorlog.
Learning
10 February–31 March 2009
Curating (Beyond) Exhibitions: Critical Curatorial Practices and Contemporary Society
Master course organized by Utrecht University and BAK. The course, structured as a series of lectures and seminars, explores the dynamic field of curating vis-ŕ-vis the challenges that artistic and intellectual practices are presented with by contemporary society, and takes the year 1989—which marks the end of the Cold War—as a starting point from which to explore the practice of curating.
Exhibition
07 March–02 June 2024
Usufructuaries of earth
Chapter one: exhibition
The exhibition foregrounds the artist’s collaborative approach to bringing together ecological, feminist, and decolonial knowledges and practices that put forward ideologies of usufruct, unhinging property-relations from the idiom of individuated possession and toward forms of common userships between humans and other-than-humans.
